I spent four days in Miami this week, but really Miramar, and really just inside the office and in the hotel. Ah, the executive life … it looks sexy on the outside but really, it’s intense and hard and AWESOME and decidedly not casual.
I tried to walk to the office but luckily some female coworkers stopped me, saving me from arriving looking like a drowned rat in my own sweat … even coming from a Texan, it is HUMID in that concrete jungle! Once there, I took a walk on this sidewalk.
Apparently literally no one walks around in Florida.
But! We’re here to be grateful for the things being an executive does give me: intense satisfaction and boundless joy when my team and I work to solve problems, work through challenges, and truly make a difference in people’s lives, both within the company and the broader Arise community. It’s an incredible place to be: loving my job, loving my team, loving my company. I’m just so grateful.
I’m grateful too that it’s crawfish boil season! Last weekend’s family boil was super fun, and this weekend’s friend boil should be equally full of connection, laughter, and tiny, spicy dead crustacean bodies.
I’m grateful for TAXES. My brother said it best years and years ago, and referenced it yesterday (after he got done doing his taxes at my house while watching Bob who Houdini’d out of his kennel) in his awesome 3 Things newsletter, tl;dr grateful for all the connective tissue society creates for me, that I support in the form of taxes. Also grateful I’m done with mine (not-even-humble brag) and that it’s a funny thing within my family.
Grateful for that family. Grateful for that Bob. Grateful for windows down, riding buddy getting his fix. Grateful it was rainy when I got back to Texas, so I could snuggle down and rest after the intensity of the beginning of the week. Grateful we’re making moves on a June trip. Grateful for MY NEW MAC, which has streamlined my life and returned me to a place of peace I didn’t know I was missing by trying to use this antiquated pos PC my work sent me. Seriously.
May we all find this kind of peace this weekend 🙂