Well it’s been four weeks since I moved back to Michigan and it’s been a nonstop flurry of\u00a0movement, thoughts, emotions, bike rides, networking, learning, laughing, catching up with old friends and making new ones.<\/p>\n
Living in Detroit feels familiar yet foreign. I know most of the streets and businesses downtown from my time working and playing here, but now that I live here I have questions like, “where is the best dry cleaner” and “I wonder if there’s a bulk spice store near by”, you know, life things. I’m looking forward to getting comfortable with my new neighborhood and laying down some roots.<\/p>\n
On\u00a0day one of our fellowship, a ropes course guide challenged us to grow our comfort zone by stepping outside of it. I took his advice to heart. I walked across the\u00a0most terrifying ropes that day, I started a dance party at a club the following week, then I took the lead at a client meeting, and did my laundry on time. While some of these might seem less important others, they all go to the two themes dressing my transition: MOMENTUM & STAYING CLASSY<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Focusing on the above themes has imbued me with confidence to accomplish the above, and its also just permeated my everyday. I speak and behave more confidently and the more I practice these themes, the less barriers I see in front of me. This is a constant\u00a0process though, just because I took initiative once, doesn’t mean I always will in the future. I will do well to remind myself that if I’m not moving forward, I’m either stalling or worse, going backward. FULL SPEED ADHEAD.<\/p>\n This is such a contrast from the past three years in grad school, where I constantly second guessed my abilities and lacked confidence to face problems head on. What a relief.<\/p>\n I’m excited to see what happens as I get more comfortable with myself and the new\/old city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well it’s been four weeks since I moved back to Michigan and it’s been a nonstop flurry of\u00a0movement, thoughts, emotions, bike rides, networking, learning, laughing, catching up with old friends and making new ones. Living in Detroit feels familiar yet foreign. I know most of the streets and businesses downtown from my time working and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}