Assignment begins below. Please take the course of your week to complete. If it takes you longer, that is okay. Be patient with yourself as you thoughtfully think through it all.
Goal
I logged in to Twitter one day this week and saw the most brilliant post from my kid I had ever seen…he was responding to another tweet that read: “Everything I want is on it’s way to me.” He said to that: “Everything I want, wants me too.”
Who raised that boy?! Oh yea, it was me…lol
The point it…it’s not enough that what you want is on the way. No. It’s most important to know and understand that what you want WANTS YOU TOO! It’s not just on the way…it’s SEARCHING for you, longing to be with you, can’t stop and won’t stop until it finds you like you find it…
How romantic is that? The house I want is longing for my presence at the same time that i’m longing to be in it. The money I desire to earn is fighting tooth and nail to get to me just the way i’m working so hard to get it. The people I want as clients don’t even know that they are hunting for…ME...just as I am working to earn their business.
Goal: UNDERSTANDING THIS MANTRA: “EVERYTHING I WANT, WANTS ME TOO.”
In your journal, write down that statement and then write what that means for you.
Identify
Seriously, who raised that boy? I’ll tell you who…and earlier version of me that found tons of motivational speeches each morning to help get through the daily goals and the unknowns. He was in high school at the time and I’d be up listening to these youtube speeches while we get dressed each morning. Every now and then, he’d say “hey, send me that one mommy” or “who is that? i like him/her” and then…the tables turned…he started sending them to me! These are the types of statements you find repeated in your into your brain over and over again when this is what you are listening to all the time. It’s no wonder that he’d be tweeting this so randomly.
Here’s what you need to identify for yourself: who or what is it that motivates you? Are you a youtube motivational speech junkie? A really good book junkie? A documentary junkie? A music junkie? I’m all of the above. I can listen to a good speech by Eric Thomas or even Steve Harvey, I can read Matthew McConaughey’s book and find amazing motivation, or listen to some Jay-Z talk about black excellence and feel like I can do anything.
Find something that motivates you this week. And then listen/watch that thing ALL WEEK LONG. Over and over again! Put on your hand phones, play it in your car, while you cook your meals..just OVER AND OVER!
Affirmation
EVERYTHING I WANT, WANTS ME TOO.
Live in that fact. Tell it to your friends and family. Write it on sticky notes all around your bedroom and bathroom.