When I started writing my personal manifesto I didn’t really know where to start or what to write (like many of my projects). Was I to write from the heart or from some other perspective, and what overall format to put it all in to.

I have read a number of manifestos in the past and know how they each have made me feel and I wanted to invoke in myself the same feelings that I often get when reading likes pieces of writing.

I wasn’t sure how straight to the point I wanted to be or what to include, but I knew that I wanted to take the process of self reflection much further and much more serious than I ever have in the past.

I chose to include things that by themselves do not define me, but as a collective whole I think help to give myself a better snap shot of who I am, both from my perspective and from people within my communities.

For me the hardest part of the whole process was putting to paper the ideas, qualities and characteristics that people tell me I have that I might not believe I exhume. The process of realization, understanding and self appreciation needs to begin some place and in some cases it needs to begin with how others perceive me.

So now having finished my personal manifesto I would like to revisit it ever so often (6 months to a year) and update it to reflect how I might have grown as an individual or revisit it just to get some inspiration of how I can improve my life’s at the time to better reflect who I want to be.

Without a doubt this will be one of the more personal projects that I attempt this year, along with my first project, “Three Letters to Three Me(s)”, I hope to gain more perspective on my life and be able to make positive and necessary transitions to become the best person I can be.