Action is the key to your goals.

In January 2013, I was doing my annual review with my boss and had to come up with my list of personal goals for 2013.  I was in a senior management position and really reached the ceiling at my job.  As I sat and contemplated my goals, I knew that even though I enjoyed my job and my coworkers, I needed more.  I had been in the same position for 9 years and no matter how much additional work I took on, I was craving more.  More time with my family, more money, more knowledge, more of a challenge.  I could comfortably stay in the same job for a very long time.  I didn't want "comfortable".  I wanted to travel, spend time with my kids, buy my dream house...

So it was a long shot but I took the LSAT in February 2013 and sent off my application to law school the day before the deadline.  I got accepted and made the decision to leave work and attend school full-time in July.  This was a huge decision for myself, my husband and our three kids.  Returning to school at the age of 35 was scary.  I was stepping out of my office, my comfort zone, and my comfortable friends at work.  I was heading into a scary new world.  New experiences, new people, new education.  

Now I've finished my first year of law school and I look back with a sense of accomplishment.  I survived and I'm pursuing one of those things in life that I always wondered if I could do.