What I’ve Learned from My Daughter Stephany

From my youngest daughter, Stephany, I’ve learned that you never know what you can do until you try - and if you try hard enough, you might just knock your own socks off!

I can see some of myself in each of my daughters, but when it comes to Steph - it can often be eerie. We’re both ridiculously laid back, sometimes to a fault. We love jewelry, clothes, fashion shows, shopping, and going to the movies. We hate racism, snakes, rules, yelling, and saving money.

She has a fearlessness about trying new things, however, that I only wish I possessed. She has an amazing amount of style and artistic talent, but if she lacked the fearlessness and boldness to strike out, they’d be wasted.

Sad to say, but I believe a lot of people’s talents are wasted.   When you think about it, that’s devastatingly depressing.  People, with God-given talent, skills, and abilities letting them rot inside because they lack the boldness to bring them outside. 

I’ve been just as bad as anyone, actually.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not sitting on a great number of talents -  but I know I’ve been guilty of not using the ones I do have nearly often enough.   Frankly, most of the time I lack boldness the way snails lack sex appeal.  I’m afraid I can’t lay claim to very much fearlessness, either.

Stephany’s talent comes through boldly in her graphic art (one of her most recent graphics is above) and web designs. She has never had a single course in graphic art and has never had a class in web design, yet her work is second to none, and I’m not just a proud mom.  She has designed and published official websites for 4 different celebrities, and one of her own unofficial celebrity websites is considered by most to be THE Best Fansite.   She’s launching her own graphic art/celebrity designs web site within the next two weeks and already has people lining up at the cyber door. 

She has a fearlessness about her that allows her to just soar in any direction she faces.  I totally respect and admire her bold attitude.  I’ve learned, from wathching Stephany, that sometimes you just have to stick your chin out and let ’er fly!  You can’t take time to worry about the what if’s or the but’s - you just have to believe in yourself and throw all doubt and fear out of the third floor window.

Boldness is a beautiful thing and Stephany, more than anyone I’ve ever known, serves up that lesson daily.

“The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources” - Norman Vincent Peale

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