I won’t give you the exact time or season but I will give you the setting. I had just left the barbershop, feeling fresh. My wife picks me up in the truck, no AC, and it’s about 93°and humid  in Atlanta. We’re on the east side, near Decatur, sitting in summer heat that felt personal. I swing by Church’s Chicken. Don’t ask me why, I hadn’t had it in a while.

We’re getting ready to hop on I-20, and I crack open the mashed potatoes,  and realize they didn’t give me a spoon.

Now, here I am, sweating, hungry, and frustrated. But I’m resourceful, so I take a chicken bone, scoop up the potatoes, and make it do what it do. Yeah, you heard me right: I was eating mashed potatoes with a chicken bone.

But while I’m sitting there in the truck, water bottle warm like tea, I had a moment.

A thought slid into my mind, “How did I get here?”

And for a quick second, I felt like a failure.

That’s the part nobody talks about.

The moments in your journey where the inconvenience of life tries to label you.

Where your current season tries to tell you who you are.

But I snapped out of it.

I imagined one of those loud red Xs from The Price Is Right, like a buzzer in my mind.

WRONG.

This is not my end. This is not my definition.

I am not a failure.

You are not a failure.

A temporary circumstance does not define you.

You are made in the image of God, and that alone is enough.

Sometimes, that’s the jumpstart you need: to remember who you are before you ever made a dollar, posted a product, or closed a deal. That identity, rooted in God, is where real confidence starts.

Shift Happens Fast, Be Ready for It

We have to be willing to shift our mindset in an instant. That’s why I stay in the Word. That’s why I keep reading. That’s why I protect what I see and hea, because the wrong content will shape how you think, but so will the right content.

If I let that moment get to me, I could’ve spiraled. But instead, I remembered:

“All work works.”

It’s either working on you or working for you.

This season is working on me.

It’s teaching me patience.

It’s teaching me perseverance.

It’s teaching me consistency.

It’s teaching me to stay locked in on the vision, even when the conditions don’t match it.

So yeah… mashed potatoes and a chicken bone.

It was a moment.

But it wasn’t the end.

And that’s what I want to remind you today.

God Bless The Entrepreneur®️