2016 IS MY YEAR!

Happy New Year Folks!

I don't know if you can tell through this text, but I am SO excited to be back with you!
WE ARE ONE YEAR OLD!!!! Turn up for us guys. I want to take this space and tell you all how grateful I am for your unyielding love and support over the past year. I never would have imagined my blog to grow into what it has become. To know that my personal story + journey has impacted and inspired so many of you all, makes my world smile. You all keep me going, even when I doubt my magic!

So it's 2016 and I am declaring this, MY YEAR. I feel an infinite amount of love and light going into this year. I sat back the other day and wrote + reflected on 2015. The past year was a difficult one for me. I didn't feel grounded in my life,  my passion, or the people on this journey with me. I was kind of doing things that I didn't necessarily love or agree with, just because "the norm" was more stable than walking out on a branch and hoping not to fall. I was lost y'all, for real.

Towards the end of the year I realized that the most important decision I will ever make in life is the strength to choose myself. LIFE IS SHORT, and I know we hear that all the time. But truly, life is short and precious. I found myself always waiting on the weekend, or summer, or the right people, or the funds, or a little less fear or whatever. There was always some excuse as to why I didn't do what I WANTED TO DO. I was trying to save myself from myself.

Not anymore.

2016 is my year.
I will fill it with love,
and journal entries,
and random events,
and travel tickets,
and the laughs of friends,
and the warmth of family,
and lovely cities,
and my studies,
and my dreams,
and my poems,
and all of my magic,
each and every day.

I am intentional about my growth, this year. I am intentional about my happiness.
It is up for you to decide on joy, you know?
Life gets hard. We loose ourselves. We loose our jobs. Pain comes. Loss hurts. Complacency is easy.
But what is life if you don't wake up every single day, deciding that if you die tomorrow, you will know that you lived a beautiful and full life...that you gave this world all you've got, that you left it more beautiful than you found it.

That's the kind of life I want to live. I don't really know how it will happen, but I am deciding that it will. I am choosing me today. I am choosing me in 2016.

Get out there y'all.
Travel alone.
Write a book.
Tell someone you love them.
Tell yourself.
Buy the car, the shoes, the chocolate.
Sleep in,
Or wake early to see the sun rise.
Find yourself.
GET FREE, EVERY DAY YOU CAN.


"We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Stay Happy, Stay Healthy
~Naturallykbiggie