NetKiEnt Inspiration

This entry is actually based on one of my original and very first blogs from 2012, titled Pursuing the Dream! Some insights as I explore my past writing: Reviewing my old articles and notes reminds me of why I really started doing a lot of the things I'm currently doing like my business, inspirational articles and videos and most of all the writing. It seems that my first love, (fiction writing) is the one that I've sacrificed more than anything.  My writing is cathartic for me. It always made me feel alive!  I enjoyed envisioning characters and really becoming them as I penned their stories. I don't know if some of it was mental work where I had to work through some of my own issues.  Not even issues that I fully recognized in my daily activities, but maybe something that was deep in my subconscious that materialized on paper.  Somehow I always resonated with all of the characters that I wrote about;  both male and female.  It's as if I worked...

One of my favorite reads is the book Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive by T.D. Jakes. It is life changing! The book, Instinct, offers tips on how to find your "core" or true purpose and taps into ways to maximize it. Many successful people state that they experienced their best success when they were true to their own genuine self and didn't try to duplicate others. How many times have we done that? This book definitely helps with that. One of my favorite quotes is from an appearance of Bishop Jakes on Oprah's LifeClass in 2014; "We eat from the level of our vision. When you are a giraffe and get criticism from turtles, they are reporting from the level they are. When you are built to be tall (like the giraffe), you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective, you cannot explain to a turtle a giraffe decision." The thought is that both a giraffe and a turtle are in the same jungle. However, a giraffe eats and operates from a ...