Dear 2020…

The lessons learned from 2020 will help me walk into 2021 stronger, taller, and with so much more appreciate for life.

2020, what a year you’ve been! You’ve brought incredible pain to so many in the world. That injustice that is around you, you’ve opened our eyes to it. The planet that we call home, we have learned to love and appreciate it a little more. This year we lived apart and we lived together. So many of us longed to be in the arms of our loved ones. We prayed for equality and fought hard to have our voices heard. We loved and lost. Joy was found. Happiness was shared. tears were shed. We had to forgo the lavish afairs and celebrated love with just the ones we truly love. We broke down walls and rebuilt new rooms in our homes and in our hearts. 2020! What a blessing you’ve been in so many ways.

Lessons learned from 2020

I learned many lessons this year. Some of the lessons were good, some were great, while others were life changing. Here are few lessons I learned this year. I hope this serves you in the best way possible:

1. Speak slowly and think quickly.
2. Life is too short for the small fights. Save your energy for the big ones.
3. Stop. Breath. Notice the life that exists inside of you. Allow that life to open your eyes to the one around you.
4. Look up. The answers are not found on your screen.
5. Listen and take notes.
6. Apply the small lessons in life in order to achieve the big goals.
7. I got my own back.
8. I am not a victim of my circumstances but a victor of life’s challenges.
9. Challenges are designed to make me sharper, better, smarter, faster, kinder, and increase my faith.
10. So what! & ….. and that’s okay.

Other lessons include…

So many lessons learned from 2020 such as TikTok can either be a great learning tool big black hole where all of your time seems to disappear. Facebook is for old people (what? when did this happen! LOL) I don’t actually believe this. It’s just what I hear the “young kids” saying these days. The .0001% of germs that remain on “clean surfaces” are truly resilient. I never thought I would be washing my hands so much in one life time. It doesn’t take much to put on a mask because you could be saving someone’s life. I’ve never thought twice so much about hugging or shaking someone’s hands before.

Share with me a lesson you’ve learned in 2020!

Blessings be upon you and your family and friends as we enter 2021!

And finally, don’t forget.

It’s 3, 2, 1….. JUMANJI! LOL!!!!!

xoxo,

Nilo