Duvet2Desk by TPG

If I could write myself a letter at 17 & 23 ( ask me privately why I chose those years of my life... ) this is what it would say to me, as an "adult." The focus of this letter is failure , the ultimate teacher.  Tiffany, I am writing you this letter as a 32-year-old woman, still learning to cope with this thing called failure and it sucks! While in the midst of it, it feels like walking in a smoky room with windows and a door out, but due to the intense smoke it is hard to find your way out. The feeling of being in a heightened threat state is a miserable place to be. The feeling of having clouded judgment based on emotions rather than logic  is a miserable place to be . The feeling of not knowing what your next step should be  is a miserable place to be . The feeling of deep and true pain and sadness can be overwhelming.  But let's be real, we have really messed something ups - either through lack of knowledge, preparation, understanding, or the other mu

If I could write myself a letter at 17 & 23 ( ask me privately why I chose those years of my life... ) this is what it would say to me, as an "adult." The focus of this letter is beauty. What is beauty anyway? Well according to Merriam-Webster "beauty" is… 1 : the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit: loveliness 2 : a particularly graceful, ornamental, or excellent quality 3 : a brilliant, extreme, or egregious example or instance Tiffany, I am writing you this letter as a 32-year-old woman, still learning about this thing called "beauty."  Beauty was something that we really struggled with, and you were terrified of growing older and how people saw you. Girl! You are a mother and time has served you pretty well. Dang it! I wished we would have looked up the definition of beauty years ago. It's so simple, yet, for years, the operational d

If I could write myself a letter at 17 & 23 ( ask me privately why I chose those years of my life... ) this is what it would say. The focus of this letter is on lessons learned about the trials of my life. I intentional ordered these letters and wanted to start with trials and tests. Because those trials and tests are ultimate what shaped the development in the other areas of my life: fear, beauty, faith, and love. Tiffany, I am writing you this letter as a 32-year-old woman, still learning about this thing called "trials." So let me start by saying; you are much wiser than you think. I wish you knew and understood the strength you possessed those many nights you worried yourself to sleep. I wish you understood you are so much savvier than you ever believed. You are so much more capable than you know. But most important - you are so much more valuable than the value you have allowed others to place on you. Let me say that again ( for those in the cheap seats! )

Oh, father time… I found that I have never thoroughly addressed ( my possible obsession ) the element of time. It has plagued me since birth ( seriously, that’s the exact moment in time when we all are graced enough to have the clock start winding down ). However, I do consistently address intentionality, but the why behind it has not been discussed until very recently. Why be intentional - because we have limited time to live an uncommon life. In  one of my recently published blogs , I talked about time as the currency in which you measure the success of your life.  "If time were the currency by which we measure the success of our lives; would we spend it differently?" - Tiffany Curry In the above quote, I am really trying to convey that if your life were a pie chart, an excel file, a database in which you were capable of tracking what you did, would you do differently. Truly, the most worrisome aspect of breaking down life into moments of time, is that many