My confession today couldn't be more timely then the present. I was presented with something awesome a day a go only to have it taken away. Now, I'm glad that I saved this post for today because it hit home. I was driving to work the other day when I thought about horse racing in a different light. As a new mother who works hard. I'm trying my best to maximize my potential in this race we call "life".
I've grown to adopt the thinking of the race horse who has blinders on to block the distractions to the left and right side of his vision. I am determined to look straight ahead and move with great speed towards my goals. I am grateful to my daughter because she gives me the tunnel vision to succeed. Our children must become our greatest motivation to invoke the necessary changes in our own life.
I hear the distractions all around me. I won't allow them to get the best of me. Guess what? "I don't see you". My dreams are bigger than an 8 to 5 race. My goal is to employee others, feed families, and leave generational wealth. I will never be comfortable with giving my time, talent, and gifts to another master other than myself. I leave you with these moving words that compel me to stand by my conviction to stay the path and keep believing in myself.
I would like to say "thank you" to my 9th grade Literary Arts Teacher, Ms. Floyd-Davis for teaching a clueless 14 year old something so powerful that it took her 24 years to completely understand.
Invictus
William Ernest Henley, 1849 - 1903
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Xoxo
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