MY LIFE'S PURPOSE

I heard a speaker say once that you have 3 paths in life. You have a job (just outa broke), a career or life purpose. I have lived through the first 2 and am now on my life’s purpose. Now, the road to your life’s purpose is by no means is it an easy walk but well worth it. I have had so many jobs in my life for the purpose of daily survival and then I landed in the fashion industry. I was so intrigued and realized that I had the personality and tough skin for sales. I loved going to work and submerging myself in the garment culture. I thrived on the stress and late hours. The cure for the stress was the gym or cocktails depending on the day and level of stress. My Sundays were spent anticipating the week and what craziness would occur. Fighting with my buyers, or boss or co workers was an everyday occurrence in an environment that encouraged this behavior. If you are quiet and reserved you got stepped on and you had to step up to the plate every day and try to hit home runs and if you strike out you licked your wounds and showed up the next day ready to play. I called this my career because I loved working with brands that I believed in and I was always thinking about ways to make the brand better as if it were my own. I guess I was the type of employee that people wanted, the person that took pride in their work and treated the brand as if it was your own. The only problem is that it wasn’t my company! My career choice, that I was convinced that I loved brought out the best and worst in me. I would say and do things that were so outside my character because I had a point to prove and dam it I WILL get my point across no matter who got hurt and trampled in the process. Salespeople are ruthless; “no matter what it takes close the deal” was my motto. We smile in your face, pretend we really give a shit about you and your family but our only interest is getting you to buy as much product as possible.
I played the game for a long time and became a VP and made the money that I wanted and made great acquaintances and friends along the way. I knew deep in my heart that I would not be in the biz forever. I didn’t see myself leading this lifestyle at 50 so I knew my life would change but I had no idea how it would change. Lucky for me a VERY stressful job came to an end and a nice severance package gave me the time to contemplate my “life’s purpose”. I was great at selling and fashion is the only career that I knew inside and out. I was 43 years old and needed to figure out how to maintain my lifestyle doing something else. I starting writing down all my strengths and everything that I was passionate about. I was able to piece together a plan and I ran with it. It has evolved weekly since July of 2008 and that is because I constantly strive to find another way to have a positive impact in the world. Whether it’s working with kids or adults or seniors the goal is the same, make them see the strength’s they have inside and out. I started Pace Foe Success in July 2008 and it is the BEST thing that I have ever done in my life to date. I use a lot of the positive attributes I gained from working in fashion to launch my business. It is not easy to start a business but I have a very strong faith in God and I know that every step of my journey is a test of my faith so I stay strong and believe that abundance is coming to me in every way. I feel that every step in my past has leaded me to this point today and I am perusing my life’s purpose full speed ahead!