At times you are going to run across those people who feel that your success will be their failure, the people who envy your success, the people who will sabotage everything you do and it’s those very people who will make you give it all you got. They think they are slowly trying to suck the life out of you and your creativity but in reality those are the people who should be putting a flame under your tail that makes you give it all you got! I have had my share of those type of people I have had my run ins with those types of people. I have had those people who I consider my friends be those people. They didn’t want to see me succeed. They didn’t want to see me go anywhere. I boiled it right down to pure jealously but I had to just put those people out of my future. I had to say to myself Jina any true friend would want to see you succeed and they would help you get there. So yes I had to get those people out.
I know I know It’s at those times when these people are trying to destroy you, you begin to question yourself and question your talents. Is this where I am suppose to be? Am I good enough? Do I have what it takes? When those questions creep up you feel your confidence burn down.
I have been right where you are. Those people put me in those exact situations many times and YES I do ask those same questions. But I am here to tell you no matter what they say or do GIVE IT ALL YOU GOT !!! If you stay the course you will Succeed and You will MAKE IT !!!!! Keep doing you because no one knows you better than you do. Surprise the snot out of the people who think they know your next move. That’s what I did and that what I keep doing. When those people try to bring me down I give them the element of surprise. I do what they thought I couldn’t do and to be honest I do what I know I can do and that’s be all I can be!!!
Be a Blessing & Be Blessed
Jina
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Apr 20, 2016, 5:38:08 PM
Rozanne - Thank you for sharing this!! I find sometimes it isn't even people hating on you, but a close friend or family member who just doesn't get it and does not encourage you to push forward, who think running a business and being a photographer is too great of a reach. I tell myself, they don't understand, and it's ok. I understand and know where I'm headed, even if I don't always know how i'm getting there!! Gotta Just Keep Swimming!! What would I do without Dori!!?!?!!!! XOXO