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Don’t Get Discouraged with the Current

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Hello Family! I hope everyone is doing well! My bro Bryan has really been on me and pushing me to write and to organize a blog schedule, and need to say… it’s working thus far. So every Wednesday you can see a new blog post from me and you actually might begin to see more within a week 😊 Stay tuned

I just want to continue to encourage those that might be going through a season that feels like drought. What do I mean? You feel like you’re not accomplishing anything or nothing is getting done or you may feel like everything you touch falls apart or you’re just a car in park. This is what I’ve been feeling for the past 3 months. I have a few things on my plate that has to get done and those things sometimes will discourage me from really working on my dream or vision because I’m too busy working /worrying about the current.

The last 4 months for me have been kind of brutal financially. Honestly, I know myself and I know when something isn’t right. I would go to work and come home and crawl in the bed, and not get up until the next day. Here’s the kicker sometimes I would eat one meal and not eat again. Now y’all know your boy loves to eat! I was surely going through a season of drought and was overwhelmed without any navigation and couldn’t see any light through my tunnel.

I slowly begin to shift my focus and I was able to see my vision and dream ahead of my current. As much mess or drought you’re going through you must combat it with your dream. I started watching YouTube vids of others people journey and stories and I started reading books that would challenge my mind to stay focus on the future. My main issue was my thoughts. You have to find a way to calm down your mind and spirit. Many of you know I am a man of faith and I choose prayer and meditation and I must confess. I wasn’t doing my share of this during my drought. I wasn’t getting fed enough spiritually to combat what my natural intake would be. Soon after I was able to get back to the grind of building my brand and business and what’s so amazing and crazy at the same time, the stuff that had me down, some of it is still going on, but I’m able to go through it because I have my dreams before it.

I want to tell you to not give up. Please don’t give in. It’s not that bad and everyday you’re given a blank canvas to create, to publish and live. Don’t get so caught up in the bad that you neglect on the good and the good to come. I hope this nugget helps and encourages you on your journey. We got this, let’s make it happen

Use What You Got

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Hey Everybody!!! It’s been a while since I’ve written, but I’m back and ready to encourage and uplift. We really need that in today’s time because one moment you might feel like you have all the motivation that you need and then in the next second of that moment you are doubting and wanting to crawl up back in bed for the day.

I would like to encourage you today and let you know that God has created you and given you everything that you need. Sounds a bit cliche right? I’m sure you’ve heard that through the church walls and pews but it really is true. Often times, I find myself buying products or chasing after this or that because I see other people successful with it. Most of the time, if you just work with the measure you’re given that measure would get the job done.

Quick Example

At the top of the year my living arrangements begin to get interrupted and I had to find a new place to live. I had a friend talk to me about home buying and he suggested I talk to a bank to see if I would get pre-approved for a home loan. NOW in a million years, buying a house was far, far, far away from my agenda and I always and always felt like I didn’t have enough money in the bank to buy a house. What’s the name of this Blog???? Use what you got!!! So literally I used what I had. I had my income, credit score, and not a whole lot of money in the bank and what happened? I got pre-approved for a home loan. It was mind blowing. Over the past few years I was working on my credit and made sure I paid everything on time but I never thought that I was preparing myself to make an investment purchase like this. So I simply used what I had already and stepped out on faith. You will never know what you can do or where you can go, until you step out and try. I never knew what programs were available to assist you buying your first home. I learned so much and it’s made me think on a higher level. In my younger years, just hearing the word mortgage would make me shut everything down because I was brainwashed into thinking that you had to have thousands, and thousands of dollars in the bank to buy and obtain an home loan.

I just want to encourage you to use what you got. It might seem small to you, but it just might be what’s required to get you into the door. You might remember the mustard seed of faith. I used to wear one around my neck in a charm, and that thing is small. It would most definitely spark and grow the more you use it, so get up and Use what you Got!!!

Be Blessed & I love you all!

Be a Good Steward Over Your Time

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Hey Everyone and Happy New Year. Welcome to 2019 I pray and hope that you are staying true to your goals and aspirations and I pray that you are taking charge of your life and making things happen.

For this season of my life, I have been in silence and observing everything that I do. One of the things that I have been working on is my time. God grants us life that comes with time and this time that we have is precious. We don’t know the date or the hour of expiration for life, so with that being said lets not waste it.

Social media plays a huge part of our lives now. We use it to keep in touch with our peers and some of us use it for staying up to date on things in the world and people. I must admit, I love social media but I understand that if I don’t have a clear objective of what I need to use it for, it will began to distract me and I would waste time. You know you wake up, turn off the alarm, and then you get to scrolling and checking your notifications and messages. Before you know it an hour has passed and that hour did not put any money into your wallet or help build your business. It pretty much was just a waste. That could have been a hour of you reading something productive to start investing or you could have been building your craft. Mannnnn there’s been so many times I’ve spent times just scrolling and scrolling and got nothing and I mean nothing accomplished.

When we look at the definition of Steward it says it is to manage or look after. We must simply do that. We must manage our precious time. Ask yourself what you’re doing is this going to help me out in the long run? Is this going to add to me or is it going to be a pointless act. Now I’m not saying not to live and enjoy life. I believe that we all should dial back at sometime and do something enjoyable but I’m speaking to the people that are striving to reach their destiny and every time you try to get something done or try to accomplish something, it just doesn’t happen. That’s who I am talking to.

To start taking charge of your time. Remember this… you are in control. You control what you want to do, who you want to associate yourself with, and where you want to go. You are in control. Don’t get sucked in to believing that you don’t have a choice or someone or somebody is making you do something you don’t want to. There’s two simple words that has given me power and they are YES and NO and nothing in between.

I want to challenge you this year to dial back and observe to make sure that you aren’t wasting your time on pointless things. Make sure that you are maximizing your time and every opportunity. I will touch bases on this and maybe make it a series as we go further into this year of greatness. I believe that this year can be a breath taking year for you but it’s according to what you put it in.

Be Blessed and Thank you for Reading

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