While I sit on my lunch writing my inspiration resume, listening to Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday, I’m thinking of all the opportunities I missed to be something great. I was a dynamic track star back in the day. I was cold at 100mm dash! Running was indeed my gift but it wasn’t my passion. My mother had dreams of her little girl competing in the Olympics but my heart wasn’t there.
I remember in 7th grade I had an opportunity to go to Japan for a foreign exchange program. I let fear keep me from an experience that would have expanded my horizons and set me apart from my peers. Again, my heart wasn’t in Japan.
As I got older I noticed myself allowing where I was or who I was with stop me from living my life abundantly. It’s called being comfortable! I soon developed a fear of being stuck, so I started rebelling because I didn’t want anyone to put shackles on my progression. I vowed I would do what made “Chanel’ happy.
It sounds bad but it turned my life around. I learned to save my self. I no longer allowed my current situation to determine my next move. Have you turned a great opportunity down because you didn’t have money or because no one seemed happy for your progress? Forget those people, they have their own issues. Never depend on someone else for happiness. I make myself laugh; I pat myself on the back for a job well done.
Get out your way. You could very well be the thing standing between the life you have now and the life you were meant to have. Just because you’re born into a situation doesn’t mean you’re destined to remain in that situation.
Take ACTION now!
Start planning and exit strategy (how you’re going to start moving up in life) to get out your mess and in to progress.
Ms. Chanel “Ambitious” Ballard
Mommy Making Moves by LaChanel Hemphill 