Full Circle 3.14
Today, I am packing for a trip back home where I spent my earliest years- where my family is from.
It’s a little place out in a quiet country- a place where time stands still.
A place where you forget what day it is- the evenings creep into the mornings over midnight movie watching…and snacking.
A place you dress nice for a day to the city because it’s bright and lively, it takes over the whole day, and the stock up for your next hibernation gives a sense of looking forward to something different with more of the same.
A place perfect to go nowhere and dive into writing. The perfect way to start something new from somethin old.
Why is it full circle?
It seems like I have been coming to place I wanted to be, but didn’t know where to start.
On 3.14.17 I started an LLC.
Though I knew nothing, and I was in a time of defeat, and isolated- Not sure what my next steps in life were going to be, or if I had it in me to take any steps at all.
I picked up a book about setting goals (and dug deep.)
One day I might start a business.
One day I might write a book.
One day I might support my family.
Start a business? Write a book?? Support my family???
I couldn’t even hold on to a job, and who would read a book by a loser?
The job I just quit was 3 years of finding out all the ways I was in the wrong place- and all the ways my mental and physical illnesses were willing to rear their ugly heads at any moment.
I felt good for nothing.
But here I was, without a confidence without a choice, and without a clue. But I had a seed of faith- and fuzzy vision.
So I waded into a sea of experienced, networking CEOs, politicians, serial entrepreneurs, and sales reps.
I was as nervous and dumb as one could be, simultaneously presenting myself as a service provider and a new student of entrepreneurship.
Sometimes the message got lost and often I set expectations I could not meet.
But I kept receiving the same signal.
Don’t quit.
Don’t quit.
Don’t quit.
I didn’t fully understand where it was all going, but I fully understood that I would never find out if I didn’t stick around.
So I stuck around.
I failed a lot.
I almost gave up.
Then last year God gave me rest. It was not a peaceful rest. But an enlightening one, for sure. For the good, of course.
One where I saw that even though I didn’t know where this was going, He always knew.
This year I am going back to a place I came from and going to go back to the place where I started.
2 books.
I’m working on 2 books! (And I think they’re going to be pretty good 😊)
✔️I have a business
(Though slow and bumpy, traction happens more over time)
✔️I am working on debut releases
(And more to come!)
✔️I’m still broke as a joke…
(Perhaps supporting family part may or may not come 🤣)
✔️And I still have dreams!
Though I still have much to learn, I hope you stick around this year.
Whether you’re a business/organization leader, or a writer, or just a dreamer… I can’t wait to share the journey with you, my friends and “followers” old and new.
Will y’all pray I have good focus in the upcoming weeks! 🤓🙏
Happy Pi day, hope you never stop growing, like pi. 😉
