After a fallout with a close business partner, there was this thing that my people kept saying to me:

“Build something of your own”

They were referring to something that no one could take away no matter how much they disagreed. Something that is so permanently mine that I am birthed with it and die with it.

a thing of my own.

Although a younger version of me would’ve agreed with them, this woman disagrees.

because for so long, I was building on my own. I did many things for my own. I thrived with my own. There is definitely an ego boost to it but at the end it sits empty.

a dusty trophy on a shelf.

No.

I like building with others.

That doesn’t come from a lack of confidence or fear.

It actually requires more courage.

I want the people who love me to understand that I’ve tasted the fulfillment of building with others who are passionate about a vision. I’ve tasted the pride that comes from knowing that my talents have made a meaningful impact in someone’s life.

My reason for working this hard was always to show doers-of-good that they don’t have to walk alone.

That if you get over the hurdle of self-doubt, you have cheerleaders and lovers who will help you build out that incredible vision of yours.

I want to send love right back at the people who love the world passionately.

That’s my joy.

I haven’t always been the engineer at the docks building ships.

I always thought I wanted to be the sailor out in the sea, adventuring and discovering.

but after tasting the bitterness of heartbreak, I realized that I would choose this path again.

Not because I am a masochist who can’t move on but because I promised myself to not let fear dictate my life anymore.

I was the sailor riding her own ship in the open oceans.

then that sailor was discovered by an island. She fed her and told her, “Welcome Home. This is where you were always meant to be.”

I am the engineer at the docks whispering courage in sailors’ ears. I help build their ships and wave to them as they sail away to their destinies.

My thing is not owning legions of fleets.

My thing is knowing that the seas are filled with ships I helped build.

and I am completely content with that.