If you insist on living your life as a circus act, your audience will always be waiting with popcorn, peanuts and soda, waiting to see you perform. Be sure you disappoint them. Make the decision today to retire your act.

Live your life for you. Trying to please others is like putting on a blind fold and walking behind an elephant. Your vision is blocked and at the end of the day, the only thing you have done is walk in elephant poop (I could say something else)!

During one of my restless nights, I was thinking about friendships. I began to think about all the things that I read on social media, and all the things that I hear others, and even myself, speak about friendships. Many say, “Don’t call everyone your friend. Others say, “You think people are your friends and they stab you in the back.” Some people say, “I don’t have friends, I have acquaintances.” Even still there are those who talk about fair weather friends. People are quick to declare that others hate on them, while pretending to wear the “friend” title, but will never admit that they are guilty of the same.

“All you have ever had was me. No one ever showed you real love. So, you placed your everything in me without ever taking the time to see what I wanted for you. I want to give you life. But you have always been so afraid that if you moved ahead in life, our relationship would not be the same. You were afraid that moving into greatness would make you prideful. Understand this; our relationship does not depend on you, but it depends on me keeping you. Don’t be afraid to live life.

Hello everyone!  It’s been a while. So many things have happened since I last shared. As you may recall, I shared the 7 pillars of Virtuosity. The first pillar, Self-evaluation, revealed the instances that will cause us to look at where we are in life and compare it with where we want to be. It challenges who we are and who we want to be. We talked about life experiences that would warrant a period of self-evaluation. Do you remember when I wrote that one of those life experiences was loss/death? Well, little did I know that I would be blindsided by such a loss.  A few months ago, my second eldest son, Bobby, unexpectantly transitioned from this life to his heavenly home. Nothing could have prepared me for the confusion, pain, and devastation that my heart would face as I doubted myself as a parent and a Christian.