Do you enjoy your job?
Enjoy my job?
Sometimes, it has excellent moments and funny moments and it’s just the place to be.
But lately, I don’t enjoy it as much, but I’m blessed to have it as it gives me seven days on and seven days off, so it helps me enjoy my days off, but it’s a busy job and sometimes very tiring.
My heart is definitely in my passion and not my job, but it’s a place of learning, and I like that part.
Of self-doubt and uncertainty wash over me, I fear the unknown.
Like the raging wind outside, I feel all the confidence and faith of being ready in time ripped out of me.
And I want to give up and throw in the towel as the fear of being in the spotlight overpowers me.
Then God wrapped his arms around me, and I felt peace again, and hope soared through me.
And I remember what my life coach said: self-doubt is the devil, and I feel it is trying to discourage me from becoming a better me.
But also, I’m not becoming a coach for me but to help others because that’s all I’ve done and love to do.
So, as I sit here confident that I can do this and know how it feels to lack confident in myself and my voice and it suckes.
But I also know how beautiful it is to have confidence in myself and my voice and how it feels to have something to say and say it.
I want to help women be confident and find their voice because doing something different is scary on your own, but doing it with someone else feels unstoppable and alive.
For the walls that come down and the ear that listens will care, and in that moment of change, maybe you too will hear your calling or at least feel that hiding isn’t something you need to do anymore.
So I hope you all have a blessed night and I know whatever happens on March 8th with me coaching someone or not, it’s not the end, but I hope that I won’t lose faith but hold strong because my journey maybe bumpy and first I know it will smooth it’s self out eventually.🙏🏽❤️🙌🏽
Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2024 By Deirdre Stokes
I can stay hopeful
But things are Quite frustrating right now
As uncertainty knocks me on my butt again.
And I wonder if I bite off more than I can chew.
The endless cycle of the unknown is there.
And I want to know the outcome of what’s to come as I turn around and realize there is more I didn’t check.
Will I have the energy and joy when all is said and done? Hope feels so much farther away this time.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2024 By Deirdre Stokes
What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?
The Biggest challenge I will face in the next six months?
Well, I guess it would be staying solid and consistent as I go forward with being a coach, for I know the right women will find me or I find them to work with. Still, sometimes there will be yes and no, but I have to keep my head up and continue, for God wants me on this path, and until he stays otherwise, I will do my best.
Also, I started writing again on my fiction book, which will be book three, and I want to see how far I can get in the next six months and take my time with it. Also, I want to get back to marketing and promoting my books and just being consistent with the things that I love to do.
Also, I want to keep eating healthy and start exercising and going strong six months from now and be happy with how far I’ve come on my weightless journey and keep a better lifestyle and relationship with food.
I am sitting here with my eyes closed, trying to center myself.
As self-doubt tries to sink into my year.
And I know now that I can’t let this fear eat me up.
Especially now as I walk down a path that feels right and light and beautiful.
I can only see the smile on my face and the tears going down my face as I cry for the happiness I will get after facing and conquering that fear.
I may just be getting started, but I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere.
My drive to be present at this moment is more intense than the feeling of fear trying to quiet me and make me turn away.
But I can’t and won’t, so as I keep my eyes closed, the battle will be won.
And the calmness and confidence I need to get through this will come, and I will overcome it all.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2024 By Deirdre Stokes
What advice would you give to your teenage self?
Would I give my teenage self?
To believe in yourself
Love yourself before worrying about loving someone else.
To lean on your faith.
Take risk when it comes to what you want.
Don’t mindlessly go through life. Look up once in a while.
Smile more and laugh more because life is too short to frown all the time.
You are enough and their is nothing wrong with you.
You are beautiful and strong and weird but that all makes you who you are.
Please don’t give up. It may be challenging, but you have so much more ahead of you.
The people who left your life weren’t meant to stay in it, but the people meant for you are coming.
Your future is bright as long as you look on the bright side of things and listen to your gut!
Bloom like the flowers in May
Or may I say what I have to say and be at peace
Or may I do things out of the kindness of my heart, and you accept who I am
Or may I call you out and show you where you were so wrong
But the thing is, maybe I don’t need to tell you everything because I feel the truth before I hear it.
Why may I even think about what you want or think?
When all I want to do is survive and maybe see a movie or two.
I read a book or three and feel like Maybe I can stay
But maybe I’m not meant to talk and tell you all there is, and perhaps someday I will grow with the strength of someone who will make it no matter what.
But I may get the chance to tell you how it is, or maybe someone else will, but today, I may walk away and be okay in my little cave of survival.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2024 By Deirdre Stokes
Something when I was getting up this morning after not sleeping well, and it was a cold morning outside.
I happened to land on this short reel about the ups and downs in life. And how those ups and downs fuel you to overcome and succeed in life.
And it got me thinking about how I am waiting for my launch and struggling with being creative.
It made me realize all the things I had to go through just to be blessed with starting my blog and getting help so that I could find my voice and my confidence.
If I hadn’t gone through a bad friendship and had needed an outlet for that pain, I don’t think I would have started my blog and reached so many people.
Now, I’m dealing with uncertainties and clarity and drive for a new path, and I realize all the pain I had to go through to get here and be able to help more people soon are the reason I have the energy to keep going.
And the faith to believe and know it will all work out because I put in a lot of work, the blessing will keep coming.
The doubt, the encouragement I have received, and the strength inside of me to keep going are the fuel that will help me prepare and deliver what God needs for me to do this year.
All the things that feel like they are piling up against you are the fuel that will help me reach women who lack confidence and want to find their voice. It will also drive me to overcome my writer’s block, embrace my creativity, and keep listening to my body.
For those who need or want to read my poetry, regular posts and my help will come, and I believe the fuel to help me keep moving forward will continue.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2024 By Deirdre Stokes
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