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Life

Memory Worth Sharing

Shaun Bradford

Here’s a Facebook memory from this date four years ago, August 30, 2019:

“Good Morning! God is just so good!! I’m up and feel like sharing. Lol.

Yesterday I shared Tyler Perry’s testimony about his accomplishments. Y’all already know how excited I get when I see God working, especially in Tyler’s life. It allows the world to see just how magnificent our God is. Whew!! If he didn’t acknowledge God, I wouldn’t be sharing his posts. For real!

Now, Tyler has his own dreams, and God’s in Atlanta SHOWING OUT!!💃🏽 So, what are your dreams? Your dream may not be like everyone else’s. Believe me, I struggled with this for the longest, and still do from time to time, especially when everyone’s promoting entrepreneurship. For a while I felt like if I wasn’t trying to own my own business, I wasn’t on the right track. Recently God showed me I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be. I’m on track. (I’m telling y’all, journaling is awesome. Last night I found a few entries from 1992. God is so amazing!)

Anyhoo… here’s my dream. My dream is to help others see their potential and live their best lives. That’s it. So simple. And guess what- God has allowed me to see it happen. Words can’t even describe how I feel when I see y’all accomplishing your goals. It’s like God has given me access to something so wonderful and beautiful. When I see you struggle, I pray for you. When I see you achieve your goals, I celebrate with you and pray for you even more.

I said all of this to say, don’t try to live someone else’s dream. Live your own, even if it’s not profitable financially. When you start living your truth, you’ll start receiving blessings like crazy! I truly believe it’s because God wants us to be happy, and when He sees us happy, it makes Him want to love on us even more. I just love Him!!! When I tell you He knows how to make me smile.. WHEW!!!

Okay, that’s all. Keep believing. God IS working. You may not see it, but the more effort you put into your dream, the more He works. I love y’all! Don’t give up!”

Here is what I was referring to – Tyler Perry Studio receiving its highway sign, a sign I got to see in person a couple of years ago. Talk about soooo cool!

God is so good!

Great memory, right?! Has me feeling grateful this morning. Back then I wrote: “My dream is to help others see their potential and live their best lives. That’s it.” Well, that hasn’t necessarily changed. I do want to see others reach their fullest potential and live their best lives. However, I finally realize it’s okay for me to do the same and live my best life also. So here I am four years later, doing just that – finally an entrepreneur, living on my own terms, not obligated to do anything I do not want to do, and pursuing my dreams. I’m not going to lie, it’s been one of the hardest things to do, but I am finally doing it. Again, I’m grateful. Grateful and blessed.♥️

Shaun

Life

Hello Sunday

Shaun Bradford

Today’s a new day and the first day of a new week. Whatever goals we failed to accomplish last week can be accomplished this week. Don’t sweat it!

This week let’s remember to:
– consult God first
– follow His guidance
– give ourselves grace if we falter
– keep going

I am a living witness that everything will work out according to God’s plan.

Transparent moment…

I really wanted to end my encouraging words with – “We may not always understand His plans, but know that they will always work out in our favor.” But every time I wrote that or something similar like – “whatever His plans might be” – I would erase it. Didn’t want to taint the encouragement with any notion of unpleasantries. Well… life and God’s plans are not always pleasant. Honestly, sometimes they are downright hard to comprehend and they hurt.

Exactly one year ago, my mom was admitted to the ICU and was in a coma for almost a week. Nothing was the same afterwards. She suffered for months before she passed. Honestly, it’s so hard to see the good in any of it other than our bond became stronger. But why couldn’t it have happened differently? Why couldn’t the same thing have happened while she was better? We could have done so many more things together. UGH!!!

Even though part of me wants to encourage others and myself, the other part of me is sad and hurting at the moment. Y’all, I miss my momma! All I want to do is scream!!!!

Yeah… this is how I’m really feeling today. I do pray that you have a blessed day and an awesome week. Be blessed.♥️

Shaun

P.S. I am going to be okay. I know God’s got me.

I love you, Momma.
Life

It’s Shaun’s World

Shaun Bradford

The other day while I was doing a little soul searching, I had one of my aha moments. My journey, my world, is an experience that is meant to be shared in real time. As I have said many times before, if I wanted transparency from others, I needed to be transparent myself. My tests and testimonies are meant to be shared now, daily; not in a book later.

Y’all, my life is not perfect. You’re surprised, right?! Laughing. Nope, it’s far from perfect. Here I am, 50 years old, and still do not have life figured out. Sometimes I feel like a twenty year old who believes they still have time to make mistakes until they figure out what works for them. Then there are other times when I feel like I need to buckle down and be serious about life. The latter usually happens after I see people with their stuff together.

Honestly… and I am being so transparent and serious right now… I cannot pinpoint exactly when my life changed. Most of my life I was so serious about what I wanted out of life and was adamant about getting it. Yes, there were setbacks, but I always bounced back with a force to be and do better. I had dreams and goals. Now it’s like my drive is gone. Seems like I spend most of my time chasing the drive rather than the dream. My momentum seems to come in spurts. Basically, I’m tired. That’s it! I’m tired. I’m tired of being in charge. I’m tired of making decisions. I’m tired of taking care of everybody and everything. I’m tired of chasing a forever moving target. I have been in charge of, taking care of, and making decisions for other people since I was around five years old (that’s as far back as I can remember having to do so) and I am straight tied (not tired).

One of my life long goals was to retire before age 50 and live out the rest of my life doing whatever I pleased. Well, I actually retired twelve years ago. While I was manifesting my retirement I should have been manifesting some good money to go along with the retirement. Just saying. Laughing.

I can’t lie, I am actually living in what I wanted, what I manifested (I’m telling you it’s real). So why am I 1) still trying to do things I really do not want to do and 2) not fully enjoying this time I have been blessed to have? Again, it’s like I am chasing a drive that’s no longer here instead of resting in God’s goodness as I should be.

I’ll figure things out sooner or later. I guess this is what Year50 is all about–figuring out how I truly want to live out the rest of my life. Will I continue trying to do things I have no desire to do (because it’s surely not working) or do what I really want to do?

Anyhoo… only time will tell. I pray y’all have a wonderful weekend. Love you!♥️

Shaun