Respect The Grind

As I'm sitting here beginning to work on a PR Plan for my new client, I remembered that I made a commitment to blog. Sorry guys, I have been extremely busy in pursuit of my PR career. Success is looking up and I am grateful, I'm a unstoppable force. I entitled this post "Respect the Grind," because it pertains to self-realization and sacrifices, in success, that I am experiencing on my "Success Journey."


Recently my significant other and I separated for various reasons. One of the reasons being, the ability to love and focus on the growth and development of self. Due to his ambition and urgency for success, my Man dedicated himself to his goals and neglected our commitment. He explained to me that he before he could give himself to anyone, he had to focus on self and achieving his goal. For him those things required sacrifice and selfishness. At the moment, I could not understand why he wasn't able to put an equal amount of energy into two things that he loved; His success and I. I thought about it and spoke out loud about him not loving me and not loving me enough and that contributed to our break up.

I thought he was being selfish, until recently when people in my life, called me selfish because lately, I've dedicated all my time to my Public Relations career. Now I understand, in order to achieve self goals , you must exhaust yourself in accomplishing those goals, by any means necessary. I didn't respect his grind because I did not understand, nor could I relate; I was being selfish.

In the end, I applied that same selfishness in pursuing my PR career. I revised this quote from Jay-Z song,"The Prelude," "I have this fantasy of putting the PR industry on it's ears, what the f**K else am I suppose to do except hustle." Public Relations is my hustle, I did it the American dream way, graduated from College, learned creative skills, and now I'm contributing my creativity to the world. It's a beautiful thing to know that you serve a purpose.

Great things are happening, fast and I am meeting great contacts, building my brand; Myself. I've allowed social media to serve it's purpose and utilize it, for networking and the results are amazing. I am realizing that success requires sacrifice, that's a big beneficial pill to swallow. Success also requires, "tunnel vision" and sometimes alteration of your peers and habits. This is my commitment to myself; There'll be no break-up. It wasn't until the break up, that I realized I had not vested all my time and energy into myself and my career; Now I'm "full-throttle," and there's no turning back. If no one is, I'm amazed with my craft and believe it will be the reason for my success. I will be 'Next in PR," it may happen over night, anything is possible when you believe and when it does, remember I told you so.

Respect The Grind.

Peace,

A.