Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend the closing brunch at one of the largest, if not the largest, blogging conferences in the country, BlogHer. The brunch was titled #Brunchalicious because it was sponsored by Blogalicious. Anyway, the keynote speaker was relationship expert, life coach, and writer extraordinaire Demetria Lucas. She told us her inspiring story of how she became who she is today and the main thing that stuck with me was stepping out on faith.

Later that evening I attended a service celebrating the birthday of my fashion styling mentor and older brother from another mother Spry Lee Scott. One thing that I took from Pastor Anderson and also Spry’s testimony was stepping out on faith.

This was definitely God speaking to me and after taking in so much information from the conference I know that He is saying “Janique step out on faith.” I have so many dreams that I want to reach and goals that I have set, but have procrastinated on execution because of that annoying thing called self-doubt. I would be lying to you if I told you I wasn’t afraid of failure, but now I am realizing what I have known practically all of my life, that not trying is worse than failure.

Everything that I want may not be good for me and in my pursuit I may fail, but I firmly believe that everything happens for a reason. I have to learn to look at failure as a learning experience to move forward, not as an experience that will prevent me from fulfilling the dreams and goals.

I know the road will not be easy, but I just have to know and BELIEVE that God wants me to prosper.

Jeremiah 29: 11 states “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.” So now with my faith in Him, I just have to execute and not defer my dreams. When I grow old I don’t a case of “the what if’s, the would haves or the should haves.”

Now is the time to set audacious goals and be active in pursuit of your dreams!