Something Nubian

By La Trecia Doyle-Thaxton

and Where I am Going in the Days Coming

I rarely scrub any of my social media to remove or read what I was posting 365 days before.

Facebook and Google constantly remind me and I as luck would have it I am not on Tumblr or X enough to have to dig very far to see what I have posted within a year.

While this is the time to do some reflecting (Full Moon in Cancer) so that you may see how far you have come (reflection), are going, and what you should be doing (revelation), I am reminded of my days at Sprint when the director would meet with us and discuss what we should stop, start, or continue.

I was able to run through my posts on X (Twitter) and remember what triggered which posts and how I’m utilizing what I started at the beginning of January that I have continued until now, what has worked, and if I will continue or stop altogether. At a later date I may go through each one and give more details.

Before 2022 ended I reflected on my relationship with money and how I needed to become more aware of how I spend it and I learned recently that I worried about it more and it was energy I no longer want to continue, money should be worried about me!

Money should be asking me what areas of activity I will be using it in each day and not the other way around and therefore, that is how I will treat money going forward. I affirm in 2023 for 2024:

We talk about money a lot in our home. But the vocabulary words are the most important and I plan to share this same energy as I do with everything else, we look to break poverty mindsets and find value in our daily circumstances, instead of waiting for a specific date to arrive. Especially, while these planets are currently in trine with (bumping into one another) such as Neptune(our dreams), Saturn (discipline), Venus (heart) and during Mercury Retrograde (communication/travel/technology) and Chiron (healing) is showing us where our challenges are.

While public school starts in August, I usually revamp our schedule as needed during the first of the year, we are in school for life and take breaks throughout the months for family trips or when the opportunity presents itself.

Since I now have a high schooler, middle schooler, and kindergartener, their schedule will not change much as we base our day on the Chakras- the only process of learning would be their level of understanding so there won’t be much to change but I do like to implement my skills into my teachings I have created in which I may find a way to monetize this in the coming year for those parents who are looking to become more organized in their homeschool life and just are not able to find a way to do so.

Speaking of organization, one of the things that I healed was being more organized, and studying the moon phases back in 2020 has helped me because I was able to see that my body would want to do certain things during certain times but having flare-ups would restrict me and I was not able to determine how to improve my health and keep the faith, this helped with putting things into perspective.

So I decided to pursue studying the moon phases and not give up because I was learning how much I was connected to the Universe and as I have known since I was a child but was not aware, then I became more knowledgeable and taught what I was learning to the children and adding more value to our homeschool practices and lifestyle, which lead me to affirmations and I began teaching them and posting them daily on social media.

Affirmations, crystals, and journal prompts, and herbs have helped me to become organized, happy, and whole. And this is the last year I will share them for free. I plan to use them in my reiki practice, journals, and planners, and to monetize my moon phase blogs.

My goal for the year was to improve the way I spent money and invested, and I was successful in doing so, there were plenty of instances where I was humbled by what subscriptions made sense and those that made absolutely none and this empowered me in ways that I did not even think of. I was able to see where I could use funds to invest and if I could not where was money going that was hindering me from doing so.

I committed to making changes to my finances so that I could show my children how to make choices so they could work for someone only if they wanted to, because let’s face it your ‘why’ is really what bills you are accumulating! So, I became an investor myself for the first time.

And one of their bills includes Spotify’s premium which is one of the plans that I loved and lost, long story short it is like we don’t talk about Bruno, no , no , no …. But Tidal is working just fine though. The goal is to own stock in those companies.

I do appreciate the end-of-the-year wrap-ups and that I still have access to my playlists which have been therapy to my days getting me out of bed with the positive energy.

One of my posts about therapy stated it was one of the best choices I had ever made, and it still is. That ended for me this year and I feel like everyone should seek counseling in their lifetime. After being certified in Reiki I was able to speak to someone for about two years and we went over what some would call ‘shadow work’ and I worked with really great women who both moved on to better things and with their listening ear I was able to discover I was growing and had grown.

I encouraged my family members to speak to someone and some were open to this option, whether they decided to go or not I feel that letting them know about how great speaking things out was healing for me.

Since I decided to put my money where my mouth was, I invested more time into Something Nubian. I neglect her year after year, not knowing what to do with her and changing her identity over and over. But she is me and I am forever changing. I am constantly growing and that is what Something Nubian is about as I learn, I change. I become Something Nubian and I introduce that to my readers

We are all nine areas of people activities and I made a point to start posting more blogs this year, I still have issues with keeping up with a schedule but I do want to showcase my skills in one place all at once because I own this space and if I am removed from any other social media platform, I can always show up here.

When I have a new book, journal, planner, craft certification or product I can release it here and then share it with the world before anywhere else. The question is should I keep the name the same or should I change it?

When people are looking for me, if they google me, they don’t know who Something Nubian is and it is not the first thing that comes up online. So this is one thing I must decide whether to start making sense, to stop, or continue.

I will always have this site but now I must decide if I will keep the name.

That is a hard one …

What revelations have you come up with for yourself during this time of year? Let me know in the comments below. Until then, I have a three year wedding anniversary to celebrate!

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Sending positive energy…🌟💰✨