By Myra Trudea Okumu

Happy Birthday, Myrrh!

I have never been one to celebrate my birthday because it has always seemed like any other day out of the 365. I am also usually busy on the day and miserably fail to find the time to hooray! through the day.

I want and choose this year to be different even though today is a weekday and I am toiling away at work (Ps. I scheduled this post).

I want to celebrate grace, luck, and chance. The universe for constantly and recklessly pouring so much into me and into the things I do, fate for the beautiful and blessed paths that were written for me and chance for finding me at every turn and taking a wild gamble and landing me exactly where I am.

I am firm believer that here is where I am meant to be and the person I am is specifically made for this very season of my life, the season of grace. Nothing that happened to and for me was ever a mistake, and I truly regret very little if anything at all. I am the consequence of so many actions, some that aren’t even my own but my life begun the moment I made the choice to forever be grateful.
Grateful for life in abundance, friends, family, those we meet along the way and even those that never stayed. I see it all as a journey, a path to the end. I have grown to accept that I will be sad sometimes and happiness doesn’t last forever, it comes in bursts. I will have miserable days when all I want to shut down and shut the world out but I will also have days joy will overflow and fill every crane and creak of my being. It’s human.
Emotions, ups and downs, the circles, the elation, the depression, the pain, the happiness, those ratchet days… it’s all part of the human effect.

Whenever I want to do something downright outrageous I tell myself one of 2 things: “Be shameless in your pursuit for happiness.” Or “The worst they can say is no.” I have learned that there will be rejections in this journey of mine and not everybody will believe in me or my work or my abilities, and that’s okay. People can only meet me as far as I meet myself, that’s where I start. I am confident in my abilities and in the change I want to see and in the impact I know I can make. That’s enough to be grateful for as I start this new year. I am wishing myself the happiest birthday ever and a year filled with smiles, materialised dreams and multiple blessings!

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky 

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23 things for 2023

In constant pursuit of happiness and fulfilment , I asked myself one question: “The year is 2024 and you just lived the best year of your life: What did you do in 2023 that made it a 10/10?”

I lived my most authentic life, that’s the answer. How? Here is my list of the 23 things for 2023:

You will find that most of the items on my list correlate with my 2K23 vision board and align with the resolutions I set for myself. Happy to say I am living the life of my dreams as some of these things root themselves in my life and flourish!

Your life changes when you change, grows when you grow so this is your sign to put yourself FIRST! Do not self-sabotage by neglecting yourself and your needs, in the words of William Henley, “I am the master of my fate.”

A life audit is all about self discovery; where are you in life? Where do you want to be? How do you get there? I might have to write another post on how to do a life audit but I still urge you to follow your dreams with such ferocity and burning passion, you put the sun to shame for ever trying to burn brightly.

Which area of your life are you going to focus on improving this year? You’d be surprised by how powerful you feel declaring this! Comment below!

Love,

A girl who dreams in colours yet to be discovered.