The late great Kobe Bryant once said "It's the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you. Or don't. So don't take it lightly."
When we were all in the year 2020, this moment was on my birthday as a matter of fact. May 24th, 2020. I remember eating at the table with my parents, and my mom asked me so you're twenty-eight now. What is your plan? And honestly, in the moment I didn't have a real answer, as it did catch me off guard. It wasn't like I was some bum. I have had, and maintained a job in a couple different areas since since I was sixteen, so it wasn't like I was a couch potato with no motivation at all. But to me, looking back on this moment, I think my mom was talking about the cycle I was in. I graduated from Hampton University in 2017, so I had a college degree. That was three years ago from this conversation we were having.
All my brothers had since moved out of our parent's home. It's just me there with them now. But there were, and still are some things that as I am nearing the milestone age of thirty year old, should have a little more clarity in my life. I think in one of my post I quoted the golf instructor Martin Hall. Well... I am going to do so again. Martin Hall on his television show "School of Golf," always concludes each episode by saying: "If you keep doing what you've been doing, you'll keep getting what you've been getting." In his context Hall is referring to the golf course, and all the aspects of it, but this is also a life quote too! I can't live with my parents forever, and I didn't want to be single forever! I had to find a way to get my pendulum moving again. So as I wrote about in my "Benefits of Having a Mentor", check it out as well when you're done reading this (https://www.wesleyeggleston.com/post/benefits-of-having-a-mentor-in-your-life), I found one and have been with my mentor ever since! By the grace of God, and at long last I found my girlfriend, who has now become my fiance', and soon to be my wife!
This is all stuff I had to make happen, or they wouldn't be. Tupac Shakur once said "[We need to] be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it."
Having patience is a good thing, but we as people still have to tread our own tires, or we will remain still. No one wants to help someone who can't, and doesn't seem motivated to help himself. My mentor has set me up in a google document where he has different goals written out in a checklist form. As I progress, and read over the goals, and work towards getting them accomplished, whether I complete them quickly, within a week, or month, once I complete them, it's one step closer to my ultimate goal. I also took some advice from comedian, and television star Steve Harvey. He has a clip, and I have actually watched it several times, where he talks about having a strong faith in God, and reminds us that in the bible it is written in Habakkuk 2:2: Then the Lord replied: "Write down the revelation, and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come, and will not delay."
This was hard for me, and as I said I felt like I was just going through the motions. I got myself a vision board, where I have in my room hanging up so I see it every day I wake up. Steve Harvey said try to make a list of a hundred things I desire, and work towards them. As I said every day I have done this, and increased my list. Some days I skip writing down my desires, and I will just simply write a motivational quote, or a bible verse that stood out to me. Whatever I write on my vision board, it is always with the intention that reading this will push me closer to where I want to be. Habakkuk 2:2 doesn't limit what you write, again, it just says to write it down, and make it plain.... Sometimes when I write something on my board, I am like: "Well this is way out there... Ain't no way." But like my mentor reminds me, I should never have any limiting beliefs. If it is something I desire, and work towards it, why can't I have it? In the early stages working with my mentor I told him I desired a girlfriend. In time, and with work I put in myself. As strange, and random as it might have felt to me, I did write it down, and it did prophesy to come true. After a year of being together I took that next step and made my girlfriend my fiance'. And you know what's next? Making my fiance' my wife. But in due time. In my time. In God's time! It is written on my vision board! So I know it will happen!
It is a scary feeling when I look back at some of the things I have written, and have since seen come to fruition. I reflect often to myself all the time, 'I remember when I wrote this...., and now look, I have it, even when I didn't think I had a chance to have it.'
I am also an author of many published works, however, up until I finished writing my book "My Football Story" I had never had a published physical book. The original cover I had was an orange cover copy, but once I was encouraged to change it, and make it more attractive to readers, and viewers alike, I had designed a book cover that not only would captivate readers, and viewers, but I felt a huge sense of hubris seeing the final product of my work. Knowing it started off as a school assignment in my junior creative writing class to something that has made me money in my life, I can't help, but be ecstatic about it!
This is only the beginning too! It's been a long time coming, but I do plan on having my second book to come out soon. I am getting the frame work, but as I have said for quite a while, my second book will soon be published, and it will be another success!
There is only one way, and thing to do when I see the things I have now brought into fruition; that principle as Kobe Bryant also once said was "Life is too short to be bogged down and be discouraged. You have to keep going! Put one foot in front of the other, smile, and just keep on rolling."
I will keep praying to my faithful God. Keep reading, and staying in His word. Keep working on my side business, and work towards it becoming a consistent second means of income. The goals I have for my family, my wife, and myself, all align to a greater purpose, and future. It will be so that when we enter a building, heads will turn. I am nothing without my wife by my side, it is all a partnership. Her success is my success, and my success is her success. We are "Eggleston Enterprises", and we will go far!
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