Design of a Decade

Just over a week ago I read a status update posted by this amazing young man who is a change maker. I had the pleasure of meeting Shane Feldman when his mother and I went to Israel together in 2012.

He wrote:

“There are 8 Fridays left in this decade.

Reading that made you feel something. Maybe it was fear…concern…excitement…all three?

Our stories drive our emotions. Your life is only as good as the story you tell yourself.

Stories are powerful. Which story will you choose to live today?”

Earlier that week (before I read this post) I wasn’t having a great week. I was out for dinner with a friend I was sharing with her what I had been struggling about. The struggle again was with time. How I am approaching the time in my life where Heath has been gone as long as I knew him, and how in the very long (hopefully) road of my life, the time that I he was in it seems so small. Everyone says life is short, but if you are lucky in life, it has the potential (and hope) to be very long.

As I have learned it is not about quantity, it is about quality. It is a very strong and hard lesson to really break down and learn. Appreciate the quality of your time because we will never know the quantity of time here.

When I shared Shane’s post with a friend of mine last weekend she had to read it a few times and give some thought that it hadn’t even occurred to her that we are eight (now seven) Fridays away from a new decade. Let that sink in, a new decade.

A decade ago my nephew hadn’t been born yet. I hadn’t been to Hawaii, Israel, and countless other places. I was five years away from even meeting Heath for the first time. A decade ago I was still in my third decade of life, now I am almost into my fifth decade (2021 is fast approaching).

It feels like every year around this time I start to look back on the year that was. This status update gave me some new ideas that I will be sharing in the coming weeks. Looking back on a decade of life experiences.

As I was looking through my photos I noticed that ten years ago this week was a reward trip for achieving sales targets with my team to Las Vegas. I was looking forward to it for many reasons, after all it is Vegas so who really needs a reason.

I was really happy that we were allowed to bring a guest on the trip, and who else would I ask to join me on a Vegas adventure, Brad of course. After all, it was Vegas where we met and so many adventures followed for over 16 years now. Brad was driving in from LA to spend the trip with me as my guest.

The first night after dinner at Planet Hollywood the shuttled us to MGM to see the Cirque show KA. It was the late show, and we were three hours ahead and had been going since very early that morning. Let’s just say, I “hear” it was great – I tried to stay awake and gave up. It wouldn’t be the first time that trip.

A busy few days of hotel inspections, site seeing dinners and a helicopter tour over the strip at night. There was free time, shopping and gambling of course.

The last night was our awards and farewell dinner, hosted by the one and only Robin Leach. He was the original spokesman for The Last Minute Club and living in Las Vegas. I am trying to find the photos because you know…what happens in Vegas…well now ends up on Facebook. But not then.

After that dinner they shuffled us off to see The Lion King. I had seen it before (twice) and let’s just say I didn’t even try, I just leaned back in my seat and slept through the whole show. Not even kidding. After the show was over, we went to the night club at the Mandalay bay and the party continued long into the night.

That trip was November 2009….right before the decade began. I am going to continue to look through my photos and share some experiences that made up the decade that was 2010 – 2019.

I hope you will join me on my design of a decade journey and share yours as well.

Live your best life,

Lisa