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so I just started to put up a few
decorations for Christmas and it has
changed my mood before I was just
feeling a little bit like overwhelmed
and just not quite in the spirit of
things this season and as soon as I
started putting some things out I was
like yes I'm in this moment now so my
advice is if you feel like you're just
not quite in the spirit of things this
season then start putting up some
decorations and it just magically
transforms everything anyways I wanted
to tell you guys about some really cool
new updates so the first thing that I
want to say that's been really inspiring
and motivating to me for honestly a
couple years now is this video by Steve
Harvey talking about take the jump okay
here's a dude if you want to be
successful here's the thing you have to
do you have to jump there is no way
around you so yeah be sure to check out
the whole video I can link you guys to
if you just feel like you need to be
inspired in that way basically what that
video means to me is that there's all of
these beautiful like dreamers out there
who have achieved their dreams and you
see them in his metaphor hang gliding
just floating around up in the sky but
how did they get there like they didn't
just start they had to jump they had to
get their parachute open and you can't
do that from the ground you have to take
the jump fall and then your parachute
will open I think that I personally live
a very cautious and measured life like I
like everything to be thought through
it's almost funny sometimes like how
much I try to think and measure
everything and that can be really good
but it also can be very safe sometimes
in life you just have to go out there
and try so hearing that message from
Steve Harvey just really pops me up and
it's like having somebody in my corner
like you can do this so I wanted to
share that real quick and maybe you find
yourself in a similar situation where
you just need some
out there to believe in you and to just
allow yourself to take the jumps in life
that lead you to the dreams in your life
so all that leading up to the fact that
I'm going to be going full-time now on
dearly Bethany and I am so excited to do
that I probably will say I'm so excited
in the rest of this video because it
really is something that I've started as
a hobby just from a place of trying to
find meaningful friendships around
eccentric topics that I really like and
that other people really like and I'm
just so thankful for you guys I feel
very just blessed to be a part of
creating content for you guys and then
also to have your friendship and support
behind me as well any sad day I can just
like go online and speak with you guys
and it cheers me up so to do that full
time is something that I want to try to
do so I'm hanging up my hat on my career
as a designer I'm not taking any more
client work for designs that chapter has
been wonderful but I'm so happy now to
do something that I really love that
gives me more work-life balance
honestly I just did a video on what I
would tell my 20 year old self and
looking back on all that time since I
was 20 I was just thinking I've worked
every hour that I was awake essentially
I if I wasn't asleep I was working and
that would look like a 12-hour day a
16-hour day doing all different kinds of
work including work here on this channel
which I love but also I would work
retail jobs mopping floors at night I
would do office work like there was
nothing that I would say no to there was
no work that I felt like I couldn't do
I'm thankful for work I don't really
view work as a bad thing as much as it's
a tool it's a tool that can be so good
it can be something that you overwork
and wear out so I'm just ready now to
have more work-life balance too so if I
can prioritize more of my day if I can
be in charge of my day then I also am
looking forward to
saying yes to more family friends events
activities cuz honestly I've been saying
no to everything and I'm just ready to
have a little bit of breathing room to
but if there's so many like dark corners
that I want to spruce up again here at
dearly Bethany which includes all of the
little things I started but didn't have
time to maintain podcasts closet sales
Instagram more YouTube videos there's
just so many thing like honestly I
haven't done a podcast and once and it's
just something I'm aching to do again
and I have some other future ideas that
I'm still looking forward to as well
which brings me to and the next idea
that I have and I'm not really ready to
tell you everything about it just yet so
subscribe follow me on Instagram because
if you do I'm really looking forward to
this as a way to say thank you guys for
supporting me through some extra
sponsorships I've had to take for this
transitional time to be able to save up
and take that cliff dive I'm just really
thankful for the support you guys have
given me so I'm giving back in a way
that I will tell you soon but it has to
do with basically any time I do a
sponsored post from now on I'm going to
be giving back in a small way yeah stay
tuned for more info on that I just had
to say thank you guys because adding
extra sponsored posts not having enough
content to really buffer it as much as I
would like to do I just didn't have the
time to post post post so I want to just
give back and say thank you guys for the
support and just all of your positive
comments have been really helping me
along through that experience so thank
you guys so much for just being a friend
I'm also really thankful too because
zach has worked so hard like I've been
amazed at all the things he can do with
photography videography editing and so
I'm so excited to work with him
full-time just on something that we love
to do together Zach and I ever since we
met like we've always been creating
together and so that's just kind of part
of our communication with each other's
like just coming up with things so I'm
really excited to work with him
like really closely yeah it's just gonna
be so cool to see what we can come up
with here so yeah I just wanted to pop
in make a quick video for you guys and
tell you about basically to summarize
expect more content from me don't forget
to follow on Instagram as well as
YouTube so that you can be part of some
surprises I have coming up and then
finally don't be afraid of chasing your
dreams and I'm here to support you and
be in your corner with that as well and
that's it so I hope you guys have a
lovely weekend and I'll see you guys
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I'm gonna love you
the world may rearrange colors that may
change
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