Tonight is bitter sweet for sure. It’s the last night the kids and I will spend in Oregon, tomorrow morning the movers come to take us on our new adventure. It’s been such a crazy couple of months that the reality of it all has been slow to sink in, but tonight I feel it.

I sit here and reflect on the years I’ve spent in this town (Portland)…

• I was married here at The Old Church in downtown on a beautiful June evening in 2000.  We danced the night away at The Governor Hotel grand ballroom in front of all our family and friends.
• In the winter of 2003 we drove cautiously home from Good Sam hospital in NW to our adorable little row house with our most precious cargo, my son Kanen.
• In 2004 we took that pivotal step in any young couples life and bought our first home. In a shitty-ass part of town, but we knew it had potential. We knew it was beautiful under the lawyers of crap. And it was.
• In 2006 we sold it for a nice little profit and got the nicer home in the nicer area.. we were ready to grow our family and plant roots.
• A few months later, heartbreak when we lost our baby when I was 6 months pregnant.
• Good always follows bad and a few months later we got the crazy/happy news our twins where on the way!
• In the winter of 2007 life began to unravel. We lost the house, I could no longer work. We tried to fit into a smaller, crowded life but hope began shrinking. In June the twins arrived healthy and amazing.
• 2008 the shit hit the fan.
• 2009 saw the rebirth of me. Saw the light I’d been hiding for so many years, saw the emergence of hope, drive, dedication, passion and sheer will power.
• 2010 was an amazing year, full of firsts on so many levels. The first time in my life I’d loved a career, first time I’d traveled in years, and the first time I felt proud of myself on all fronts in maybe…forever.
• 2011… well, you already know it’s roller-coaster story!

So that brings me to tonight. The ending of a major chapter in my life, and the launching of something brand new. Though there is certainly many things about Portland I will miss, I’m so looking forward to this final symbolic yet literal step from the past into the future. This is me moving forward. Leaving the ghosts behind.

A new dawn.
A new chance.
A new life.
A clean slate.

I’m ready. I feel overwhelmingly blessed as I look to what our future holds and look back at the road I’ve traveled to get here.

I’ve posted the good, the bad and the ugly on this blog for one reason… So that I NEVER FORGET who I am and where I came from. I want to always carry with me the struggle, the pain and the failures because they are what fuel my motivation and make me the women I am becoming. Without that I would be nothing. I would feel nothing. I wouldn’t know the meaning of gratitude when your face down in a pile of shit. I wouldn’t understand what it takes to fight, and that I am capable of more than I ever imagined. I wouldn’t know that I can control and shape the direction of my life.

So on that note, I’m including the video I shot this summer while living in the hotel when I was unemployed and our house had flooded. Watching this tonight, reminds me that ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE TO ANYONE WHO: a) BELIEVES b) WORKS THEIR BUTT OFF!!


HUSTLE. BELIEVE. RECEIVE.

Sarah Centrella is the author of the book Hustle Believe Receive which teaches you how to apply the #HBRMethod to change your life and live your dream.

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Our new dream home 🙂

I love happy endings. Fairy-tails, rags to riches, all that…especially when they are mine! I set out in January saying to myself (and probably posted it here) that 2011 would be my best year ever. If you’ve read my blog at all in the last year you would probably agree that a statement like that quite possibly jinxed me!

This year has been one for the record books, no question there. It’s been filled with some of the highest highs of my entire life, and some of the lowest and most terrifying lows as well. The funny part is it’s not just one or two lows, or highs it’s been a non-stop speeding bullet roller coaster the entire year. So much so I probably suffer from whiplash (as do you my poor reader who’s wondering from day to day what craziness I’m about to post!). But through it all I could never shake the belief, the faith I had, that this year would bring something great. Something HUGE, something epic. I held on through the cascading free-falls knowing with some ridiculous certainty that in the end there would be a rainbow… a happy ending to this year.

With work comes results.
With belief, vision, and hustle come reality.
With struggle comes strength.
With pain comes wisdom.
With lows come highs.
With failure comes unparalleled success.
With perseverance comes triumph.
With haters comes motivation.
With life comes lessons.
With disappointment comes determination.
With rain comes the rainbow.

I wish it didn’t take until December of 2011 for my belief to be realized but I’m so glad it was. It will be worth all the above, when in two days I move the kids and I from Portland Oregon to Seattle Washington to start my new job, live in our new house (first time ever for my girls to live in a real house) and begin our next chapter of this journey.

After being laid off 3 times this year; having our home flood and leaving the kids and I essentially homeless for 3 weeks this summer, to a very real cancer scare, and so many more struggles, it feels really great to be starting fresh. I’m thrilled about my new job and it’s potential, the house is amazing and everything I could have dreamed of, and Seattle will be just the place to give us a new beginning. I feel blessed beyond words.

The Law of Attraction is such a real and abiding force in my life. It works miracles daily. It delivers my wishes out of the clear blue sky, it restores my belief that life is beautiful even when it’s not. It’s enabled me once again to make something outa thin air. It’s enabled me to have the courage to step outside my comfort zone and be open to the possibility of possibility.

Nothing in life is beyond your control. Your thoughts predict your future. Control them and you control your life.

And remember to DREAM BIG.

My favorite room in the new house!

Kanen’s new room and his “Reality Wall of Fame”

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