Are you Ready to RISE?

I will never know what it is to be of another race

I will never know what is to face that life.

I will never know what it means to struggle in the face of THOSE adversities.

I will never be Black, or Asian, or Hispanic, or Latino, or anything other than white.

I will never be able to put myself in YOUR shoes in those cases.

I will never know what it means to be judged by those standards.

I will never say I understand because I don't.

I have however been molested, raped, beaten, abused, homeless, lost custody of my children when they were young, lost a father when I was young, faced suicide, suffered anorexia, and now had cancer.

I may not always understand or empathize with your struggle, your trial, your strain of adversity, but I have had quite my own.

I can empathize with that.

I have overcome all that life has thrown at me.

You can overcome that too.

You can overcome ANYTHING you face.

Life is a set of hurdles and obstacles.

We are in the race of life to win.

Face your fears.

Face your adversities.

Face life, love

You do not have to be in the constant pursuit of happiness.

It is already there, waiting for you to see it.

Life is beautiful.

YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!

YOU ARE AMAZING

YOU ARE FABULOUS.

It is up to YOU to own that fabulous inside of you.

"I have suffered much in life. In fact, that is the biggest understatement of every century in every existence I have ever known and I am not kidding. I found myself by finding what I didn't want and what I did through dating, business, entrepreneurship, and more. I overcame; I was not just burnt, I was singed. I truly believe I went through the refiner's fire and I was left with nothing but ashes. I rose from the ashes and I came out a Phoenix." ~Trisha Trixie Hunter-Merrill

It's time to RISE UP.

Are you ready to rise?

https://fallingintofabulous.wordpress.com/the-risen

Feisty, Fierce and Fabulous in 10 Easy Steps

This year I have been working on focusing my goals, desires and habits towards positive and uplifting things. a friend recently bought me a gift of Brave Girls Club courses and then today I got invested in Daily Om Courses.

Out of all the things that seem to resonate with me the words of my title are what keep popping out to me

 FEISTY FIERCE AND FABULOUS!!

I strongly feel that is what I need to power through this year.

I need courses and guides and planners and dreambooks that put me and keep me on this path.

So far January isn't over yet but I already feel like I have a great plan for my upcoming year to do just that! Stay on the path. I laugh inside because my mantra for my successful businesses in teh past few years have been "Stay True to the Brand". Of course, why wouldn't I do the same with my own personal life. Stay True to My Path. or Stay True to the Path.

To do this, here is what I have done so far.

Step One: Buy Dreambook and Planner from Dragontree http://dreambook.vision/

Step Two: Work Dreambook consistently to focus on my one year, three year, ten year and lifetime goals. (not an easy task mind you when one is fighting colon cancer) As well as stay up to date on regular planning, note taking and journaling.

Step Three: Stay active in Dragontree Facebook group for inspiration and motivation for the plan
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dreamingandplanning/?ref=bookmarks&qsefr=1


Step Four: Get reactivated in Brave Girls Courses (These really helped me back in 2011 when I was really struggling with some interpersonal things and I just knew it would do the same for me now. I am very grateful to my friend who bought me a 3 month subscription to this as a gift)
http://my.bravegirlsclub.com/courses

Step Five: Join Bad Ass Habits from Daily Om (I have done the first two days and am already enthralled with this course)  The habit I have chosen to focus on is Daily Yoga practice. I have had some pretty severe muscle fatigue and neuropathy in my body and hands from my first round of Chemotherapy. Lock jaw, teeth sensitivity as well, and slight nausea, but those went away in a few days. The muscle fatigue and the pain in my hands has been more than I can bear. Luckily after doing two days of yoga, I can type and function with my hands again. Which, for a blogger, make a HUGE difference in my overall emotional well being. I jsut always feel like even I am just typing my words down and no one reads them, I am getting those emotions out and that alone makes me feel better. Then add to it the fact that someone MIGHT see my posts and I MIGHT make a difference in someone elses life, that means the world to me. http://dailyom.com/cgi-bin/courses/courses.cgi

Step Six: (This is SUCH a girl thing) Only use the Bad Ass Purse. The Bad Ass Purse is black leather, studded and looks like a motorcycle bag to me. Motorcycles are bad ass, so to me, this purse is also bad ass, kick ass. It makes me feel empowered to use it and make me feel like I can conquer anything.

Step Seven: The Bad Ass clothes (again such a girl thing) I have a black vest that I wear as often as possible. I have been using black eyeliner nearly every chance I get. I put hair chalk in my hair to bring out the fierce and feisty and fabulous in me. I wear what I want, when I want even if others think my style might be a little outrageous. The more outrageous the better! I wear my kick ass (but easy to get into) suede boots or my little gray ones with a silver buckle because both of them say FIERCE to me.

Step Eight: Use Asana to keep all my projects in line and to stay on top of my goals and habits for this upcoming year of 2017 www.asana.com

Step Nine: Update and follow my Pursuit of Excellence Goals for this year. Also place in Asana to stay up to date with it. https://trishatrixie.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/pursuit-of-excellence

Step Ten: Live life to those ideals I have laid out. Remember to be Feisty, Fierce, and Fabulous no matter what, all year long, every minute of every day!

XoXo~ Trisha Trixie

So Much Overhelm

So much overwhelm.

I dont even know what to say anymore.

I really want to get back to that feeling of pece I had when I was in Brave Girls but I feel like it is so very far away.

I don't have that person. In Grey's Anatomy Meredith and Shtina talk often about how they are each others "Person"

Who is my person?
I don't have one.
I never have.
Just when I think I do, I don't.
I have new friends.
I have old friends
I have those who know me
I have those who tell me to call anytime, but they are not my person.
Will I ever have a "person"

I take solace right now in listening to KLOVE Radio and allowing my heart ot feel.
Allowing my heart to cry
Allowing my heart to feel.

I am marrying a fabulous man in less than 20 days away and as it stands I have no family who is planning on attending my wedding. I, like many brides, am planning so much of this on my own, but even my MOH is MIA and who am I to fault her for being so far away?

I am trying to do things on a shoe string budget, which is fine, but damn it would be nice to have help once in awhile. Even the new gal who was gonna help me, of course bailed on me.

I don't share this often but at time I still feel slightly broken from the life that came before me. I feel I will never shake it. I have overcome it, yes and I am fabulous yes, but there is still that high school girl insecurity deep down and I think we all have our demons. Learning to overcome them does not remove us from them, it merely helps us to survive, succeed and move on.

I am the promoter of my business, doing it alone, netowkring alone, and so much alone.

I have become comfortable being alone and at time relish in it. However, there are times, I really wish I had a "person"

Tonight is a rare night, when I think WAY too much is going on and I am holding my own, but I really just want to go off somewhere and have a good cry....

Time to Be Fabulous

I have been told so often lately that I am an inspiration to others that it has really made me think about what I say and do and how those things are reflected.

I have heard Famous people say dumb things when they got famous or big like "I never expected to be a role model"

Does one really EXPECT to be a Role Model?

I think it happens. I think when you are who you are and you are REAL that slowly this starts just HAPPENING.  I think people start liking that you for who you are and one thing leads to another. They like your message. They like your person. They like your examples.

A good friend recently posted in a comment and I re-posted

 "Climb to the top with integrity"

 I found it very powerful because I am working very hard to reach my dreams, strive for my goals and get higher and soar higher... as I journey on this climb it is important to me to do as JJ Heller says to

Leave a fragrance behind

I desire that is such a profound way.

I say quite often to BE FABULOUS and have started a new Campaign to do just that. I even started having Fabulous Fridays on my TrishaTrixie pages. I carry it through to my business. I carry this message through to my life.

I want it to be a voice of encouragement to others. I want others to see how Fabulous and Wonderful they are. I want people to realize and see that life is out there, miracles are out there, their dreams and goals are out there, they just need to see the FABULOUS in themselves, in life, in everything. 

I have been through much. Yet still, I not only endure, I not only survive...I LIVE. And in living, I try to live Fabulously.

If you are interested in joining this group of encouragement check it out here 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/timetobefabulous/ 

Isn't it Time to Be Fabulous for you?