Captain’s log, stardate 5.24.2024

Good morning. I’d love it if you’d stop by and shop beYOUteous handcrafted beaded jewelry. Also always, shipping is free on all U.S. orders over $100.

Less than a week away is Pride month. Shop the “A Tuxedo for the Lady” Handcrafted Beaded Earrings. They were created as part of the “Such a Stud” collection by beYOUteous and have an objective to tie into LGBTQ awareness.

Each pair is created with glass Japanese cylinder beads which are lightweight and uniform in shape on sterling silver posts. At their center rests a cream Swarovski pearl.

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

All pieces are handmade to order by myself, the artist, Lawrence Jean-Louis. I’d love to have you as a customer, head to the online store and shop for handcrafted beaded jewelry by beYOUteous.

Know a business owner who’d be interested in offering beYOUteous handcrafted beaded jewelry to their customers? Wholesale pricing is available.

Are you an accountant or tax professional? I’d love to be your digital marketing consultant. Let’s schedule a complimentary consultation. eBrand Me is a digital marketing agency offering marketing & consultative services to CPAs and tax professionals such as business directory listings, search engine optimization, content marketing, search engine marketing, lead generation and website design.

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 of my own to live consistently and peacefully.
• 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 U.S. 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 “Pharaoh Sobekneferu: The Beauty of Sobek.”

If you missed last Friday’s Medium post, you can find it at “Captain’s log, stardate 5.17.2024”