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My last paycheck of $388.00, @200.00 in the bank and the burning desire to open a typing business in 1988, were all I had and it was enough to get my doors opened.  I worked hard, made some money, made one bad decision and lost it all. 

The complete truthful and not so pleasant details are in my book, I Had No Choice available on this web site in the e-store. 

For five years I did well and then after one wrong choice I quit.  A little voice in my heart was telling me to hold on, but I did not listen.  I cried over a broken heart.  I cried over both of my parents being ill.  I cried over one of my sister’s running away from home.  I cried over the deaths of loved ones.  But all of that put together was nothing.  Less than three days after I gave up my dream and gave up on myself, I discovered that if I had held on, just another few hours, not months, not weeks, not even days, but a few hours, and thought one more time, the money I needed, the solution I was looking for was already there.  When I realized that, I literally balled up in a knot on the floor, my heart broke and I cried the most bitter tears I have ever cried in my life.  I don’t care what you are facing, I don’t care what you want to do, unless you are in an abusive relationship, DON’T GIVE UP!  KEEP GOING!

Unless you really want some encouragement.  I don’t know what you are facing, but eventually things will turn around and your life will be better.  Even if it improves only one notch or one stop up the ladder, that is one notch, or one step better than it was.  Like many of us, I want my dreams fulfilled overnight.  I want the business, life partner, weight loss, friendships to be manifested immediately.  As soon as I pray or meditate or think about what I want, I want it now.  God and life don’t work that way.  At least not all the time.  Those things we need right away, we get.  But if you just don’t quit, and keep working at it, eventually you will get there.  I know from experience, becuase of how long I had to keep working, encouraging myself and waiting some more.  When I quit, I never got there.  But when I held on and kept working at what was important to me, especially within my gift, I got what I wanted.  Most of the time more.  You can make it.  You can do it.  You can have it.  I don’t care what it is.  In the blogs ahead, I will continue to encourage you, but I will also share with you things I have done and seen others do that worked.  If you just keep going, you will get there!