Welcome to travel + explore & play with Sallee Jay, where I am your host. 👋🏾💓‼️
Hopefully, at this point you’ve settled into the new year and began your process, however that looks for you. I very quietly brought in the new year in prayer and complete gratitude for all of the things that transpired in 2021. If you recall in my first blog of 2021, I laid out the foundation and expectations for the blog for the year. This included holding myself accountable for connecting with you, my awesome community at least once a month through the blog and weekly on social media with #traveltiptuesday!
21’ Blog Stats
salleejay.com is growing, thanks for the support.
It was a success, by all accounts and the work paid off. Website traffic increased by more than 15% and the website page views increased by 41% year over year!! This is huge to me, because it let’s me know that you guys are connecting to my content and coming back for more.
While most of my readership is based in the United States, it was interesting to learn through analytics that folks in Canada, China, France and the UK are equally interested in my content rounding out the top five countries with the highest readership. A huge THANK YOU to all 1.2k of you that stopped by, representing 32 countries all around the world! As I continue to build my tribe, please feel free to connect with me via email, social media or through the blog, I want to hear from more of you.
I am excited to connect with you all more in the new year! I am hopeful this year to host my first healing retreat, it just was not in the cards last year, that said, it’s one of my main goals. I’ll be running a test run during my birthday weekend 🤞🏾I am proud of myself and all that I have achieved.
I was blessed to see and experience things that I’ve never seen or experienced before in 2021, both personally and professionally. I was able to accomplish individual goals that will prepare and propel me for the future that I envision for myself.
To start the year; I am back in school! Prepare to hear more about sustainable travel practices from me going forward, as I embark on this new educational journey.
I’m very excited for my birthday trip next month and cannot wait to see what this new decade holds for me. My 30’s were interesting… I sacrificed a lot, I LEARNED a lot and I also gained a lot. Now it’s time to showcase my talents and get all my coins 🤑
I’m back on my fitness grind! Health is wealth and the gym clears my mind in a way that cannot be replaced, not to mention the physical results. I’m also committed to learning more about food, macro and micro nutrients and just overall increasing my well-being. I’ll still be floating as well.
Africa Development Promise has provided an opportunity for me to return to Africa this summer, so please be on the lookout for a deeper look into East African culture.
I have have some surprise projects up my sleeve that I think may shock some and delight others! All I can say is 2022 is going to be a good year! I’m grateful for the people in my life that hold me daily.
I don’t know why, I have this feeling in my gut that this year is going to be my best professional year ever. Things are coming together nicely.
Cheers to growing relationships, networks, wealth, health and prosperity.
See y’all on the other side of the work that I’m doing. And the amazing trips I’ll be taking 😎
Thanks for the support 💓✨🍾
Happy New Year! 🎈