✨ 1 Whisper. 1 Yes. 1 Movement. 1 📕Writer, 🎸Musician, 🌱 Poetry-Seeds of Infinitude — you cannot stream what happens in the room. 🎵 Notes echo into your soul and stay with your heart. 💚 👣 The Season of Becoming is now: Lo-Fi Emergence Underway It seems crazy to read these words, but poetry was inside me as a seed all along. While there is more to the story, I have been drawn to write my first poetry book, Seeds of Infinitude ®. The unfolding of this process has been subtle, profound, and impactful beyond comprehension. The rest of the story:
I struggled with self-worth early on in life, which took me years to unpack. Lack of worth caused me to fail in relationships, sports, and jobs. I did not read my first book cover to cover until I was 21 years old. I was on the verge of being an alcoholic but got saved from that addiction. I did have success in sales after almost getting fired. But I realized sales was not my true calling. My true calling was a whisper in my soul that I ignored as a child. Finally after 19 years of a successful sales career with the same Fortune 500 company, "One Day" became "Day One." I submitted my resignation. I knew my calling was to use my gifts and all the adversity I had overcome to help others. I quickly became a Life Coach and a hired Speaker—but a Poet? Becoming a Poet was not even on my radar. My poetry has become the most sought-after part of my journey. A few more details:
My self-doubt stemmed from a broken home. My dad was a truck driver and my mom was a housewife. Upon their divorce, I lived with my mom. My mom was granted food stamps to ensure we had enough food. As I got older things got better, but I still struggled with my identity. My ego was good at propping me up in the short term, but my lack of worth was at the core. Both my parents loved me, but it wasn't easy. My dad, a former Marine Sgt. from the Vietnam War, put much pressure on me not realizing I struggled. My mom was depressed much of the time. While these factors caused me to take a very long road to recovery, they serve as my greatest asset today. Overcoming these factors has enabled me to love my parents more and better serve others. Now, as I get ready to pen my fourth book, I once again think of the Henry David Thoreau quote that has a radical impact on my journey. "I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." Poetry has been my "success unexpected in common hours." I believe my upcoming book Seeds of Infinitude ® will enable you to hear the whisper in your soul and help you become all that you were meant to be in this life and beyond. I am glad you are here. I appreciate your journey as I appreciate mine.
