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What a sad moment…
Last week was a very special week for all the French Caribbean people in France and Overseas. One of the leaders of the caribbean musical group Kassav’, Jacob Devarieux, died because of Covid 19. Yes, 2 years after its apparition, that terrible desease is still stolen life… Jacob did a lot for the French Caribbean. Contribute to make known our small island through music, through the Zouk (typical musical style) in Europe, America, Africa, and many more places. After 40 years of hard work, Jacob just died, and left us with incredible records and videos of his art and passion. You’ll probably tell me: Nathalie, what’s the link with business, Network Marketing, and the title of your article. In fact, this is definitely link to it. Let me explain you… Due to Covid-19, and as Jacob was really loved, his funerals were on a local Guadeloupe (his Island) TV. So with my husband, overseas, 8000 km away from our island, we could watch it. And we could see everybody, his relatives talk about Jacob’s life. Jacob was really appreciate, and almost all the program was related to all the love, passion and life, Jacob gave during all his life. I remember these days when I was a little child and all the French Carribean diaspora used to meet every week end, with their old souvenirs of these days in their Island. What I could remember, as a little child, was that the smells of the typical food, and the music. Jacob had such a special voice. He was gifted, Playing guitare, and singing in creole. When the ceremonial started, the pries said something that really woke me up. He says that Jacob used to sa these words : “God gave me a gift through music, I’m gonna spend my life using it for him”. So I’m sure now you got it… Jacob had found the purpose of his life, the reason he was on this earth, and what he has to work on everyday… For God. I didn’t know Jacob’s faith, as he didn’t share it, but through his everyday life, God was in his purpose. Wahou, powerful. After that, Jaob’s daughter spoke and said some words about his father. She said : “I didn’t really know my father, he was not really present… But it is something to see what he has left and all the people that loves him… He brought so much love to people” I was, sad, shocked, and at the same time, these words started to resonate inside of me. And in fact, I started to think about my own life. What does my family think about me? Am I present enough for my family while I’m working on my purpose? That is so important for us, entrepreneurs to understand that our family should have the first place… before our passions, before our business, before money, or any friendship. So can we find that balance between our working life and family ? Yes, we can. Here are some tips…
1 – Find the purpose of our life
Don’t waste time, life is too short… This is very key in our life. If you are in business, think about it… is it your real destiny? When you wake up on the morning are you excited about it ? Did you join business because you’ve chosen it, to become a full time entrepreneur… or because you just needed to make some extra money ? There is nothing wrong in joining Network Marketing to make an extra money. But if you joined business and Network Marketing as your principal activity… You need to know if it is the real purpose of your life. Maybe you’ll ask me: ‘Nathalie, how can I know that this business is the purpose of my life?’. This is a very good question in fact. I think I will definitely write a whole article on this particular topic. But for now, I’m gonna give you just one tip : meditation, prayers and your heart are keys.Well, you already know me. I believe that we all have a purpose on this earth and that we are all in this earth because of a will. God’s will was to create us for love purpose. Well, that’s not really the point here… and I don’t want you to feel bad at me now, but love is the really the center of your existence and mine too. Once this said, I definitely propose you to read a book that really helped me to understand the purpose of my life. “Created for Purpose”, from Guillermo Maldonado, is one of the book that changed your life. You don’t finish it with the same Mindset as you had when you started it. One of the book that really creates a shift in yourself, your family, and your professional life. In my case, I had a very difficult time at a moment of my life. I Worked for twelve years as a computer science engineer before I realized this was not the purpose of my life. But before leaving that real comfortable situation, I needed to know if this business I was building was the real Purpose of my life. After one year of ‘I don’t know’, my heart knew that the aim of my life was to help other women to build their business. You cannot even imagine how a sudden peace came to me to never leave me. Even when I’m writting this post, in my garden, I am just thanking God for all the good He had planned for me, in that Purpose. And what if you could have been made for several purposes. Have you seen some artist becoming real entrepreneurs? I’m sure you know some of them. You can think about Jennifer Lopez, who sings, produces music and also creates perfums. Well, you already know that we often limit ourself too much. Finding the Purpose of your life is the first step to liberty. Once you find it, and be at the right place… your unique place, a place only made for you, you also have the prosperity and all the doors suddenly opens for you. Like Jacob I knew I had found the purpose of my life. And there is so much more. Each day can bring new surprise to you, new connexions. This process can take Time, but it is definitely the most important phase in someone’s life.
2 – Your family
Once we know our destiny, it seems that everything turns around that particular points. But the thing is that, we have other things to deal with. Sometimes we have the impression that we don’t have time to take care of our family. Or even, our children want to spend more time with us. These are signals, alerts, of an emballance in our life. We have to be very careful to not miss an important aspect of our lifes. Our family needs us. That’s probably where Jacob failed… and the reason why his own daughter says that “she did’nt really know her father”. So how can we ballance that time? Really good question! We are still learning. One of my coach, Marinda, used to say to me: You need to focus on 3 things. First, your family, second your faith, third your business. She was so helpful to me. I was in that process of fully entering my Purpose to help other women to develop their business too. Having a good coach is so important. The second thing she told me was : “you need to do two things, learning the skills to build your business and scheduling”.Waw, Ok for the learning aspect… I spend several thousands of dollars learning how to market. And as a computer science engineer and trainer, I was super excited by the digital aspect of the profession. So I needed to learn how to schedule. And how to find place for my business, around my familial and spiritual life. I had to learn it. It took time, I failed several time, but with the help of my coach, I’ve succeeded, I’ve found the balance. And sometimes when it is hard, I know that my faith is strong enough to help me to go through the wind. To schedule my business, the hardest part was to list all the different tasks I needed to do every single day to build my brand. My goal was to build strong business… that could support my family and my projects financially.That’s what my mentor Ferny taught me. That moment was really the moment of my life when I had the shift I needed to have to move forward.