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Wow, this is a great question. Well during COVID, I bought a home, we are a one-income household (like many people these days), but I managed to afford a big house for us. We have the ability to host for the holidays, as we are in a central location for everyone. Yes, it is a lot of work cooking and cleaning all week. But there is nothing more important than family! In fact today (7/3) in my grandson Liam's FIRST birthday. And despite owning our home for only 4 years we have paid off $40K and have over $100K in equity. In our down time my husband. These are the moments I live for!

My personal fitness goals are going well. Have I missed a few gym days? Maybe… Overall though I've never been healthier or felt [physically] better!

What is a personal goal you've set for yourself this year, and how is it going?

I made a promise to myself, when my kid was more independent (now 17+), I would focus on me more. This year I have taken steps to do just that and am on my wellness track- mental and physical. It's been painful and peaceful, eye opening and thought provoking.

My goal was to pass the Core Product Certification test…and I did June 29th 😁

Even though I didn’t share a goal back in January, I’ve had a few personal milestones in mind this year—and I’m excited to share that I’m making solid progress!

😉 Get Smartsheet Certified – Completed just this past weekend!
😁 Understand Formulas – After six weeks of focused study for the certification exam, the concepts finally clicked.
😃 Reapply for the Overachievers Program – Submitted!
☺️ Gain deeper knowledge of core Smartsheet functionality – With three years of daily use under my belt, I’m continuing to explore features and best practices every day.

It feels great to pause and reflect—this software continues to empower me and challenge me to grow. Looking forward to what the rest of the year brings!

To learn Spanish, and it is going badly, because I have not done anything about it!

But this is a good prompt for me to start.

Hello everyone, my name is Mark and I'm a GM in a manufacturing company. I was born in Florida USA but have travelled the world and now have settled down in Singapore. I've always been a big fan a data and became a master at MS Excel. I created interactive dashboards that made people ask me what platform that is and when I said Excel they didn't believe it could do that. However, the cons to Excel is that it is not very good as a collaborative tool. Which led me to search far and wide and I landed on SS way back around 2008.

I couldn't get it to stick in the company at that time as MS Office was still king and online collaborating platforms were still in their infancy. I tried again around 2018 in my previous company. I bought it with my own money and proliferated out to a small group of managers. We ended living and breathing in SS. Creating huge data sets, workflows, links and dashboards. Eventually using SS as our source data for bigger visual platforms like MS Power BI. Once we hit that level, SS took off in my company and we ended up purchasing over 100 licenses.

Fast forward to today and I'm in a new company for about 3 months and I am surprised that no one here has even heard of SS. So again, I just purchased 3 business license and I'm looking forward to introducing this wonderful product and training this new team to use this collaborative tool in finance, manufacturing, quality and beyond. Also looking forward to collaborating with all of you and learning new tips and tricks.