What if I had just stayed “comfortable”?

If I never did anything new, I’d still be:

1. Working at Fleet Mortgage Corp. as a customer service rep
2. Living in Waukesha in a townhouse I didn’t really want to buy in the first place with my first husband
3. Singing in the Florentine Opera chorus
4. Dreaming of doing more with my life

I wouldn’t have:

1. Moved to DC in the first place
2. Sung with Washington Opera
3. Moved to Baltimore to go to Peabody (which involved leaving my first husband)
4. Met and married my second husband
5. Moved back to Milwaukee (there are some quibbles about that but…)
6. Sung in Chicago with Lyric and other groups
7. Become a voice teacher
8. Started my blog
9. Run a 5K (twice)
10. Started singing cabaret
11. Moved back to Baltimore
12. Sung in New York
13. Opened Mezzoid Voice Studio
14. Started the Curiously Stronger Performing series of workshops
15. Met an incredible number of phenomenal friends, colleagues, and students (and students who became colleagues, colleagues who became friends, etc.)

I would have been:

1. Unhappy
2. Unfulfilled
3. Incurious

I am now:

1. Happy
2. Fulfilled but looking for more ways to branch out
3. Still curious

   

   What are you afraid to try?