Happy New Year!
I hope that you had an enjoyable and peaceful holiday season!I am very excited about the New Year and the launch of my blog. Although I have an opinion about absolutely EVERYTHING, I was reluctant to share them with world. The world is full of people who think that they have the answers to all that ails us. I am definitely not one of those people. However, now that I have taken it upon myself to go into schools and community groups with the intention of motivating young people to come up higher in their lives, it seems like a great time to share some insights about who I am. My future posts will cover a wide range of topics – especially those pertaining to how we can better prepare our young people to become the ‘power players’ that I believe they are all destined to be. For now, I just wanted to share the logic behind the title of my blog.
The phrase “Live the Lesson” reflects where I am in my personal and professional development. It’s a phrase that I use to remind myself to ACT upon the lessons that I have learned through my own experiences and those of others. How many of us have started a sentence by saying “If I knew then what I know now…” yet don’t actually use what we DO know to improve our quality of life? How many of us continue to eat foods that we KNOW have made us feel run down in the past and have done a serious number on our bodies? How many of us continue to allow the same toxic people (or their clones) into our lives despite the many times they have transgressed against us? How many of us continue to pursue a career path that robs us of our joy – staying with a job we hate, or taking similar jobs with different companies while hoping against hope that things will get better?
Living the Lesson is a challenge that I put to myself (and the youth that I speak to) to honor myself and my mistakes by using that information to improve the quality of my life. We have all made decisions and have done things that we wish we could change. We can’t un-ring the bell. But we can forgive (NOT RE-LIVE) our past mistakes and change our course. This is what I attempt to do in my own life with varying degrees of success. This is also why I share the ‘not-so-bright’ sides of my story (along with my successes) with young people who may be facing some of the same challenges that I did when I was growing up. I’m committed to using my challenges as ‘teachable moments’ in the hope that young people will either avoid the mistakes altogether or become inspired by the fact that they too can survive and thrive inpsite of or because of them. I’m not sure where this new path as a ‘Motivational Speaker’ will take me. But I appreciate your coming along for the ride!
Sincerely,
M.B. Dibinga
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