Have you looked at your definition of success lately? As I look forward to what I've dubbed my 're-entry into life' after being sidelined by choice for seven remote years of devoted care-giving and much needed quiet time, I find myself doing a lot of thinking about success and what that word used to mean to me compared to what it means to me now — especially after so much has changed in my life. I'm settled now in all the good ways. It's so important to take pause every few years to revisit your definition of success or else you run the risk of churning out what actually could be an old, long-forgotten dream. It's a trap that's easy to fall into considering how many people live on auto-pilot. To be totally honest, I never really gave it that much consideration in my life until I was going through a divorce in my mid 30s. Sure, I chose a first college, a first job, a first spouse, but hindsight being 20/20, I should have been much more deliberate in all of those choices. I was living an unconscious, immature life based on gut feeling more than intention. Don't get me wrong — this time of my life was good and fun and happy, but in reality I was just going with the flow like a passenger in a rudderless boat on a sunny day. I may not have known where the hell the boat was going, but I sure as heck knew that I was going to enjoy the ride while I was getting there. My 'wandering aimlessly' mindset started to shift when I took some much needed time after my divorce to really ponder what I wanted to do to make me happy again. Luckily, I'd heard or read some advice somewhere by some guru that really stuck. It was this: "if you really want to change your life, take a 30 day YES challenge." It consists of doing at least one new and different thing a day. Go visit a museum. Eat at a new restaurant. Take a different route to work. Change your hair. Go salsa dancing. Take a singing lesson. Learn a new sport. Volunteer. So, I took that advice to heart and chose to bust the rut by immersing myself in art, jazz and all things fun in the Big Apple. [...] 

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