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Believing in YOU


I’ve been listening to the podcast “Don’t Keep Your Day Job” it is inspiring to know that there is such a positive inspiration out there!  If you haven’t listened to it, I would highly recommend it.  I have gotten to a stage in my life where I am looking to be satisfied with my life.  I know that need to make my own satisfaction; no one is going to give it to me. 

As I mentioned in my last blog, I have to work at being happy.  In that work, I also need to work at being successful.  When you think about successful people, they are fighters, smart and driven.  You cannot just sit back and expect that people will give it to you.  You have to know that you can do it.  What I am figuring out is that I have to find my niche.  No one is going to tell me what I should be doing!

As I think about the things I enjoy, that is what I am going to focus on.  I LOVE art, I love being creative.  I have heard most of my life that I would never make a living doing it.  Once you are told that so many times, you start to believe it. I come from a family that told me that I couldn’t expect to do a job that is something I love, and that I should just have “good hobbies”, and a job that would afford me to do them.

I don’t know exactly what I want to do; I plan to dip my toes in a lot of water before I know for sure.  Some things that I have taken away from this podcast; if I don’t believe I can do it, it won’t happen.  I need to be as resourceful as possible to make sure I can be successful.  It will also take a lot of work, I cannot just sit there and expect things to fall in my lap. I have to believe in myself to know it will happen, because one day, it will!

















































































































































































































































































































































































































































Another thing she talks about, polite persistence! This makes me laugh because I when I think about my husband and how we met, I would have never even dated him if he wasn’t persistent.  I will have to go after what I want with that same persistence!

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