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Bring it on 2019! I believe it, receive it, and claim it! This is our year y’all! Let’s rise to the occasion! No more mediocracy, no more living pay check to pay check, no more being on fire for God only to slowly go back to our old ways, no more allowing the enemy to attack us mentally. We are more than conquerors. It’s time to fight back and claim what’s ours! Take back your peace, take back your finances, and take back your spiritual journey! Victory is YOURS in 2019! Let’s get it! #TestimoniesLoading #TransformationsComing #AChangeIsComing #2019
Thank you to every last person who sent love , and Prayers to me and my family!!!! I will be back on with @dedeinthemorning @ladyjade104 @rudyrush (that’s my mic SON your on that right mic closest to @dedeinthemorning ) and the whole @k104fm family but in all seriousness thank you to @dedeinthemorning @ladyjade104 @whitegary @keynoteonair @breezeonair and our nnew @rudyrush . I will post my return date soon. #godisreal #achangeiscoming #lovelife #thenspreadthatlove
Morning! Well yesterday was a funny day as both boys were feeling under the weather, especially Baxter who had a fever and was totally wiped out, except for the hour or so when he was cracking random jokes about throwing everything out of the loft windows. Or was that delirium? And does he have s point? Anyway, here’s hoping he’s on the up today. Found this shot from March last year, when the sun was shining and when Edie hadn’t yet spilt Itsu noodles all over the rug. I feel a change coming for this room! Paint is Pink Ground by @farrowandball #achangeiscoming #achangeisasgoodasaholiday #interiorsblogger #myhome #myhouseinhackney #apartmenttherapy #livingroomgoals #thatsdarling #interiordecoration #interiorblog #interiordesign #interiorblogger #myhouseinhackney #livingroom #pocketofmyhome #cornerofmyhome #interiors #urbanglamour #decor #myhome #decorinspiration #livingroomenvy #laidbackluxe #designinspo #myhomevibe #interiorsblog #diy
I had this conversation with my mom around the age of 10 and this is how it went.
Mom: Just accept it Bert. You’re different
Me: I just want to fit in. I don’t want to be different.
Mom: You’ll understand it one day but just accept it. ————————————————————————
I wish I would have understood the power of my difference, at that age, during that conversation. It’s okay though, because what I realize now is that DIFFERENCE has allowed me to walk in my PURPOSE. That DIFFERENCE allowed me to help others. That DIFFERENCE will allow me to advocate for my students in my classroom. That DIFFERENCE will allow me to teach my students it okay to be different! That DIFFERENCE will allow me to help close the educational gap between black and brown children & their white counterparts. That DIFFERENCE allows me to be who God has called me to be. With that being said, I’m glad to announce that next year, I will be teaching 2nd grade in New Orleans, at Arthur Ashe Charter School. #The2% #ProudBlackMaleEducator #Mr.TwiggsOnDeck #AChangeIsComing #11DaysToGraduation
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The possibilities you have are endless! The treasure in you is greater than the trouble you're facing but if you don't know that, you'll feel that the trouble is greater than the treasure.
Realise that you are not like anything or anyone else. You are a winner and there's nothing the devil can do about it!
Don't allow trials and circumstances dictate or name your future.
SOAR!
#AChangeIsComing
#WisdomWednesday
#FolorunsoAlakija
Warning: your best is still to come.
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I use to drive shuttles back and forth between Rexburg, Idaho and Salt Lake City, a job I loathed but worked anyway so my ex husband could attended university. Two-hundred and forty miles each way, four to five times a week, during some of the worst winters I’ve ever experienced. I remember the last trip I drove, being asked to move a bus from Pocatello to Southern Utah, a bus that was over two-thousand miles passed its scheduled maintenance. After breaking down on some highway north of Cedar City, I waited hours with a road-side mechanic as semis barreled down the highway in almost a complete whiteout, praying that my hazard lights were bright enough for them to see. That night, I made a promise to myself that I would never work for another employer that didn’t value or have my best interests in mind.
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Weeks later, after applying to what seemed like every job in the county, I found myself literally stuffing envelopes for a document fulfillment company, hundred-page bundles, stapled, stamped and addressed to every corner of the country. My workdays were bleak, my only outlet being a pair of headphones that discretely narrated E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey. And as I moved through stacks of subprime mortgages, I found myself vicariously living-out the fictional life of Anastasia, daydreaming of the PNW, real romance, great sex, and a life outside of America’s Family Community.
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So when I finally mustered the courage to leave my marriage, Idaho, the church, I knew in my heart that the best was yet to come. Even now, as I write my resignation letter about a job I no-longer enjoy or find fulfillment in, I am comforted to know that no matter what, even if I have to work a couple shit jobs the next few months, as long as I’m here, there’s still a chance to make it wherever I want I want to go, there’s still a chance to be whoever I want to be— ✨
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My #mentalhealthmatters more than any paycheck, title, or phony prestige.