If you look at the world around you everything is moving and so should you. Even objects that the human eye perceives to be solid are actually moving particles. So why not move? Move in the direction of your God given purpose. Find ways to serve others and make a difference in their life and thereby the world as a whole. Start small but just start.
Reinventing yourself is a positive thing. I've done it too many times to name but those that know me know I've had multiple lives so to speak; all with different achievements and rewards for myself personally, professionally as well as those around me.
A lot of people are familiar with one of my most recent success stories in the bar business, but those that really know me know that I started on that journey in 1994. It was that year when I dropped out of Howard undergrad and moved to Atlanta, after having too much of a good time at the now infamous Freaknik '94. I literally went to Freaknik and didn't leave. Making that call home to my parents to inform them I was going to take a "break" from school was probably one of the hardest things I ever had to do back then. However, my dads best friend at the time was opening a nightclub and my dad said go talk with him he can at least give you a job. That job eventually culminated with me becoming a manager of the bar and learning the business firsthand inside out. Fast forward 17-18 years and DBar was born. That knowledge and experience from Atlanta had paid off as I wasn't totally new to the business.
The lesson is you never know how various experiences you've had and have been exposed to will play a part in your future. To show you how God works, when we got DBar up and running, guess who I hired as a consultant to come in and work for me? You guessed it! My dads same friend that had given me an opportunity almost 20 years ago. Crazy!
So I've become so accustomed to change where it's almost like an internal clock goes off alerting me it's time to change. Every 1-3 years I'm looking for the next challenge or adventure to add to my life; professionally and personally. When I was in the bar business I never saw myself being a college professor, but now I am and it's been one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. But now I know that the experience I'm gaining speaking to groups of people a couple of nights a week, the lives I'm touching and people I'm encouraging to start their own business or whatever they choose upon graduation will play a part in my next metamorphosis. May take a year, may take almost 20 like my bar experience but I do know that's it's all part of a bigger purpose that God has for my life.
The change for me has already begun yet again, just can't share what it is just yet but trust me it has. I'm moving. I encourage you to get moving too. Fight your fear with faith and just move.
Hmmm. What resonates with me is the fact your Father had enough faith in you not to convince you otherwise but "teach you in the way you should go" -- and give counsel, guidance. Sometimes you have to make that move no matter how unpopular or uncomfortable. Look.... the DBar still standing after you come and gone!
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ReplyDeleteService to other can be very rewarding and healing, this is something I learned during a very dark time in my life.
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