DD Shining: Growth As I Have Come to Know It…

It is fascinating how life never stops happening. We as individuals may come at a standstill, halt, pause; we call it being cautious or dealing with trauma. However, life doesn’t stop and wait with us. It goes on and we see it around us. Our friends go forward and people we know make headway. I know this because for many times, than I am able to count, I watch people sail ahead of me because I hit a wall.

This state of mind can be painful because we ourselves shred our achievements and fail to acknowledge just how far we have come. We forget that things are not the way they used to and compare with how they should be. We forget to be grateful. Which is why the dark times are always there. So that when we overcome one hurdle, we remember just what it took to get there. I feel this way each time with Hive. I watch people sail ahead and build a name for themselves when I cannot even get my HP to grow. However, Hive is not the whole foundation of my life. I had to cultivate this mindset. I have a life outside of Hive and if I would ever get to give back, I have to build that life the best I can. Why bring Hive into this? I had to paint a picture for where I am heading with this. It is easier to use Hive as an example given it is the main factor that brought us all together.

Growth happens in various ways. Some are more subtle than the others are but they happen nonetheless and it becomes visible overtime. Mine started that way. Small baby steps.

Where I come from you can call desolate. I can remember clear as day the hard labor I had to engage in daily to bring food back home. The minutes I would walk to get water and the body pains, I would nurse. It took a lot out of me to breathe even. That is not the case now. Whatever I am reaping now did not come with a bang. It was all baby steps and then steadily, they began to manifest. In addition, not just physically.

The depth of my problems have changed; so has their trajectory. I no longer worry about what to eat. I no longer worry about money the way I used to and that is growth to me. If I have any worries right now, it is growing my business. We are just a month in operation and the demand is on another level. More responsibilities have fallen on me and I have taken the reigns as the CEO of DD [DivineDunamis]. I always thought that being a wife would be what would bring me to this point in my life but no.

Mom looked at me three days ago while I was sorting out the books and distributing the finances in their various orders and said, “I almost don’t recognize you. You are now a business woman.”

My mother used to do these things but I have stepped up and taken the mantle. I would not have it any other way. It is stressful but the kind of stress that makes it worth it. Even now, when I feel my whole body weak from fatigue, I am happy. I am finally doing what I love. I love food and I love to make it. From frying bean cakes by the roadside to our very own shop. Our customer base building all the way from our local to even a different Local Government Area. That is progress.

DivineDunamis is not standing on her own as she is only a month. I still have to pump in money every now and then but I know it would all work out with time. DivineDunamis has her own savings with Hive. I deposit a small amount of the profit in HBD with @tengolotodo in his Leo alt. I have been required to step up in moments I thought could not do it. Business is unlike Hive where you can come back when it is all good. No. Come rain or sun, you need to show up and give it 100%!

I have learned the basics of bargaining and negotiations. Countless times, I have had to deal with crisis management and doing research for a positive outcome.

In only a month, DD put me to the test in so many ways. Nevertheless, I believe that my experiences from the past year built me up for this moment. Working with Imomazin also prepared me to face this music. I may still be silly when it comes to matters of the heart, but when it comes to business; I face it head on.

A lot is still going in the works for DivineDunamis. I have hired my first temporary helping hand [which means I am a BOSS 😝]. Right now, I am much more confident than I was last year in making it. Hope burns bright and the future is brighter.

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