Shifting Into First
Changing Your Mindset To Drive Towards Freedom
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When driving a stick there is this thing called shifting into first. When this happens, the driver takes their foot off the brake, and gently press down on the accelerator. If done successfully, the driver will find that they are moving. When stuck or faced with a situation that leaves you in despair, it is important to shift. It is also important to do the necessary work to place your situation from a place of hopelessness and being stuck into drive, where there is movement. Notably, this is not something that is done with relative ease when one has lived in a cycle of oppression and depression. Often one’s environment can arrest them into a place of despondency. In some cases, it is the lack of not knowing that there is something on the other side of the life that you are living. In other cases, it is the invariable addiction to “the story”, that keeps us there. Hence, if growth is to occur, the winner in you must fund a way to point, pivot and shift. When you choose to point or direct your attention in the right direction that is forward verses backwards, you have then decided to focus on a goal that is worth fighting for--- and then you shift.
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About the Book
This book is designed to empower the reader to “shift”. In a society where the average attention span has decreased to 8.5 seconds, this 90-minute book supports reaching a reader fast and maintaining the reader’s attention. With the author’s own experiences infused throughout the mini-text, this book offers one message: Life will let you know when it is time to move to the next level. The key is, do you value yourself to give yourself the chance to win? Upgrade your standards and your mindset for greatness, grab the keys to success and change… and shift into first.
About the Author
Latasha Weatherall is the quintessential case study for resilience. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois to a teen mother, her childhood was replete with poverty and all the maladaptive behaviors that can affect young women of color. By seventeen years-old, Latasha was a runaway who found herself up against the generational cycles that came before her. A mother two days before her eighteenth birthday, her path to overcome past traumas would not be easy. Experience and life’s dilemmas did not offer LaTasha the blueprint for how to best adult, but poor choices and decisions from them, helped her to learn them fast. With a lived experience of incarceration, today, LaTasha has worked in correctional institutions across the east coast as a program facilitator, mentor, and consultant. The co-founder of a nonprofit, she also success in multiple business ventures including business coaching and development.