So I’m at the gym last night doing pull-ups and in my peripheral’s I see a guy starting to walk past me to get to the drinking fountain. I don’t know what happened but as I’m pulling up to the third pull-up my stomach muscles tighten and I let out a loud ass unexpected fart. I know that shit was loud too because I had headphones with music blaring and I still heard it. My eyes got wide with embarrassment as I turned my head to tell him “my bad” but he doesn’t turn his head back and just keeps on walking like nothing happened. I let go of the bar to the floor and turn my head the opposite direction and start dying laughing realizing that he was right behind me when that fart snuck out. I know he had to feel the wind hit the side of his face, lmao.

Seeing it made me smile. As my eyes scanned over my work I felt a sense of accomplishment and a sense of pride.  Occasionally, it’s good to glance over your notes, rough drafts and other scraps of paper that you have accumulated over the creation and trial and error period and really absorb the fact that you have been working hard to accomplish your goals. I look back to see how I started, and what I started with, so I can appreciate my growth in the process, and the fact that I actually completed some of my challenging short term goals. Seeing what you’ve accomplished thus far gives you strength to keep pushing forward towards new bench marks and keep setting higher standards for yourself.

I like how it feels when I can look at something I created and experience a surge of positivity and increased drive towards building more. You feel this confidence that you were able to START something and see it through. That feeling is huge for me because it gives me validation that I have broken the cycle of quitting something before really giving it a chance to blossom like I’ve done in the past with so many other endeavors. I used to always be looking for immediate success when the answer was in steadily building up towards delayed gratification.

I enjoy the grind. With each new mistake or mishap I learn something new. Each day I am a better entrepreneur, author, illustrator and person than I was the day before. I realize I have much more still to do and I get inspired at the possibilities of what can come. For now, I feel joy from seeing the fruits of my labor and being able to take steps toward an even more successful future.