Life purpose

love is a major life purpose

Debt traps are death traps

Use debt sparingly and only in amounts that you can easily repay. When you borrow, all you do is work to pay it back. It's a good debt if you have a profit after you repay.

Knowledge destroys fear!

It may be that you want to do something but are afraid to do it. Getting more knowledge makes you less afraid. When you were little you didn't know that there was no monster under your bed, so you were afraid. Now that your older, you're not afraid...because you know better. It's your knowledge, it's what you know, that makes the difference.

Awaken Your Dreams

Go back to projects you started and didn't finish. It may be that you now have what it takes to finish them. The experience or know-how that you did not have at the time you started may be at your disposal now.

Start to live your dream

Do a small part of your dream today. Make a phone call. Attend a free consultation with a coach or consultant or experienced person who can help you. Write another blog post about it. Pray about it. Think about your dream and keep thinking about it. Don't dismiss the idea. Don't dismiss new ideas. Keeping it fresh in your head is the least you can do. Writing it down is the next least thing you can do.

Listen to Etrepreneurs Online

I came across a website called financehackers.com and read their article on 24 Ways to Create Multiple Streams of Income. The article mentioned another website, eofire.com, so I checked it out and I really like it.

The main feature is their podcasts of interviews with entrepreneurs. I listened to the podcasts and I feel inspired because the podcast host, John Lee Dumas asks interviewees to describe their lowest moments as an entrepreneur. Oh, te things that these men and women have overcome! It just lets me know that I can overcome setbacks too. Their stories of hard work and determination let me know what it takes to succeed.

What makes us start?

There are things we want to do, things within our power that we would like to achieve. These things we call our hopes and dreams. Sometimes we start working towards them and find that it is easier to do whatever's easier.

Instead of working to be an author and online publisher,  I've worked administrative and secretarial jobs since my twenties. In fact, I didn't believe I could be a successful writer so I started secretarial training in my late teens so that I'd have a real job. Even though I eventually managed to get a job at a newspaper, it was in advertising sales when I really wanted to be a writer there instead. I wrote some articles that the newspaper published and became one of their freelance writers after my advertising sales reached a plateau and my enthusiasm declined...and the sales manager let me go.

When I began to write for the newspaper, I was still not happy. I was on the news desk but I wanted to write for the features desk instead.  Feature writers covered interesting people like musicians, visual artists, authors, successful business people...those were the stories I wanted to write. Stories about people who were living their dreams..

Then I got the opportunity to come to the U.S. and reluctantly left that newspaper job and my focus shifted back to secretarial and administrative work after my feeble attempts at getting a job, any job, at the Washington Post failed.

Now, more than 15 years later, I'm turning my eyes, again, towards publishing. My desire to make a living at writing has brought me back to writing, again.

So. What makes us start? Desire. You want something. You do it. It's taken too long for me to admit to myself that I'll never be fulfilled doing anything esle.

Go ahead and start..let your desires compel you, go for your dreams.

Hang in there

If you are homeless, hang in there. If you are struggling,  don't give up the fight. Try your best to stay healthy. Protect your health the best you can so that you can find work, income, housing,  etc.

For me, housing is an efficiency. A kitchenette and bath and a living area. It's a peaceful place, a decent roof over my head.

I want more for myself my daughter, though. A two-bedroom place, a nice spot near a good school somewhere.