~WALKING INTO MY DESTINY!!~

I do it! People stop by my studio all the time. Many of them tell me that I’m always changing something.

I just smile. They need to understand that I’m evolving, forever changing. Life is funny like that. You never stop dreaming or learning.

A few weeks back I celebrated being a store front business for seven years. A long SEVEN YEARS. I remember when I first open. I did it on a dare from a friend of mine. When the doors opened, I tried to be everything to everybody. Some of the people associated with me preyed on that. It took me a while to realize that I had to cut my own path through this wilderness. Believe me there were deep valleys and even higher mountains. I learn a lot, and I lost some things, made a few friends along the way. Kept moving on. I do it… For the brothers that feel like their back are against the wall.

A dude I know from back in the day. Said to me “I see you getting Money now.” I responded by saying “I provide a legitimate service for our community.” What he doesn’t know is, all the business that I turn away because I now specialize in quality not quantity. I do it to show brothers that we have to choose how we react to curtain situations. Every Dollar is not a good dollar. When I down sized my business and cut back on my hours of operation, some associates called me crazy. A good friend of mine told me this…’Be strong & even wiser’.

There is a saying that says ‘to whom much is given, much is required’. Having your own business is hard work if you are to do it right. You learn a lot along the way. I have also learned that you will have some ‘stuff’ to deal with like, judgment from the onlookers who haven’t a clue what you have to deal with. Now I try not to envy others for what they have, because I don’t know what they had to do to get it, or what they had to give up. Nobody likes working hard, I know I don’t, but I get so much gratification from knowing that what I have, I worked for it, it was not handed to me. “Walking into my destiny” takes motivation, effort, and the will to get up and to keep walking even when it is hard to do so. I am proud to have a business partner, a life partner that keeps walking.