Using Written Words to Teach and Empower

Have you ever come to a point in your life where you finally realized that some specific action you took in your past reaped positive dividends in your present? I mean . . . a past action that you took is playing out now in a most positive way?

And, it’s not like you necessarily took that past action, knowing that it would be such a blessing in such a specific way in your now (which was your future back then). Hee. Hee. Okay, let me stop with the head-dizzying wordplay.

Anyway, where I’m going with this is that it becomes such a profound a-ha moment when you can see the seeds that you planted so long ago come into fruition in such a blessed way. Then, certain life journeys you’ve taken start connecting the dots for you — the dots that have set up the direction and trajectory for your purpose-driven mission.

Or not.

I can’t presume to know your life and how you feel about your life choices. I can only speak to mine. And, I have to say that I’ve recently experienced some wonderful a-ha moments that have made the actions I took early on in my pursuit of my purpose-driven mission (when I didn’t really have a clue) make perfect sense to me in the here and now.

So clear that I can now say . . . THIS is what I was meant to do for such a time as this. Didn’t know it then, but I know it now. And the THIS can still evolve even more over time. But for now, I know what the THIS is.

I’m talking about all the writing I’ve done on this blog . . . since 2018. I have hundreds and hundreds of posts. And, I have wonderful folks who clicked the button to follow my blog. But, as all of us Content Creators know, followers don’t always equate to an engaged audience.

So . . .  if I was one of those people whose self-worth is driven by the amount of true engagement I get from this blog, I’d truly be down in the dumps pretty much — ALL OF THE TIME, in fact!

But, my self-worth isn’t driven by that.

Or, if I was the kind of person who only contributed to this blog because I had a lot of people following it and engaging with the content, then the blog posts would have stopped a reeeeeeaaaaalllllyyy long time ago.

But, my blogging at Degrees of Maternity isn’t driven by that either.

It’s kind of hard to put into words exactly what drives my writing, but I’ll try to explain since words are what I do.

Some of the drive is therapeutic (writing therapy), but  . . .

. . . most of it is an inner knowing, a realization that I have the possibility of positively impacting and deeply connecting with someone else through my words. It’s my main life’s mission to help support someone else in his or her life-improvement journey. That’s what I strive to do EVERY DAY. No doubt!

And then the rest of my drive is the longing to build community with some really great people who I would have never had the opportunity to meet if I hadn’t kept writing for this blog.

(I’m pretty sure those people who have touched my life through my connection with them through this blog know who they are — the ENGAGERS — the ones who have offered me advice, guidance, support, encouragement — those who have helped me — those who have listened and cared — those who are in “community” with me. Those whom I like to call “my friends.”)

COMMUNITY!            I like that word!

This community-building effort is where it’s at for me these days. Specifically, building up a community “by children for children.” Now, don’t feel a way about this. I still wholeheartedly love my community over here with the grown folks. We’re a small but mighty one. And, we’re still a-buildin’ ourselves up over here.

But, I think this purpose-driven mission of mine (for now) is making a little room for me to create the online membership community for some young people I’m mentoring. And, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!

So, that’s where I’ve been these days. Prepping for, getting systems up and running, and onboarding my mentees in this membership. Now, I won’t be going into details about the membership on this blog, but I thought I should mention it just so you know I’m not lying around idle somewhere when I’m not over here.

And what I will say, along with the fact that the children in the membership are awesome, is that I’m going to have the opportunity to use the written words from this blog to give youthful ears some life instruction. Whoo Hoo!

Who knew back in 2018, when I started this blog, that I would use it sometime in the future to help enlighten our young people in a way that will hopefully propel them to make good decisions now to help positively impact their now and their futures to come. 

I have so much positively-packed stuff to share with the children that it’s just too good to be true. I have several self-improvement books already lined up that I’ll be pulling wisdom from to guide our online forward-facing conversations. But, I had to stop for a minute and think about the wealth of encouragement, motivation, inspiration, guidance, and step-by-steps that I have on this blog.

Not only do I have the opportunity to share this content with an adult audience, but I get to empower the kiddos with such content. What an eye-opening moment it was when I realized that I can use MY written words to teach the children! This was one of those recent a-ha moments I had. And, I’m putting it into play.

As a matter of fact, if you noticed a new addition on the homepage of this site, don’t be alarmed. It’s for the children. And just know that there’s some good stuff happening over there. So while I may not be creating as much over here (for the time being), please know I’m not very far away.

I’m still around; I’m just busy with fulfilling an additional part of my purpose-driven mission — creating and sharing content with the children. 

Until next time . . .