Finally stopped dreaming and did it!

[marinewife26]

It still amazes me how good my life is going, it actually kind of scares me LOL  4 years ago I quit my accounting career to follow my husband (who after much discussion, decided to join the Marines).  Wow talk about a MAJOR life change.  We both had great jobs that paid the bills but honestly we didn't love.  So it was scary to go from 2 good incomes to 1 not so good military income.  It took a lot of prayer, but I had faith and took the leap. 

These past 4 years as a Marine family have been amazing! Yes it sucks when my hubby has to leave from time to time, but we have a much calmer, stress-free life than before when we were both working 40plus hours a week with the kids in daycare.  While my hubby was deployed I decided I would try to find a way to help out and earn some extra money.  My friend from high school was always talking about Scentsy on her facebook and how it has changed her life so positively.  It really was hard to believe and seemed way too good to be true.  So I did the research and made the decision to start my own Scentsy business.  And ever since then I've been having a great time selling Scentsy! 

 I get to stay at home with my kiddos and work in my pj's.  I have learned so much.  For example, people sometimes think oh you sell scentsy you don't have to do any work and you make $, this is not true at all.  Like anything, you only get what you give, I learned if you put the time in and truly treat it as your business it really does grow! And I have never felt so confident and independent as I do now.  I use the money I make to pay for weekend getaways, my makeup, shoes, just fun stuff.  Some people use it for bills or gas or save it, but that is the freedom of it.  So after having a blast working on my business I thought, if I can do this then its time to go after some dreams of mine, I was about to turn 30 and I wanted to go into my 30s feeling empowered.

I have ALWAYS wanted to teach group fitness, but I had gained weight since being married and never took that dream seriously.  Then it hit me, if I train to be a fitness instructor I will lose weight in the process all while doing something I love.  And that is when I found...ZUMBA!!!  I took zumba classes for about 2 years and left every class thinking, I can DO THAT, I can teach Zumba, but never had the confidence to go for it.  So finally, I did it, I took the zumba certification class and am now a ZUMBA INSTRUCTOR!!! So I thought why not keep going, so I found out that the military would pay for me to get my group fitness certification, and enrolled in classes.  Once I finish I will be able to teach all kinds of group fitness.

I will never go back to the old me who always dreamed and never tried, or tried and gave up.  Life doesn't just stop and wait for you, you have to go for what you want now.  I hope I have inspired someone out there to do what you love, because that really makes a difference in your quality of life.  I love that I can be home with my hubby and kids and still run my own business and teach fitness (all while losing the weight :)  I am no longer scared to turn 30 in a couple weeks, bring it on baby!! I will make my 30s way better than my 20s that is for sure.

[Read2Kids2Day]

Jul. 10, 2011 at 12:39 AM

Congrats! At 31 I have taken a huge leap of faith and started Crochet Mechanics and beyond everything else we do I offer advertising to WAHM's which is something I have always wanted to do.

Sara

[squish]

Jul. 10, 2011 at 3:54 AM

I loved your post! Very inspiring! :)

 

[Mommiebiz824]

Jul. 10, 2011 at 10:48 PM

Really awesome post, thanks so much for sharing your story!

[Lb128f]

Jul. 11, 2011 at 1:36 AM

that's GREAT!!