BelleResells

The end of 2021 was a dark time in my life. The word was something I needed. My soul felt like it had been dragged through the mud. I was heavy and soaked in despair. The word chose me, I didn't choose the word.  Peace. I sought how to bring peace with my surroundings. I set to work on creating a budget plan and for the rest of 2022 I refined my budget system. I would also start doing more good, charity work, in 2022.  Something that feels selfishly good is when you can help someone else out. Searching for peace lead me on a spiritual path to finding to Christ, who just happens to be, in Isiah 9:6, the Prince of Peace. And in April 2022 I was saved again. This time I really planned to give my heart to Jesus, everyone was telling me that through Christ and God, I would feel restored.  Building routines helped with my inner peace. I also started to discern that if something disturbed my peace, it was because I wasn't setting firm boundaries. A huge factor in peace is bounda...

 

 

  I have found a new word to carry with me into 2023. As I begin setting my goals, I think about my word. True. The root word meaning tree, it means to be authentic.  I want to live a life that is true to me.  I want to feel strong enough to speak my truth.  I know this year there will be some hard truths to swallow. I divide the year like cake, into four pieces. Each quarter contains three months, or 90-days. I'll ask myself what kind of lifestyle do I imagine - how do I want to feel? Less anxious for sure. I want to feel like I can breathe better, more well rested.  Something to think about before setting new goals is looking back at what brought you the most meaning and happiness? Donating to cat fosters for example, brought a lot of purpose to me. Creating cleaning routines helped my mental health. Despite naysayers, I got the job at the school which inspires me to go back to college and showed me what it was like to feel workplace happiness. (Some backgroun...

 This is an in-depth look at all the organization and routines I repeat weekly, monthly, and quarterly. A huge part of this system to reconnect with myself is my journal. I try to journal every day, and I write about whatever I did that day, what my thoughts are, to-do lists. At the end of the month, I like to reread my reflections from the previous month. I indulge in looking back and getting a sense of who i was that month and how that month impacted me. Another part of my journaling process is my Return to Inspiration: Vision Board blog posts. I ask myself the same set of questions as well, and these are questions that I pulled from positive psychologists and people like Brene Brown. I will ask myself if I reached my financial goals, and what are 2 of my financial goals that month?  What are some of the accomplishments you achieved this month? What do you wish you had done in the previous month? The word of the year is peace. How did you find peace this month? What brought ...

  I stopped looking at things and saying ‘I wish that was me’ and started saying ‘Okay I can do that too’

 I know your dark secret. Admit it, it's hidden in storage and closets, it's your greed at a time where everything you saw were dollar signs. The sales were so good you got more than you bargained for! Death pile is a term resellers use for their unsold inventory. It's time to dig up the graveyard and give those items a new life. 💀 Be honest with yourself. Are you going to resell it? Keep it? Donate it?  The first step for me was to package all my books into boxes. I dedicated shelf space for my personal collection, books for sale and books I wanted to list. It gave me space to reimagine my shop and I started getting day dreamy about  reopening my secondhand bookshop, Hyla Brook Books.  A few months ago when I announced closing my shop I was so sad, like something died. Not like a pet but something in me felt defeated. Except now I'm starting to see what's beyond the beyond!  👻 Something else to consider is that I banned myself from buying more books. I c...