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Letting things fall into place is a lesson am constantly relearning. As an Enneagram 5, I'm told my basic desire is to be competent and my biggest fear is to be helpless. While this is very accurate to my personality, I have been learning to listen to my intuition. Yes there is a season to fight and break down doors. But there is also a season to restrain from that and let life slowly open itself up to you like the petals of a flower. This art of restrain, to stand still, to pause, to not act , when you are fully capable of doing the contrary, is a difficult discipline to master. When you think about it, most of our character flaws or issues in life, are tied to our inability to exercise restrain. Restrain in how we spend our money. Restrain in how much we eat. Restrain in how we spend our time. Restrain is listening to listen instead of listening to respond. Restrain to believe the worst in people and act on unresearched/unchecked facts. Restrain to give unsolicited advice and opi...

Happy New Year ! 2022 It's been a while but as with everyone else, I needed to take a much needed break to; - Analyze my course of direction - Cut out what was not working - Strengthen and plant deeper roots with what was working  And viola! I  am now in a space where I have the mental capacity to return to blogging.  Today's blog post is me taking stock of 2021 since apparently I didn't make a single post through out the entire year. Making : Art. I took up painting and coloring as a mental health activity Cooking : Home cooked meals. I have challenged myself to work with ingredients or food items I am not familiar with. For example, winter melon Reading : I read about 20 books in 2021. I will like to see that number in the 30s in 2022.  Here is my IG Books page . Enjoying : The season am currently in and  Deciding to make the most out of it. Loving : Attempting to love my pandemic weight body Listening : To a newish sound (Amapiano) out of South Africa. It's...