Although I have not had anything published to my website in a week, I have been working away on a product I am so excited to offer. A mini devotional bundle that will be available for digital download!!
I also ordered the sample for my new journal, “It’s Time to Dream Again” which will be here in less than two weeks!!
Reading about someone else’s story, their valiant efforts, their failures and successes is amazing. It can be just the inspiration we need to encourage us to dive in ourselves to begin to take steps towards our own dreams and goals.
We could fill endless amounts of time consuming books, podcasts, YouTube videos, and social media pages where so many stories are open for consumption.
The silent work (the work no one sees) we do is more valuable than it feels at the time. The silent work is the development that goes on behind the scenes where we are growing roots in the ground. It’s the work of continuing to nourish seeds even when it feels like you planted them long ago and nothing has yet sprung up. It’s the kind of work that makes us question why we aren’t any further than we are.
When I mentioned a couple of days ago why it was so important to detach emotionally from the end outcome, this is what I meant.
This resonated with me because I’d spent a lot of time in my life asking questions that got me to ‘nowhere-ville’ and just led to frustration and a lack of answers. I was spinning around in place pondering life through questions that I never got sufficient answers for. Talk about going crazy!
My big takeaway statement from a year of branding training back in 2020 that I had planned to be my main message was this - ‘Let Go Of The Outcome.’
We were told in our training to define everything we did back to one statement that we would recommend to a client if we only had one thing to say to them to help them breakthrough.
I stand by this statement today.
Read MoreWhat does it mean to be pregnant with purpose? To me, it’s being at the very edge of a dream, so close you can see it, but not quite holding it yet.
For me, I remember the ninth month going so slowly.
Some biblical resources I love are the YouVersion Bible App, Logos Bible App, and BLB App. I also for a time went through a course called ARMRA Courses by Manny Arango. That course was so profound to me. It awakened my love for scripture in a new way and brought context to passages I had never known about. I HIGHLY recommend the Armra Courses App.
Read MoreMarketing is like a layered cake. Whether you’re launching a business or non-profit - or frankly, an idea into the world, marketing is one layer you have to learn to bake.
I know this has been my story.
Read MoreTwo ‘polarizingly’ opposite experiences. So when I say mix, I am indicating that there is a spectrum to the temperature. There are the extreme ends of the spectrum, but there is a whole heck of a lot of variation and nuance in between.
Read MoreThe most driven, passionate, or “called” among us often strive to start big missions, movements, businesses, and organizations.
Sometimes these missions start from seeing an injustice that you feel passionate enough about to want to rectify. Some missions are born from personal heartache and wanting no one else to experience that same level of pain. Others rise from the conglomeration of cultural and societal divisions. There are certainly plenty more I could reference and ones you’re likely thinking of too.
Read MoreLike many of you, I’ve followed the news these past 12 days about the death and impact of Charlie Kirk. Countless narratives have surfaced in this short time.
One question people are asking stands out to me: are people idolizing Charlie Kirk, or is it right to celebrate him as a hero?
Some would argue that too much has been made of his death and feel cautious about saying too much about him.
The absolute truth is that to fully complete your dream or goal, you are going to have to show up when no one is watching. You’ll need to show up when you don’t feel like it. When it seems what you’re doing doesn’t even matter and when you have no proof that any of your work will yield any of the results you want.
Read MoreBelow are ways that I pair persistence and trust together with these additional nuanced perspectives.
I learn to let go of the outcome. If I have a desire or dream, I persistently walk it out, but I hold loosely the results I desperately want. I can’t guarantee the results will happen when I want them to or that they’ll look like I want them too. So I work and hold them loosely.
I learn to enjoy the journey. The journey is so much longer than whatever the end result I am trying for, so if I don’t enjoy the journey, then I don’t enjoy the bulk of my life.
Here we are on a Friday, headed into a weekend. I’ve spoken several times about the cons of weekend free time. Often when we are working on a dream, we get to the weekend, our normal schedule is different and rather than being a time of rest, it can turn into extra time on our hands to think and ponder on why things haven’t happened yet.
Read MoreWhen I first started creating content online, I carried so much fear about sharing my views.
I knew, God willing, my perspective would evolve as I gained more knowledge and matured, but I didn’t want to risk leading anyone astray if I was wrong in a perspective or later regret past words that in the future no longer reflected my growth.
This fear held me back from fully showing up for people to really get to know who I am and what I’m all about.
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