To Start Your Own Brand, Business and Be Blessed

Letting go of fear to focus on you, start your own brand business and for the glory of God’s name! 

Letting the fear of everything go now today. 

Women. We are entrepreneurs, speakers, motivators, writers, creative beings and the list goes on to infinity and beyond. 

We are a special group of remarkable women who have been brilliantly equipped to take a seed, plant it, water it with our minds to produce greatness. And like the rivers of water these seeds never stop growing.  This is your potential.

Able, capable and powerful, we recognize our own unique strengths as well as our own unique weaknesses that at some point become our overall strengths. 

We know that we have the knowledge to use our gifts to the fullest with an abundance of potential born inside of us. Using our potential is the beginning of obtaining wealth. 

Start Your Own Business Fear Free!

So you want to start a business and you brought fear along with you on your brand new entrepreneurial journey. There really isn’t any room for fear, but for some reason you can’t free yourself of this gripping mind blinding obstacle. You’ve been wanting to start your own business for quite some time now, but fear has held you captive so much so that fear has become your focus. Well, let me tell you about my story simply called FEARFUL. 

Growing up in West Philadelphia I had the most amazing childhood ever. It was filled with laughter, weekend mini golf and movies with friends. We played tag football in Overbrook High’s Schoolyard as well as other fun loving games. I thought I was the greatest wide receiver ever! Lollll. We played tennis and basketball and jumped rope every chance we got. We just had a ball. 

As I got older I would be bullied in school. It was a horrific feeling knowing I had to go to school and see face-to-face Snake and Emmett, those two hoodlums who would throw milk cartons at my face everyday during lunchtime in the cafeteria. It got so bad that I had to stay inside during recess.

It wasn’t until my father came to the school and Emmett’s mother shipped him off to Virginia to live with other relatives that the bullying stopped. His mother was left with no choice because Emmett was the baddest boy on two feet. I never heard about Emmett again, but I saw snake at a wedding years ago and he looked like a cold alcoholic. This fearful time in my life would haunt me for years to come.

The bullying caused me to have great low self esteem and my confidence was at a zero level. I was too afraid to stand up to the bullies because of the fear that was in my mind. This was heartwrenching for me. As I grew older I was lost for a long time. I had no direction in my life. I was afraid to do or try anything because I was embarrassed and scared.

I remember one year my mother had bought me a brown corduroy pocketbook that I carried on my shoulder to school everyday. I was elated to have that pocketbook.

One day one of my classmates, Karen, asked if she could carry my pocketbook. Me being afraid to just come out and say no, I gave her my pocketbook.  When I asked for it back, she refused to give it back to me.

I remember going to the library with my classmates, standing in line, and looking back at Karen, begging her to give me my pocketbook back. Karen held on to my pocketbook for dear life as though it was hers. I was shaking in my shoes and my heart was pounding thinking I was never going to get my pocketbook back.

Karen bullied me to the point where my mother told me to bring her home with me for lunch one day. When we got there my mother politely asked her why she felt the need to constantly bully me and beg for my food and pocketbook. From that moment on, Karen never bothered me again. Fear seemed to follow me everywhere I’d go. It got so bad that I was afraid to say NO even in a large part of my adult years.

And Then There Was Faith or The Lack of Faith

Not only did fear have a grip on me as a child and adult, I finally realized why and since then have been able to understand it all.

You see, growing up I never heard the word faith and therefore I was not able to apply to all aspects of my life. I really had no idea what faith meant, but I believe that if I had, I would never have accepted being bullied in the first place.

All the things that I needed, faith, belief, trust, confidence and bold prayers, eluded me. I was taught a lot of things in school, but none of what I needed.

At home I was taught that Jesus was my Lord and Savior and yes, Jesus loves me because the Bible tells me so. I was also taught to love, have compassion for others , say thank you and be sincerely grateful which is what my parents demonstrated in our home everyday of my life. If I didn’t know anything else I knew and still know how to love and to say please and thank you with a sincere and grateful heart. 

Moving on in my life events happened that kept me in bondage. I was constantly trying to please others so much so that my entire focus in life was helping others to get to places they needed to be. When my spiritual eyes were opened I made a major shift in my thoughts which have impacted my own life profoundly. 

I was worn out from fear, stress, struggling to say NO and persecution. Now don’t get me wrong. I wasn’t completely free of these monsters, but I was finally making progress for myself.

When I realized I’d been sitting on a phone listening to people talk only about themselves forever and ever without them asking me how I was feeling or if I was busy, I knew it was time for me to stop the sadness. I say sadness because for too long it was a sad time in my life because I was always and I mean always trying to help everyone else without regard for my own life and my own feelings. I thought it was wrong if I didn’t say yes to cater to everyone’s whim.

I would often second guess myself. When it all wore me out was when I gained the confidence, without open eyes and mind to make my life about God and myself and then my family and friends. I had to shut things down and refresh and renew every aspect, situation and circumstance of my life if I was going to fully embrace and enjoy my life the way I had envisioned. After all, I had and still do have businesses to take care of. I have to manage my businesses, promote and protect them. 

And so it was time for me to stand up and learn to say no on so many levels and in so many forms of no; plain and simple but in order to do that I had to open the door of my mind and release fear once and for all. I made up my mind to let fear go and I can honestly say that I now realize that fear was/is a waste of time and I don’t have time to be wasting. 

I have new ventures coming up which means I have to gear up and equip myself with greater knowledge and staying right and tight on all the things that are important to, for and in my business. 

So if you want to start your own business, but you have a cloud of fear lingering over you for whatever your reasons may be, shake fear off. Renew your mind.

Go to God and repent and ask Him to forgive you for not doing what He has commanded you to do. You know He forgives, but go to Him and tell Him what’s on your mind. Spend time with the Father and pour out your heart to Him. He will listen so don’t be fearful.

Before you can start your business you need to go to God and ask Him for direction and guidance.  He will remove fear from your life once and for all and you’ll feel so free. You are going to feel amazing!

It’s a phenomenal feeling when you free yourself from those giants that can overshadow you.  It’s time to do it. Please do not wait another second. You have lives to bless all for the glory of Gods name. 

Written by Cyndi