Reflecting on things..

Remembering my photo shoot from my 25th birthday!

I’m really blessed to have some very positive, spiritual, and Godly (because there’s a difference) friends in my life. They always encourage me to stay positive, do affirmations, and manifest what I want/need in my life. After living in a new city for almost a year, I’ve really and truly started to understand how important it is to have a tribe of positive people around you, those who reflect who you want to be in life, and what you want out of it. You know that old saying, '“you are who you attract”. I didn’t get it until I found myself hundreds of miles away from my real ones.

Although I’ve always been somewhat of a lone ranger, and my friends from where I’m from are the same but our hearts meet in the middle where our similarities converge: a love of God, a passion for career success, positivity, a little ratchness, a little bougie, and most of all loyal. When I moved from the metropolitan area to the Midwest, I found myself surrounded by a group of women that were completely different than I was used to. In many ways, I couldn’t get with it, but I tried, really hard, to be kind and accommodating, not my usual standoffish self. I threw my “no new friends” BS out the window. But some of their ways, some of their cattiness, their boredom with their life that translated into an incessant need to talk about folks/situations they didn’t know, I felt that negativity begin to ooze into me. Don’t get me wrong, they weren’t all like that. But after experiencing three? I was done.

My friends from home checked me. I took a step back and realized that you can be around people, but not of them. I changed my attitude and my mindset, and the second I did, I found friends here who I’ll love for life. Godly, career-driven, positive, real, a little ratchet, and a little bougie like me. As women, we’re constantly evolving, changing, and isn’t that the essence of life?

So I know you like well if I’m manifesting positivity why write about it you ask? I’m a writer, a creative, and this is my way of letting it out. I’m human and we all get caught up in the petty, lose focus, this is my way of putting that behind me. I want to consciously bring goodness to myself, and those around me. To stay ambitious, to keep my hands in God’s hands. To manifest little miracles and victories.

Today November 4, 2021, I’m manifesting career success, an increase in my personal and business bank account, bodily vitality for me and my daddy, and positive people around me.

I’m grateful for new beginnings, new career opportunities, the health of my family and friends.

What are you manifesting for this month of November? What are you grateful for? Let me know