True Story… Since I can remember myself I have had three goals, one I have had since probably age five and the other two developed along the way. These three goals are/were, to do well singing as an artiste, to do well academically and to do well on radio. I was always the type of person to look up to people. The things people I looked up to said to me always had a tremendous effect on me. Anyone could tell me anything negative and I would be like “whatever” but if it was someone I looked up to, it would have the effect of totally depleting me to the point of depression. In my quest to achieve these goals I heard a lot of things that had a really bad effect on me. Some of these things were:- “yuh too dotish”, “yuh would never amount to nuttin”, “yuh from behind the bridge and nothing good does ever come from behind the bridge”, “you could do too many things with your voice you need to pick one and stick to that or you would fail at everything”, “if you want to get anywhere you need to move out of Laventille”, “we were looking for someone a little bit fairer”, “you don’t have enough star power” and “if the next “IT” person comes along and I have to cut someone to make room for them that person would be you”. Some time ago not too far back I read something in a book called Live Your Dreams by Les Brown. The statement was “don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality”. Those words completely changed my life. The way I internalized negative things said to me by people I looked up to was never the same because I realized that someone’s opinion had absolutely nothing to do with where I want to go. As I look at myself right now and where I started from I feel a tinge of fulfilment. I am not where I want to be YET but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. You must always remember that there are only two entities in charge of your destiny. Those two entities are GOD and YOU. Never let anything anyone says to you or about you define who you are… You are a beautifully and wonderfully made being who can achieve anything you want to.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 17:16:20 +0000
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