It’s Freaking August already……..

You know what that means???

That’s right!

It’s my BIRTH-MONTH !!!!!

Seriously, what happened to April, May and June?

This is where I struggle, I made a commitment to myself to write each month, if not more, about the up’s and downs of all of the changes in my life. Not that it is super interesting or we are doing any major adventures, which be are… but… still the fact remains the same. I committed to write every month and I don’t.

Why ?

Honestly, because I am busy living my life and don’t take the time to press pause on living to share. I also struggle with the creativity needed to tell the stories of the day, and that of my family’s lives and our adventures. Some times it just happens. Other times I will sit here for hours on end with thousands of ideas rolling through my head but not really able to get them on paper, digital or otherwise. And then there are days like today.

Today, RIGHT NOW, according to my calendar, I am supposed to be working on my business plan.

HAHAHAHAH

Wait, What? LOL, Yes. MY BUISINESS PLAN……HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

(Yea that took me by surprise too ☺️)

That is not the case though. I sat down this evening, intent on working my budget and then resuming the SBA Business Plan Tutorial, and working on the brain dump needed for creating the rough draft of the “Business Plan” and found myself doing the complete opposite and opening up this little slice of Billi.

Quick update:

Our lives have changed drastically in the last 7 months, but even more so the changes that we have chosen to implement over the last 4 months have been life changing for our family as a whole.

My son, while participating in public school for the majority of his school career, he has now been un-enrolled and put into an online homeschool. He has a job, a car, and participates in Martial Arts 3-4 days a week for roughly 2 hours a day. His time is freed up and that has allowed him to peruse his interests in the music industry and has created quite a few beats for some of the “up and coming” artists features on Tik-Tok and SoundCloud. He has a plan to return to the public school scene for his senior year, as he would like to enjoy his final year with the kids he has grown up with, but there is no pressure and truly in todays environment, there no need for him to not take some time to re-address who he is and what kind of mark he wants to make. With the state of todays school system and environment were we live, this seemed like a more logical choice for our son, who is more creative than analytic.

My Husband has become a Certified High Performance Coach!

What does that mean? It means that though extensive training and continued education, he has reached a level of accomplishment that only a few have through the High Performance Academy. He has jumped into the world of coaching and is excited to take on the challenge of working with professionals and business leaders to coach them though making dramatic performance improvements based on deliberate habits. This of course will have a lasting effect on our family, but for now, we now have a fully functioning home office, no longer my yoga room :( and a truly functioning schedule of blocked time for he, Van and I to be working towards our family goals, as well as our individual interests and dreams. This is something for those of you that already know me know I absolutely love, I truly believe that with scheduling comes freedom. I love the fact that he has embraced this new venture, I believe that this is something he was meant to do, but hey… 20 years ago when he started his career path, this wasn’t a thing that either of us knew of and I think that will make him all the more successful. Knowing what he does now from the training he received from the High Performance Academy, combined with his life experience and core values, I truly believe this will be something that he not only succeeds at, but truly thrives at.

Who knows, Maybe he could coach you?

So all that leaves us with for an update is lil ole me …

Well…. Girlllll do you have all night ?

LOL

No for real, there is so much, but lets start with that cliff hanger I mentioned before.

I have decided to open a business… what?

Yes, and not a salon! I bet you were thinking salon, but no. Not a salon. And not just any business, a freaking restaurant.

BAAHAHAHAHAH … DEAD

For real though, a restaurant. I am not going to go into full on details about it just yet, as I am in the beginning of the brain dump planning stage, but this is the next step in my life and my family’s adventure. It started as a dream for a little at home side business, but after a weekend get away with the hubs where we stumbled across the literal physical manifestation of my dream, a challenge was issued and damn if I didn’t decide to take it up.

I have been told for years that I should open a place. Sooo, that’s what is next on the agenda. Just not necessarily the place everyone is expecting. No joke this place we found was nearly the exact thing I had in my head for years. A few little alterations to the menu and a few other offerings and uses of space, and it was MY DREAM. I had lived for so long on the fringes of other dreams or half in and half out of my own, that when we entered this space and William confirmed, I knew this was my path to not only my Health and Holistic Wellness but those in my community as well.

So for now, this is the update I have.

For more of a daily (weekly …lol) Check out my Instagram (@billiraewilbur) or Facebook (@graceorbygrit). That is where I post daily on my stories and weekly to my timeline, even been on some pretty cool adventures lately and have a few more for to come before this year closes.

Check it out, I dare ya… lol

♡

~Billi Rae