Good morning, hope your week was good. Continuing with the same message, beYOUteous is my eCommerce store offering a line of handcrafted beaded jewelry which aims to spread the message for embracing individuality, feminine strength, and empowerment. You can shop wholesale at Faire.com.

Last week, I shared that I've started a newsletter on LinkedIn's platform which is a working compilation of the articles I've written so far with the goal of releasing That's Just My Baby Daddy next year. This is my upcoming book which will feature 12 men who've contributed greatly to society and includes Archimedes, Albert Einstein and others. It's part of my goal of getting back to writing and publishing books (fiction and nonfiction) described in "Purpose, Mind Mapping, The World, and Books!"

The book's target publication date is March 16, which is Freedom of Information Day. The second, She Sells Seashells By The Seashore, is slated for August 26, 2022.

2021 is coming to a close, and in the December beYOUteous newsletter, I shared that "I'm far from where I'd like to be, further than I was, and optimistic about 2022." That is, on most days. If you read the December newsletter on lawrencejeanlouis.com, you'd realize that by Wednesdays… I'm generally becoming a ball of nerves.

This week, I've started working on what I'd like to accomplish next year… "small steps will lead me to great outcomes." Addressing things that I feel that I should've already known… target monthly income, target daily income. A source of stress has been trying and not meeting the target daily income that I'm aiming for in January and F.E.A.R-ing that the year could be a continuation of present financial circumstances. Rationally and statistically, it can't be… but tell that to my lizard brain once it's active. Yet in order to get to 2022, I'll need to be able to navigate through the end of 2021.

I still need to go through my to-do list for each of the months from this current year, see what I've completed… what needs to be continued, etc. Created a set of master goals for 2022, then each month will its individual set of goals… still working on January. Some master goal items include a place to live (rent), a car… the engine of mine (Paolo Coelho) died when I moved to GA at the end of September and the entire car was scrapped. Need to once again become affiliated with an insurance brokerage firm… an agent's life and investment license can only float for 2 years.

Repeating this same concern from last week… I find myself wondering whether my goals are obtainable and it's kind of scary when you think otherwise. I almost wrote unnerving, but that's too calm. It's scary. I wrote it.

Someone shared with me a few verses from Jeremiah 29 (11–13): "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. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." #FixItJeebus

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As far as world news:

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Still listening to "Lincoln" by David Herbert, "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" by Walter Isaacson and "Ghandi: The Years That Changed The World." Still working to grow beYOUteous, and at minimum to improve by 1% every day in order to be 37x better in a year.

That's it for this week, until next time. No beYOUteous blog post this week, I started researching Nellie Bly, the news reporter who feigned insanity to report what was taking place within a mental asylum. She was also the first woman to "report on the eastern front in World War I." I never got around to writing something I'd be comfortable putting out. Been there with a previously blog, creating content just for the sake… and leaving that part behind.

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If you missed last Friday's post, you can find it at "Captain's log, stardate 99522.91"