Daily Inspirations..
G&M Custom varsity jacket…
Artist, Esther Albert 🎨
A sketch I did last week…I gotta draw more. Mad therapeutic!
From the Oven..
It was a busy week for me but a very creative one! I design and own all that is posted in this segment. These images are collaborations, personal brand designs, and original logos to be shown as proof of concept. So with that being said, here’s what I cooked up this week! lol
Working on making beanies for the winter. I think the heat was too hot, so it pretty much melted the hat. Everything is a learning curve but, once I get it down!
Trackology Entertainment concept
The gift that keeps on giving! “Randolph and Carteret” merch has surpassed 100 sales and still counting, since August! Blessed.
Been working on some running clothes. Here’s a hoodie I designed the other day. I already sold one but I think This might be a made to order piece. Each one is personalized with your last name in the “Winners flag” on the sleeve. Fresh 🔥
“Marathon Club” concept..
This might be the best of the bunch this week. My personal favorite. Didn’t get purchased, yet 😉
G&M “Luxe” design
Logo for a client
More Marathon Club
break through..
Breaking through is hard. When you are used to doing things a certain way and it hasn’t quite been working out in your favor and you decide to make a change in your life, you have to unlearn a lot of things. It’s challenging at first because you don’t realize how strong the pattern you’ve developed, has settled into your subconscious programming. It’s a mentality thing. It’s having a positive image of yourself in your mind and continuing to focus on those things instead of the other thoughts that do not serve you emotionally. I struggle all the time with this. Even though I’ve made great strides, I still have a long way to go. But it’s part of the journey, I think and I’m loving discovering the new things about myself that I wasn’t able to see earlier.
Since I’ve been working on the Goodness and Mercy Brand, I’ve been trying to get into a work flow that allows me to bury myself into a pattern that “distracts” me, for lack of a better word. I have had to learn how to grow a business while going through personal life occurrences and it’s in the having a positive mindset about myself that not only allows me to cope when going through life’s challenges but it’s the work that allows me to distracted from said moments. I don’t always get it right, but I know that I have a great awareness of when I may feel that I need to refocus on things that are important. The things that are important to me are the things that brings me the most happiness. Bringing value to other people and helping them get what they want, has been the lane that has brought me some great traction very early in my business at G&M. what I’ve learned during this very young (7mos to date) process of building a brand is that along the way, you are going to make a lot of mistakes but it’s worth it when it’s you that’s investing into your own business. Before Covid, I had an employee mindset. I used to think that being second in command was acceptable and I’m sure it is to other people and this isn’t a knock toward them at all, but me personally,I would much rather be the plug. I believe that being the one that provides value at source, is the one that has the ability to really help others at a much larger scale I think that the relationships that you child along the way to wherever you’re going, will become of great value to you. Especially if it involves people who are in the field of whatever lifestyle you may be currently or, in the process of becoming. This theory in particular is what has been bringing me the most happiness but as of late.
I have been finding myself feeling like I am putting other people before myself. but what I have realized is that, I am not putting them before me, but I am putting their emotional needs before my own, instead of just helping them get what they want. A lot of times, it is easy to get caught up in other people’s energy because it can wear on you. You become so enamored with the idea of helping them get what they want, if you are in fact able to help them in the first place, that you can confuse what that person is going through emotionally and wanting to fix the emotion, rather than the problem. I believe that’s when you start having fallouts with people. I know because that it has happened to me on many occasions. There has been times where I’ve been so invested in helping somebody else get what they want or try to make them feel better and then it just drains you. And eventually, that will turn into resentment and regrets and all of these other negative emotions begin to follow and then before you know it. You’re not speaking to one another or, you get fired, dumped and whatever else comes with that territory. And if you’re not able to let it go and move on, then you are much more susceptible to run the same pattern, which then in turn, leads to habits, which lead to getting caught up in a situation where you will come out with the short end of the stick, every time.
That is why it is my belief, that you should invest in yourself, always. Because once you begin to make strides in your life, it will then attract those people who will really need your value and will show it through their actions. It’s a chain-effect that builds generational wealth and a healthy, abundant, mindset. It builds it because the more successful you become, the more your confidence grows with each achievement.
So, my prayer is that you break through, today. I pray that you break through the mental bondage that has been hindering you from doing the things that you were born to do. I pray that you recognize the greatness within yourself and you infect others with that same energy. I pray that you continue to grow your abundant mindset in order to not only live the life that you want, but to help others get what they want in the process. I pray for health over you and your family today. I speak wellness and healing into your life, today. I pray for a break through. A spectacular, life-changing, awakening that ignites you to do whatever it is that God has called you to do. Amen. 🙏🏽
Much Love,
Jermy
