Daquian Williams - Destination Serenity: Daily Affirmations

Destination Serenity

Daily Affirmations

Daquian H. Williams

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Copyright 2021 by Daquian H. Williams

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Destination Serenity/ Daquian H. Williams. -- 1st ed. ISBN 978-0-9831611-4-1

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021946758

This book is dedicated to my daughter Serenity in whom I find Tranquility

Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and Change.

BILL CRAWFORD

Contents

Life is magical and YOU are Worth Every Moment! I am a firm believer that every day we wake up, we are blessed. Life's spiral binding stairway has had its way of showing me many lessons teaching me to cherish all the people, actions, and moments created throughout my life. The moment we are created, challenges await our very existence before taking one breath in the world.

To begin creating our precious soul, spirit, and body, our mothers must first start to go through massive changes themselves within and outside of their bodies. Once we are called to enter into the world, we still have barriers surrounding every moment of the Mother's labor process to make sure a healthy King or Queen will be born.

I've listed 40 emotional traits or feelings because of their significant value. The number 40 is listed 146 times in Scripture; the number 40 generally symbolizes a period of testing, trial, or probation. We will overcome all emotions with the mindset of Serenity including:

1. Anger

2. Irritability

3. Sadness

4. Hopelessness

5. Social withdrawal

6. Shy

7. Lack of Communication

8. Nervousness

9. Fear

10. Sensitivity

11. Jealously

12. Raged at rejection

13. Physical changes happening to your body or mind you do not like

14. Thoughts all over the place difficult to concentrate

15. Vocal outbursts

16. Crying

17. Feelings of worthlessness or guilt

18. Why/what am I here on earth for thoughts

19. Impaired thinking or concentration

20. Negativity surrounding you

21. We are always arguing or fighting

22. Death Pains

23. Abuse

24. Abandonment

25. Lonely

26. Self-Centered

27. Judgmental

28. Narrow Minded

29. Lack of Motivation/ No Energy

30. Bullying

31. Disgust

32. Boredom

33. Shame and Embarrassment

34. Hatred

35. Confusion

36. Manipulation

37. Entrancement

38. Greed

39. Not good enough

40. Trust

Every day is a day to achieve Better Days. Conditioning the brain to do just that starts with you in the mirror every day telling yourself your daily affirmation for the day and completing the challenges attached to the day:

What's better than success is happiness with me.

What's better than material possessions is posing the mindset to achieve my passions.

What's better than having an unlimited number of followers who give no light to who I am is to have love and peace amongst all that comes to my life and within myself.

What's better than struggle, pain, failure, and feeling as if I cannot do something are the feelings of achievement granted to me when I continue to work through the adversities.

The paths I take in my life are much different from that of the next person. Life will give me opportunities through disaster, pain, struggle, high and low points to find who I am and my passions. Every day we will begin prepping our minds to start our individual journeys to conquer and reconstruct our minds to achieve greatness and find peace with who we are.

Please step foot into my story for a second as I place pieces of myself into your heart. Close your eyes for 5 seconds, clear your mind and thoughts, and then begin reading. I am battling impaired fragments of reality and imagination. Dreams of fun, laughter, and great times staggered by pain, questions, and hurt. Statements of remembering that time, or can you teach me interrupted by blood, tears, anger, scolding pieces of metal, and testosterone.

Walking up to the casket My Mother ask, "You want to tell your daddy bye?"

Three years old I reply, "Daddy feels cold." The entire funeral begins to cry.

Three years old attending my father's funeralthis is my only memory of my father's funeralone of many memories suppressed in my head. Truthfully, I do not know too well if these memories are real or just a memory a fatherless child would create trying to fill those canyon size voids deep inside. Far too often, the story many young African American boys battle with today in America.

At the age of three, my father was shot and killed at 20 years old, leaving behind several single mothers and a group of kids split apart from one another. Just kids emotionally detached, being tested through life daily, labeled a statistic before even having the chance to prove to the world only how bright the stairs are. At six years old, my Mother was shot over five times. I remember sitting in the hospital room every day after school for days laughing, talking, and playing with this classic cup and ball toy, enjoying time with my Mother. Memories of tubes coming out of my Mother's throat, nose, and arms become embedded in my mind.

Life lessons after lessons were reaching me at a young age. I saw pain, destruction, struggle mixed with love, laughter, and smiles firsthand. Nine years old, I am now hospitalized, having two vital surgeries on my appendix. My mother trading places with me enjoying our company, reading, laughing, crying, and guiding me through this detrimental process. My Doctors mentioned if I would've waited a week longer, I could have possibly died.

Trouble attached to me like a gang of lint crawling to some new black pants. I was a trouble magnet growing up, getting suspension from school, hustling, friends, violence, relationships, police encounters and even jumping forward some years. I took the wrong advice from a friend ending up with a bullet just missing my head at point-blank range.

There were thousands of incidents and learning points throughout my life, where my mind and current emotions controlled my actions & words.

Using earlier pains and struggles in my adolescent stages I began to make excuses for my troubled actions until 20. I learned just how bad words and specific actions can hurt someone and how the thought process of one can dictate their actions:

"You will never graduate high school." "You will be dead before you are 16." "Your Nothing in life."

"You're just another statistic."

" You are mentally challenged."

Just naming a few statements teachers, family members, and friends have told me negative energy hovered around my everyday actions growing up.

Born in Yonkers, New York, and raised throughout Columbus's Eastside, Ohio life touched home for me before I could even enter Elementary School.