What Are You Doing In These Next 2 Months To Get Ready for YOUR Trip?!
blog cover image: Suga Apple Swim, a Bajan-owned swimwear boutique in Barbados
Way early on into the planning of this luxury Caribbean girls’ trip, I was on FaceTime with my good sis Taylor, she darn near knocked her phone onto the floor as she did a motion that resembled that excited Spongebob gif.
I’m looking confused. “What?”
She grabs the phone, pulls it closer to her face, saying, “girl, I feel like it’s MY birthday,” with exclamation in her voice as she does an imaginary flip of the hair she doesn’t have on her head. (The girl likes to get scissor-happy and cut all her hair off.)
To her comment, feeling like it’s her birthday, I told her it is.
This is your trip. You should feel like it’s your birthday. And you should prepare accordingly.
Feel like it’s your birthday, step with your best foot forward like it’s your birthday. That’s thee energy!
What are you doing in these next two months to prepare for your trip?
Yesterday, the first day of the waning months of 2022, inspired me to write a blog post about having time to work towards goals, no matter how the pursuit has gone thus far. The rest of the world has 3 months left, you have two.
Two months is enough time to get some sh*t done!
Whatchu finna do with the rest of 2022?!
Click there to check out that blog post, but in summary, it’s me being pissed that I’ve pissed away the year, then pacifying myself with the fact that I’m finna turn it around in this final quarter. (Don’t let Kayla’s mathematician tail in here, I know that doesn’t equal a quarter; I don’t know what it equals, but the point is, we bouta finish strong.)
We’re putting in WORK over these next couple of months, then going to Barbados and celebrating it all.
Show me sumn, baybeeeee! I don’t want any half stepping. This is the twenty-FINE luxury girls trip. You coming with your twenty-FINEST self?!
I, personally, am fine tuning my body and building my brand, but your fine-focus over the next couple of months can be anything, as long as it’s something.
According to Psychology Today, progress on our goals makes us feel happier and more satisfied with life. The trip is already going to be a good time regardless, but imagine how much better it’ll be if you see yourself advancing in areas you’ve been working on, giving you that celebratory sense of “I earned this!”
…Or, imagine how trash you’ll feel having nothing to take shots to while everybody else is toasting to their best selves?! Not to be cynical, but neuroscientist Andrew Huberman speaks on how foreshadowing failure is a great motivator. How bad will it be if you don’t? How disappointed in yourself will you be if you don’t?
Do you want to be a dingy, dusty a$$ h03 that ain’t doing sh*t?!
I think not. So, wtf you doing?
I NEED ALL MY B!TCHES WORKING ON SUMN!
Working on relationship goals…
three date nights per month with bae?
family fun days with your kids every other week?
Working on career goals…
routinely call customers 1 month after their purchase to see if they have any questions or concerns (be sure goals are concrete)
complete 60 hours of refresher course in [insert field here]
“Goals say a lot about who you are as a person and what drives you.” - Healthline, How to Build Intrapersonal Skills
Working on intrapersonal goals…
meditating every morning at sunrise
reading daily devotionals before brushing teeth
Note: Experts advise choosing 1-2 major goals over a given amount of time, as having more is proven to often be counterproductive.
This is your trip. You’re doing this for you.
Now, Taylor almost got cursed out more recently when she said, “I guess I really love you,” in regards to finally getting her passport.
Related: You Need A Passport to Travel to Barbados
B!+€H, TE’KEYA KRYSTAL CAINT GO NOWHERE WITH YOUUUUUUR PASSPORT! (Well, I probably could get thru TSA with her passport because her kids look more like me sometimes, so maybe we twins and don’t even know it.)
But her comment reminded me of a good point, this luxury Caribbean girls trip is something special.
Yes, we’ll be there on an anniversary of the day Tiny popped me out her pu$$y, but the trip itself is a special occasion for each of us in our own way. For Taylor, and a number of others in this gang, it’ll be the first time traveling out of the country. Her point was that she wouldn’t have been getting a passport, at least not right now, if it weren’t for this trip.
We have others who will be experiencing being away from their child(ren), for this length of time, for the first time, since becoming a mother. That’s big! (A couple of the girls in the group have babies currently under the age of 1!)
Surely, I could come up with more examples, but I’ve been writing this for three too many hours at this point.
All I’m saying is, I’m glad that the timing was right for every that signed on to have signed on to this girls trip, and I am honored that each individual is choosing to use their time to partake in this special occasion with me, but I don’t want anybody to be mistaken that it’s not for each of you too. ♡
