New Year Mindset: Live For Today

Yesterday is a figment of the past. Today is here. Tomorrow is on the way.

Fresh pain that fills your heart from yesterday should be hung up with a pin like laundry on a line. The long journey ahead requires a light load.

No more starving yourself of love and forgiveness.

Feed your spirit with things that give you positive energy. Stop reflecting upon the could’ves, should’ves, would’ves that stay crammed up in your mind. Focus on the cosmic whirlwind of today and be totally present in the now moment. Don’t just tolerate the wind. Flutter and conquer it like the royal being that you are.

Enter into this new week with acceptance of who you are. You are not your mess. You are not a mistake. You are bigger than your falls. Your mistakes do not define you. You are better than your yesterday. Stop letting your past dismantle your spirit. Stop allowing others to dictate how you feel about life.

You are more than enough. You are blessed and highly favored. You are loved by a God who adores you. He molded you uniquely and wonderfully. You amass a whole lot of power. You are worthy of love. Your smile affects people.

Soooooooooo…

Glow up today!

Level up today!

Show up today!

Warrior up; because this fight is your life and you are more than enough…

More Than Enough Short on YouTube

Feel the Vibe of the New Year

 Tip for 2026: Enjoy the Music

It is a new year. A new set of 52 weeks. Don’t let the New Year’s Eve ball drop into 2027 without dipping your toes in 2026.

Feel it.  Let the ubiquitous appeal of it take over. Lean into it like it is your favorite song. Groove to its rhythm. Experience it. Embrace every miniscule bit of it.

Enjoy it. Let your spirit guide you to the smile to keep that joy vibrantly pulsating through your body.  

Feel the rhythm of the unique fusion of this new year. Find your smorgasbord of influence and stick to it. Let it splash over you like the waterfalls of Saut D’eau, Haiti. Submerge yourself into each day with fresh authenticity.

Feel the vibe of every single moment of these next 365 days like the morning alarm. And make sure you stay prayed up in the stretch of your every day as God carries you through each minute that comes embedded in it.

Hope that you are wooed by it and that this year sets your soul aflame to make it your most explosive year ever. I pray that your song and dance gets you relevéeing successfully as you progress forward through the year. May your 2026 be as refreshing as Negroni Sparkling Wine; but don’t get too drunk because I’ll be navigating through it too. Lml. 

Enjoy and be blessed!

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As I continue to share parts of my identity and grow into the new year, here is an aspect of a musical atmosphere I was blessed to be in with the wonderful guitarist John Smith, drummer Camille Gainor, and Keyboardist James Preston at the Red Rooster Restaurant and lounge in Harlem, NY.  They are consummate professionals and the music they shared swelled in the air like a bird in the sky. They made it easy and fun to join in and sing with them. So thankful for that. 

I hope that you feel the strophe of each line as I did. Here is the link:

https://youtube.com/shorts/zNhBaYEBSpg?si=4_4bCysOXOCuJIRr

Happy 2026

 It is 2026. 

As the new year approached, I was dancing gently in the cold breeze with my black and metallic gold dress on fluttering in the wind, as the ball dropped and everyone screamed “Happy New Year.” The energy that was radiated at that moment was calm and serene. I snapped some pictures, recorded some videos, and made memories that will last for a lifetime. It became abundantly clear that 2025 was no longer a thing and that the new set of 365 days was upon us.  

A whole new avenue of possibilities is here. I know the new year just started but I am looking forward to seeing how it opens up like a flower in blossom. I’m sparkling with excitement for new music and writing projects. I won’t get all sapped and sentimental about it yet but, I look forward to letting it shine like a beacon of hope when these projects are ready.

What I will say is that I have plunged into writing wholeheartedly lately. I have always been a poet and I write songs but lately, I have put more of my efforts and time into weaving in stories that are significant to my cultural heritage from threads of mine and my family’s memories and stories. This year I am going all in.

As for now, here are some of my writing projects that were previously published in 2025:

 

Winter Jass: Jass Magazine

Features various articles, stories, poetry and a comic strip entitled Jass by Stephanie Jeannot

https://a.co/d/31P8rJd

 

Storming the Page: Soul Aerobics

A book of writing prompts to ignite the writer in you to put more words down on paper by Stephanie Jeannot

https://a.co/d/2LlVjN9

 

Sunsets 2026: 2026 Calendar and Plan Book

A calendar book with calendar, writing lines for memo writing, birthdays, important phone numbers, and photographic images of various sunsets captured by Stephanie Jeannot

https://a.co/d/iy0APo2

 

Jazz Toons: Lena Horne

A comic book about the life of Lena Horne. Sketches and story line are by Stephanie Jeannot

https://a.co/d/4YHn07N

 

If you are interested, please click on the link and support my writing endeavors.

Thank you for your time. Look forward to communing with you in this 2026 year.

Peace and blessings!

Stephanie Jeannot

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