And a Happy New Year!

 Hi hi hi!

Here we are again friends, looking over the vast expanse of the new year- every possibility being probable. The new year is our official restart button. Everyone acknowledges IT, and most of us try to give ourselves the chance to get it right, whatever that may be for us. Personally, as some of you may have noticed, I'm allowing myself to be more active GTG. It's definitely challenging balancing work and home life with blogging here, and content creating on YouTube. I LOVE doing both and as I still run into you guys in the most random places (heeey Habiba! And Hiiiee to the beautiful sister I met last summer at Afropunk, even though I thought I was in disguise lol :-) ) you constantly urge me to do more, more, and more.

So, I'm giving myself the permission to do just that. 

Last year, I was totally inundated with several projects. I also worked on being more present for my friends and family. This was quite the feat for me, as I'm normally inclined to withdrawing away from the world. I worked on breaking out of my shell a bit, and becoming more involved. I'm still totally a proud introvert, but my yearlong exercise left me feeling completely full... and depleted. I learned that there are rewards in opening up. People are nice and warm, and they make you laugh and think. Opening up makes me uncomfortably vulnerable and in that, I learned some harder lessons. Folks will consume you whole, if you don't erect protective barriers for yourself. 

On New Years Eve, while people were out drinking and partying, I was tucked away on my bed, snug under my covers, Bob's Burger episodes in queue on my laptop and my notepad on hand. As I was jotting down my goals for the new year, I accepted the message that this new year will also be my year- the year of ME, as it's now been dubbed lol.

There'll be no more apologies.

Now about you! 

How'd you spend NYE, and what goals, if any, do you have for 2016? 

Also, what lessons did you learn in 2015?