I Published My 1st Book @ 11 Years Old
Hello there, everyone. My name is Destiny S. Harris, and I am elated to share some puzzle pieces of who I am with you.
I’m a writer first, but I’m also a full-time techie and a part-time teacher. I come from a military family, but that’s not the complete reason I have lived on the west coast, east coast, and midwest — I blame my father for giving me his nomadic genes.
I used to like school, so I obtained three degrees in Political Science, Psychology, and Gender Studies. …
And Here Is ONE of the Texts I Sent Her
Brief Context
One of my close friends — for over 10 years — and I recently started chatting about racism and equality after all of the events took place in 2020.
What bothers me about some of her opinions and information is that she gets them from only white people or Candace Owens (who only offers a skewed view on racism). Furthermore, she does not really have any Black friends (except one other she told me about), and I know that she will never truly understand what many Black people go through because her circle is limited to mainly white privileged people.
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Money
Elevate Your Money
Tip 1
Keep your rent/mortgage payment 10–15% (or less) of your net income.
Tip 2
Avoid car payments. If you decide to take on a car payment, have the cash (in your bank account) to buy the car outright.
Tip 3
Keep your net worth positive — at all times.
Tip 4
Always have a minimum of 5 streams of income. But aim for at least 10+ streams. Never depend on one source of income. Diversify. Diversify. Diversify.
Tip 5
Budget daily. Keep track of your money daily. Always know what is happening when it comes to your money. Be in the know.
Tip 6
Stay in charge of YOUR money. Never…
Money
And Now These Golden Nuggets of Knowledge Are Yours, Too
Lesson 1
Invest as early as possible, and never stop. If you are going to have a kid, open up a retirement account for your kid before you even conceive the kid; that way, they can be a millionaire well before 30.
Lesson 2
If you can’t handle a credit card responsibly, wait until you’re ready to own one; doing this will save you plenty of financial trouble.
Lesson 3
Paying off debt is great, but make sure you invest while you pay off your debt. You can’t get time back.
Lesson 4
Avoid student loans like the plague. There are too many ways to go to college…
STOICISM & PHILOSOPHY
A Deep Dive Into Anger
Emotions run wild in the heat of moments. Easy it can be to succumb to our human nature tendencies and give in to some of the most unproductive emotions we often experience, one being: anger.
There is no more stupefying thing than anger, nothing more bent on its own strength. If successful, none more arrogant, if foiled, none more insane — since it’s not driven back by weariness even in defeat when fortune removes its adversary it turns its teeth on itself. — Seneca, On Anger, 3.1.5
Anger is often viewed as a negative emotion. People often view anger as…
Money & Finance
It’s all within your power.
The way to live an enriched lifestyle can be simple unless you make it difficult.
Here are the 10 steps:
- Live below your means; avoid lifestyle creep like a plague.
- Enable your money to work for you through investing.
- Consistently implement viable ideas to increase your income.
- Increase your income sources — especially passive income.
- Educate yourself on everything finance to inspire new ways of thinking.
- Surround yourself with wealthy individuals.
- Engage in entrepreneurship, and work for yourself.
- Embrace minimalism.
- Study the top 1% of the wealthiest 1%; pick their brains.
- Think thoughts of wealth, prosperity, and abundance.
Below you will find six affirmation sets to utilize daily to help you think, feel, and create a mindset to foster an enriched lifestyle.
Live An Enriched Lifestyle
Enriched Lifestyle 1
I feel enriched.
I live an enriched lifestyle.
I…
Self-Improvement
Fearful or Fearless?
At some point in our lives
We hide our interests.
We hide our hobbies.
We hide our opinions.
We hide our dreams.
We hide our intelligence.
We hide our beauty.
We hide our heritage.
We hide our feelings.
We hide our guilt.
We hide our weaknesses.
We hide our insecurities.
We hide our pasts.
We hide our bodies.
We hide our natural selves.
We hide ourselves.
At some point in our lives
We fear being seen for who we are.
We fear being seen for all we have.
We fear being judged.
We fear success.
We fear failure.
We fear our own potential.
We fear being loved.
We fear never being loved.
We fear the concept of love.
We fear being…
Philosophy & Stoicism
Stoicism: Stop Looking Across The Fence
Don’t set your mind on things you don’t possess as if they were yours, but count the blessings you actually possess and think how much you would desire them if they weren’t already yours. But watch yourself, that you don’t value these things to the point of being troubled if you should lose them. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.27
Questions We Need To Ask Ourselves
What sticks out to me the most from the quote above is this one sentence: “[…], but count the blessings you actually possess and think how much you would desire them if they weren’t already yours.”
Before we jump into this…
Self-Improvement
Desire never ends. Desire never stops. Desire never fades.
Those words above [title of this article] have described me to a T for a lot of my life. But “content” has never been used to describe me. Instead, I constantly strive to progress, to move forward, and to achieve the next goal.
I have always been goal-oriented to a fault; As the years have passed, I have started to learn the art of doing nothing — and enjoying it.
No matter how much we believe achieving that grand feat, obtaining that big-ticket “item” that we have been striving to get for the longest time, or living in that “perfect”…
