Dennis - Hatch, leap, soar: your three steps to total fulfillment, real success and true happiness

Your Three Steps to Total Fulfillment, Real Success
and True Happiness

By LaToyia Dennis

Mango Publishing
Coral Gables

Copyright 2019 LaToyia Dennis.

Published by Mango Publishing Group, a division of Mango Media Inc.

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Hatch Leap Soar: Your 3-Steps to Total Fulfillment, Real Success and True Happiness

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication number: 2019935678

ISBN: (print) 978-1-63353-952-5, (ebook) 978-1-63353-953-2

BISAC category code SEL027000, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Success

Printed in the United States of America

This book is dedicated to the memory of my grandmother, Shirley L. Dean. She always knew that I would eventually hatch, leap, and soar, well before I ever believe d I could.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched o r go bad.

C . S. Lewis

Table of Contents

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Wal do Emerson

Meeting LaToyia for the first time, it is impossible not to be inspired by her indomitable spirit. She has made a total commitment to be about service. When you hear her story, you find it hard to believe this beautiful, articulate, and educated wife and mother lived and persevered, even flourished, through these circ umstances.

First, she understood that we cannot change our yesterdays, but we can definitely change our tomorrows. Second, our circumstances are not a life sentence.

Her desire to empower and uplift women, especially mothers, to understand the magnitude of their responsibilities to their children and all children has led her to take a pen in hand. LaToyia now writes. She writes to encourage, she writes to empower and to uplift. She calls us all to turn on the light inside of us. May we follow her lead and Hatch, Leap, and Soar to amazin g heights.

Rose Rock

At the beginning of each year, I select one word to focus on. Hatch , leap , and soar were my words from 2014 to 2016. When I chose the word hatch in 2014, I had no idea how it would start a complete life overhaul and personal transformati on for me.

The focus on transformation is at the heart of this book, Hatch, Leap, Soar . It is the concept of becoming who you were created to be. The idea of reaching total fulfillment, real success, and true happiness is subjective. You have to determine what those ideals mean to you. What is sure to happen, in order for you to find your own personal nirvana, are hatching, leaping, and soaring. However, all three stages of change do not happen just once. Over the course of your life, you will be hatching in some areas, leaping and taking a chance in others, while soaring in others. The process is beautiful. I relate the process to that of a baby bird inside an egg, ready to

Hatch.

Before you can begin to change and start realizing your potential, you may find yourself safely settled in your comfort zone. In essence, you are stuck inside your shell. When you begin the process of hatching, you are defying the norm, pressing past your fears to break free. Once youve hatched, you will be able to see the possibilities ahead. Your mind will be open to achieving something you were born to do. You start to think, As soon as I get out of here, I will be able to do anything I set my mind to. But to literally break out of your shell, you will have to make a

Leap.

You may take a leap of faith or a leap in a completely different direction than you have ever gone before. It is important to have faith that you are better off freed from your shell than you are stuck inside. Take the chance to propel out of your current com fort zone.

To reach the potential that everyone is given, step toward it. Opportunities and change will not suddenly materialize while you are sitting alone in your shell. Move, shake or dancedo anything that will allow you to experience life as never before. A bird cannot learn to fly by sitting pretty in its nest. A bird has to leap to lea rn how to

Soar.

When you discover how to break free of the barriers you have built up over the years, you will soon soar toward the realm of your personal possibilities. You can fulfill your dreams by taking steps, one at a time, until you are soaring into higher regions. Once you take wing, your life will be tr ansformed.

Understanding

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your under standing.

Kha lil Gibran

W hat first comes to mind when you read the word hatch ? Most people imagine a baby bird hatching from its shell. On the surface, you would be spot-on. But I believe hatching is so much more. It is a process of becoming. I love this definition of hatch : an opening of a restricted size allowing for passage from one area to another.

I would venture to bet that you, along with thousands of other people, have a shared desire to live in a way that is meaningful. We all want to better understand our overall purpose in this thing called life. But that nugget of comprehension can be the most difficult thing for you to figure out. Then, taking the next steps to achieve it is a whole other dilemma. Not understanding how to reach your purpose can grow to be a constant underlying source of irritation, frustration, and even pers onal pain.

I have learned that, in due time and under the right set of circumstances, the very pain of this discomfort can, and oftentimes will, lead ultimately to an internal quest for understanding. By definition, understanding means to have a mental grasp of or knowledge about a situation or how something works. And isnt that just what you are trying to figure out? The ultimate question you may be asking yourself is, How was I designed to contribute to the world? How do I take what I am and what I have and contribute my gifts to the world, all while finding a sense of fulfillment f or myself?

I am not sure about you, but once I really am able to wrap my mind around an idea, there is no stopping me. Have you ever been uncertain about how to proceed and then received clarity on a matter? How much more are you able and willing to do once you gain unde rstanding?