CRE8TIVE MOJO TALKS 37 (2021)

My 37th year started one month after being in quarantine. I was in WORK-MODE to rebuild a business that had basically halted due to the pandemic. I was relentlessly laser-focused. In the beginning, it was slow, we took it day by day and did what we could. Thankfully, we made it through with very little financial assistance.

I was lucky I had a friend who generously offered his apt for me to house sit while I worked my ass off.

I also had an amazing bday celebration which was great and fun!. It's been a rough year for all of us. I had a flight to Mexico that I had to reschedule 3 times and was about to cancel, when last minute, I got the staff together and was able to fly. My family was nervous that I was flying SOLO, traveling to Mexico alone during a pandemic. Yet, I was never afraid of being alone.

I knew if I didn't take that trip I would basically burn out and collapse. I didn't expect going to Mexico, then coming back ANOTHER PERSON. Travel changes you in ways you just can't explain. I came back, stopped working weekends, and GOT REAL WITH MYSELF.

This year I celebrated my bday in Spain with my brother. It was so much fun! I came back feeling more like myself than I ever did before. I slowed down, stopped living to work, and now I am working to live. Things just changed for me.

There is just no turning back. My old self seems to have vanished and got buried in Mexico. I tried really hard to ACT like I was her, but I couldn't.

37, thank you for kicking my ass! I am ready for what 38 is going to bring.

-Cre8tive Mojo