Discipline will result in a stellar career. Vice President Kamala Harris worked as an attorney and legislator, using her skill set to work in different types of situations that that allowed her to do many things.

This month the word is Discipline. This is the ability to train or develop by instruction and exercise self-control. It is the ability to improve or attempt to improve the behavior, orderliness by training conditions.

Purpose can create amazing results.

Hurston spent time exploring African American culture which resulted in a book that was published in 2018.

She wrote a book with the hopes of it being published during her lifetime, but it wasn’t. We are better off because she did the work regardless of what she thought would happen with it. We have a book that has a first person account of being kidnapped into slavery.

Hurston spent time exploring African American culture. There were probably great days when she found amazing things to write about.

There were times when it was boring and times when things didn’t work out. But she continued. Sometimes purpose evolves over time.

We have to expect moments of boredom and the desire for the thing has to keep us going.

We are all here for a purpose.

The specific tasks will change over your lifetime, but the goals and aims will remain.  Hurston did many things, but she was faithful in telling the stories of our people. She wrote short stories and books. She danced and performed.  She was able to express your purpose in many ways.

Zora Neale Hurston wrote about issues in the African American community during her lifetime. As a writer and ethnographer, she captured the African American experience during a time of racial division, but also a lot of growth in the community. Hurston worked within her purpose. She was a storyteller who told wonderful stories about the people she met and all that she experienced.

This month the word is Purpose. This can be defined as a reason for something, feeling of determination or a goal or aim. We are all here for a purpose.

This undereducated woman learned her skills in the classroom of life. She took what she knew and created a university where women could learn her skills and manage their own businesses.  In 1918, Anna Turnbo Malone started Poro College, a cosmetology school which also held a manufacturing plant, a retail store, business offices, a 500 seat auditorium, dining and meeting rooms, a roof garden, dormitory, gymnasium, bakery and chapel.

She believed she could do it. She did it.

Without there being an established market, Anna Turnbo Malone created products on a scale to distribute them across the country and parts of South America.

She had to believe in herself and products enough to teach women how to use them. She had to believe it would make them feel beautiful about themselves.  She had to believe in her own abilities in order to help others.

Anna Turnbo Malone created hair products and sold them to a point of becoming a millionaire. In order to do something like this during a time when it did not exist, there needed to exist a level of confidence to get her through.

Just because we do not see or understand how a thing is going to work out, does not mean that it is impossible. We need to believe in ourselves.