Break the routine to PROGRESS

 This one is long, but today I have to break the routine….

 Remember when everyone got email and MSN messenger….like EVERYONE! I used to get forwards upon forwards and after a while found it quite annoying to have to navigate through 25 emails to find my mom’s message that her flight lands at 10am in time to not make her wait at the airport.

Admittedly though, some of them were GOOD.   Great laughs, great inspirational stories and the like, so I would still kinda look through them all.  Whenever I came across an amazing one, my instinct was to forward it, then I would stop and think of the potential annoyance on the receiving end.  This made me sort and save only the very good ones and I made a mental note to send ONE good “forward” email every week so at least people would take the time to read it.

Fast forward to Happy Friday emails that turned into a blog with a mailing list, text list and a dedicated group of readers.

I don’t think it was until earlier this year that I realized people were faithfully reading and sharing, because, truth be told, it never mattered! LOL. Now I mean that in the best way. You see,  I never dreamed of being a blogger or writer, it just happened.  And it happened because I wanted to share some things with people, whoever they were and how they saw it was ok, I was just sure to do my part. It was almost that simple!  I had gone through a very interesting process of truly discovering my purpose and realizing a part of that was to inspire people.  I was led to just lay it on the line so that someone else could learn from my mistakes and my journey

I was stopped at Bamboo shack by a gentleman who told me he loved my emails that apparently one of my friends’ aunts had been forwarding to him weekly.  Another gentleman read the  Mangoes Blog” …read and share the blog

and after an arranged telephone call from him, sent me a box full of mangoes on a plane! That was so fun.  He said it was just a thank you and not knowing me at all, he figured if there was anything I would enjoy it would be the mangoes.

I have a few people that call me almost religiously on their particular time and day and we talk about life and what they related to from the blog and sometimes we just talk.  I have a text list and for every text I send, there are different responses from different people for different things.  There are countless stories that I’ve never shared and probably never will, but one thing I will share is that Happy Friday has absolutely changed MY life. 

How?

It has helped me fulfill my purpose like nothing else has been able to and I am soooo GRATEFUL.  To be able to do what I was put here to do means a WHOLE lot to me.  Outside of working, providing for and taking care of our families, so many of us are still trying to figure out what they were put here to do, so I count myself BLESSED. 

All of you who read and who share have BLESSED me.   I’m in shock every time I see  that people from all over the world ….Mauritius, Turkey, Greece, Philippines, Australia,  Japan and on and on, places I’ve never even heard of,  are reading the blog. I’m always humbled and GRATEFUL. 

I find that people want to do better and be better but often get taken over by everyday life.  Some cannot find the time or the courage or the means to be their best selves and a WHOLE lot are afraid to let the world see them dream or dare to be different, so they hide behind their computers and smart phones, reading, watching but as Happy Friday has proven to me, they’re also learning and growing.  Technology allows me to see all of you, well at least the numbers and locations of you who are, continuously coming back to learn more. Don’t stop trying to grow.  FORGET what people will think, grow FABULOUSLY!

Lately, I’ve been telling people that if someone is not lining up with you to BEC or BTC or your mortgaging bank to contribute….they SURE should have no major influence on holding you back from your dreams. Don’t buy into the hype.  Go after what you are purposed for.

Strangely enough, it is that same advice that reminded me that I needed to refocus and reenergize my effort for my own dreams.  So many projects that I have half done and almost ready , toooooo much time on the grid; way too much time connected to social media…facebook, twitter, blackberry and all its apps, the internet and TV.  So I’m taking a much needed step back, not really a break, but just a break from being connected to everything and everyone so much.  The only way I will be able to get to the bigger picture is if I take some time and focus on the inside, work without distraction and get to a place of constant connection to my Source.

So now comes what I said ALL of that above to say…..for a little while, I’m going to leave you be.

I have lots of blogs that I will be re-posting regularly, but I won’t be posting anything new for a while.  For the last few years, we have shared struggles, breakthroughs and dreams.  I’ve often whispered your names in God’s ear when I pray and have your troubles in my mind when I write. 

I will continue to walk in my purpose and I will be here to uplift anyone that needs me to, whether in prayer, in silence or in bbm talks.  I hope that all of you reading this will have learned if nothing else from me and Happy Friday over the years to Live, Love, Laugh, Flourish, Focus do whatever it is you do, FABULOUSLY!

My love and gratitude to you on this Happy HAPPY Friday!