Captain’s log, stardate 3.29.2024

Good morning. We are nearing the end of the first quarter of 2024. How is the year going for you? I’m actively looking to obtain new retail and wholesale customers for beYOUteous and new clients for eBrand Me offering business directory listings, monthly one-on-one consultations, web design.

The Spring issue of Random Musings by beYOUteous magazine will publish on April 1. I’ve completed my outreach offering consulting services to various organizations.

What are you doing this weekend? Stop by and shop beYOUteous handcrafted beaded jewelry. beYOUteous is an eCommerce store offering a line of handcrafted beaded jewelry which aims to spread the message for embracing individuality, feminine strength, and empowerment.

If you’re interested in offering beYOUteous handcrafted jewelry to your customers, wholesale pricing is available. The small & delectable earrings remain a customer favorite. They’re timeless, lightweight, and a wardrobe staple. As with all of the earrings, they’re hypoallergenic. All small and delectable earrings measure approximately 1.25" in length and suspend from 14k gold-filled wires. The classics are available in cream, black and red.

The Stackable Beaded Rings are the perfect introduction to the handcrafted beaded jewelry by beYOUteous. At $29 each, mix and match them.

I’d love to have you as a customer and I’d greatly appreciate it if you’d consider shopping and sharing beYOUteous with friends and loved ones.

Connect with the brand on social media to follow with the posts with the made in celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth…a new quote has been posted every day.

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I’m relying on these two verses while keeping my focus on current and future goals.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”

-Proverbs 3:5–6

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

-John 14:26

Praying that by following the below, I’ll be able to reach my goals.

• Have the courage to follow your intuition,
• For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart, and
• Trust in God.

I pray for these goals daily.

• Realizing my goals for beYOUteous and eBrand Me.
• A foundation… a place to live consistently.
• Building quality & reciprocal personal and professional relationships.
• Becoming a successful beaded and mixed media jewelry artist.
• To have a lasting positive impact in the world.
• Writing books; looking to publish a book or a series of books on the 50 US states. Don’t Cry for Me, Alexandria is planned for 2027. I hope it will be a book that truly reflects my growth as an author, and hopefully storyteller, since it’ll be a novel with characters such as Cleopatra, Hippocrates.

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With my eyes and heart on the immediate profitability of both beYOUteous and eBrand Me, I’m striving towards:

• Forming a money management company by 2030.
• Studying for and passing CFA by 12/31/2025
• Raising/growing at least $100k in investment capital by 12/31/2027

Still need these as reminders:

• I will need God’s spirit to empower me.
• I will need God’s word to guide me.
• I will need God’s people to support me.
• I will never become what God wants me to be without intention.
• You choose what you focus on.

Steps I’m (trying) to put in practice:

• Write my goals on a prayer list and pray for them daily.
• Ask God to show me the steps that I need to take to accomplish them.
• Ask myself why I haven’t accomplished them already.
• To help in determining what next steps to take with goals, draw a ladder to help visualize the next steps needed to take.
• Take baby steps daily.

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Head over for this week’s beYOUteous post “Queen Amanishakheto & Kandake Amani: The Same One Eyed Queen?”

If you missed last Friday’s Medium post, you can find it at “Captain’s log, stardate 3.22.2024”