A decade of reasons to step into your power, like Elsa?

Time to step into your power — 2020 is on the horizon!

If you were like me, you were one of the millions of people who watched Frozen 2 over Thanksgiving weekend. Maybe you missed the single line Elsa sang about “stepping into her power” in the midst of all of the cave sparkles. But WHEW, that phrase hit me like a ton of bricks. It’s not like I haven’t been telling myself to be a bad ass and step into my power for a long time now. (I have self help books for that.) But there’s something about Elsa singing it to a crowd of kids (and me, she was singing it to me) in a theater that made it real. Thanks Disney.

And what better time to step into our power — to acknowledge the awesomeness of ourselves — than when we’re reflecting on the close of an *entire decade of our lives* and embarking on a new one. I know it’s easy for me to get caught up on my challenges, my perceived failures, and worry about what’s next. But really, it’s kind of crazy to consider what weird, awesome things we’ve accomplished. We just never have a chance to stop, think, and celebrate them.

HERE’S MY CHALLENGE:
I want to know 10 wins you’re proud of from this past decade, one for each year.

It can be a fun fact, an accomplishment, or a weirdly epic occurrence. Really dig deep! Let’s celebrate the past decade of our awesomeness, and remember why we should step into our power now, and certainly come 2020.

I’m going to take a stab at this. And you’re going to have one of two reactions..because you’re human.
a) You’re going to think I’m a giant weirdo nerd. (Psst. You’re right.)
b) You might think you’ll never come up with a list like this. (Psst. You’re also right, because you’ll have a totally different weird/awesome list!)

My 30th birthday guests in Sydney. ❤ Save the koalas. ❤

• 2010: I accidentally become nerd-famous as the first Wikipedian-in-Residence in the United States.
• 2011: I meet & befriend the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. Once in Israel at Wikimania and again when I kind of kidnapped him to give him a tour of The Children’s Museum during a visit to Indy? (He’s forgiven me.)
• 2012: I work & travel for the Wikimedia Foundation for a year. My two bosses (at Wikimedia and The Children’s Museum) surprise me with a TechPoint Mira Award nomination for Young Professional of the Year.
• 2013: My thesis on Open Authority is published in Curator: The Museum Journal. Museum nerds will be amused to learn that I’m pretty darn near positive that one of my blind reviewers was none other than Elaine Gurian.
• 2014: I celebrate my 30th birthday with koalas in Sydney thanks to the wedding of a best friend, adventuring there with my best friend. ❤
• 2015: Where to begin? A romantic elopement, a wiki wedding celebration, and the cutest wiki baby to top it all off.
• 2016: The year I meet Andrew Luck and hang out with the voice of Doc McStuffins. Other celebs I’ve met or worked with thanks to The Children’s Museum: Ruby Bridges, Tamika Catchings, Adam Vinatieri, astronaut David Wolf, Greg Louganis, Ryan White’s mom Jeanne, IndyCar drivers like Tony Kanaan, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Scott Dixon, Takuma Sato, etc.
• 2017: I’m tapped by Zuckerberg to be among 200 Facebook Group admins to attend the first Facebook Communities Summit, thanks to my incredible Museum Social Media Managers community.
• 2018: Reggie Miller asks to see me during his private tour of the museum’s Sports Legends Experience, because we’d kind of become buddies over Instagram Stories/DM as he followed the construction progress. He said my social was “awesome.”
• 2019: I take a leap, meet awesome people, build a business, and find my inner badass.

YOUR TURN! I want to celebrate the fun, weird wins of your past decade. Trust me, it took me FOR-EV-UR to think of this, so it’s not easy. But it’s worth it. Because then you can step into your power, like Elsa. Or just like yourself.