Genesis Javier

At the end of the day, people congratulate me all the time, and I always say, it's not me, it's God. I'm very big on ensuring anything that I do is just me being obedient to that. For a long time, I always heard that you can't mix religion or your faith with your work, and everything has to be separate, but I feel like my faith has bled into every part of my life, which I'm truly grateful for. I see it when I enter into work - it's my why, it's my integrity, it's my honesty behind my work, that even when no one's watching, I am the Christian that I am, or that I try to be. Outside of work, whether that's monetary, my money's not mine, it's God's, so I try to give to wherever He wants to steward it to, to whoever it goes to, whatever charitable event, whatever. At the end of the day, I'm a vessel. Whether that's I'm a servant, whether it's through my money, through my time, my effort, my work, anything, that's my biggest thing - just learning how to serve right now, and being obedient to that, has been my why, my everything.

There's no perfect timing for anything. Everything that is meant for us will come to us, and so when we find ourselves in comparison to others, or trying to keep up with everything else, we actually push the things that are meant for us further away. It's super important to just focus and hone in on the skills that you have and the person that you want to be - know yourself as well as you can, because with that, you understand yourself, your purpose, and what aligns with what you're meant for, so it pushes you closer to that. I can attest to that, because that's something I'm learning right now. I've been through a lot of things within the last few months that are new to me, and I've grown with it, and I'm also learning so much more about myself, and it's only made me stronger and more secure in who I am as a person. Even though it might not look like the blueprint that everyone else is familiar with, it's my blueprint, and I wouldn't change that for anything.