Stepping Out on Faith

A little over a week ago I quit my 5-days a week, 12-hour shift job to venture back into the world of self-employment. It was a move that many people wouldn't normally make. Here's how the journey unfolded....

I had been my job for 9 years and for 7 of those years I had been cooped up in an office with no windows and no flexibility. Why did I stay so long?  To be honest with you I got comfortable with the steady money. Even though I knew I could earn way more, I simply got complacent.

I had made several attempts to get back to freedom but nothing ever panned out for me. I tried blogging, selling beats, real estate investing, and even getting another job. None of these amounted to anything especially since I couldn't stay focused long enough because of the long job hours.

Even though I was in a leadership position, my self-esteem had gotten really low. I gained at least 40 pounds and I developed sinus problems and all sorts of body aches. I dread going in to the long work hours almost every day.

I decided to use my affirmations and creative visualization to move me forward. After going 3 years without my own vehicle. I was blessed with the car I had visualized almost to the exact detail and some extras included. The way the car manifested was nothing short of a miracle because I had definitely reached my breaking point at that time. The fact that the car showed up 1 week before my birthday made it even better.

The Whip

I was on Cloud 9 for a while and once again I began to get complacent doing my 60 hour per week job.  I knew something was happening but I didn't know how or when I would make my transition. I knew I wasn't supposed to retire there because I knew there was something better and although I was pretty decent at what I was doing, it was not fulfilling and my family and I were just miserable.

Spirit lead me to a book called "Practical Intuition" by Laura Day and I began to work the exercises in the book. Things began to move fast! I began to listen to my intuition more and more as I went through the book.

Practical Intuition by Laura Day

One morning as I was heading off to work, I got a "hunch" to take a book to work with me called "The 4-Hour Work Week" by Tim Ferris. I had learned that when you get these kinds of signs you need to pay attention so I packed up the book and went off to work. During my downtime I revisited a chapter in the book called "Fearsetting". As I began to look at the exercises for the chapter, I remember I had completed it in the past and I remembered my answers. 

The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris

One of the questions was in the nature of "if you took a chance on your dreams and lost it all, how would you restore your life back to order?" I remember answering when I didn't have have a vehicle that I would rent a car and began to do courier work to get back on my feet. 

Then it hit me! 

I finally had a car and I didn't have to wait any longer to get free of my job. I could just begin to drive as a courier and that would free up my time and I would be completely mobile. Yes it would cost me money to do it but all I needed was a way to continue to generate income while pursuing my dreams. It was sort of a bridge strategy to get me to the other side of my goal. 

Well, after I got as much as I could in alignment concerning all involved, I took a leap of faith and jumped back in the world of self-employment. I continue to feel great about this choice from the first day I got the inspiration to go for it. I couldn't let anybody's fear deter me from what I was inspired to do and what I felt was intuitively right. 

Fast forward to 2 weeks later and I'm still here alive and kicking. I am surviving. Better yet I'm LIVING! I can make my own rules and I am FREE to work when I please. The only thing limiting me is me and whatever challenges I face from here on out, I am not bound by anybody else's limiting work hours. 

Does this mean I'm now on easy street? Absolutely not! It means I must work harder but doing work you want to do is much different than doing work you don't want to do. I heard a joke that said when you have your own business you only have to work half days...and you get to pick which 12 hours you want them to be! This is true. There is a lot of sacrifice and you must be self-motivated to succeed. 

Also, when there is downtime, I've learned not to waste it. I find some other way to generate money like blogging or writing lyrics which are some of my favorite things to do anyway. 

So stepping out on Faith is not a bad idea. I've done it many times in the past and even though this time was a little different because I have a family now, the main principle was the same and that was to trust GOD. There are countless verses in the Bible about Faith and one of them is "Faith without work is dead". To me that means reading the Word of God is one thing. Its good to read but you activate your Faith by living the Word of God and proving it with action. So when you pray, move your feet and trust that you will be guided to go the right way. It all starts with the first step. 

Let's Make It Happen!!!

Mello Melanin

Becoming the Subject of Your Life | SuperConsciousness Magazine

This is an article I came across while reading SuperConsciousness Magazine. This has some really good jewels in it.

Click on the link below to read the article:

Becoming the Subject of Your Life | SuperConsciousness Magazine

It's Time For Your Resurrection

Happy Easter! Yes today is Easter Sunday but I tend to look at this holiday in a difference sense. I look at the resurrection as a renewing of the mind, body, and soul. If you are feeling emotionally, physically, and spiritually dead then its time for you to wake up have a resurrection. Its time for you to look within and tell the truth about yourself to yourself.

I believe most people desire to be healthy, whole, and complete but sometimes we're just out of balance. Its times like this when we must stir up the Spirit within and ask for and claim our healing. We have the power to speak the word for perfect health, love, awareness, wealth. We came into this world with the power and we can never be separated from God, the Good, every where, evenly present. God is closer to us than our breath.

Meditation, prayer, and reading spiritual uplifting words all serve to help resurrect us to a Superconscious mind state with a greater sense of awareness to help us overcome any obstacles.

Patience Is The Supreme Virtue

In our everyday interactions with people we have to learn how to exercise patience. Patience is the Supreme Virtue and for good reason too. Let's look at the definition.

Dictionary.com defines patience as:

1. the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.

2. an ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay: to have patience with a slow learner.

3. quiet, steady perseverance; even-tempered care; diligence: to work with patience.

For me, I have to learn how to have patience with people who are not acting the way I want them to act. They have their own thoughts, feelings, and circumstances. They are not mine and the best thing I can do is show compassion for them and not get upset with them. 

This is difficult for me most of the time. What I have learned as of lately is to not REACT but to RESPOND to situation where patience is called for. Its not easy but taking this frame of mind allows me to stay calm even when I want to bite someone's head off. 

In another post, I will share with you what I've learn so far as I go through The Presence Process. This Process was developed by Michael Brown and I've have seen wonderful results in only 3 weeks of an 11-week Process. 

Here's the link below to check out the book reviews over at Amazon:

Inspirational Love Notes: The Prospering Power of God in Action

Check out this article by my fiancee, Anna "Ms. Poet" Hendricks. It deals with her recent real life experience with healing and prosperity. Click on the link below to read it!

Inspirational Love Notes: The Prospering Power of God in Action: Here's a testimony and demonstration of God's power, to heal AND prosper at the same time, that's absolutely too awesome for me not to share...

Let's Make It Happen!!!
Mello Melanin

A Prayer For Peace and Protection

I don't really know where to begin with this post today. My heart goes out to the family and friends of the people of Newtown, CT. No amount of words can heal this type of hurt. I mean really, what can you say to someone who has just had their loved ones ripped from them with no type of warning. Even with a warning, it still hurts.

When I first heard the news of this tragedy, I knew it was going to be a hot topic in the news so I choose to read about it a few hours later. I knew this type of life changing event could be down right depressing if it was continually poured into my consciousness. But how could I not be aware of this nonsense? I finally read about it around 3pm even though my coworkers were keeping up on the latest developments.

I decided to catch the last word on it for the day on the evening news. Even then I didn't watch it for too long. I just couldn't imagine what those parents must have been going through knowing they would see their children again. Even the ones who survived through it will have this event imprinted on their memory.

My spiritual teacher, Bishop Dr. Barbara King, just said the other day that a person's body can be physically in front of you but their mind can be somewhere else.

We may never know what was on the shooter's mind in this tragedy. Please pray for peace on Earth because we surely do need it.

Here is the Prayer of Protection (Adapted from James Dillet Freeman) that you can use on a daily basis:

The Light of God surrounds us.
The Love of God enfolds us. 
The Power of God protects us.
The Presence of God watches over us. 
Wherever I am, God is.
Wherever you are, God is. 

May God be with you!

I Can See The Transformation!

The last post I put on my blog (Thinking From A Higher Level) is something I actually started working on a few weeks ago. Almost a month ago to be exact. So much has happened since then and my attention was NOT focused on what I said I would do and that was to blog. 

Although my consciousness was definitely expanded because I was taking in plenty of knowledge and wisdom, I was not doing the best at being an outlet of the information I had received. That is what this blog is for. It is a way for me to express my self, my real self, my higher self, and to hopefully bless someone else in the process. 

See, when I don't write or express myself, I feel...empty, weak, and bored. Life becomes a routine for me and I need to be able to create in order to break the monotony of life. As Bishop Carlton Pearson says, "We were created, we are creative, and we are creating all the time because that is our nature."

When I go to work on my day job, I am helping someone else express what they've chosen to create. My work day consists of helping lots of people in various situations in the transportation industry and being a leader to my co-workers.  There are all sorts of dynamics involved in my job. It can be fun and it can be boring but at the end of the day it is someone else's creation, not mine. 

In order for me to feel fulfilled, I need to "mind my own business" as Robert Kyosaki says, and find the time to do the things that bring me joy and happiness. What I have noticed, and I wrote this in a previous blog, is that when I begin to do the things I enjoy doing consistently, the tasks that are mundane and routine, don't bother me as much. Maybe its because my whole being wants to get back to creating because it felt great to express myself. It could also be that I am living on purpose when I express myself. 

I can definitely tell you during this last month, I noticed the difference. I'm sure there was an element of procrastination. Ok, I'll just call it what it was...procrastination.

I was procrastinating!

There is no way I should have less than 10 posts this month. It is totally unacceptable and there is nothing wrong with demanding more of my Self. I am capable to do much more than what I'm putting out. Its kinda like a faucet being turned on fully in a tub and the drain being open just slightly. There is no balance and eventually the tub will overflow because not enough water is being released. 

More is going in than coming out.

Now I think I'm done putting myself in the headlock about this. Its time to take action. I will put this as an action item in my daily planner (which I should have done long ago!) so that I will be reminded to post something every day. As time goes on, it will be new habit, and eventually, who knows, maybe all my posts will turn into a book. It could happen!!!

So look at the areas of your life honestly and see where you've been falling short. Are you doing something everyday that is fulfilling to you? If not, then you need to start putting a program into practice to get you to that point as quick as possible. Your sanity depends on it!!!

Have a great day!