Tag: lifestyle

That Rona and Other Pet Peeves

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As I head into my fifth week of a stay at home order due to COVID-19 or coronavirus, guys I’m tired! I feel blessed that at this time I have job security and can work safely from my home while essential workers must risk their life daily and millions of Americans go without work altogether. With all of the talk about trump checks and travel cancellation, I decided to push through the heaviness in the air and share my feelings about the current state of the year 2020 and what I am really tired of!

  1. Netflix/Hulu/Disney+: Anybody who knows me is aware that I don’t do TV or movies. I get this form of screen time at most once a month but often only every other month. Y’all I have watched 5 movies in the past 3 weeks and my mind is blown that I can even do it. I have never been the person to watch a show just because everyone is talking about it so I have still managed to keep my weekly tv hours low but I fell into a trap or two. I tried to tell myself I would stream a show or movie with someone but to be honest I’m not because I already need a break from the TV
  2. Conspiracy Theories: Y’all I love a good read even a good documentary but I just can not handle scrolling down my timeline another day to read the crazy conspiracy theories y’all have floating around. We are in the middle of a GLOBAL pandemic as in countries all over the world are facing this same virus but we are finding anything to blame it on except a poor health care system, poor government regulations, racial and wealth disparities, and slow nation-wide response. But I will let y’all continue to argue over 5G towers, human guinea pigs, and vegan superpowers.
  3. Don’t Rush Challenge: Ok it was real cute at first but ya’ll know how to run something until its all the way broke down on social media! I enjoyed that song and now I dread hearing it at this point. You guys have managed to make remix after remix for young men, nurses, doctors, families, moms, old men and I am tired of it all! I hope that this week somebody makes up a new challenge for me to get tired of because I am about to starting muting this one as of today because I am done!
  4. Instastories Challenges: During the first week in the house the pushup challenge was cute and the shot challenge was manageable. But as we cross this one month mark I don’t want to get tagged in any more challenges to do anything on camera! My story needs to consist of me looking my past best on throwback and not my current crispy dry hair and persistently in pajamas self.
  5. Lack of Care: I have certainly take my share of maybe unnecessary trips to the grocery store or to pick up food. Despite an occasional in-home house meet up with a friend or two I can not understand people who take no precautions and continue with life as usual. I have seen way too many videos over the past few weeks of block parties, mansion parties, and large hangouts in public places. I barely want to wear my clothes into the house after being out but people are throwing huge gatherings as if black people are not dying at a disproportionate rate.

You guys may similarly be tired of these same things as we face at least a few more weeks safely in our homes. It may seem as if the only thing we have to do now is to scroll through social media, make Tik Toks, and stream every show and movie we can think of but don’t forget to prioritize other forms of self-care. I separate from screen time by taking walks, exercising, reading and journaling. Whatever you choose to do with your newly discovered free time if you have it just make the best if it. -Jaz

Life Alert!

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So some of you may have been asking Jaz where have you been? (If you weren’t just don’t tell me). Well, I am back from this not too long break with major life updates. This summer I made a blog post titled Goal Digger where I reflected on how to adjust my action plan to meet the goals I set for myself in the new year. SO GUESS WHAT GUYS?!? I actually crossed some items off my list and had to take a small break for the transition. So you may be wondering girls what is this big update?!? Well after starting my seventh year in the classroom, last month I transitioned into a position with a non-profit which I am loving. Leaving the classroom was probably one of the hardest decisions of my adulthood thus far because I had to give up a profession I was comfortable with and did well in plus those amazing breaks (I’m really going to miss summer and spring break). I had to really reflect on the professional goals I had set for myself and make the decision to challenge myself to reach for the next level. When you set your New Years Resolutions over the next few weeks as we move into 2020 make sure you are measuring your actions against your goals. If you want to be somewhere else in life then get there! I have constantly been transforming over this year and it’s tough at times discovering the new you or in some cases the old you. I encourage all my readers to take those scary steps, reach out to those seemingly unreachable people, and dig deep for those goals. Until next time guys! -Jaz

Life is the greatest love story ever written

-Jaz (www.jazbeonit.com)

Goal Digger

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In January like most people I made goals for myself and placed them on a vision board. I have had decent results using a vision board before but this year I wanted to do better. It took me almost a month to complete my vision board this time around because not only did I have to make myself goals, I pushed myself to also make action steps for each goal. I even told myself that these were not goals I was making but affirmations for my life that I wanted to speak over myself. Since I have been an educator for a few years shy of a decade I am familiar with making smart goals, so I always break my goals into categories such as career, health, or financial before getting specific about them, so I can measure if I have reached it and then set a deadline for completion. Well it’s summer and the year is halfway over, so I decided to see if I was sticking to these goals and affirmations I set for myself. Well first I looked at my vision board and thought “oh no” what have I been doing with my life! The thing with vision boards are that they don’t spell out your goals and timelines or the action steps you have chosen to get there. You may also not have everything on your vision board you want to carry out because you couldn’t find a visual that fit. Thankfully before I even create my vision boards each year I use a journal which I affectionately call my “GOD Did It “Journal to write down goals, actions steps, and notes of gratitude once I achieve something. When I went through my journal I looked at each category of goals and realized I have been crushing it in the career section! I can say that my career was my biggest focus of the year and probably caused me the most stress, and I was relieved to see that I was on track in that area. Then I had to reflect on all the goals that had taken a back seat these first six months if I was going to do majority of what I set out for myself. For this last half of the year I want to put my spiritual and financial goals first since they tie closely together. With my mind set on achieving these other goals I set for myself I will have to buckle down and actually complete the action steps I chose. If you are reflecting on how you are doing so far this year, don’t beat yourself up because you haven’t checked everything off yet but push yourself to get closer to the vision you mapped out for your life. Remember life is the greatest love story ever written so write it out and start living!