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In 20 minutes, my plane leaves for Salt Lake City, Utah where I'll be attending Altitude Design Summit!

To be honest, I'm really not to sure what to expect. So I'm going with five simple goals;

1. Learn.
2. Meet awesome people.
3. Make connections.
4. Dream even bigger.
5. Be my best self.

These goals will be written on the first page of my notebook, that way I can constantly remind myself of why I'm here. 

With all the travel hours I spent on airplanes, subways, and cars in the past two months, I had a lot of time to think about "what's next?" - and well, I've got a whole lot of plans and dreams for 2013.

For one thing, I really want to focus on the goals I set for myself at Camp Mighty. So if anyone is feeling particularly helpful on teaching me how to make a budget or use video editing software, find my (career) passion, take some head shots of me, or anything else on my list - I'd love to hear from you and if there's a way I can help you with your goals let me know!

In the travel realm, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Helena, and Boston are currently on the books. The big trip for the year is likely to be a few weeks of road tripping and camping through British Columbia and Alberta. If we can swing it, I'd also love to go to Kauai. I'll also be attending both Altitude Design Summit and the International Food Blogger Conference this year - big year in blogging type conferences for me!

So I took a bit of a break. 

In mid November I went to Camp Mighty in Palm Springs, CA. Then I immediately jetted off to spend a month living in Brooklyn, NY for work (did you catch my NYC Picture A Day project on Instagram?). When I left there, I came home for 12 hours or so to repacked my bags to spend the rest of December driving from Seattle to Los Angeles, to go to a wedding and see family in the Bay Area for the holidays. 

When I first heard about Camp Mighty, I immediately loved the idea. Getting together with like-minded folks to work on living mightier lives? It's a concept that's right up my alley.

My own personal goal in attending Camp Mighty was to find inspiration and motivation to accomplish my goals for the next year and to move towards a more creative career path. 

I came away with motivation, inspiration, and more - but I have to say, most of that had to do with the other wonderful women I got to know over the course of the weekend (Alyson, Caitlin, Elisabeth, Mindy, Michelle, Maggie, Cameron, Emily, and many more). It was such an amazing experience to come to a place with a community of individuals who are all supportive of each other's hopes and dreams and for that alone, I'm so glad to have attended.

Here are a couple of things people said that I just can't stop thinking about;

Tomorrow I'm headed to Camp Mighty down in Palm Springs, California to check off another item on my life list: attend a life/creativity retreat. My goal in attending is to find that extra push and motivation to move myself and my career forward - I want to do more and and to do it better. I'm hoping to get inspired by the fantastic speakers and the other campers. At the same time, I'm super nervous that I'm going to end up feeling like the odd one out and feeling awkward around the "big" names.

Since Camp Mighty is a retreat focused on life lists, we're all supposed to pick five goals to focus on for the next year that we can ask the other campers for help with. It was incredibly hard to narrow it down to 5, but somehow I managed.