Day 042

 Dear dreamer,

The Brand

A brand...it's not a fashion brand like you think...or not. Have you ever heard of personal branding? Well, it is a statement of identity. It describes your core values, who you are and what you think is important. I have always wanted to create a presence to display my personal brand but it managed to skip through other tasks and never happen. 

Remember what I said about learning about social media, this seemed like a perfect plan. Using two stones to kill one bird. Opening my personal brand while practically learning about social media seemed like a very good deal and it was a good thing because this was a old project that I fixed for some day. It was eventually going to come to fruition...hopefully.

If there is anything I have learnt over time, it is the fact that challenges can prove to be one of the biggest type of distractions. You can be struggling to do something and you suddenly face a challenge and get lost in it. It's like trying to run and encountering an obstacle. The smartest thing is to push it enough for it to budge so you can find your way through it but we sometimes forget that the obstacle is an obstacle, not the real deal. We spend all our time trying to move it more than necessary. Stay grounded. Having to deal with a challenge is hard enough without making it a distraction. 

Do what you have to do but stay on track with the goal, we only get this one chance to do this. 


                                ~A Penniless Dreamer

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