Journey to Empowerment by Maria D. Dowd

Author:Maria D. Dowd
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2004-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

Passionate and Purposeful Living

BY JEWEL DIAMOND TAYLOR

Sometimes your life may feel like a trip instead of a journey. Been there…done that. My life was a boring trip with one pit stop after another, looking for love, meaning and my purpose. Some people go straight to their destination. They are born knowing what their purpose is. This revelation isn’t always so obvious for some of us.

I took the long way. After working countless jobs, experiencing the learning and growing pain of marriage, loving and guiding my sons, wavering in my self-esteem, procrastinating and watching both of my parents close their eyes for eternal sleep, I finally accepted my purpose. Being a conduit of hope, motivation and encouragement in a nontraditional way was my destiny. When I finally told the truth to myself and took my leaps of faith to develop my gift and purpose, the spark inside of me became a f lame of passion.

Once I had found my passion and my purpose, I began to discover a tenacity, self-motivation, creativity, faith and resilience that I had never tapped into before. Because of my passion to speak, teach, enlighten and serve, I began to make investments of my time, money and faith. I became emotionally invested and rooted, and nothing and no one could stop me. Passion put me on automatic pilot toward my goal of being self-employed and a forerunner in the motivational/personal development movement. Even though there were detours, financially lean times and lonely days and frustrating moments, my passion never diminished.

Over the years, I’ve had a lot of car drama—“bad Carma.” Years ago, my car was repossessed. Another time, my transmission dropped out of a car on the way to one of my seminars. I had three f lat tires on the way to another seminar, yet I kept going. Years ago, I had a car totaled in an accident on the way to taping one of my cable TV shows. I got a ride and kept going. I’ve presented workshops when I was very sick and had to face major surgery. Over the years, I have been invited to speak for no money, little money and late money.

When you have a passion that is your j-o-y and not a j-o-b, you don’t become discouraged easily. When your family is your passion, you find ways to be, do and give even though it seems like, looks like and feels like there is nothing left to give. Passion is a fire within you that keeps you going when everyone else says it’s too crazy, too hard, too far, too late, too much, too risky, too giving, too old, too young and too expensive. My passion for life, for family and for my purpose and career path has pulled me through self-pity and depression. Passion doesn’t give or accept excuses. I pray to God daily to allow me to keep my passion lit.

I know that life offers joy and pain, sunshine and rain. And I know that my passion allows me to endure the pain and down times in life.

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