Jeremiah 29:11 states "For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope." Relentless hustle is the point at which you refuse to settle for less than what you want and what God has promised to you. It is when you have hit absolute rock bottom and you know there has to be more to life than what you are going through. I have had several relentless hustle moments in my life and they all usually were initiated by three simple words: I'll Show You. For years, it seemed like people were always doubting me, but now I know that I was being passive most of my life. I despised confrontation and simply rolled over for anything and anybody to avoid it. My relentless hustle felt like the fight of my life, especially if I felt as though my back was against the wall. Let me take you back to my first rock bottom moment where I had to hustle and pray to get out. The year was 1992 and I was secretly a nerdy girl trying to fit in and be validated by the popular crowd. I grew up in a small town on the eastern shore of Maryland where our highlights were high school sports, lawn and house parties, and riding the bowl, which was nothing more than riding from the top of the "hill to the bottom and around by the shopping center" Oh the joys of county life. My town was an hour from DC and Baltimore, but I had heavy roots in both cities. It was never a problem to get a dose of the real city life when I wanted it. To this day, I credit my Baltimore family for my edginess. When I was fourteen, I became pregnant with my oldest son Jay. The crazy part about it was that I didn't know that I was pregnant or I tried really hard to believe I wasn't. I was a student athlete, so it was nothing for me to miss periods and this is what I thought had happened. I was very small for 5'10, so I didn't hardly gain any noticeable baby weight. I was in the 9th grade when I became pregnant with my son and I was about six months pregnant when I started to show. I didn't tell hardly anybody that I was pregnant because I didn't want to hear what they had to say. This didn't resonate with me until recently when I connected with someone that I knew from high school. It was nice to hear that this individual had turned sour lemons into delicious lemonade and even built a few lemonade stands. What do I mean by that? Well, this person literally had nothing growing up and found a way to claw to the top to own and manage multiple seven-figure companies. Many things were going through my mind, but one question stood out the most: how did you get from point A to point B? It's different when you meet millionaires and you don't know their humble beginnings, but it's another thing when the last time you checked on a person, and all they were pulling out of their pockets was lint and living on student refunds, to now jet-setting across the world possessing hefty bank accounts; yes, you want to know the why and the how. This book is designed to serve as a guide that will help you answer the tough "how to" questions, moving you from your current state to a more promising future state. This guide will take you on a journey to help you identify where you currently are in life and where you want to be. You will learn the strategies to press the reset button and detach from the people and things in your life that are keeping you stuck. Once you have completed this book, you will be able to recognize the indicators that tell you your environment is not conducive for growth. If you do the work, you will be able to face the issues in your life head-on and expose this world to your Relentless Hustle.
About the Author: Janelle R. Dawkins, The Resilient Mom Strategist, Life Coach and Author who focuses on helping mothers develop strategies to overcome and face the adversities associated with parenting, work-life balance, and relationships. She has survived depression and low self-esteem to persevere through teenage parenthood and single motherhood. It is her mission to live out God's purpose for her life helping women become more resilient and coach them to be bendable and not break under life's pressures. Janelle is a co-author of the book Turbulence- A Practical Guide on How to Remain Resilient In The Midst of Life's Storms, where she talks about overcoming the turbulence of giving birth at fourteen, struggling academically at fifteen and graduating from high school at sixteen with multiple college scholarships. Janelle's latest project Relentless Hustle - A 30 Day Guide To Dominating Your Work & Home Life is set to release early 2018. From this project, Janelle has launched her signature program Life Happens University. This program is centered on teaching women to be resilient in the areas of Mind, Relationship, Career and Finances to get back up after "life happens." She teaches women the strategies to balance all that life throws at them and not to break in the process. This program is designed to help inspire women and empower them to be strong like Titanium, letting go of the things that are keeping them from living their dreams and operating in God's purpose for their life. This program also teaches them the strategies to make it as a budding entrepreneur on a budget. Janelle holds a bachelor's degree in Biology from Salisbury University and a Master's degree in Management and Leadership from Liberty University. She has over 10 years of training and facilitating experience in several different industries. Janelle resides in Virginia with her husband and four children.