Recently, I attended my high school best friend’s wedding (YASSSS)! It’s crazy especially because we started off hating each other. I was never one to get in trouble in school, but I was willing to risk it all to fight her (lol). I was just waiting on her to hit me first as that was one rule my mom trusted me to uphold. Don’t hit anyone unless they hit you first and if they don’t knock you out, you better get up and defend yourself. But…. She never hit me… and someway, somehow, we eventually became best friends. Still to this day, we don’t know how we became friends. It was like we woke up one morning and both decided,...
Let’s set the mood. You have a vision. It may have come to you in a subtle way, or it may have hit you like a bag of bricks. Either way, you have a vision that only you can see. To your family and friends, it may even seem random or possibly out of character for you. It may not be utilizing a skillset you have, or maybe it does, and you don’t have the knowledge base and/or finances to get started. What do you do with that vision? This is where things get can get a little complicated. Are you going to act on that vision or leave it as is… just a vision… a thought… a dream that...
Back in April 2020, I created a YouTube channel. I was doing all the things that made me uncomfortable during that time (lol). Anyway, I recorded my journey to my first NPC bodybuilding competition in the Wellness division. It was an interesting journey and I stuck to my “must post once a week” routine. I didn’t have a video that blew up nor did I have a lot of views, but I wanted to just do something different that could encourage me to keep doing uncomfortable things in the future. Once I posted the last video of that series, my show day video, I stopped… I can’t really explain why I stopped… Well, actually I can… let me be transparent...
It’s hard for me to admit it, but friendships are important. I was watching a vlog the other day and the young lady was discussing how she cut off all her friends because she wasn’t sure if they actually wanted to be her friend. She knew that it likely had something to do with her Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), but she went through with deleting all their numbers anyway. Now, she is struggling with her depression because she feels alone and don’t have anyone she feels she can talk to. I don’t have BPD, but I totally get it. When I am having a dark cloud moment, I don’t want my friends or family to see me that way, so...
Is it seriously already October 2021? Where did the time go?!? As I sit here and reflect, it is easy to focus on what I didn’t accomplish that I set out to accomplish at the beginning of the year. I immediately thought about my goal of learning all the basics of playing the bass guitar by the end of the year – clearly that didn’t happen. I also expected to below 30% body fat by now, but here we are. One thing that I did learn, with some therapy, is that I struggle to give myself grace. What do I mean by that? Giving yourself grace is letting go of the self-criticism and accepting that perfection doesn’t exist. It’s an...
