Kimberly Nelson

The best career advice I've ever received is about self-care. When you're so connected to purpose or your calling, you have the tendency to be strong and push for others. I'm a person that likes to solve problems, and the process of being the best that you can be for others is important to have a healthy balance. I have wonderful mentors, and one of my mentors is really channeled in with me on ensuring that no matter what, nothing will be lost with your purpose. Things work out in their own timing, so you don't have to feel like the work you have will not accomplish what it's supposed to. Everything seems so consuming, and it makes you feel like you have to do everything, but you don't. The key is to make sure you have self-care and that healthy balance to be able to perform for others.

Know who you are, know who you are in the world, and know who you are in God, and what you have to offer the world more than what it offers you. Once you know that, you stand in that, and that would be your guiding force to get you in any door that is supposed to be for you to enter into. Understand that if you encounter doors or rejection in any form, it doesn't mean it had anything to do with you. It was just a matter of alignment and a matter of timing for it to be manifested. Hold on to what's been given to you. Value word, value thought, value what's written, and maintain the integrity of it. Integrity is a value word that is used often, but it's not a value that is practiced in the way of what it means. It's the quality of seeing things all the way through. If you start something or you begin on something, it is your responsibility to see it through with quality. Upholding and executing in the spirit of excellence is non-compromisable.

Integrity is one of my most important values. It's the quality of seeing things all the way through. If you start something or begin on something, it is your responsibility to see it through with quality. Upholding and executing in the spirit of excellence is non-compromisable. Love is another value that is very important. It's a powerful value because humans make mistakes, and in the midst of one's actions, it may not always align with what you're called to do. If you allow what you see someone else doing that is wrong to affect you, it will hinder progression and delay your course of action. Love allows you to forgive one because they don't understand, but it also helps you to navigate forward. It's unconditional and it's a path that will reveal itself in the end if it wasn't picked up in the beginning. Another value I embody is connection. I value connections. Although I may start with a connection at some point and it may not yield any kind of results immediately, it could at some point at a different time be the time to actually engage with the connection. I never take for granted who I make connection with because I believe that my steps are ordered and wherever I go, it's intentional. Whoever I meet, I never take for granted the connection, and the connection will come back to your remembrance if you value it.