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    My Story: Journey to Purpose
    My Story: Journey to Purpose
    My Story: Journey to Purpose
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    My Story: Journey to Purpose

    By Paul A. Blake

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    Read about Paul's personal journey from a slow learner to a passionate inspirational motivational speaker. Paul gives insight into how we can alter the direction of our lives by changing the way we think about ourselves. This book will help individuals who are uncertain about their lives find direction through the story of someone who has overcome a mountain of obstacles to now living a successful life. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul A. Blake
    Release dateSep 30, 2020
    ISBN9789769594265
    My Story: Journey to Purpose
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    Paul A. Blake

    As an Author, Motivational Speaker, Marriage Counselor, Marriage Officer, Minister of Religion, Entrepreneur, Husband and Father, Paul is making waves. He is on a mission to living an abundant life. His philosophy is that “The power to live abundantly rest in our will to believe that we can be more than we are now”. He has engaged thousands of persons locally and internationally in pulsating seminars, workshops and presentations and has a growing demand in Jamaica and the Caribbean. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology from the University of the West Indies, Bachelor of Science degree in Religious Studies from the Jamaica School of Preaching and Biblical Studies and is a candidate for Masters of Theological Studies from Nations University in Louisiana USA. Paul was nominated for the Indie Legacy Book Cover Design of the Year for his first book Words to Inspire Volume One June 2019. Paul has a pulsating story of how a person can overcome adversity and go on to living an abundant life. Growing up in poverty, labelled a slow learner (dunce) and told very early in life that he would amount to nothing Paul suffered from low self-esteem and self-worth for most of his early years. With a renewed mind and a passion for life he now uses his impactful words to help drive people to purposeful living. Paul is one of the most requested lecturers in Personal Development for the National Youth Service HOPE programme (Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment in St. Catherine, Jamaica because of his ability to engage young people on their level. He is credited with being a dynamic speaker and facilitator for marriage workshops, parenting seminars, community development workshops, and Youth Empowerment sessions locally and internationally. Paul is a man on a mission truly believes that if people can change the way they think, they can also change the quality of lives they are living. He is the CEO/Founder of Words Worthit Motivational Speaking and Training Co. Ltd an organization dedicated to helping people to live abundant lives through the power of words. Paul lives by the mantra “I can do all things through Christ”.

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      My Story - Paul A. Blake

      My Story...The beginning

      The opportunity to share my journey with the world is a wonderful privilege. I hope that my story will help someone find his or her purpose amidst the negative pronouncements of those without vision. It is for those who have had failures and heartaches and wrongly believed that they were not placed here to do something spectacular. My story is not unique, but it is my story, and I will tell it as it is. I want no special recognition or accolades.  If my journey helps to shape the life of one individual who desires to live an abundant life, I will be happy to die knowing I have contributed.

      My story began on September 4, 1973, in the parish of Manchester. My parents, Brenton and Joan Blake got married at the tender age of 19 and 18, respectively, after finding out my mother was pregnant while in college. I spent much of my childhood in the town of Mandeville, living in several places. Things were not bad, but they were also not very good. I am convinced that my parents should never have gotten married. At this point in life, I believe that the best thing they did for us (children) was getting divorced, though at that time it did not feel that way (that’s for another part of the journey).

      I think I had a regular life up to age nine. Although mom and dad did not always get along; we had some fun times. Looking back through all the pain and hurt, I realise that they too were products of a dysfunctional cycle. They related to each other and their children out of a misinformed position, thinking that they were the best parents. All the quarrels and the fights were things that they would have learnt from observing their dysfunctional parents and grandparents before them. I have come to understand and empathise with this kind of dysfunction from studying counselling and psychology. I no longer blame them for their shortcomings, as a matter of fact; because of them, I know the true meaning of forgiveness.

      I am no longer afraid of my truth. Too often, we strive to preserve images that add more problems to the process of healing than the solutions provided. Today, I can say with pride that my parents, with all their flaws, have been the ones from whom I have learnt some of the most important lessons. One of those lessons is that parents were never meant to be perfect; they do what they do with what those before them have given them. Sometimes it works, but at other times it doesn’t, and the most that anyone can pray for is that in the mix some knowledge is gained that will aid in making better decisions.

      "We all have to begin somewhere, good or bad, the outcome is determined

      by our desire to see it through to the end".

      My Story...Journey

      I am not an authority on any subject, neither am I an expert on what is the best way to get the most out of life. What I do know is that life is a journey and success is hard. I was never an A student, as a matter of fact, academically, high school for me was less than attractive. It took me repeating grade eleven to obtain six subjects, and even then, my passes were average. Though I enjoyed going to school, it was not for academic exploits. I enjoyed school because I had a gang of friends who knew what it meant to enjoy life, even when we had people telling us we were going nowhere in life. Reflecting on these several years later, I have concluded that I was no dunce; it’s just that I was not too fond of what was being taught.

      Hardship was my best friend in high school. There are things that I went through that only a few people are privy to, and I thank God above every day for these people who helped me to maintain my sanity (Metro, Audy, Wayne, Eshaun, Simone, Leset and Sherlyn). These people, along with a few others, gave me a lifeline in more ways than one. School can be a cruel place when you are dealing with people who cannot appreciate the experiences of others because of the sheltered life they lead. I have had to forgive a few people as I now understand that their actions were done out of ignorance.

      The pain of having to deal with parents getting divorced was psychologically and emotionally toxic and impacts a child’s life in unusual ways. Such was my life at the beginning of my third year (third form), sometimes it’s difficult to understand how I made it through those years, but thank God I did. Everything began going downhill in September of 1988, and it was only a matter of what else could go wrong that kept the clock ticking.

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