Stop Being Scared
Dear College Girl,
I am no longer a college girl. In fact, I am a certified degreed college girl.
Although I am not a college girl, this does not mean I no longer have words of wisdom to share. One of the key truths I had to face after graduating from college was that I am creating my own universe. My own universe where God is the author, I am the co-creator, and I can decide to take charge or sit back and sit in fear. Walking in your purpose does not exempt you from fear, which is False Evidence Appear Real, it just means you do it regardless. I can admit I do not know what my next year, two years, three years, or even the future will look like. My near and far future are unknown. I often have thoughts of reality hitting me, “Oh shoot, I actually graduated, “Dang I really need to start stacking,” “Oh wow, I am an adult and need to take charge of my own desires,” “How can I be more disciplined?” “Where do I start?” While these thoughts occur often and are completely healthy evidence of life I can simultaneously be certain of my goals, plans, and the expectations I have set for myself.
If you do not have at least one goal I encourage you to find one….like NOW. The reason why you have not started is because you are scared. You are scared of:
failing, the unknown, the opinions of others, being unhappy, wasting time, being rich, turning evil, falling into the traps of capitalism, and so much more.
Your goals can be as simple as: get a stable job that pays over $20 an hour to work 40 hours a week to help me buy a used, cheap, and stable car by June and move out by September into a studio that costs no more than $1500 a month.
Sitting on your goals only makes that fear real. It allows you more time to waste, doom scroll, worry about what the next person is doing, prompts unnecessary stress, and the next thing you know you are stuck at where you started. Stop paying attention to what the person in front, behind, and next to you is doing and start working towards those goals brings it to life. It is not about hard work but smart work.
Strategy makes your fears smaller and smaller. Strategy is the path to the manifestation of your goals. Fear means you live I scarcity, in survival, in lack, as if you have nothing. It causes you to speak lack and negativity into your life. Remember that there is power in the tongue and you must put forth everything positive into your reality. Into your own universe. Faith without works is dead though. So imagine if you spoke life into yourself and walked in your strategy. Imagine where you will be in the next 6 months. Imagine the people you will meet, the places you will enter, the rooms you will dominate, and the power you will exude. So what if fear is actually not real? Imagine if your plans work out? Imagine if you make out of poverty? Imagine if you actually meet the CEO of the company you desire to work for? Imagine if your strategy worked all along?
Imagine if you stopped being scared of yourself.
Sincerely,
Pitra