I’ve noticed something over the past year. There’s been a lot of change in my life and as the year progressed, the rate of the changes increased. Change produces its own momentum.

2006 started out with what appeared at first glance to be a minor change. I had been employed as a contractor by my company in 2005. My employment status was changed to full employee at the beginning of 2006.

That single change started a chain reaction. Suddenly I was bringing home more money and I had benefits. I was able to pay down my debt and clean up my credit reports. I found myself with more money left over at the end of the month - enough to afford a mortgage - and that lead to the most visible change of the year.

Though I had started the year with the goal of buying a house within a couple of years, I hadn’t planned on actually doing it this year. Even so, in June I found myself with the keys to my own house. There have been a lot of little expenses involved,but even with them, it seems my cash flow has actually improved.

The house was the biggest visible change but it wasn’t the change that truly had the most impact on me. As the year went on and all the changes built up, my perception of what I was capable of changed as well. Sometime after I was settled in my house, I realized that I could create the changes that I’d been waiting for. I didn’t have to wait and hope that they were going to happen.

I jumped into the blogosphere with YourCre8tivity. Coming up with prompts and articles for the blog forced me to be more creative myself. Visiting other blogs and researching for YourCre8tivity lead me to discover podcasts and renew my interest in writing and role-playing. I successfully participated in NaNoWriMo, giving me a novel that is almost complete. Thanks to NaNoWriMo I’m in a newly formed writing group and I’m helping create the new NaNoEdMo site.

The effects of the changes in 2006 are carrying forward into 2007. There is already more momentum for change going into this year than there was at the beginning of 2006. I intend to ride that momentum as far as I can and hope that future changes will sustain it.