The Perfect Pair of Jeans

You can choose to live your life on purpose. It begins by simply deciding to create the life you want to live. Start by believing in yourself and in your passions, understanding how you envision your life to be in the future. Next, create a plan that is aligned with your dreams, focusing on accomplishing those key goals that are of greatest value to you. Lastly, choose to live your life to the fullest, with countless moments that are meanagful, extraordinary and memorable. Don’t let others sketch your plan or let life happen to you by default. Design your life to fit you, just like the perfect pair of jeans.

If you were able to create the perfect pair of jeans, custom designed for you, what would your pattern look like? For your home, what would your blueprint include? And for your life, what plan will you create, so you live it by design and not by default? Few people I know have a plan for their lives. Many are passive spectators, watching their lives unfold a day at a time. They may plan their careers, a move to a new city, or even a vacation. But a rare few actually plan and live their lives based on their dreams. As a result, many end up discouraged and disillusioned, wondering where they went wrong. It doesn’t have to be this way. You can choose to live your life on purpose. It begins by deciding to create the life you want to live. For those things that are most important to us, I believe we need to understand what our dreams and passions truly are and how we envision our life to be in the future. We then need to create a plan that has structure yet flexibility, so we accomplish the key goals in our lives that are of greatest value to us. Lastly, when we know what we aspire to and we have a plan to achieve it, then we simply need to live it. Live your life to the fullest, filled with love and passion, gratitude and grace, integrity and honor, and countless moments that are meaningful, extraordinary and memorable. Dream it. Plan it. Live it.

Tracy Butz is a devoted wife, an energetic mom of three adventurous young men, a successful entrepreneur, a captivating author and a true inspiration to many. Whether it is for an audience of 7, 70 or 700+, she is the speaker of choice who has inspired thousands of individuals to “Create the Life You Want to Live.” As a highly sought-after speaker, Tracy has delivered powerful, life-changing messages, encouraging her audiences to identify what is most important to them and focusing their decisions in that direction, creating a positive difference in their work, families and communities. She is well known for her captivating and dynamic delivery, where audiences can be found sitting on the edge of their seats, laughing aloud and brushing away tears as she masterfully recounts each story, aligned with a key point, an impactful meaning, and an enduring message. Tracy’s experience actively engaging both large and small size audiences, includes clients such as the US Army, McCain Foods, Miles Kimball, Kimberly-Clark, American Trust Savings Bank, 4imprint, Plexus, Great Northern Corporation, Women’s Leadership Network, Festival Foods and Subway Restaurants, just to name a few. Tracy is also the proud author of four books entitled, “Conscious Choices: 10 Powerful Strategies to Grab Control and Transform Your Life,” “The Perfect Pair of Jeans: Design Your Life to Fit You,”“Monday’s Motivational Message,” with her latest book entitled, “Tame the Turbulence: Avoid Losing It. Fly Through It.” Beyond speaking and writing, Tracy also has significant experience in an organizational development environment, including ten years as Director of Learning and Development for a regional mutual insurance company, leading the company’s training and organizational development initiatives. Known for consistently earning stellar performance accolades, Tracy is skilled in the areas of leadership development, performance management, engaging in difficult conversations, employee engagement and development, navigating change, and interpersonal communication, to name a few. Tracy loves life and is continually challenging herself to share her talents, message and inspiration with others. She is poised to provide solutions for your organization's needs. Tracy truly delivers the tools for today’s world, propelling her audiences to live more productive, passionate and purposeful lives.