Your Pep Talk for the New Year

I LOVE going into the New Year doing what I love...creating. What a life affirming endeavor to approach the new year making something new come to life.
So I'll be full on in my studio today working on my wolf and then doing a quick store run for my laid back festivities tonight. Charcuterie 2020! Thats simply how I want to ring in the New Year. Snacks. Cheese. Pajamas. BRING IT!
No hangover, smudgy Alice Cooper makeup the next morning feeling like run over poop with a giant headache. That's not how Im rolling into the new decade. I made lots of sourdough baguettes and have a nice baked brie with cranberry sauce that needs to party tonight. I feel like such a disciplined adult. 😂
Im also expecting to be fully asleep by midnight because I don't need a bunch of strangers on TV heralding in the New Year for me. New Year starts when I say it starts and it starts regardless if Im awake to say hi..or not.
I'll party with friends another night.
Usually I wax philosophical on the year gone by but this year all I have to say is I must've leveled up spiritually and emotionally because I just handled everything that came at me and I did not break down.
When negative things started creeping in my door I grabbed em by the scruff (mama cat style) and put them back on the doorstep outside. Yeah that's not coming back in my house.
Anyone who was not Team Trish was just not let in my headspace. If I made time and effort for others but they never reciprocated- I took notes and dished out the same. No hard feelings but TWO WAY STREETS and all that jazz. It was a year of taking care of business and taking care of me for a change.
If I have any wisdom to impart from this year its DONT WAIT FOR THEM and ENJOY LIFE. Time is so important and waiting for people to deliver on things (they probably won't) is a waste of time. Want something? Go get it. Need opportunities? Go get it. Do not wait for them. And while you are not waiting for things to happen- ENJOY LIFE...the mystery, the unknown, the little moments, the hard work, the satisfaction, the magic of decisions and actions and saying yes to yourself and no to the bullshit. ENJOY IT!
I hope your New Year is filled with great decisions, peace, health, charcuteries and creating. ❤

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