Ready, Set, Plan! | 2025 RESET

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It’s that time of year again, planner time!

This year I’m starting with a Hobonichi planner! I’m so excited I’ve been gathering stickers, and other paper accessories I have and looking through the paper craft sections at my local craft stores. Anyone else?!?

But I didn't start off with a Hobonichi I started with a notebook and multiple looseleaf sheets of paper, more often than not I always ran into trouble because I couldn’t find the looseleaf that I needed at just in time to complete the tasks that needed managing.

We’re raised in environments that either are perfectly catered to what we need or not so much, either way we learn. We’re meant to learn how to manage the resources, skills we innately have or must face the reality of learning how to attain just what we need through personal development, hard work, resilience and action.

Whether you opt to routinely set resolutions as the new year comes about or have your own preferred time of the year for a RESET, learning to break down your BIG PICTURE, long term goals down into habitual routines, to do lists, motivational workflows, as a creative entrepreneur is your responsibility, your duty, your making, though it may not come easily. You are creating a life, by design afterall, meaning although someone may have had a similar journey to yours, you are genuinely the architect and engineer of your life. How will you artfully craft and design your life to be the ultimate experience?!?

As I sit here writing to y’all I’m contemplating this new version of me. What will and should I change? Where have I fallen short? What areas of life have I been slacking in? Who have I let down? How can I improve? How can I become the bests version of me? How can I arrive at the goals I love to dream of? Am I ready to become a mother? As you read these I hope you take a moment to reflect on similar questions. When we hold ourselves to high standards and aim for them we ultimately go from being our own worst enemy to our own biggest cheerleader.

If you're looking for inspiration as you begin planning for 2025 feel free to check out my Hobonichi Planner Videos over on YouTube let’s make 2025 the greatest year yet!

Starting Small...

Maybe business and sales isn’t for you… or at least that’s what you’ve told yourself throughout your entire life, because honestly, who wantS to face the possibility of rejection (constantly) or sounding too pushy when sharing with other what you are selling.

If you are a woman who wants to design your life in such a way that it allows you to be there for your (future) children but have no idea where to start. Start small. Inevitably expenses will come. The best thing to do is prepare. Life may throw some curveballs your way however, the more you prepare the better off you will be.

Start by selling or letting go of clothing that doesn’t fit you. Find alternative purposes, like letting your dogs destroy that favorite t shirt that you no longer wear because of how faded it is.

Whether its crafts or clothing, vitamins, or cleaning services identify what skills you have or could develop that could help you create something that will not only benefit you but those you get to serve.

As you learn and acquire these skill remember why you started. To better serve your family, your loved ones, the community, and yourself.

Creating Space

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As a serial creative entrepreneur you might love the chaos and the dot connecting just as much as you hate the distress that comes with it.

Let’s be honest you logically understand that order and structure serves you well, but one of your gifts is the ability to see that midpoint which others seemingly can’t spot.

Ultimately however, before getting to the next level one must decide to create space.

Once you’ve extracted the creation from the chaos, reduce, declutter, reorganize and THEN repeat.

This goes for both the physical realm as the digital one.

Growing up, we moved around a lot. It had something to do with expenses I suppose but we never had these conversations. We went from having few possessions to acquiring more and having more than enough , which was a blessing. Where we fell short as a whole was the ability to organize, manage all we were blessed with. Add the stress of not understanding many things about the legal and business world and it led to a chaotic workspace created by yours truly. Don’t be fooled I enjoyed all the learning but I’d be trying to understand loss mitigation while working on my PreCalc or physics homework while worrying about the fact that all the noise at home wouldn’t let me focus on my homework, while wondering if my crush liked me back, you know teenager things. It was a mess. I was a mess. As Sadia Khan recognizes in herself, I have and have had “nothing to complain about” and yet I also carried with me tons of insecurity. Despite love, family and accomplishments, for some reason it’s what I used to gravitate towards. Somehow the mixtape playing over and over in my mind was not very kind to myself.

I knew one thing though listening to the wisdom of those older than me would do me good. The most wise would share that despite their success, ultimately what mattered most was time. Time doing what you love, time with loved ones. Time. Years later I’ve learned to recognize it as a gift this ability to appreciate time, to choose the difficult vs. the easy. Despite my choice to understand this concept I have in fact fallen short of my ideal of someone who fully appreciates time.

I’ve grown to understand that the gifts I’ve been blessed with are my responsibility to learn how to best showcase them and share the lessons to in fact save others time, and be of service.

What I’ve found is that clarity comes in different forms. There are different roads that lead to the same destination. As well as there being different destinations worth getting to. Choosing to endeavor on a journey no one else has tread before is like choosing to walk directly into the storm, sometimes you’ll have enough time to get the umbrella or to find shelter and others… not so much. With every new nugget of knowledge comes the opportunity to use it, store it, invest it or completely dispose of it.

If you find yourself at a crossroads it might be time to create some mental space and dispose of the thoughts, actions, habits and routines that keep you from progressing. Create space in your schedule to improve. Create physical space by removing broken, torn or damaged items ( Book Recommendations: the Life Changing Habit of Tidying Up, Essentialism) Create mental space by no longer holding onto insecurities, self doubt and negative self fulfilling prophecies. It will take … time and effort. You might find yourself repeating what you swore you wouldn’t or breaking that new years resolution. However, resilience is built through repetition. If you haven’t conquered the vice, just try one more time ( and again as necessary.)

#faceittillyoumakeit #alwaysberesilient

Plan the Plans | PART 1

Ahh I’m almost turning 30! And so for me that’s a time of reflection. A time to analyze my journey so far and look for areas of improvement! ☀️

I recall struggling with resolutions myself especially those created on New Years. I instead, I enjoyed the process of creating plans goals and often reflected more around the time of completing another year of life.

In preparation of this process in the upcoming days I take the time to look at January first and ask myself: “ what can be improved/ modified so that the rest of the year goes “smoothly”? ( I say “smoothly” because my entrepreneurship journey has taught me that things don’t always go as planned… HOWEVER, not planning can be disastrous). I do this at this time because there are some other timelines and such that I have no control over but that operate on monthly, quarterly, yearly basis that affect my life. These include business operations deadlines, any medical or legal appointments, holidays that will affect project timelines and things of that nature.

Now here’s the thing… that’s only an overview perspective in terms of time constraints that can be predetermined. (Apply this as it suits your entrepreneurial calendar.)