When one thinks that they are the reason everything happens and everything happening to them is based upon their own great deeds and talents. This is when the delusion of Pride starts to set in the heart. Not one of us is achieving and accomplishing on our own just as it takes a village to raise our children; it indeed takes the same for us to have successful lives.


I have experienced so many people who have allowed an arrogant outlook to rise up in their thoughts that dismissed all of the hard-working men and women who helped them get to the level of success that they have. It was not just them that got the promotions, recognitions, or received the once farfetched achievements. No, there was a force of determination set up in a posse of friends, peers, superiors, and home front advocates that have kept preaching continuous lessons or do not stop you can do it.


We have all heard behind every successful woman is a tribe of other successful women, behind every successful worker is her team of peers, behind every great boss there is a parade of front line workers, and ladies, let us not forget behind every achieving man is a woman. All these sayings make sense because where there are prolific remarkable achievements, there is a team of people that helped motivate that person to their height of success.


I  have said all of this, ladies, because it may at times feel like you are pushing yourself out and taking this journey alone. You may feel like no one, and nothing has got you out of that horrific situation but you. I am  SORRY NOTHING can be further from the truth than you realized because every person who took out time to acknowledge your pain and took out time to see you through your personal rights of passage of getting you together has helped, hold up your crown, straighten and even at times placed it back on your head when it dropped. These individuals and communities are worthy of your attention and gestures of appreciation.


When we take on the Look at me shine. I did this alone. We are telling ourselves an unscrupulous lie because not one person has gotten to the top by herself. Do not allow Pride to shorten how long you experience success in life. If you can not recognize the parade of others behind you on the staircase, you won’t be allowed even grandeur success because Pride never stands the test of time and always falls, fails, and destructs.


As always I say write it down,

Make it a journal prompt and remember not one woman can sashay herself to any level where she paramount in life. Alone. A whole woman wants all those heaving and hoeing, pushing, believing, and guiding to be blessed and recognized. Real women don’t win alone. Woman,  you will never do it alone. 

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