When you decide to pursue an interest, it always starts from right where you stand. That day! That moment! It lives or goes dormant in that feeling! YES. That exact feeling that the great poet, James Brown recited to an upbeat melody. He had that feeling baby and he couldn’t help it! You think about it. Dream about it. Wake up with it pressing your brain. So respond, well no don’t respond. React! GO FOR IT!!

Dreams and visions are to taken seriously. They become your life’s work or what could seemingly haunt your life until you get to it. So let me encourage you as I encourage myself to be in the few percentile to NOT stunt our growth. Let’s be the doers.

It’s all good. Every error, every mistake along the way is for our growth and development. Think of yourself as a garden. If you watch a garden for one year, you’ll observe rest, growth, pruning, blooms, and there is the unseen happening with the ground, stems, pedals, etc. One seed grows an orchard! It’s really fascinating when you sit and wonder. It was deposited into your soul because you already have what you need. Snap, snap!! On your feet…after you finish reading. HA!

But seriously, too often we think there is a need to figure out how to get a new thing going. How to outsource for what just needs to be cultivated inside of you. When actually, if it came out of you…STOP, say it slowly. You heard that right. IT CAME OUT OF YOU (your brain, your heart) THEN YOU ALREADY HAVE WHAT YOU NEED TO PERSUE IT! Your prior days were the preparation a greatest foundation to start, passion.

I recently, well more like about a year ago decided to make a big move across the country. I was coming off the roughest financial year of my adulthood, since the recovery of my early twenties. I was about a year off of an outrageous heartbreak. Honestly, I’m still walking very lightly as I get back into the new world. All while, a hand full of significant relationships were changing and ending so rapidly, I couldn’t even keep up with the blows that came.

Feeling as though I was gathering the pieces of myself, I decided in the back of my mind that I was enough. I heard that clearly. I defined it. I did some meditation on it. I wrote it down. I affirm it. I started from where I was. All beat up inside. Still full of tears that I let out whenever they came up. I decided, then I began moving forward in love. I reintroduced myself to the things inside of me that I have always enjoyed and loved.

I started drawing. I allowed myself to be motivated from within. I began to allow my imagination to flow. Any time of day or night, I would write and draw in my thought book. One old school black and white composition book, turned into three. All filled with new and old memories of creations, inventions, designs that were completely relent to what I needed for today, this new chapter.

No more heartache. No more wishing for yesterday. It all resolved when I decided t. stop meditating on those things. I began to hear, He that began a good work in me will complete it until the day of Christ. I am a work in progress until I’m done here. So with all of that being said, I have decided to start from where I am. I have all that I need or will need to accomplish my work.

What was clear is that the old things were over. It was time for me to move forward. Symbolically, I brought all of me forward. All of my skills. All of my talents. All of my opportunities for growth. All of deficiencies. All of me was enough to begin, from right where I was. I need to believe in myself, stay prayerful, and move forward in faith that all things will work out for my good…

Start from right where you are. You have everything you need within you to accomplish goals. One foot in front of the other, you’ve got this…TanyaRoxanne 🐞