Friyay

The much anticipated weekend is finally here. Some may not even have plans aside from doing nothing and just enjoying the weekend.

Why don’t we have that approach with the week? After all, it would make more sense to enjoy five days a week rather than two.

Figure out what it is about the weekend that has you yearning for it as soon as the week starts and as it’s approaching an end. What makes the weekend the best part of the week? What particular moment of the weekend makes you already ready for the next one? What feelings do you actually have when you think about the weekend and what feelings do you have when it’s here?

Reflect on your Fri-YAY feeling.

Some people’s Fri-YAY isn’t actually Friday, but perhaps a Tuesday, or every other Sunday.

Parent’s don’t get weekends off. Yet, some new moms who are back at work will tell you that being home with no sleep with a list full of to-dos and a crying smelly baby is still their fri-yay feeling.

Why is that?

Perspective.

The fri-yay feeling is because we feel like we're going to take a break from something or just have the time to do something - even if that something is actually nothing.

We appreciate things we love. We treasure the moments with the things and people closest to our hearts.

We live in the moment. Time is a luxury.

We focus on our choices. Our wants. Our needs.

We become closer to who we are.

Find a way to have a little bit of fri-YAY, every day. Everyone’s schedule is different. Everyone’s fri-yay feelings are different. But it’s your life. Your Friday. Your fri-YAY. Your today.

Entrepreneurs don’t have "weekends."

Parents don’t have "weekends."

Service staff, emergency personnel, etc. don’t have "weekends."

Make choices for what you want to enjoy and appreciate each moment.

Surround yourself with the right people to enjoy each day, every day and celebrate Friday, everyday!

Wright Right

The power of the unspoken word can resonate forever. Consider philosophers of the ancient world and their influence on billions of people today and centuries to come. Perhaps it's something much simpler such as that one shoulder grasp from your favorite high school coach that reminds you that you’re a champ. Sometimes, it’s the instant anger and anxiety that comes spontaneously after you've survived an abusive relationship.

The power of the unspoken word can resonate forever.

Writers will agree.

You never know what you’re going to write until the pen hits the paper or in today's age, when your fingers touch the keyboard.

Writing allows your mind to focus on what thoughts its processing. Each word is outputted by your brain and the following sentence is still a future away.

What comes next?

Writing is therapy.

Word therapy. Thought therapy. Life therapy.

It’s an escape for your thoughts, feelings and all the other "stuff" to be addressed to you. Literally.

Do you communicate with yourself?

Do you?

How do you give yourself advice? Don’t you wonder why you’re capable of giving the best advice but can’t seem to take your own.

Write Right. It may not make sense, but sometimes our thoughts don’t either.

You can write to feel right. Or just write to figure out what’s right. You can write to right a situation. Or just write what’s right.

What?

Journaling is more than the mainstream image of writing in a diary after a breakup as the tears soak up the paper and the ink is smeared on your palm.

Writing is for whatever you want it to be.

• Write to feel right? Write your personal thoughts. Vent to the paper. Let it be an emotional escape.

• Write to figure out what’s right? Trying to make a decision? You can write out pros and cons, create a diagram or solve equations. Write out your ideas and solutions to find the perfect one.

• Write to right? Fix a damaged relationship with an apology letter. A handwritten note or even any personally written letter can improve a situation – even if it’s just for you.

• Write what’s right? Journalism. Cover a subject. Write to inform, not just influence.

The power of the unspoken word can resonate forever.

Start today. Wright right.

Pilot

What's my first blog post going to be about? The dilemma I’ve pondered often but not seriously enough.

It’s going to define my brand.

It’ll shape what’s to come.

It’ll set the tone.

Yeah, no.

This is my little sketch book.

2018 has taught me a lot about that. What’s mine?

I didn’t know what my first blog post was going to be about. It didn’t click until it hit me that things sometimes just don’t “click” with me.

I’ve tried clicking the easy button many times. MANY. Times.

But what defines us? How do authors finally name their autobiography?

I wouldn’t define myself with a blog post. No words could ever define a whole human. There’s a story. A legend. There are survivors and there are soulmates. How could words define those experiences?

So what’s the blog post going to be about?

Well, where do I start? What chapter? How do I share the story? What really represents me? Does my personal brand really define me? Do the topics focus on entrepreneurship, empowerment or etcetera?

What color actually represents me? How will I transfer my thoughts to paper then to the public? Will I ever know what the blog post will actually be about?

This is me learning about what’s mine in my journey. This is a cluster of my 4 pm thoughts written at 4 am. This is me define-less, boundaryless, and selfless. This is learning that selfless isn’t selfish and selfish isn’t selfless. This is being all over the place but still here. This is not caring but being thoughtful. This is making sense but in a it-makes-sense-to-me.

This is a sketchbook of memos, memoirs, and moving elements.

This is abstract yet clear as a sunny summer day.

This is my first blog post.

Yours Truly,