Welcoming in 2020

Another New Year is upon us; people are asking about resolutions... projecting theirs, 'big year 2020' announcements are flowing thick and fast across social media platforms as 'influencers' seek to earn click cash, people like me seek to inspire, and those with bangs and bruises seek to share their lament of 'what not to do'.

Last week, the definition of insanity raised its ugly head again and this time something in me snapped. For all the #ImLivingProof that 
​#PositiveFocusChangesLives and #NeverGiveInNeverGiveUp philosophies, for all the confidence my undergraduate studies are building within, the increasing success of our business and allowing new friendships to blossom, the past just can't help but cast its shadow. And then a simple reality occurred to me; I realised I needed a new inspiration wall. Fear instantly kicked in; 'But those inspiration boards got me through such difficult times... it was my rock', and there it was. My life isn't difficult now.

With tears of relief pouring freely, I reached up and pulled on those manilla folders covered with a mish mash of empowering images, things I'd written, others had written and peeled them from the wall, walked into our storage room and left them on a top shelf to be found some years down the track, like one of my buried 'kaleidoscope' journals.

​I'm not waiting for 2020 to start, I'm ready right now... 
#TrueStrength with #MandaOsborne @ #EverythingByDesign

​​Image: Chen, JX 2016, 'Migration is magic', Behance, 20 September,
https://www.behance.net/gallery/43003637/Migration-Is-Magic.