New Year, Same Me, Just documented...

Welcome Amigos!!

Whether you are an interested friend, a family member, a student of my hip hop classes, a client at the barre studio, a concerned parent of one of my students, or a random stranger. Welcome!!! I'm grateful you decided to take the time to read this. I promise this blog won't be too boring, however, I will not have an tips on how to be successful, or expertise on anything specific. This blog is being started to help myself, find myself in a public way. Plus it was one of my new years resolutions. 

I figured I would blog a few of my new years resolutions this year to keep myself accountable about staying on track along with tracking my own progress.

I do realize I am starting late on the blogging but today (the ICE DAY) is the first day I've had to chill (pun intended) in a long time. With the school year starting back up, picking up new projects, moving to a new part of Austin, etc. Time just got away from me. Like I said this blog will contain progress of my goals of 2018 and the thoughts behind them. However I may add some V-blog to practice being on camera along with days I don't feel like typing everything out.

2018 Goals: 
My intention for this year is to have indelible experiences!

1. I intend to lose 5% body fat this year. 

I am currently at 22.1% body fat and I would like to be at 15% this year. I am not too concerned about my weight anymore. I just want to be my most active this year so I can be the most productive in my dance career.

2. I intend to release minimum of 12 dance concept videos.

I absolutely love dance concept videos. I have participated in multiple projects as a dancer but I would love to release more videos of my own choreography. These videos will contain me as a soloist and/or choreography on talented friends in my life or even talented students in my life. I will release these videos with a description on my creative process, time frame, and subjectivity.

3. I Intend to read minimum of 12 books in 2018.

In 2017, I listened to 15 audiobooks and only read like 4. However my schedule allowed me to listen to more audiobooks than to read. I want to focus on reading more book by hand. As a child I would always read a book and stop halfway through. In college, I would read books for classroom assignments. The only books I would really read all the way though were books that we're about dance. I am going to be writing blogs or recording v-blogs on my thoughts about the book and things that stood out to me.

4. I intend to book commercials this year.

My acting coach, Carol Hickey, asked us to bring in goals for acting.  This was my first time to establish true goals for my new acting career. This is the first time that I feel like I'm actually taking myself seriously in acting. Before I would kind of think of it as a side gig. I still find it difficult to take myself serious as an actor even though I love it. I enjoying and studying characters and telling stories. I've overcome some of my scene sensitivity because of acting. I'm beyond grateful of acting and I plan on taking myself more seriously in it this year.

5. I intend to attend more networking events for Actors.

This goes along with taking myself seriously as an actor. I want to meet people more in my field and introduce myself. Hopefully work on more projects this year. My dance school schedule doesn't allow me to be in plays at the moment so I'm working on more film projects. 

6. I intend to perform dance in more professional events.

Last year, I was blessed to be booked for the MTV Woodies Awards. It was my first performance since my concussion and I was completely in my head about it. I'm grateful that I went with my boss, Chi Chi, because she was coaching me in a very productive way for me. She was encouraging and a wonderful reminder that "Love is all there is." She made sure to push me and keep me on track. I do want to go back to being a professional performer I just need to find a way to heal the inner demons that came with the concussion. I've come a long way and I do feel much better on stage and I'm ready to get back to work. 

7. I intend to go see a minimum of 3 plays and 3 dance showcases.

I want to support my fellow artisans whether I know the actors/dancers or not. I understand how much work goes into shows and how much you hope people come to see it. I'm excited to support my local artistic community or even in other cities.

8. I intend to go to New York City & Jacobs Pillow in Massachusetts. 

Alright! I said it, so I'm going to do my best to make this happen!!! I've been wanting to go to New York City for a while now but any other time I want to go to New York. I usually change my plans for an audition or training in  L.A. NOT this year!! I am so focused on going for this new adventure. I've always wanted to dance on the outdoor stage of Jacobs Pillow and hopefully one day I will. However for now I have decided to take action to go visit. 

9. I intend to take a minimum of once a week to focus on my self-care.

I've started this one already from taking time to get my nails done, epsom salt baths, purchasing massages over new clothing, focusing on taking care of my curls, and skin, choosing sleep over nights out dancing, reading books or scripts over watching netflix, choosing to practice meditation instead of watching TV, going on a walk with my dog for her and my own health, deciding not to drink when I go out with friends to be completely more myself without fear, etc. I plan on taking care of myself mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. I did this last year but lost focus a few time. 

10. I intend to spend time with girl friends that I value.

Saved the best for last. I'm blessed to have made wonderful friendships since I moved back to Austin. I have always chosen to surround myself with like-minded people. These women are inspiring even if I don't tell them that often (which I still try to do). I want to spend more time with them this year. I would like to host dinners for them, go to lunch to catch up, coffee dates, spending night in playing video games (yes, some of girls play video game too), attending concerts they enjoy, supporting their business, going to church, celebrating their relationships (if they get married) and etc. I also plan on supporting them by linking their websites as well. I don't want relationships to be so shallow and to just see them out at the bars as my "going out" girlfriend- I would like to get to know these women for who they are and want to be. DON'T GET ME WRONG- I've got great guy friends I promise to not forget about y'all as well however I am focusing on nurturing my friendship with my gals. New friendships or old, as long as my girls are real than that all that matters to me. 

These 10 goals may be simple or very hard but I am excited to document my journey. Yes including my failures, not just my success. I feel like social media has been a reel of everyone success stories because we don't want to show our "ugly" struggles. Well I'm going to take a brave-ish step to show all ranges of my journey. And I plan on leaving my comment box "ON" as well...  I would love to hear from you. Encouraging notes, tips on nutrition/work-outs, articles you found that would expand my knowledge, links to your blog posts, comment on books that are related to the ones I've read, and/or productive criticism, all of it is welcome on the comment box. I appreciate you taking time to read this and I can't promise all of them will be as lengthy as this post. My intention is to keep track of my journey through these goals and hopefully inspire you to take that brave step you've wanted to take. Okay, thats all i've got to say about that.... Hopefully I can come up with a better sign off. Thank you again for reading this!