Starting Out...part 1

Ok! (breath out...slowly) it's 2020! You made it. I made it. We made it.

Can you believe it? For me, there are times when I would plan ahead and I’d come up with dates in my mind. I want to buy a car by this date, I want to be married by this date, I want to move out by this date, etc but I've stopped allowing myself to get emotionally attached to it. I’ll tell you why so stay with me.

For the past 10 years, I’ve decided to enter the new year in Church. If you spend it with your family or in another place I totally respect you. I’m not saying that you should follow my lead here, but I’m simply sharing my personal thoughts with you. So we cool. Fist bump.

Anyway, since I’ve been entering the new year in Church, over the years I’ve realised how much I’ve matured in my way of thinking. Whenever the clock strikes one past zero hundred hours (00.01) into the new year I would always get really emotional. I would cry! Why? Because I simply could not believe that I had lived through the whole year and was just grateful to be alive. Just grateful.

It was 6 years ago, I remembered like it was yesterday. It was one of that emotionally charged new year for me, it had been a rough year by then and I was grateful.

But the next day on January 2nd. I got the worst news you could ever imagine.

My question to you is. How do you respond to bad news in the midst of planning ahead for your future or even when you’re expecting the best outcome but things don’t go the way you wanted? How do you respond to that?

Stay tuned to read about the bad news I received the day after New Years Day and how I responded to it.

And no, I was not prepared...at all!