I’ll first start by saying thank you all so much for taking time out of your day to wish me a happy birthday. My theme for last year was ease and what happened was I was met with challenges that made me appreciate when things happened with ease. New friendships started organically, work flowed when I didn’t try to control it, and my life just felt good. There was a day when I sat and realized that I was living a life I dreamed of 8 years ago and wanted for nothing. I had the house I wanted, the boo I wanted 😜, the career I wanted, the friends I wanted, and the peace I wanted. And it all happened without me having to force anything. It was such a weird feeling, but it’s what I’d been praying for and working towards, so I’m grateful. So that brings me to the theme for this year. Three years ago, my good friend @petite_yet_grande asked me why it always seemed like I was trying to shrink myself or make myself smaller in pictures. And made it VERY clear that’s she wanted me to cut that shit out. And honestly, before she brought it to my attention, I hadn’t noticed. Then, I spoke at a conference, and when I got off the stage, two of my good friends, @fitnessisnotagame and @kimlewisceo, asked me why I looked like I was trying to shrink myself from the time I walked into the stage until I walked off. And they told me that I was brilliant and needed to walk in my power. Somewhere in my life, I convinced myself that the things that come with crazy levels of success were too much for me to handle, so I would be good enough, and not great, because, honestly, even when I’m operating at 40% of my potential, I’m still that chick, respectfully 😩. So I settled for 40% of my potential, because I was scared of what more would mean for my life. But I’ve decided that since this is the last year of my 30s, I'm going to breakthrough all of my stuff. This year will be a year of breakthroughs in so many areas, and while I'm scared about what that will look like, I know that I have a solid support system that will love me through it all. So here’s to the year of breakthroughs. Let’s see how good this thing called life can get.