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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?

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January 16, 2018 /AdeOla Fadumiye
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ADEOLA FADUMIYE is a writer + editor, a project + event manager, and the creator of Pearls from our Fathers. She writes at the intersection of faith, entrepreneurship, feminism, culture, race, and inequality. Her work has appeared in Radiant Health, Big Cartel and mater mea. AdeOla also has more than a decade experience in project and event management working with non-profit, small businesses, and entrepreneurs. Some of her clients are The Naturalista Expo, Little Things Borrowed, Grace and Ivory, and N Natural Hair Studio. She earned her Bachelors of Science in Mass Communication (Public Relations and Communication Studies) from the Winona State University, and her Master in Public Health from the George Washington University. She is a 2017  StartingBloc Fellow and a 2017 alumni of the THREAD at Yale: Storytelling in Modern Media program. She lives in the Washington DC metro area.

[WINNING] Rushing gets you no where. The ones who are for you will be for you...just put in the work day by day and step by step. There is no need to rush to Z, and realize that to sustain Z, you actually need everything A - Y had to teach you. Sometimes the destination may not be what you had in mind, most times it is a change in your character not necessarily a change in your circumstances. I learnt that! ⠀ [02.20.19]
[VALENTINES] WHAT? I love red lipsticks, and a gal doing bad all by herself while manifesting her lover! 😂🤣...Okay enough with this lover already, AdeOla. 😁 You will catch me making sweet, compassionate and self- affirming love to myself. Happy Valentines Peeps! • But If you meet my dark-skin, tall, bald and thickums bae, tell him to make haste. 😝 Heck, if you meet him wearing a different skin color or with a full head of hair or lean and athletic...send him my way too biko. The only important criteria is he should be able to out dance me!😝 [02.14.19]
Just another day w/ some of my gals. Happy Galentines Day! 💫💕🎈🥰
[ON LOVERS + HIPS] When I was in my 20's, I moved back home after my masters and woke up several times in the middle of the night to my mama's desperate prayers and cries for yours truly to bring home a husband. I am past my 20's and she is still praying. I bet to her my life isn't full and complete without a husband. While me, I'm here just trying to manifest a lover and hips on this cold Valentine's day week..hehehe! I keed! Don't tell Jesus! ⠀ •⠀ I am just thankful that though her prayers are still intense...they don't feel as desperate. But dear bae...you need to come around the corner and answer my mom's prayer oh. ⠀ • In the meantime, I know I am created with my own agency and purpose so pending a walk down the aisle, you are looking at a full woman with a full life and missing hips. Someone tell my mama!⠀ [02.12.2019) • 📷: @shardelhaden
[...] Life moves with or without you. {02.09.19]
[ALIGNMENT] When I was in college, I was a bit unsure about what I wanted to do with my life. I was interested in a lot of things, and I still am. I started out with Pre-law and after a few (read: 9😩) changes, I graduated with a Mass Communication: Public Relations degree. ⠀ •⠀ Today, I am juggling two things - life as a writer + editor, and as a project manager. Getting to here was not a walk in the park. For a while, I wondered if I was confused. Now, I have accepted that I do both well, but giving myself permission to keep doing both was not easy especially because the messaging all around me was to FOCUS. Separating @crysandtiana (Pronounced: Chris and Tiana), my project management company, from @adeola.fadumiye was equally not easy. Lately, I am allowing myself to settle comfortably into two of the many things I do well. By accepting and focusing on these two above any other, I get even more clarity with each new client, project, and manuscript.⠀ •⠀ This is a still journey, and I am still discovering and understanding my core skills. It is not something we all figure out in college, in our 20s or even in our 30s. It might as well be a life-long journey. ⠀ • “Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.” Ecclesiastic 11:6 • [02.06.19] 📷: @marcellousstudios
[UNDANCE] This is not a love song... [02.04.19]
[REBUILDING] “Afflicted city, storm-battered, unpitied: I’m about to rebuild you with stones of turquoise, lay your foundations with sapphires, construct your towers with rubies, your gates with jewels, and all your walls with precious stones. • All your children will have God for their teacher - what a mentor for your children! You’ll be built solid, grounded in righteousness, far from any trouble—nothing to fear! Far from terror—it won’t even come close! If anyone attacks you, don’t for a moment suppose that I sent them, and if any should attack, nothing will come of it. • I create the blacksmith who fires up his forge and makes a weapon designed to kill. I also create the destroyer—but no weapon that can hurt you has ever been forged. Any accuser who takes you to court will be dismissed as a liar. This is what God’s servants can expect. I’ll see to it that everything works out for the best.” God’s Decree. [02.01.19] • 📸: @shardelhaden
[DAWN]"Your Redeemer God says" "I left you, but only for a moment. Now, with enormous compassion, I’m bringing you back. In an outburst of anger, I turned my back on you—but only for a moment. It’s with lasting love that I’m tenderly caring for you."⠀ • “This exile is just like the days of Noah for me, I promised then that the waters of Noah would never again flood the earth. I’m promising now no more anger, no more dressing you down. For even if the mountains walk away and the hills fall to pieces,⠀ My love won’t walk away from you, my covenant commitment of peace won’t fall apart. The God who has compassion on you says so."⠀ [01.30.19]
[THINK BIG] “Sing, barren woman, who has never had a baby. Fill the air with song, you who’ve never experienced childbirth! You’re ending up with far more children than all those childbearing women.” God says so!” • “Clear lots of ground for your tents! Make your tents large. Spread out! Think big! Use plenty of rope, drive the tent pegs deep. You’re going to need lots of elbow room for your growing family. You’re going to take over whole nations; you’re going to resettle abandoned cities. Don’t be afraid— you’re not going to be embarrassed. Don’t hold back—you’re not going to come up short. You’ll forget all about the humiliations of your youth, and the indignities of being a widow will fade from memory.” • “For your Maker is your bridegroom, his name, God-of-the-Angel-Armies! Your Redeemer is The Holy of Israel, known as God of the whole earth. You were like an abandoned wife, devastated with grief, and God welcomed you back, Like a woman married young and then left,” says your God.” [01.28.19]
[AWAKENING] Creating stability in all areas of my life is another hope I have for 2019. As an entrepreneur, it can be hard to do financially without a full/part time job and/or partner’s support, but I am doing it and plan to be better at it. • Two ways I started on it last year was to hire a team (part-time assistant and intern) and to create monthly retainer packages for retainer clients. My work as a project manager (follow @crysandtiana) continues to evolve, but one thing I’m sure of is I don’t plan to live on just revolving clients aka gig to gig. I created 2 service packages that brought in long term contracts and my hope was to sign five (5) last year based on how much I want to bring in monthly from retainer clients (not including revolving project/events clients and writing + editing clients). I signed three (3) and I will book the rest or more 😄 by February. • This journey is not easy and please don’t want my life. I have to go without stuff I want like getting my hair and nails done, going out, a new laptop or getting gifts for people I love (gifting is not even my strength, it stresses me out so I just show up instead lol). • So Surrender and Stability is my 2019. Ask me how I did in December. [01.25.19]⠀ 📸: @marcellousstudios ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
[SIMPLICITY] Most new years, I have elaborate dreams and hopes, but for 2019, my hopes are simple and surrender is one of them. ⠀ • One of the lessons, I learned in 2018 was I am not in control of my life as much as God is. I can do amazing and incredible things, but next to God, I can only do so much. If God is adamant about a no, it is a no. I can propose, plan and move all I want, but if I am truly surrendered to Christ, he will dispose faster than I can propose, plan or move. I want to surrender to that truth in 2019, and experience what it means to let God shatter my plans for his. Writing that actually scares me and gives me anxiety, but I am also tired of fighting him. Phew! • So wish me luck, because I can be stubborn. lol⠀ [01.23.19] 📸:@marcellousstudios

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