Happy New Year! For the past three years, I’ve chosen a word that I focused on during the year. These consisted of joy, hope, adventure. This year, I picked the word, patience. Reflecting back on last year, I chose the word, “adventure,” for 2017. The year was filled with many adventures. My adventures and […]
Shine Brightly Project Reflection
A few months has passed since I last wrote on this blog. I feel like a hypocrite writing about reviving my blog, yet I’ve haven’t updated it till now. During the same time of my last post, I started a brand new job in a different industry, so I had a steep learning curve […]
Monthly Planning for Shine Brightly Project
I can dream endlessly about everything I want to achieve, but it only is a dream unless I have a plan. I am more successful at reaching my goals when I get them out of my head whether it be telling someone else or writing them down. One of my goals for this year […]
January Challenge
I introduced the Shine Brightly Project in my last blog post, which is an initiative to try something new each month. For the month of January, I challenged myself to start a blog to encourage others. If you’d like to read more about the details and how I started it, you can read about […]
One Word for the Year
New Year’s Resolutions: Every year, I made new year’s resolutions hoping to make great changes in myself, but I could never keep it by the end of the year. As a result, I stopped creating them. In my world, new year’s resolutions were only wishful thinking. Joy: During 2014, my dad passed away from […]