clarity.

My process has always been I get an idea, it's typically BIG, so I mull over it, marinade, wrap my head around it, make more and more sense of it and then BAM, I'm ready. So when I had the moment in January 2009 I wanted to move to LA I had a lot to plan, process, etc etc but ultimately 9 months later I had wrapped up my job as a VP, sold my condo, spent an incredible summer making memories with friends and family in Phila, interviewed at a bunch of places in LA, found a new apartment, leased my first car and moved across the country. And I can't help but feel that energy returning as I've been slowly but surely wrapping my head around what's next - my next move.

I've come to realize that each time I leave LA, whether it be for business or pleasure, each time I come back and I feel less and less of a sense that I'm returning to anything (other than KoKo of course). I feel I'm coming back to a city that I like, a lot, an area of the city that is beautiful, and a place where I have some dear friends but many of which I don't see very often or at least not often enough to truly feel connected to this place and as a result I feel I'm returning to the place I happen to live vs the place I call home. And the more I feel that the more it makes me want to find that place I do call home and find it quickly.

And while I have yet to go back again I can't help but feel from all the following I'm doing of Austin and all the people I'm speaking to about it, and all the homes I'm looking at with such excitement imagining me and Koko living there, it feels VERY right. It feels like a place I could definitely call home and it's filled with people that I feel are going to so compliment where I am in my life and it will be a community that I can connect with, be open with, and show up as authentic person that I am.

So with all that said - mission Austin is ON. I'm not sure when exactly I'll pick myself up and move as that depends on some business commitments, some financial commitments and also just the actual time it takes to pack up and move but something is telling me now that I'm clear the dominos are going to fall into place as they always do, and it's going to be a welcome 2015 in the great city of Austin. So stay tuned...it's exciting!