Sink, swim or maybe just float

Hi everyone ✨

So this week has been hectic and because of technical difficulties, I won’t be posting this week. I need to figure things out because I didn’t expect the turn of events that occurred. So until I figure that out feel free to catch up on the content you haven’t watched.

New things are coming up so make sure you subscribe to Shine your lights New youtube channel and the Instagram page as well.

My advice to myself at this moment right now is to just float and let everything flow.

My friend Tanya keeps saying “ just keep swimming, just keep swimming “ so right now sinking or swimming is being replaced with “just keep floating “ “just keep floating” it’s okay.

So “just keep floating “ “just keep floating “

Sometimes you don’t have to sink or swim, you could just float. So yeah.

I will be back have a beautiful week ❤️✨

Or just float

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Support is a verb -All things prints

So on this week’s support is a verb we are supporting All things prints by one of my friends Tanya.

The thing about support is sometimes you don’t always get anything out of it, there’s no giveaway associated with this.

There isn’t a prize for liking all of the photos, it’s just people helping people chase their dreams. I hope you continue to not only support these people but anyone else in your life who is trying to be better.

This week we are supporting All things print by my friend Tanya . Support is a verb let’s see it in action.

So this is the mission if you choose to accept it .You will have to :

⁃ Go follow @allthingsprints.4u & If you want a product make sure you order one

⁃ Share one of their posts on Instagram & tag @shxmz_ & @allthingsprints.4u

⁃ Also, don’t forget to put #shamisentme on your story.

Have a great day ❤️

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Becoming- episode 6

So let’s talk about consistency and time. Well, the truth is for my journey specifically things have taken time even when I have been consistent.

It’s something I have been used to however it’s sometimes frustrating when you pour your heart into a post or a video and no one notices it or sees it for what it should be.

It’s easier to give up but it’s harder to keep going when everything is unknown.

I would say keep going, 1 person watching your stuff is enough. Sometimes the journey is long cause you have to have the character to be able to sustain your entire dream, so keep going, your time is coming and don’t forget to have fun.

Becoming episode 5

It’s 3 am and I can’t sleep.

So to weather this storm I’m in, I’ve been watching movies, right now I’m watching San Andreas. It’s a natural disaster movie with Dwayne Johnson and other familiar faces.

As I’m watching this I realised something, who is weathering the storm with you? Well with me specifically but you get what I’m saying.

This movie shows how unexpected things can change in a flash. In one moment the characters in this movie were living their lives until a disaster happened and everything shifted. So my question once again is who are you weathering the storms of life with?

Becoming isn’t a straight line, there is no such thing as arrival there are winds and waves natural disasters, well we know how to relate to that, there are pandemics.

Life is unpredictable it has beautiful mountain tops but it also has valleys that you don’t know how to climb sometimes. This isn’t a post to give you advice of any sort, it’s a reflective one for you and me.

Right now I’m weathering some storms internally and externally I can’t say when it will be over but I can say I have people around me who I can hold on to when the winds and the waves come and go.

So…

Who are you weathering the storms of life with?

Shine your Light update

Shine your light update

So before I go back to becoming I would like to tell you guys what to expect in the coming months from Shine your light.

All of this content is made to help you reach you’re goals and be able to have support when you have nowhere to go.

Shine your Light is the place where your voice is honoured, your purpose is nurtured and where we have fun because life is sometimes interesting.

The following will be the content you will be getting.

Blog posts

Tuesday, Friday & Sunday

Hear me out

Every 2 weeks on Wednesday

Content-focused on helping you with your mental, spiritual, emotional and physical wellbeing

Motivational Monday

Every Monday

Focusing on the blogs explaining words in videos.

Lockdown chronicles

Every Friday

Support is a verb

Interacting with the community about how they are growing and changing within their relationships and friendships.

Every Thursday

Focused on supporting and increasing the following of businesses of my friends & other individuals who have helped me grow as a person.

Merchandise

Shine your light journal.

A journal you can use for writing your thoughts as notes from all the content we are giving you.

There will also be some changes that will take place very soon structure wise but I will update you on everything when it does.

Enjoy your day ❤️

Support is a verb

Support is a verb

So I will be posting the becoming episodes next week but for now, let’s get into the post.

So support is a verb and this week we are focusing on Tinashe Ncube. Well, he is a videographer, content creator and focuses on travel content and a lot more.

So I don’t think anyone understands the work it takes to build a business by yourself but he has managed to do that with a smile on his face and filled with more grace than anyone I know.

His work ethic is well great but that’s not why you should follow his work. The person behind the camera is the person he is constantly, he is consistent, committed and is always working to perfect his craft.

I’m not saying this cause I’m biased but because he’s done my videos and never disappointed me .

You need a videographer with morals, he’s your guy.

You need someone that will get the work done no matter the situation he’s your guy.

You need someone to be calm when everything is upside down when you’re shooting, he’s your guy.

So do me a favour and do the following

-Subscribe

-Then leave a comment saying Shami sent you and leave a nice comment too because of positivity.

The reason I’m saying type Shami sent you is that he needs to know that his dreams matter to me more than he knows.

Support is a verb let’s see it in action

Becoming episode 3

So you found out who you want to become, what steps you need to take you’re now in the process of finding your voice, so now what?

Well, the fun begins.

You wait, you plan, you fall, you lose parts of yourself that were never serving you in your current state but either way, it’s a loss and it’s painful. You get back up 7 times than probably trip 100 more times but at least you’re falling forward. You miss your goals, you forget about them then you come back to them and restart.

This ladies and gentlemen are called the Journey.

It is hard, exhausting but it’s worth it. I am learning to embrace this imperfect journey I’m on. It’s not easy and it’s filled with so much stuff that there are some days you just sit in your bed contemplating your worth and growth. Then there are other days where you are doing everything on your to-do list but that still doesn’t change that you are still perfect in that moment.

So if you’re feeling like you’re just stumbling through life it’s okay we all are but at some point, your stumble will become a stride, your strides will become a run, your run will become a sprint and the next thing you know you’ll look up and your life is completely different in the best way possible.

It takes time, it’s hard work but it’s worth it.

So this post goes to the one that doesn’t have it figured out, that thought they would’ve made it by now but it seems to be taking longer. This is for the guy or girl who doesn’t know if what they’re building is worth it and honestly, I can’t tell if it is. But what I do know is that if you keep going you’ll eventually see the outcome for yourself.

Have a beautiful Friday ❤️

Journey ~ Tobe Nwigwe

https://youtu.be/MOxlYamBkg0

Becoming – Episode 2

Becoming – Episode 2

So now that we are becoming someone on the inside, the second part is one that I have been struggling with for a long time.

Finding my voice.

For a long time I had been called the quiet one, ask my sisters and my parents I just always kept to myself and watched a lot of Disney. At some point, I thought I was just the quiet one until things started changing and my silence became more harmful than anything else.

Last year was the year that changed, I was pushed into using my voice and standing up for what I wanted and that’s when every shifted. I thought that if I was quiet then it would make the other person feel better but what if I told you that sometimes people aren’t aware of how they hurt you or how they made your day. We assume so much and then don’t say anything then are disappointed when an outcome doesn’t go our way.

To avoid these types of scenarios you’ll have to get uncomfortable and say what you need to say.

The first thing you should know is that when you start using your voice it first feels like a lion just roared and shook up everything in its environment. Although that first time was great now you have to learn to understand that you need to be perfecting that every single day.

Also understand that your roar may have to be adjusted because if you want to communicate to people daily you how to be more gentle, calm but still stand in your truth.

Here’s my truth, I like fashion and hugs.

I know to some this is okay but to others, it’s more than me saying I like fashion and hugs it’s me admitting that in the past I used these two things as a way to hide from being seen or noticed.

So I’m now learning to say what I feel and need when it comes to these things unashamed, bold and it’s freeing to know that this is what I want and I can vocalise it.

So……

It’s scary to say that I’m changing but the fact that I can say it makes me happy, I’m deciding to do shine your light my way. It’s what I know will help me create properly but also it will help you too.

Your voice is powerful, it’s unique, it’s curated for you and you alone.No one speaks the way you speak, talks the way you talk and can communicate the way you communicate. Even if it’s gentle as the ocean or loud as the roar of a lion your voice is still yours.

Use it, fight for it and respect it. It can do damage buy let me tell you something it can also build greater and bigger things than you can understand.

I honour my voice because it matters.

I honour your voice too because it’s probably not easy to speak up. But at least you’re doing it.

Here’s to becoming

I hope as I go on this journey you take the steps to become something for yourself.

❤️✨

Thank you!

So I’ve been trying to figure out what my next steps were going to be for my life. The sermon “Still the one “ by Sarah Jakes Roberts has been the only thing ringing in my mind and eventually I watched it last week.

I realised that I hadn’t taken a moment to just Thank God from the depths of my soul for how I’m a changed person. You don’t understand I never wanted any fame or recognition all I wanted was to be used by God.

I didnt think of anything else but I just wanted my life to not be covered in shame or guilt and chaos. I just wanted to be used and I’ve been taking time to say Thank you, God.

So I might as well do it here too.

Thank you God for changing me from the inside out and making me unrecognisable, thank you God for protecting my family during an entire pandemic, thank you God for messing up my entire university life so that I could be with the person you had for me. Thank you, God, for getting me through University when people never thought I could pass.

Thank you, God, for protecting my sisters and me.Thank you for making my June different from all the previous years.Thank you to all the people that read my posts and thank you for my friends who don’t even realise that they are an answered prayer

From the depths of my soul, Thank You, God!

That’s all I have for you today all I’m saying before you start planning and figuring out what tomorrow will look like. Take a moment to Thank the one who started all of this for you, it was God. You may not see your progress and your growth but he does, so just take a moment and remember what you went through to become who you are.

It’s my favourite content creators birthday today and I love birthdays and if you want to give him a present then follow his YouTube channel. If you already have, thanks but send the link to someone else too.

Why? Cause he’s worked hard to get where he is and also I’m his hype beast and I know you won’t regret it.✨❤️

The N-cube

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Still the one

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I’m worth it

You are worth it

“I am worth it as is without change, without exception” along with “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens” have been my words of the year.

The first is by MrsKevonstage ( Melissa) the other one is a verse from the Bible. I started saying I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me because my Gogo said I should because I had big goals for 2021 and didn’t think I could achieve them.

I am worth it as is without change without exception is based on what Melissa Fredricks said as she was changing and growing.

Both of these have been changing the way I see myself allowing me to know that I am enough. However, I also know that there’s more that can happen in my life.

It’s interesting to know that these thoughts can co-exist. I think sometimes I’m genuinely hard on myself but with some internal reflection, I’ve realised that I’ve grown and I’m proud of that but I also have more to do. It’s the in-between moments that I’m in where I’m growing but I don’t see it but I know it’s there.

I’m embracing this change and taking my “Big Leap” so here’s to growth and taking some action because action is the antidote to despair as Lisa Nicols says.

Signed a girl who likes writing and learning 🎓

Being authentic & unashamed

I’ve always struggled to be myself ,for anyone who knows me they wouldn’t believe me .I’m kinda loud ,I usually put people in their place when they need to but I’ve never really expressed how I’ve struggled to be ME.

I’ve always been hyper aware of what people think of me and always wanting people to like me or approve me so that I would feel better about myself and honestly it’s hard to admit that I used to be like that and that I still struggle with it.

So I’ve started to be authentically me because I can’t pretend to be someone that I’m not .I’ve tried to fit into people’s boxes for so long that I didn’t even know who I was anymore! Iwould change for the guy I was dating or change so that I could feel a part of the “popular group”.However at some point I got tired of pretending ,I got tired of building an idea of myself that didn’t even exist .

I got sick of making everyone happy at the expense of losing who I truly was at my core .So I’ve decided to be authentic to be truly and unapologetically myself without being scared about people’s opinions.

What does being authentic look like for me …..Welll it looks like me not accepting people to walk all over me or control me into becoming something that I’m not .

It’s me reclaiming my voice and being as loud and energetic as I want to be .Being authentic to me means that when someone talks about my past I don’t shy away from the truth and own my story without having anxiety about people’s perception of what I’ve done.

It doesn’t happen overnight it might take time but honestly it’s worth it.I’m starting to be okay with me the real me and honestly that’s all I’ve ever wanted for myself.

Becoming episode I don’t know 🙈

Hi everyone sorry for the inconsistency I have been all over the place and trying to get things organised .

So the blog is about to be moved to the new WEBSITE ✈️🙈🙈

So I will ensure that everything is sorted so that everyone that reads on this account will not miss out on anything .I also have my first batch of Merchandise coming soon and it will be available to pre-order in a couple of days .All of the information you need will be on the website and on Instagram .

To be updated on all things shine your light make sure you subscribe to the newsletter on the website in the About section .The newsletter will be sent to you every time I have an announcement to make about videos, merchandise and events .

When things are changing I tend to freak out and shut down I’m trying to embrace the change and to sit in the uncertainties of my life .So thank you all for going on this journey with me , I appreciate all of you and love you guys so much ❤️✨

I hope your journey with me and my business baby (shine your light) has been worth it.

Have a beautiful weekend .

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Becoming episode 7

After a natural disaster has occurred the most logical thing is to assess the damage to see what has been destroyed, damaged or maybe in the best case scenario survived. The only way to understand what to deal with is to go through the damaged areas bit by bit.

Well in this post we are talking about people and not a building. Well for myself I would like to say that after things went upside down I kina went back to business as usual only to realise that, it isn’t normal or healthy so I’m going to try something different.

Instead of going through my month as if nothing has happened, I want to be able to stop and assess what got damaged . There has been a lot of stuff going up and down and I haven’t taken the time to see how it affected me.

I can still be the same person that can scream on top of a roof and say that I AM GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD but also be the same person that can admit and say it’s frustrating to know that I can’t do things the way I want to.

Both realities can exist in the same moment and both are true in their way, I’m choosing to acknowledge the fact that I am not in control of everything around me but I can be in control of what I tell myself when everything around me is out of control.

I am choosing to work on the parts of me that have been ignored and it seems like now is the perfect time to understand those sides of myself that I don’t know.

So what are you doing to prioritise “soul care “ and choosing to confront what’s on the inside of you?

Leave a comment below, cause I do like reading them 🤗

What happens when you can’t create

What happens when you can’t create and everything you planned is now thrown out the window and the vision you intended for your life isn’t working out.

So because this is where I can be myself and honest and we’re practically family now, basically to just be honest with you guys we got robbed (we’re okay ) however my laptop and the camera was stolen which is what I’ve been using to record videos and all of that.

Firstly I would like to say thank you to God for protecting us because yeah it was a lot happening in a small space of time but also I don’t have a camera or a laptop and that sucks 😂

They will and are going to get replaced however it also means that the things I had planned for shine your light has to be figured out. I was going to just say because of “technical difficulties “ I will not be posting but that wouldn’t be quite accurate. So yeah.

How do I feel?

Well at first I was upset, well I still am upset for many reasons but I then came to a point where I realised that all of this didn’t start with a camera or making videos. It started because I just wanted to write and grow as a person. So if this is all I can do for the rest of my life then I will be writing until the wheels fall off.

The truth of the matter is that everything around me can fall apart. But one thing I know is that God won’t change, he’s the only reason I’m keeping it together and not keeping this to myself, he’s the only reason I haven’t stopped planning and working on the bigger picture for my life. And that’s on that.

The second thing I know is that what’s on the inside of me can never be taken away from me. Trust me I know that for sure, I’ve had too many days of feeling insecure, unworthy, scared but that didn’t stop me. I’ve had one too many things thrown in my way that I know that even this is just another giant that will just have to come down.

Does this suck YES IT DOES, will I cry here and there, YES I WILL, are we still going to change the world OF COURSE.

I am the queen of trying to post things on time but for now, I can’t say when or how things will work out but I will say when they do it will be a good story to remember.

Thank you for going on this journey with me, where I share parts of myself I never thought would be appreciated by anyone.

I hope that you continue to become better but also know that as Mrs Kevonstage says “ You are worth it, as is without change without exception “ even when you can’t create what you want, even when you can’t reach your goals overnight. You are still worth it.

So my question for you is when things go from great to crazy in a second how do you bounce back?

Leave a comment below ❤️✨

Changing my mind part 2

Stay tuned for the changes that are about to take place but for the meantime let’s do something different today .

So let me be honest and say that this entire year has been filled with everything but predictability. I found myself doing another spoken word night, doing university online, getting into a relationship, gaining weight and choosing to take care of myself first.

This was the year where I allowed God to build me up by leaving me vulnerable enough to realise I need him and honest enough to understand that I can have love and be loved as myself.

Where is this post going I don’t know let’s see.

I had this idea in my mind that I couldn’t be loved. I thought that I wasn’t good enough or that I was just not anyone’s type. I deal with these feelings daily but I continue to water them away with Gods love and remind myself that even if no one sees me I see me.

Well, I guess this is me just being honest and saying that a couple of months ago I said and I quote “So one day I might be posting here saying people I’m in love and he’s everything and more I could’ve prayed for.”

I guess this is me letting you guys know, I’m in love well I would like to say I’m standing still in love. All I can say is that it took me by surprise and I’m glad it did. Eventually, you’ll see more of us and maybe you’ve figured it out. Have I ever done this, no not really?

But I just feel like if I am being myself it also means sharing the fact that I’m not single, haven’t been for a while and it’s been great. I would also like to say that I won’t post anything about us because as someone who hates surprises, keeping this to myself has been fun😂. But yeah.

Unless you are my friend or a family member you probably know him, have seen me post him or maybe suspected it. So all I can say is that, if you ever thought your prayers couldn’t get answered or that love didn’t exist I hope my life will be proof that it does exist and you deserve it, just be patient.

So everyone if you haven’t figured it out already thennnnn🤗

Please don’t forget to follow my favourite YouTuber / content creator, the person that makes me smile like an idiot and one of your hosts of the Flight of Time podcast with your other favourite host (me)

The N-Cube but I just call him Tinashe 🙃

So that felt good to type out and I hope you know that I am very excited for everything we’re about to do but I’m even more excited to share the real Shami without hiding behind fears or weird analogies. Just honest, real and fun.

Links.

Changing my mind post from January: https://liveloud0.wordpress.com/2021/01/29/changing-my-mind/

Shine your light: https://youtube.com/channel/UCyM2wO6RN6UO_a6tc7KuAmw

The N-cube: https://youtube.com/channel/UC2_mb0CJq04rBEhQ3YCoDIA

Flight of time: https://instagram.com/flightoftimepodcast?utm_medium=copy_link

Have a beautiful day everyone ✨

I will be back on Monday next week

I will not be posting anything this week so feel free to catch up on the posts you haven’t been able to read, the videos you missed and the photos you want to go and like.

❤️

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Shine your Light – update

Shine your light changes so I’ve changed the youtube channel for Shine your light .

Press the link here to subscribe, it’s still the same videos but with a new logo & name .

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