My Master Plan For Total World Domination
AKA:
How I Intend To Rock 2018
(But Not Actually Take Over The Word)
I see and hear a lot of people saying that 2017 was hard year.
Amen to that. Amen.
But I think that we tend to get swallowed up in the negative and forget about the positive.
The bad is like a thunder storm and the good is like a sunny day.
We remember the bad because it shook us to our core. The good is a little more subtle.
We must honor our heartbreak, while not forgetting the times our hearts jumped for joy.
Both of theses things shape us.
What can we learn without heartbreak? Who can we be without joy?
2017 marked the death of loved ones.
My uncle in the spring.
A good family friend in the summer.
My sister's fiancé in law in the fall.
All of these deaths were devastating and unexpected and looking back they all taught the same lesson that every death I have ever been effected by has taught me.
Live.
All those little things that are on your buckets list, or in the back of your mind, or the things that are so big that it scares you to even admit...
Do those things.
Start now.
Make that move, surf that wave, take that class, write that book, lose that weight...
It's not about becoming the person you want to be.
She (cause I'm assuming most of the people reading this are female) is already inside you.
She's the one who is whispering to you to do these things in the first place.
All you have to do is listen to her.
All I have to do is listen to me.
The fist step is deciding what I want.
For me it was simple.
Flourish
My word of the year. It's been a long time coming though.
I could't just wake up one snowy morning in West Virginia, and decide that I wanted to move to the beach.
Actually, that's exactly what I did.
I decided.
Then it took four years to make it happen.
In the mean time there were a lot of other words of the year to get me here.
Nourish.
I was pregnant and sicker than I've ever been in my life. I needed to learn to get the rest and nourishment I needed to survive.
Relish.
I had a newborn with colic and two other little girls who needed my attention. I needed to learn to soak up the happy moments and let the rest roll of my shoulders.
Establish.
I knew what I wanted but I did't know how to get there. I needed to learn to take that leap and plant my feet firmly when I landed.
Flourish.
We did it. We are here. Now it's time to learn to be who I've always been on the inside.
All I have to do is listen to me.
The fist step is deciding what I want.
For me it was simple.
Flourish
My word of the year. It's been a long time coming though.
I could't just wake up one snowy morning in West Virginia, and decide that I wanted to move to the beach.
Actually, that's exactly what I did.
I decided.
Then it took four years to make it happen.
In the mean time there were a lot of other words of the year to get me here.
Nourish.
I was pregnant and sicker than I've ever been in my life. I needed to learn to get the rest and nourishment I needed to survive.
Relish.
I had a newborn with colic and two other little girls who needed my attention. I needed to learn to soak up the happy moments and let the rest roll of my shoulders.
Establish.
I knew what I wanted but I did't know how to get there. I needed to learn to take that leap and plant my feet firmly when I landed.
Flourish.
We did it. We are here. Now it's time to learn to be who I've always been on the inside.
