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Hi, thank you for listening to Chasing Life, a podcast aimed to help encourage you to chase a positive, healthy, and fulfilling life. I'm your host, Sarah Kane, and I'm so grateful you decided to join me. I'm a single 30-something dog mom, runner, and higher educational professional.
After struggling with a quarter-life crisis where I learned a lot about myself, I pursued and earned my MBA, got the good job, bought a house, but still struggle with fulfillment and continue to chase goals in running my career and life. I feel called to share what I've learned and continue to learn in the hopes that my story and tips will help make an impact on your day and help you feel less alone. Let's chase life together.
Welcome to another episode of Chasing Life. I'm your host, Sarah Kean. And today I want to talk about how 2020 maybe didn't turn out to be the year that you wanted. I, for one, had a bunch of trips planned in 2020. I actually had something planned every quarter. I was planning on going to Punta Cana, a trip that I had earned through my health and fitness business. I was planning on going to New Orleans for a conference.
Again, related to my health and fitness business, I was going to go to a running camp in September, and I was also planning on a trip to go and visit a friend in North Carolina.
And this just excited me so much that I had something planned for every quarter in 2020 because over the last three years, any of my extra money was mostly going to renovations in my house that I had bought in 2017. I couldn't justify a $2,000 trip somewhere if I needed new windows. So 2020 was finally going to be the year that I could spoil myself and go on these trips
and maybe bring a guest with me and create these new memories and just have something to look forward to every couple months. Well, March 2020 rolled around and a global pandemic was declared. So all of my trips and conferences and events were canceled. And I was very disappointed in some of those things, but I also had to look back and say, okay, maybe they weren't quite meant to be. And while I
It was tough to not have those events to look forward to anymore or even a matter of when will I have a new event that I can look forward to. What ended up working out was that at the end of July, one of my best friends called me and asked if I could travel out to see her to help her and her family when she welcomed her third child. Now, she lives across the country and I had just went to see her in January of 2020 and
So I wasn't planning another trip to go out to see her, but I was able to do so because my other trips had been canceled. And so I had the vacation time in order to fly out to help her. So while I was disappointed I couldn't go to the beach this year, it also provided an opportunity that I could go and help my friend at a time in need.
And if I would have had these other trips and if she wouldn't have needed help, I wouldn't have been able to go. And I feel like that's something that everyone has gone through, that maybe a trip didn't work out the way you wanted it to, but maybe you went to a different location and it worked out to be even better. Or maybe you had a chance to explore your home state more instead of traveling across the country.
Again, this kind of forces us to evaluate what we're doing in our life, trying to make the best of it, trying to find the silver lining in this experience. 2020 has been a tough year. Maybe you haven't been able to see your friends and family as often as you'd like, or you've had to cancel or postpone events. But that doesn't mean there isn't good in this year. So I want to just encourage you to try to find the good in this year.
Whatever that may be. And know that events and plane tickets can be rebooked. The beaches will be there. The cities will be there. It just wasn't meant to happen this year. But there were other things that maybe needed to be reflected on or explored this year instead.
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