HUGE Announcement
This week I am coming to you guys with something different. My typical blogging approach consists of me sharing personal experiences and lessons I’ve learned from them. Today I want to be very candid and open with you. Each week I preach to you guys about self-love and how significant it is. A large part of understanding self-love is recognizing that it is a journey. Based on what many of us have learned about journeys, we know that there are ups and downs – right now I’m experiencing a down.
As I’ve previously shared in different blog posts – I am a4th grade teacher, agraduate student, facilitator of a girl’s empowerment after-school program, a blogger, and a new vlogger. Let’s additionally sprinkle on top - host of an event series and a struggling dater (lol). Oh yea.. let’s not forget that I am gearing up to move to New Jersey, so I’m actively apartment and job hunting. Amid all these things, while I have been good to other people, I have not been good to myself. I pride myself on giving out inspiration and motivation like its candy – it costs me nothing to give away what comes naturally to me. However, I’ve been overworking myself, telling myself it’s fine because “I can do anything.” While multi-tasking and having multiple hustles is so common, we must consider –are we ever mastering anything if we must split our time, energy, and effort into several things?
Moreover, my social life has become challenging as I find myself trying to keep up with everyone around me. I look at many people on trips, hanging out, and living their best lives – I want that too. I recently was planning to go on a trip to Atlanta with friends and two weeks before the trip I cancelled. I had already bought my plane ticket and everything. Unfortunately, I looked at my life with all the things I have going on and realized going to Atlanta was spending money and time that I can’t get back. While it seems small, I considered that I might go to Atlanta and spend roughly $500-600. The same $500-600 that I’d spend in Atlanta I could be investing into my IRS non-profit filings, put it toward my new furniture fund, or a venue rental for my next event. I realized that I can’t live like my friends do because the transitions in my life currently just aren’t set up that way.
Ultimately, this led to a very large decision that I had to make.. I’ve decided to push the Battle of The Sexes Brunch back to July 14th, 2019. I have struggled for weeks with this decision because I felt like I’d look like a failure, having pushed back the date once already. With everything that’s been going on, I haven’t had the opportunity to plan or promote the event in the way that I originally had hoped to. While I know it could be pulled off (cause I’m the bomb), I want to give you guys something that was well thought out. Summer is the best time for my next event because my life will have settled down and I will be able to primarily focus on providing you guys with an event you won’t forget. It’ll definitely be over the top! I am extremely thankful for those of you that have rode this journey with me thus far and truly believe in what I am doing. The Eventbrite for the event is still open (dates have been altered), therefore tickets are still on sale. Early bird ticket sales have been extended to June 1st, 2019. I hope to see you guys there!
