This month the word is Tenacious. This is tending to keep a firm hold of something, clinging or adhering to it. It is being persistent and not being easily dispelled. We are more than halfway through 2024 and some of the things you plan might seem like a long shot. Be tenacious.
Just as taking three small pieces of cord and twisting them together makes a strong rope, having collaborations with others will help create strong projects. Many of the people who have worked in different roles have spent time collaborating with others. It is a great way to learn.
Collaboration happens sometimes when you don’t agree with the person you are working with. In those moments there is an opportunity to learn about yourself and how you work with others who disagree with you.
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Collaborating with others who have different skillsets or points of view can help grow you. I love the story of how Ida B Wells was having a meal with Frederick Douglass. She had said she would like to eat at the restaurant across from their meeting place, but it did not allow our people in.
Douglass walked in, she followed. After not being welcome and told to leave, Douglass told them who he was. Once they learned who he was, they not only allowed them to eat, but shared stories with them. This situation gave Wells the opportunity is there even when you don’t think it is. Collaborating allowed her to see things from a different perspective.
Ida B Wells understood what working with others could do. She collaborated with others throughout her life to form some life changing organizations like the NAACP. She also did work that put a spotlight on lynchings through her journalistic work.
Wells did not focus on one thing with her life, but spread out to collaborate with others throughout her
life over many things.
This month the word is Collaboration. This is the action of working with someone to produce or create something. Some of the most amazing things in the world were created when people worked together on it.
To defy anything is not easy. It usually requires passion and a desire to accomplish something. Josephine Baker lived a life that accomplished a lot defying her naysayers.
Josephine Baker faced a lot of rejection but was able to move past it. She defied the odds. She did not give up performing. She continued and became one of the best in the business.
Baker then used her gift of performance to work for French Intelligence during World War II. She was awarded a medal of honor after the war.
Josephine Baker defied all things in life. When she was young, she really wanted to be in the chorus line on Broadway, but they told her she was too skinny. She created a comic route that ensured she would always be in the line. She did not allow the impossibility of her dream stop her from achieving it.
This month, I am examining the things that seem impossible. What does it really take to achieve them? Do I have it in me? Lets see.
I will be presenting More Than A Color, Saturday June 8 at the Quincy Public Library 526 Jersey St Qunicy Il. Come join us.
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