Life Purpose

I am a mother, a daughter, a sister, a lover, and a friend. I take pride in my two beautiful kids and I want them to have everything that I never had as a kid.

I do what all creatives do, I write, graphic design, take pics, collect art, all things that encompass creating I do and can do. I create. I also am a great listener, and a deep conversationalist.

I do it for my family, my two keiki's, and those that said I could never do it. Having some of the closest people in my life that told me that I would never amount to anything motivated me. Well here I am in all my glory, succeeding in all that I do and then some. It's about taking negativity and turning it into a positive. When it is cloudy outside do not focus on the gray dreary day, remember that there is a rainbow beyond those gray clouds peeking out. Reminding you to weather the storm, and that sunny skies are soon to come.

People come to me for advice about design, and life. I actively listen and try to understand their issue, and what they need. In design its the same thing I listen to what they overall want out the design what are they trying to represent or present to society and I make it happen.

Those I come across usually leave feeling at ease that they were able to talk their ideas out, that's what assists in the creation process, brainstorming. And as far as listening I try to make people understand their is 2 sides to every story and to not get so caught up in what they really think, because that is always bias. Always take a step back and try to understand the bigger picture of the issue, because sometimes its just one's ego getting in the way of what the person is really trying to convey. As a deep conversationalist I like to connect with people's minds always have, I like stimulating convo that sparks one's intellect.

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Passion In Life

"A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.”
— Charles M. Schwab,
 
What's your passion in life? What are you enthusiastic about? Someone told me, "life is creation." I believe that. There have been times I have been too enthusiastic and at other times not enthusiastic enough. But I believe it is all about timing, you meet the right person at the right time. You do things by the timing of your own self-realization, maybe? What is the driving force? The driving force could be understanding that what you may manifest no one else can, so it must be created by you. I guess that means that no one can create something like you do, right?

"You are driven by curiosity and a search for the truth, often preferring to connect with people’s minds than their emotions." This is definitely me I always seek to connect with people's minds, and I am very driven by curiosity and the search for the truth. I agree with the quiz, it gave me a little bit of insight on who I am.

I can use my passion in life to connect with other in this course by being positive, and honest and hearing them out. Reading there stories and feeling the value of others thoughts and experiences. My passion in life has continuously connected me to others on social media. And, by being a huge enthusiast of 90s hip-hop, it has allowed me to have some treasured moments of reality. 

The picture above was me making a dream a reality, you see it all started when I was 17 years old and was to starstruck to get Method Man's autograph. I had made my friend go get it, for me. Well I used to stare at his autograph in my white binder, with the High Times cover of him all through class. I heard he was coming to Hawaii in 2007 and I figured I would make him a shirt. With a rare pic of him, I stenciled it and used my boyfriend's heat transfer and put it on a black t-shirt. For the back I put some of my favorite lyrics of his don't forget his autograph at the bottom, I used the one from my high school binder. Yeah I had I still had it.

At the concert I waited for him to walk towards the VIP, and as he walked I held up the tee and rapped, "I breaks it down the bone gristle, ill speaking scud missile Johhny Blazing, nightmares like Wes Craven." He looked at me puzzled. I said, "I conceptualized a shirt for you." He invited me back into the VIP. I went with my friend, as I sat back there he looked at the lyrics, "I asked is it correct?" He said, "Yeah." I said, "when I was 17, I was too starstruck to meet you, here I am 10 years later and I ain't starstruck no more." He looked at me, and smiled. He then took something off his wrist, and handed it to me. I grabbed it and didn't realize it was the green, red, yellow West Indies wristband he was wearing while he performed.

I guess you can say that the wristband symbolizes a circle, a cypher, 10 is cypher and after 10 years my self-realization became an actualization. A realization of self worth, believing your worthy to have all that you can actualize. They say it takes 10 years for a cypher to complete, not that I was counting. Maybe it's just all about timing.
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I Googled myself....

I have heard others say, "Google me." I used to think that's a bit conceded. And now here I am googling myself, how ironic? But it's not to see what a big shot I am, because I am far from it. The reason is to get a little background on my digital footprint. One thing I have never done is put myself out there in the world like that, because I am more of an incognito type of person. I like to play the background. I don't like to be up front and center, and never will be like that because that is not my persona.

A lot of people in this world want to be famous, but not I. I don't think fame & money go hand in hand with one's true passion. There is something about a 'starving artist' that describes the peak of passion one is still present in, thru their hunger, the hunger of what? The hunger of what they don't have maybe? The notoriety, or maybe the money they have yet to obtain, I believe it to be a pain point that holds the most passion of that artist at that time. There seems to be something very creative within that space in time of an artists career, before the success', fame, and money.

As far as my digital footprint there is not much, there is info in regards to my job. It also has my Facebook page that is private. Also, I have a YouTube page but it is not under my name, its under jurnay69. On my YouTube page it has a lot of concert footage as I am a hip hop fanatic and have went to a bunch of concerts and am usually in the front row. I also have hip-hop producers who give me beats so I like to post them, I also have 2 soundcloud page just to store the rare music I find and some of the beats I have collected from my producer friends.

https://soundcloud.com/joslyn65
https://soundcloud.com/joslyn
https://youtube.com/jurnay69 

I could use the internet to have design companies view the work I have done, that may interest them in having me doing work for them. If it be designing, or writing, or whatever they may need.

I would like a page that contains all my designs, and any of my creations I have done together in a digital portfolio. It will give prospective employers a chance to see what I can CREATE. The thing I would change is in having everything in one place, and under my name or moniker whatever I choose to use in business, so it is easy to access a home base as it's called.
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