“Never live a lie…If you have capacity enough to imagine yourself and want to portray yourself in a certain way… then I bet you actually have what it takes to really make it happen”
Growing up I’ve been so convinced that I was a great woman, You know…
Used to see myself in my own imagination as a big bosslady running several businesses and caring for the needing providing solutions to my Generation…
In my mind I was a very wealthy and very impactful person.
And so subconsciously I always carried myself around that way…
Now this is what’s interesting…
At a point in my life… I decided to start a business… But i didn’t have the heart but I mean I put it out on social media… That I was the C. E. O of so and so company… And i was jux basking in the fact that i had labeled myself a C. E. O.
To be sincere… People did take me seriously… Even when I didn’t…
You know people will see pictures online and things and assume “giiiiiirl… She has it all going for her… But it wasn’t reflecting in my sales nor my bank values….
One day I sat with myself and said…” girl… Who do you think you’re kidding? If you keep going like this… Younger people than you… Less smart people, less opportune people than you will come and be inspired by your aura and use it to start true ventures and after 5/ 10 years you will have nothing to show for all your stories… ”
So I had to face myself, I self analysed…and i realized that I had the same problem most ppl out there are facing…
I believed I was meant for more… But i was too lazy to fight for it coupled with doubts of whether or not my efforts would yield any fruits…
The worst of all was the fear of disappointing other people… I’m a craft artist… So i was afraid I’d take a job and not be able to do it and the client will feel like he wasted his money and I’ll feel bad… Meeehhhnnn it was a big struggle.
But I said…to myself
Ask and it shall be given to you
If you don’t know it, study it (it’s amazing how knowledge is so abundant these days but people just can’t sit to study, anyway…)
Practice on your own whiles you wait to find a client
Start small… Bite just as much as you can chew… If you are offered bigger, borrow extra teeth (Good Partnerships are a great way to go when you can’t handle it all) !
For most of us we’re living facades of many shades and colors… Mine had to do with my business… Yours could be anything
We Pretend to be anything and everything hiding behind any other thing and everything… Lol
Jobs, relationships, Sicknesses😱, excuses… All manner of things…
Whatever it is that you are pretending to be or tell stories that you have done… get yourself together and actually do them because that beautiful lie could actually be your truth…
If you can be responsible enough, bold enough and persistent enough to decide to actually Manifest that lie people so believe in,… the end result will be your blessing …
If you tell stories of how you went for business conferences or sent out proposals, met with a mentor or even studied your Bible… Actually do those things and that feeling of beauty and goodness will Manifest.
Truth be told sometimes we lie so much to people we begin to believe it… When your Instagram post says… “silent moves” or “business meeting at coded location” and you know none of that is real…
Once you are able to imagine and tell the story it means that it lies within you to truly Manifest it.
There’s one thing that constantly repeats from generation to generation that I find very intriguing… Lol
You will see a very niiiiice young lady pretending to be a good woman just so she can attract a young man’s attention… Forgetting that after marriage there will be practically nothing to hide… Smh🤦♀️
If u have a character flaw don’t hide it… Accept it and work on it… Get better… It will pay u more generously to do that than to pretend to be perfect and appear to be a bag of disappointments later in life…
If you can’t cook learn it, if you are lazy practice hard work… Give yourself a reason to want to be better and just be better… When you come out on the other side… The thank you you will say to yourself will mean the world compared to any external praise u will ever receive…
It’ll be a rather sad story to look back after 10,20 or 50 years and regret not having lived a true life and facing the challenges and overcoming them… You will be more proud to know that you tried and failed severally and finally succeeded than to wonder What would’ve happened if u had tried…
or worse still see someone else executing with great detail and mad success the very thoughts you had in your heart
For a long time… I was a zero earning C. E. O… And i had no real substance to the title… But now… When I tell myself…on my grind… I know I really am… And it means a lot to me and it’s only a matter of time before the world acknowledges my effort.
If you can imagine that lie and tell it… Just know that it could actually be true… If only you would put in the work! Cheers🥂