After going through the trials and tribulations of starting a blog, (of which, I honestly thought was going to be the hardest part) I soon began to realize that I underestimated this entire process.  I finally got to the moment I had been anticipating… it was finally time to write my very first blog.  A thousand different ideas rushed and filled my head, of all the right words and things that I wanted to say, to introduce myself to you.  

Ehh.. “Hi my name is Rayna and welcome to my twenty-something blog”… Hello! That’s boring

“Alright guys I’m ready to blow your mind away with this brand new fantastic-ass blog” Yikes too forward…

“Hi! Im going to be following the Julia child cook book for a year” shit wrong blog.

I began to think of all the different ways I’ve introduced myself to people my whole life, from Kindergarten all the way to the present day.  Then a very daunting thought came to my mind, I was headed for a new beginning, and new beginnings have always been very strange and taboo for me. 

I guess you could say like any other Capricorn, I have always dreaded change and honestly uninvited it. I hated the first and last day of school, every year like clockwork.  Any fallouts with my friends made me so upset, I continuously forgave people for no reason.  The shift in my family household during my parents divorced ached me to my core, and don’t even get me started on all of my job changes.  However, it made me realize all the opportunities I’ve either put on hold or never did, due merely to the fact that I was too afraid of change.  From being too fearful of taking my first vacation because I didn’t want to be too far from my family, or staying in toxic relationships because I thought maybe it would get better.  Even never applying for a new job because maybe my new coworkers wouldn’t like me.  I was living a life that I wasn’t one hundred percent in love with, because I created a mental blockage due to my own unbiased fear.  Even starting this blog, I contemplated the mortality of the project, I pro and con’ed ever aspect to its core and then I thought maybe this won’t amount to anything… and to just quit.

Yet, I began to ponder and I realized that maybe this was the most heartbreakingly beautiful aspects about being a twenty something year old.  The constant changes, the challenges, the growing, the learning, and the new beginnings are consistently inevitable and instead of dreading them and dragging my heels in the dirt, I should try and welcome them with a big smile and open arms.  Without change maybe we wouldn’t have seen Martin Luther King Jr. create a dream that would racially shift our society forever, Disney wouldn’t have created an innovative new theme park for all the see, and without Steve Jobs we would still be using a flip phone today.  All the amazingly authentic and ingenious people of this world lived, breathed, manifested, and inspired change, and I so drastically wanted to live and leave a legacy as large as theirs.  

So it was time for me to manifest and design what my truly dazzling future and purpose was going to be.  I took a look at my life and what my reality meant to me and very quickly I realized everything needed to adjust, while simultaneously making my peace with this new reality.  My habits, my mentality, my imagination, my goals, my friends, and even the products I used in my toothpaste were about to shift.  Without change you simply will never grow.  If I wanted to truly loose those 15 pounds it was time to change my eating habits, if I wanted to live a more sustainable lifestyle I needed to change the way I buy and resource my products, and if I truly wanted to love myself and trust myself more I needed to finally go to therapy, read the books, and shift my inner dialogue more positively.  We can manifest and change our lives into our wildest dreams, you just have to be willing to take that leap and do the work.  

I also decided that my first true testament, to myself and others, would be to start this blog.  Truly how could I challenge other people to face change if I couldn’t push myself first.  It was time to pull my big girl panties up and get to work.  So, I sat down with my fiancé and best friend and we dreamed of everything that we wanted this brand, blog, and business to look like.  We put these dreams onto paper and we immediately started the research on how to make these dreams into realities.  Birdi tirelessly created the web design for our blog space, Brandon spliced and put together our video content.  We bought apps, tools, books, we researched media creation, business management, and the ins and outs of what it takes to run a successful blog and business. Finally we felt comfortable and ready enough to put our thoughts down onto paper.  Which leads me to my first formal introduction. 

My name is Rayna and I decided I wanted to start a blog bursting with all of the amazing and awkward moments that are filled in a twenty-something year olds life.  From trying to start and finish college or your education, to transitioning to your dream career, while simultaneously trying to maintain and enjoy as many relationships as possible.  All the while living our best lives and creating lifelong memories.  Our twenty somethings are going to be filled with moments that will make you laugh, cry, learn, grow, and ultimately change you into the person you’re going to be forever.  I know, how crazy.  Hopefully this blog either today or someday in the future will inspire you to create a change in your life no matter how small or big.  Pick up the phone and ask your dream person out, invest into your own business, plan your dream trip, start your band, learn how to knit, join a protest, literally anything!  The universe is your limit.  Creating habits that align with your goals is the first and biggest step towards obtaining the life we envision.  If you want to be a millionaire are you doing what it takes to be a millionaire throughout your days, are you making the most healthy habits, are you connecting with your most spiritual self?  We are all capable of doing the things that make us the happiest, we are going to need it and want it for ourselves.  I will be the first person in your corner to tell you that you can and that I believe in you.  

Look at you imagining your dream life and the changes you want to make, I’m already proud!

I have a Fiancé named Brandon and my best friend is Birdi and we honestly do everything together.  Within this blog we will touch on a plethora of different topics from how we have travelled the world, product reviews, lifestyle tips, and honesty all the in between challenges that no one ever really talks about.  I believe I could create the space where people could all connect, feel secure, love each other, accept one another and hopefully share some of the knowledge that we have accumulated with one another.  As wise words go from the beautiful legend, Sza herself, “Good luck on them 20 somethings, God Bless these 20 somethings, Hopin my 20 somethings won’t end, Hopin to keep the rest of my friends, and Prayin the 20 somethings don’t kill me”, and honestly, I could not relate to anything more. 

Cheers to our Twenty-somethings - Rayna

Comment below with any of your New Beginnings so we can all share some ideas!