AdeOla Fadumiye

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
My Hopes for 2018

FIVE Hopes I have for 2018

January 16, 2018 by AdeOla Fadumiye in Life

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I hope you enjoyed the holidays. Mine was mostly laid back and peaceful. I made it into 2018 with my mind and faith intact, and I’m truly thankful. I’m especially ecstatic to be back with my first post of the year after a month-long break. I’m glad I took a break, because I moved a few days before the first of January and I spent most of my month-long break packing and then unpacking.

I'm still unpacking and I have boxes everywhere, but hey, it is 2018, and that calls for some rejoicing.
Why? Well, 2018 is going to be a year done differently. To start off, I am sharing SOME of my hopes for the year.

First and foremost, my 2018 hopes for the blog are

  • To keep sharing the lessons I’m learning as I live my life , and I hope to inspire you and add value to your life.
  • To get even more appropriately vulnerable with my journey [I have no desire to gaslight, dump on you or flood you]
  • To continue to shape my voice and point of view for the blog and beyond. OPERATION Explore. Define. Refine, and
  • To introduce you to some of the wonderful women I encounter in my everyday life; I plan to conduct some interviews this year. I need to develop a format and/or theme, but it is on my 2018 blog agenda.

With that said, here are SOME of my hopes and intentions for 2018.

REST
I was laying in bed one evening in December panicking about 2018 when scripture verses from Psalm 127 dropped on my heart. “If God doesn’t build the house, the builders only build shacks. If God doesn’t guard the city, the night watchman might as well nap. It’s useless to rise early and go to bed late and work your worried fingers to the bone. Don’t you know he enjoys giving rest to those he loves?” The bolded question stood out to me, however, I had already been wrestling with the theme from these scripture verses long before that evening.

One of my biggest hopes for 2018 is to experience what it means to work hard from a place of grace rather than from hustle, toil and strive. I am a dreamer, Type A, an overachiever, and an executor, and for so long, pushing myself through hard and difficult situations have always been a badge of honor. Lately, I sense God calling me to dump the hustle, toil and strive, and to let him do what he alone can do. “Grace will take you places that hustle would never get a foot into,” and he spoke these words of advice over me a lot at the end of 2017. Strive and hustle does not necessarily mean hard or good work. I’m choosing to work hard and to also rest my body, mind, heart, and soul.

LIVE FULLY W/ JOY UNSPEAKABLE
Going along with the spirit of REST, I will do more of the things I love this year. I will see stage plays and performances. I will go to more concerts. I will see a play or two on Broadway. I will go on a few road trips. I will make new recipes. I will visit many wineries with friends. I will travel a lot more.  I will go out dancing. I will choose activities that shoot my adrenaline off. I will engage in adventure. I will spend quality time with family and friends. I want to do things that make me swell and bubble over with joy. When I’m living joyfully, I find that nothing is impossible for me. The joy of the Lord is truly my strength. Without it, happy moments are not fully enjoyed, but with joy, painful seasons are bearable.

JOB STABILITY
I believe one of the source of my hustle and toil is having my hands in too many things, and I never did get a chance to breathe. My hope for this year is to have some sense of job stability, though I’m still leaning towards a mix-match of stable and steady work project over a 9-5 gig. CONFESSION: I’m nervous about a 9-5. I haven’t had one in a while, and regardless of that, it is not my style. 

I hope to be more strategic in choosing and blending my work projects. I’m currently not running any businesses, hence I have space to think through  my next steps. 

SERVICE
I'm praying through what working out my desire to serve in 2018 would and should look like.

YEAR OF BAE
In the wise and famous words of Yvonne Orji, “Dear Bae, take your time and hurry up!”

There you have it! These are some of the things I'm  leaning into in 2018.

What are your hopes for 2018?

image via

January 16, 2018 /AdeOla Fadumiye
Life
  • Newer
  • Older

ADEOLA FADUMIYE is a writer and storyteller, and adeolafadumiye.com is her creative outlet for sharing her struggles, triumphs, flaws, and strengths. She enjoys writing creative non-fiction stories, and chronicles everything from faith and love to muses and rants. She lives in the Washington DC metro area, and the list of things she loves are endless: avocado, pastries, airports, Bollywood movies, friendships, picturesque images, towering architecture, beautiful landscapes, boys, warm breeze, waterfalls, photo bombing, and the sound of water.

[LIBERTE] Freedom is a beautiful thing, but what it takes to get to freedom is messy. I began my journey to freedom in my early twenties. I chose to have my cherry popped after many years of swearing to save it for marriage. The aftermath was a storm. • Then one November, a few months after I turned 24, I spent Thanksgiving in Atlanta with a friend. We met in college and had kept in touch, but I hadn’t seen her since we graduated college a few years prior. In college, we had connected over many things, and one was our mutual desire to wrap it up until marriage. Well, on this trip, she was unmarried and pregnant. She recounted that the worst part wasn’t accepting that she was pregnant or talking to God about it, the worst part was calling home to tell her parents that she was pregnant, and having her community back in her East African country know she messed up. After she shared her worst moments, the light bulbs turned on in my head… • Grace always counters shame, and in the light of grace, shame cannot stand. I shared 4 things I realized about sex, expectation, grace, and shame. #linkinbio • 📷 via @ayna_jewelry | I modeled a few pieces for them. 📷 by @leahbeilhart
[PUSH BACK] The email I had been waiting on landed in my inbox that afternoon, and read, “This is a first for us but we can go ahead and pay “THIS” for your assignment. Can we finalize the contract on this figure?” • The question that kept ringing in my ears after I got the email was, “What if I gave in to the uncomfortable feeling I always have in the pit of my guts whenever I want to ask for what I need or want?” It is a familiar feeling, and it rose up when this incredible opportunity, one I did not go looking for, landed in my inbox It rose up and spoke lies like "if you push back and ask for more, you will lose this amazing opportunity." • Does anyone else feel the same way? • I share on the blog the 4 things I do when I ask for what I want and need at work, and in my business, relationships, and friendships. #linkinbio ⠀ ⠀ 📷 @zoomworx
[PEARL 3 of 10]⠀ Be proactive ALWAYS. You can’t let life happen to you. Have a dream? Plan! Do you want something? Plan and work towards it. My father is not a believer in crossing the bridge when we get there. He believes in being proactive and not reactive. THIS IS A PEARL THAT HAD SAVED MY LIFE IN MANY WAYS.
[TRANQUILITY] My mother calms storms, and it is the number one trait I appreciate in her. I grew up in a home of raging wolves. LOL! Let's be honest, three self-assured Leos and one intense Scorpio can be overwhelming in any conversation or situation. However, at the end of the day, when my mom, an Aquarius, speaks, we all pause to hear her take. • This week, and in honor of my mother and Mother’s Day, I share five things I appreciate about my mom on the blog. #linkinbio
[WAY MAKER] This book tapped on my nerves and got me in my feelings. I screamed quite a bit at the characters and at the walls of my bedroom while I was reading it. I finished #daughterswhowalkthispath earlier in the year, but the characters stayed with me. It was a familiar story but every time I thought I knew what was coming, it took an unfamiliar turn. For most of the opening chapters, I thought I was reading about my childhood with my siblings and neighborhood kids, and it was truly endearing. • Check out my blog, #linkinbio, for more about this book by @yejidekilanko, leave a comment and buy a copy @amazon. • Image via @brownwyn_sees
[AND THE WINNER] of the fourth and last book, #chasingbutterflies, by @yejidekilanko in my month long giveaway, is Ng Enwerem. Congratulations! 🍾🎉🎈🎊 • I will DM you to discuss shipping logistics and I hope you enjoy reading.
[PEARL 2 of 10] "We will enjoy the little we have." He is a content man. When we had a lot, he was content. When we had a little, he was content. When things fell apart, my father is an example of a man who didn’t let his misfortune turn him inward, bitter, angry or hurtful. He didn’t take things out on us, and he supported, and still support my siblings and I in many other ways. We are always his priority in abundance and in lack. My dad is a content man.⠀
[ANNIVERSARY GIVEAWAY WEEK FOUR] This week, I'm giving away an autographed copy of @yejidekilanko book #chasingbutterflies.⠀ • TO ENTER TO WIN:⠀ Follow me on Instagram and/or on my Facebook page [search: adeolacfadumiye], if you are not already doing so. • I'll announce a winner at the end of each week. ⠀ • [image via @quramopublishing]
[AND THE WINNER] of the third book, #orphansisters, by @lola.jaye in my month long giveaway is @wonderland.books Congratulations! 🍾🎉🎈🎊 • I will DM you to discuss shipping logistics and I hope you enjoy reading. • #writer #editor #speaker #storyteller #projectmanager #eventplanner #adeolafadumiye #adeola #adeolawrites #adeolaspeaks #creativenonfiction #nonfiction #storytelling #mywritings #africanwomenauthors #christianwomenauthors #africaneditor
[GUIDE] "...He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake..." • Lovely afternoon in Savannah, GA w/ one of my besties whom I haven’t seen in forever. 🙄😜 @nygirltb. The photo was also taken by her.

Subscribe

Thank you for signing up! Check your inbox for an email with a link to confirm your subscription. 

 
  • March 2017
  • April 2017
  • May 2017
  • June 2017
  • July 2017
  • August 2017
  • September 2017
  • October 2017
  • November 2017
  • December 2017
  • January 2018
  • February 2018
  • March 2018
  • April 2018
  • May 2018

© 2017 AdeOla Fadumiye. All rights reserved.
Do not reproduce any content on this site without consent. 
Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from the author is strictly prohibited.