Level Up! With Shay

This is me.

I come from a town of 700 people called Shipman in Illinois and now currently live in Los Angeles, CA, working at a retail shop and hustling when I’m not. I find it unimportant to continue sharing the story of why I moved out here, but rather why I am here right now.

I have a lot of goals. I imagine you do too. They may be completely different than mine, you may not be interested in the things I’m interested in or you may not have a passion for music and motivation, which I do. But I know we all very certainly have one thing in common regarding our goals – we have a limited amount of time to achieve them.

“The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.” – Shoppenhauer

Inc.com

I want to make awesome music. I want to give people a space to come to to laugh and feel good. I want to be the person people COME TO to laugh and feel good. I want to take care of my family. I want to spread a message that I feel is important. I want to fulfill my purpose, which I discover more of every day. I want to have a healthy body that allows me the energy and endurance to do all of this.

I don’t have a ONE THING that I want to accomplish. All the things mentioned above are little things that will allow me to fulfill something much bigger. I want to fully experience and never stop learning throughout my journey here on earth. But I know one thing that I LOVE… and that is sharing.

As of lately, if you follow me on social, you may not think I’m super into sharing. I don’t really share music projects I’m working on, where I work at currently, my family, posts in general, etc. (You also may not think that, but it’s the idea I have in my head…which I feel is why I *need* to share more…because it’s what I WANT to do).

And now that I’m reflecting, I have an idea why I haven’t shared as much… Are you ready for this? This big shocker? Big, HUGE surprise reason? It’s because my life isn’t perfect. (Who woulda thunk??). I don’t take the perfect pictures. I don’t think of the perfect captions. I don’t have the perfect job or the perfect relationships or the perfect social life blah blah. I really thought that was important. The X Factor. The idea that you need to have everything together, dots connected, list checked twice, and so on to share it. But I have been reminded (shouts to my fellow 90s babies and recent Disney+) in the words of Hannah Montana – nobody’s perfect (lol). But also reminded through some educational and motivational sources – Gary Vaynerchuk, Brene Brown – oh and also, LIFE.

Or another favorite – Kristen Bell from The Good Place:

To make this short and sweet, considering our time is limited anyway, guess what? (Omg Shay stop makin us guess stuff!) lol…This isn’t going to be perfect either. And I. Don’t. Care. I’ve decided that if I believe in it, I’m going to do it. Whatever that “it” is. There is all the time in the world to share and absolutely NO TIME TO NOT!

Do you have ideas or thoughts that you want to share with your friends, coworkers, family, THE WORLD? A purpose you want to fulfill? If so, awesome. If not, also awesome (but I’m a inkling there’s at least a lil something 😉). Either way, I am here to remind you, along with double dipping and reminding myself, that the clock is ticking. Start that new blog 👀, go back to school (or go TO school!), go on that trip, have that conversation, do some karaoke! You will find that as you check the boxes of your goals (big or small!) one at a time that you are truly living. And it bears repeating – truly LIVING. Because if you’re not doing the above, what are you actually doing here?

Take full advantage of this opportunity at life. At YOUR life. And I’ll do my best to take full advantage of MINE.

Talk soon,

Shay

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