Happy New Year! (I hope I'm not too late with the well wishes.)

For the past two years, I've written annual blog diaries to highlight some cool, noteworthy things I’ve done throughout the year to help me be more grateful for my life. These annual blog diaries also include documented moments of growth in my business. This may sound like a weird, vain, or possibly silly concept, but it has worked for me in the past. Although I will no longer document accomplishments in this way, my annual blog diaries helped me learn the importance of gratitude. The simple things in life really do matter. (NOTE: I deleted a lot of info because I felt it wasn’t for the public.) Nevertheless, these notes are still pretty transparent.

Happy New Year!

2016 has been amazing for me, thus far. Hopefully, you guys have the same testimony. Instead of me talking about how grateful I am for another year, I'm gonna follow the same new year process I started last year where I list highlights of the previous year--broken down into months--showcasing the new and/or exciting things I've accomplished and learned.

click here to read my 2014 diary, otherwise, continue reading:

JANUARY

-Released my first short story fiction on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday (although Amazon says a different date)

-Visited the eatery "Lemonade " in Manhattan Beach and fell in love with it

Below are a few things I picked up along the way in these 30 short years of my life:

1. Although I've been out of grade school for years, I still want to go school shopping every Fall
2. Confidence will sort of just come out of nowhere
3. You'll care about people's opinions less, however, people's opinions will still hold some weight
4. You'll get along with your parents more because you will understand them more
5. You'll realize that your parents put up with your attitude (as a child) far too long
6.  You'll start to say things like, “I remember when…”, and “when I was your age…”
7. You'll despise current music and have an iTunes/Google Play/Amazon library that is filled with music from the 90s and early 00s