Hello my beautiful blog!
I literally haven't been on here in years! Since 2011 to be exact. Since then I have found my calling in art, met and fallen in love with a wonderful man, finished my law degree and started law school and started my own enterprise in the form of a carnival band at UWI carnival. I read through some of my previous posts and realized how sad and lost I was during that time. I was definitely trying to figure out who I wanted to be, what was love for me and what it all meant in my life. Now, I haven't exactly figured it all out but I feel more secure in myself and who I am and want to be. Maybe its age, maybe its maturity but I definitely needed the time to grow.
So what's been going on with me? Tons! For one thing I started three tumblr blogs and a personal journal. I will post the next few days from each just to give a recap of the last couple years. Why come back now you ask? Well I learned recently that the business world is not as easy as I thought it was. that in today's society having a self brand is just as important as having a business brand. That if you want to succeed in your field you have to do as much self promotion as you do promotion of your business. So instead of being a crazy this is my life of lost love and struggles I think I want to document here how I'm growing personally and what I am doing to better brand myself. Whether its law or creative media I want to become an authority on it. That is my goal for the next few years-Success.
People today are opening the Greatest Secret or looking at all sorts of self motivation books to push themselves to motivate themselves, to figure out what they need to do to make more money and be successful. The simple reality of it all is that people have phased into a higher consciousness of social reality-Believing is all you need to achieve. Believing in oneself is the first step at attaining one's goals-BELIEVE THAT YOU CAN HAVE IT! A lot of our restrictions in life are mental- there is ALWAYS a way to achieve we just have to want it. I don't mean want it, but at the same time particularize why we can't have it. I mean want it and despite all odds and obstacles take it. I think being self motivated is a big part of self branding-one might fear what comes from putting oneself out there to be viewed publicly; what if I don't do it right? What if they say mean things? I won't succeed because I don't have a degree for it. All of that is the reason why more of us stay sad and drab in our little crappy situations. Because we focus on the negativity- what if people love you? So what if you Don't have a degree neither did Einstein, Beethoven or Worhol. We should never limit ourselves just because we look out at other people's way of achieving and don't think we can do it the way they did, or because some one tells you you can't.
I'm reminded of Les Brown, the motivational speaker whose life took a 180 degree spin when he was in high school. He had a twin brother who was very smart. He on the other hand was tested and labelled very early on in life as Mentally retarded- he believe that he was to the core because everyone told him he was. After school one day he went to his brother's class to meet with someone and his brother's teacher called on him to write something on the board. He hesitated and the teacher asked him to hurry up, he finally answered "I can't". When the teacher asked him "why not?" he responded saying he was n the special education class. The teacher either didn't understand or didn't care and asked him to come and write on the board again. Les hung his head and other persons in the class started laughing telling the teacher that, the teacher was mistaking Les for his brother the smart twin that he was DT. The teacher looked at Les and asked what DT meant. Les answered it means DUMB TWIN!. The teacher shushed every one grabbed Les by the arm and said "DON'T EVER SAY THAT AGAIN. SOMEONE'S OPINION OF YOU DOESN'T HAVE TO BECOME YOUR REALITY!"
Hearing that helped me out of a glum situation recently because it made me realize I define who I am. If I accept the negativity that someone says I am then I become that because I believe myself to be. Whereas, on the other hand, if I decide to be who I set out to be despite the same negativity someone says I am, I will be what I want to be despite them.
Our only restrictions from success are our own mental blocks- not society's, not the schools's, not our employer's or our parents' or anyone else! Once you can grasp that epiphany then you have accomplished the first step to success I know this mind block is a big big task to face for a lot of people. You will always have doubts, but belief is what will keep you going. Believe you can and you shall. If you belief you must have it, it will come to you and if you work in the belief that you will get it-it will come even sooner.
Success is no longer far in the distance its right in front of you, all you have to do is not be afraid to take it.
So yeah my road to success, self motivating myself a chronicle of my aspirations and achievements- that's what I am doing with this blog. Hope you stay with me. :)
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