Personal Legends

Personal Legend 

In my personal legend I am an inspiration to anyone I come in contact with. The type of people that I want to attract to me are people willing to grow, learn and accept others for who they are. I want to attract people like myself who find a little humor in everything but know how to keep everything in moderation. I greatly enjoy being around good friends and family and that is one of the reasons why I want most of them to eventually live with me. Each relationship helps me grow in one way or another or be that service to someone else. I try to keep people around me that I can learn from and teach a little bit of something to in return. The people I have and aspire to keep around me are extremely supportive of me and give me the push I need to better sometimes. 

I would love to one day be able to travel the world and experience some of the different cultures I've read and heard about. Some of the places I wish to visit are Hawaii, Thailand, India, Egypt, Morocco, England and Namibia to name a few. Visiting Namibia is one of my special interests because there is a place where the ocean meets a desert and in a way creates the biggest beach ever! I would enjoy the challenges of growing close with a soul mate and starting a family that carries the same values as us. I want to create meaningful and beautiful things from art work to structures and everything that my mind can possibly imagine. 

If we pull out the money, being around family and friends and living comfortably would make me happy. I wouldn't need money as long as we can all eat, have shelter and gain knowledge without it. It's difficult to focus on what is success outside of finances because of the society we live in today. For me personally, I would define success as being satisfied at the end of the day when all is said and done. The central feeling I associate with finding profound happiness is definitely gratitude. Once we take the focus off the negative and start to acknowledge and welcome the positive, everything changes for the better. 

Epitaph

Here lies a woman who lived for it all 

The blossoms, the storms, summers, and fall 

A translucent mind 

Brave, bold and refined 

She was gifted with many traits--

No one could deny. 

Here you stand and commemorate her life

Do it as often as you breathe-- walk in the light 

For that was a wish of her heart 

To make clear the end and the start 

Of a life beyond this world, that begins in your heart

It forms deep in your soul, 

A story of alchemy told 

Now a life lived in gold

Is a reflection in stone

But what cannot be shown 

Is the path that is flown 

From Earth up to Home. 

Professional Quality

Gratitude

I am grateful for a lot of different things in life and having job is definitely one of them. I've been working since I was 14 and honestly love the feeling of being independent and broadening my horizons. I am thankful for my continuous employment since the day I started working and amazing amount of skills I've gained within 5 years. I can attest my personal motivation to go to school and always strive for a better job that will pour into my career to the inspiration that working gives me. I've worked in backgrounds of social justice, civic engagement and customer service as well.

I hope that I always have a job but more importantly that the jobs I do now will give me more skill towards what I want to do in the future. Many of the skills I've gained while working are helpful to me both inside and outside of the workplace. I have gained financial responsibility since I started making my own money and especially since I've had to start paying my own bills and contributing to my household as well. I've gained accountability for the things that I do and say and are able to take responsibility and own up to something when I know I could've done better. Arguably one of the most valuable things I learned was how to give and receive positive, constructive feedback- being direct and honest but allowing critique to come from a place of love.

 It's been a struggle along the journey but I've also been able to work better with others and be cordial with individuals I would normally not have been able to. I think the most important thing I've gained from my working experience is the growth and transition that it enables me to have within my life. Next steps for me would be to firstly stay employed and secondly create a plan for how I'm going to reach my career. I enjoy helping and servicing others but I want to do something that will also be sufficient to enable me to create the kind of life I want to live.

Hip Hop Resume

You want to know my skills?

Then just sit back and chill

Cause the rhyme I'm gonna spit is about to get too real.

I'm young I'm fun I'm passionate

A great employee too, I will admit

Diligent in my practices

Like a new found hobby for a kid

Goal oriented and motivated

I can't be stopped so don't contemplate it

Hire me if you want to see

Just how efficient I can be

Drawn to things that contest my knowledge

Transitioning skills from high school to college

Don't think I'm here just for the dollar

Cause I'll walk away from a corrupt blue collar



Read over my hip hop resume

And tell me would you say

That I could be ready for the position today.

Futuristic Vision

 

In my ideal future I am the man lol. 

I would become a successful architect and life coach, travelling all over the world for different clients and projects. I would build my dream home in Jamaica and call it the Palm Tree Palace. My entire home would just be like a magestic fairytale, I want it to have an atmosphere that you never want to leave. I want a palm tree in the atrium of my house, surrounded with water and sand like it's its own isalnd, large stained glass doors, high ceilings and a sky roof over the atrium too. My house is going to have a garden where I harvest fresh food like peppers, tomatoes, vegetables and fruit trees. Most of my family memebers would live with me and friends would be welcome to stay as well if they ever want a vacation or need a place to revitalize. I would like to one day get married and have about 3 or 4 children of my own and adopt a couple more. I'd be well established and able to work from home, and be able to travel the world freely.

 

 

An unexpected twist in my future would be meeting a husband at an early age. I hope to eventually get married one day and be able to build a family but I'm prioritizing building myself first. In this day and age I don't have too much faith in relationships but I do think when I get a little older it will be ultimately one of my goals. It would be a great and unexpected turn for the better to have someone I can connect with on every level and as invested in them succeeding as they are for me and to start a family to share that love with another generation. I wouldn't mind meeting someone that fits my ideal image of the soul mate I want but I also think I won't find that person until I reach a place where I'm ready to accept a partner for the right reasons anyway. I think love is a great thing and a great feeling but for a few different reasons I don't think I'll be able to get there in a relationship for a very long time. It would be a pleasant surprise to be proven wrong and prove myself wrong.

 

 

Okay, here we go, I was waiting for this one. My utopia is the best place you could ever be if it ever existed, I promise you. I would own a private island and move all my loved ones to that island to live with me. We'd literaly make our civilization, have our own farmer, maybe have clothes and precious goods imported in but anything we can build ourselves will be done so. I'd have a jet with a bed in it, like the ones celebrities have and just have everything over the top extravagant. I would clearly be the queen of the island and everyone would be influenced by me to always give thanks, be honest and be a better person. Money wouldn't exist for us, everyone would have what their heart desired and be happy to just be able to live comfortably in the presence of their family.

 

 

 

Grace

 

Nothing can replace

 the tender love you give

protecting me and watching me

Helping me to live

 

Your grace has brought me through

Things that I could have not forseen

When I thought it all would end

You've always been my closest friend

 

Its like sunshine in the wind

Or rain on a bright day

You don't grasp why

But you don't want it to go away

 

It feels so good to bask

Never having to ask

Blessings never passed

 

Your Grace

 

It's truly undescribeable

Sincerely so admirable

 

I could never stop giving thanks for

 

Your Grace.

 

 



Affirming the Future

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   My vision board represents my goals and perspectives in life. I wish I could find a picture of the vision board I created last summer with my youth during our summer program. I drew my vision board and it pretty much had all the same elements as this one. Too many palm trees, puzzle pieces, a view of pyramids and other clues about what inspires me. A couple of the pictures above describe my mentality as always thinking and creating as well as making connections between what I can see the deeper idea behind it all. I have alot of photos of palm trees because they honestly just do something for me. I don't know what it is about them but they represent what I want my life to be like one day -- peaceful. Learning and growing is also very important to me, I feel like once I stop learning I stop growing and once I stop growing I start dying. My zeal for a deeper understanding keeps me confident that there's always more to life. I would like to travel the world and amongst my list of places to stop would be Hawaii, Italy, India, Morocco, Egypt, Namibia and England to name a few. I like nice things and know they don't mean much in the long run but I still would like to have a compelling, creative, luxurious home for my family and I. I believe life is a journey rather than a destination.



 

 

Crystal Ball

 

Look into my sphere

Witness what is there

Your future I share

To the present, compare

 

A platue on the top

Once you've covered the mountains

A flowing of love

The source everlasting

Metacognition of time that was passing

Nostalgic emotions from passion to laughing

 

The future is golden

If you are an alchemist

Ask and you shall recieve

The universe grants your wish

 

The road never stops until you stop trying

Then your future will slowly start dying

 

To avoid demises, welcome surpises

With arms wide open

Each test is a token

Strengthing spirits broken

 

Remain an inspiration

Through the battles you're facing

For you are a great creation

With power to rule a nation.

 

 

Passion

I have many different interests in life and I'm glad you picked this as a topic. Separating interests from my passions is hard at times because once I develop an interest in something I sort of become indulged in it. I'd say things I'm passionate about are things that I would sacrifice my time for, stress about, see everywhere I go and in all that I do as well as what I would lose sleep for. Most importantly, I'm passionate about the things I'm willing to change and challenge myself to gain/accomplish. I enjoy listening to music, dancing like nobody's watching, drawing, reflecting, planning, being creative, driving fast, shopping, styling, learning new things and overcoming anything that seems like a challenge. If I could do one thing for the rest of my life I would probably draw. Just because being able to lay my ideas out and literally make them come to life. My imagination is so big that I feel like I would never get bored when designing, coordinating or creating a vision to make it reality. I have a passion for standing up against anything that gets in my way and learning how to really love life for the good, the bad and the ugly and then sharing that knowledge with others. I enjoy stimulating conversation and inspirational discussions but I live for applying what I learn to my everyday life and see just how much I control my circumstances versus my circumstances dictating me. 

I can tie my passion to any career I will have by continuously forcing myself to see the positive in every situation. However, I would like to turn my passion into a well paying career for myself and I'm currently in the process of figuring out how exactly I'm going to do that! I want to be an architect so that I can move out of America and be able to design and ultimately construct a home anywhere I decide to go. I think as long as I can provide myself with shelter wherever life takes me the rest will surely follow. At this point in my life I'm working on becoming a better me so that I can help the people around me improve themselves and their quality of life too. On one end I want to create things to feed my spirit and on the other end I want to give back to the world and the people I love with my career. I was thinking about doing architecture, landscaping and interior design to please myself and life coaching or motivational speaking to service others.

I love the way these questions unfold. It's like I was thinking in a specific direction and the next question encourages me to think even deeper about it. Any of the career paths I believe I want to follow right now are able to service others-- architecture and design to allow my clients to make their own visions come to life and life coaching, influencing others to be the best version of themselves. In architecture and design I would service others by using my visionary skills, imagination and precision tactics to create the ideal house, yard, room, closet or office to match them specifically. I would want my clients to be able to feel the time and dedication I put into creating something for them by simply glancing at it. I don't want one look at my work to be enough, I want my work to create an insatiable appetite for my expertise. (I'll get there one day!) Life coaching and motivational speaking is a tool I learned about while on a NeighborWorks America conference in Sacramento this past October and absolutely fell in love with it. I knew about motivational speakers helping people improve their perspective and ultimately their lives but learning more about what it takes to keep yourself inspired is what got me. Considering how can I make myself better or what will it matter if I'm not helping someone else do the same thing. As a career life coaching would be deeper than service to any one individual, it would be a service to the entire world if you ask me.

Passion 

The things that come easy 

Can barely please me

I want life to tease me 

Like nothing comes easy 

All cause I know 

I can stick with the flow

Or chose where to go 

Trusting He knows. 

 Challenge my character 

Deepen my love 

Send down the blessings that come from above

For the ones who learn 

With intentions to teach,

Every star in the sky is a goal I can reach. 

If dreams could dance they'd take the lead

Setting a mood

Designating the speed

They'd sweep me away, 

Take me right of my feet 

And when I land my destiny is meet

The Alchemist

     I would describe the plot and thesis of the book as unfolding to reveal a larger purpose; helping a reader discover themselves through identifying with characters in the story. The plot begins with Santiago sort of happy with his life but knowing that there is more for him out in the world, following his dreams. His recurring dream of a treasure located at the pyramids inspires him to begin following his heart and exploring to discover his purpose. As the story line develops Santiago encounters a number of characters that all influence his journey in one way or another.

       One part of the story that really hit me was when Santiago got beaten by the men in the desert right before he discovered his personal legend. I was tied to the book at this point, so hurt to see Santiago going through this test at the end of such a long journey. I feel like he had already been through enough along his journey and if I was Santiago I honestly would've wanted to give up after going through that. But it's Santiago's strong spirit and will to fulfill his personal legend that allows him to overcome the final battle and get to his treasure. From this part of the story I learned that every test brings a lesson with it and points you further in the right direction if you endure it. Ir relates to my experience because I often find myself with my back against the wall and contemplate giving up but because I'm persistent with my faith and fight through tough times, I always end up better, smarter and ultimately closer to my goals.

     All in all, I enjoyed the book and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for an easy and inspirational read. I liked that the book was written in flashback style and by the end of the story, the beginning of the plot tied all in together. There wasn't anything in particular that I didn't like about the book. It was short, simple and to the point but I would've enjoyed a longer book with just as much meaning so I could have something great to read for a longer period of time. Coelho created a simple yet deep story about a young boy following his dreams and I think it's a story that everyone can relate to in one way or the other. The themes, messages and ideas that he depicts throughout the story are emotions I feel like every individual can relate to.
   
       I would recommend the story to anyone who believes in a higher power or in spiritual forces in general. It was a great read I would read it again, I'd read it on vacation. It taught me a lot about life which I didn't expect and it's a book I could pick up on any given day and open it to any page for words of guidance. I found a few quotes I had to stop and dwell on because it just made so much sense and related to me in every way. I have never read a book that thought provoking yet simple at the same time, I applaud Coelho on his visionary writing technique. This book taught me how to be patient with the waves of life, take each difficulty as a challenge to keep going, read omens and always look for the deeper meaning in life. I also feel like it inspired me to chase my dreams no matter how big they are because God will help me achieve it. It's a great story that encourages me to be a better person, despite how hard life may be.                                                                  

 

Alchemy

 

Transformations from dust to gold

Welcoming new and appreciating old

Chasing a dream to awaken my soul

Crafting my life so in sync with His mold

 

My temple, my mind

 

The storms they do rise and yes they rise high

But I've had to find it within me to fly 

Above all the tests and the pain and the lies

And to stay aflight til the day that I die

 

That's what the real challenge is  

 

For He knows where I hurt and He knows where I'm weak

So humbled my spirit is true and unique

From the top of my head to the the tip of my feet

I feel His promises comforting me

 

Comforts of joy and love everlasting.

 

 

I don't have to worry anymore

Small joys in life mean more than before

Windows of opportunity closed--but He opens the door

As long as I'm moving towards him, towards

 

My Personal Legend

The Soul of the World

Becoming a woman

Yet holding on to the girl

 

All of the universe conspires

To teach me lessons of what to desire

For to whom much is given, much is required

Fears, Assets, Obstacles

Fears 

My biggest fear is to be satisfied with a mediocre lifestyle and never accomplish my dreams of becoming a successful architect. This fear inspires me to work hard and makes me cautious of who I allow into my life, because the people around me contribute to the quality and progress of my life. To move forward on my journey I can use my fear as further motivation not to give up on following my dreams and being a disappointment to myself and my mom who is depending on me to succeed. This fear is here because I know many people who have had dreams they always imagined following but got caught in circumstances along the way that have limited and in some cases stopped them from following through. What bothers me is that they all cope with the unhappiness it brings instead of changing it although I understand it's not easy to sacrifice stability for a dream that may not work. In a way I can control my fear by accepting that if I were to die at any moment, that's as far as my story will have gone and I will be remembered for what I have done and am currently doing, and if I'm lucky enough someone will remember my dreams too. I healthily process this fear by focusing on other things and being mindful. 

   Assets 

Assets of mine are being honest regardless of the circumstance, determined to succeed and passionate about the things I believe in. These assets help me to continue to keep my ambition and continue working to make my dreams a reality. I can continue to use them to move forward by applying them to daily living and grounding myself with them when I find myself becoming discouraged. I have the assets as positive affirmations that I am more than able to achieve whatever my heart desires if I stay true to them I will succeed one way or another. They are aspects of my character that I've come to realize I can't control even if I wanted to. If I feel strongly about something I will continue to feel that way, if I need to speak on it I will not hide my opinion and once I make up my mind I want something I absolutely have to have it. I can healthily apply my assets by using them as inspiration and motivation to continue growing and learning to reach my goals one day. 

Obstacles 

Obstacles in my life are hardships I'm facing and making difficult choices in uncomfortable situations. They are affecting me by causing stress in my day to day life but hopefully in my life to make me stronger and wiser at the end of it all. To move forward on my journey I must overcome each obstacle better than the last and not allow them to discourage me from finding my own Personal Legend. I believe these obstacles are here to make me smarter about life situations and teach me to continuously rise after I fall. I cannot control the obstacles in my life but I can control my perspective and thus control the affect they have on me. To healthily process stress and anxiety from the obstacles I face I try to focus on appreciating that I'm still alive and my situation could have been much worse than whatever it is.  

Facing Fears 

In the face of fear

 I stare 

As if it were the dark of the night

My fight or flight instincts immediately ignite

I choose to stand and I choose to battle 

Taking on unknown territory, 

Strapped tight to my saddle. 

My saddle of faith 

My saddle of pride

For they see a smile but know not of what's inside 

Each mountaintop that I must reach 

Each wave of drowning in the sea

Along the journey to becoming a better me. 

Anxiety thinks its got me trapped 

For it does not know God has my back. 

All the while I keep on growing 

Searching for the deepest knowing. 

Problems will rise,

And so they shall fall 

For I will keep fighting

Even when my back is against the wall.