Taking on a new decade and new ideas

There's something about a new year that makes us reflect on where we are and what we want to do in the future. We make resolutions, plans, try to break old habits and begin new traditions.

Coupled with the new year, January also brought with it a new decade. With eager anticipation of fresh beginnings, we've opened our minds and are even more accepting of change.

For me, 2020 marks significant changes – both personally and professionally. It's my sixth year working in property management and the real estate industry in Seeley Lake and I'm once again a licensed Realtor®. It brings a new location in the Bison and Bear Center, new clients and unique challenges. But with my nest empty, leaving an unfamiliar void, I once again have time to spend on my career and building my business.

I first earned my real estate license in Texas in 1996. I was a military wife working in a market that was very different than Seeley Lake. The average length of homeownership was only three years. This brought an endless number of new listings and a steady stream of hopeful, young couples looking for their next family home, not their forever home. I enjoyed real estate but ultimately life took other turns. I moved to Montana, started a family and my path went in another direction.

Almost 20 years later I've come back to real estate. Perhaps I wanted to finish what I started. Maybe fate has bigger plans for me. Or was it all just a matter of timing?

Regardless of the reason, here I am in 2020, revisiting my career as a Realtor®. Only this time, I have knowledge and skills that only come with education, age and experience. I also have renewed energy and insight I didn't have in my early 20s.

Ultimately, it would have been easy to stay where I was, where I was comfortable. I could have continued to do what I knew and simply maintained the status quo. But it's exciting to turn over a new leaf or reconsider an old idea that's always been there at the back of your mind. There's a special kind of satisfaction in meeting a challenge head-on. It's empowering to know that it's never too late to try something again or to forge a completely new path.

I know that for many of you, these sentiments ring true as we all head into this new decade. I'm sharing my journey with you because I wish the same for all of you. I hope that in 2020 you all refuse to settle for the status quo, question what's known and the way things are and embark on your own journey. I challenge you to take a new idea and nurture it, help it grow and turn it into something amazing.

 

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