Everyone wants to be successful, happy and achieve the desires of their heart. Those desires will differ from person to person as your desires may be to become a great wife and mom, another woman’s desires may be to become a world-renowned speaker and another woman’s desire may be to have a successful catering business.
It doesn’t matter what it is that you want to achieve but I want you to know this:
It is going to cost you and success never goes on sale.
You may want to be legendary in the woman you become and in what you accomplish but it will cost you and require you to become uncomfortable. I don’t say this to scare but to prepare you and to remind you that when you’re paying your costs that you’re doing so because you desire a legendary life, not a basic one.
Embrace the cost of creating your extraordinary life and becoming an extraordinary woman. There’s a reason why there are luxury handbags that costs $10,000 and that’s because they cost more to make and they undergo a delicate and time-consuming process to produce.
Would you rather create a cheap, counterfeit life or would you rather be someone that inspires others with your greatness?
You’re going to have to pay the price to be your best in this world. Paying the price may be waking up earlier and going to sleep later so that you can finish writing your book. Paying the price to may be foregoing vacations for a few years so that you can build your business. Paying the price may be investing into your education and taking out a few loans to finish that Master’s program. Paying the price to be a legendary wife may mean forgiving your husband for his infidelity.
A basic woman holds unto unforgiveness. A basic woman allows her pride to stop her from loving the man she desires the way she wants to. A basic woman keeps making excuses for her lack of progress in achieving her goals. A basic woman quits when it gets tough. A basic woman thinks in terms of lack and never having enough. A basic woman is usually surrounded by another group of basic women.
You weren’t created to be basic but to be legendary and to become a legendary woman in your attitude, life, purpose, vision and legacy. It’s not going to be an easy fight but you must continue on your journey and press towards what is ahead of you. This is a new time in your life where God is ready to do a new thing in you and through you.
No need to complain about how hard it is for you. Consider the costs that you have to pay to achieve your desired success as the process to making that one and only $1 million diamond handbag that will never be created again. Of course it’s going to take some time, the material will be exquisite and costly and the process to create it may be grueling but when it’s done it will be far from basic, it will be LEGENDARY!
XOXO,
Maria I. Melendez
@embraceherlegacy
