TRANSITIONS 2022
Here we are in the year 2022. The last post I made here was in 2019 when I said “I’m back,” but I hadn’t defined how I wanted to be back. I had set a platform for Josi’s Inspiration as an incorporated brand. With the brand came Josi’s Inspiration Radio Network and I brought my direct sales businesses’ Soul Purpose/Youngevity & Damsel In Defense into the brand. But as I spent my energy growing those two businesses using social media to market, I neglected JosiHopkins.com - the very platform that had been created as the place for me to share.
It had been my goal to merge the businesses into “Pamper & Protect” and support women with wellness and self-care as well as personal protection, but in direct sales, companies are cautious about having another brand marketed with theirs. So I plowed on growing my D.I.D. business, developing a team and great friendships. I participated in contests and earned incentives that took me soaring to places like Riviera Maya, Cancun, The Bahamas, Las Vegas, Arizona, Idaho and I used my prior years in direct sales to teach, train and learn.
Like most women I know, I acted like I was superwoman. I set goal after goal, took on task after task, seeming to forget – I am only human. This fact became very clear with my 4th cancer diagnosis in September 2020. Ironically, I had just completed certification as a Wholistic Health Coach that August. I questioned myself. How could I help others when after 18 years being clear while using holistic remedies, I was being re-diagnosed?
I now understand that remedies are limited in their ability to be effective if the lifestyle of the individual is not in alignment. I was moving and shaking in so many directions, I was stressing my body once again as I had years before with diagnoses 1 and 2. But it’s not for me to beat myself up and give up on what I have learned. Every experience I have had has brought me to the place I am supposed to be right now, with the knowledge that has contributed to my growth and my purpose is to share what I have learned.
So as we embark into 2022, I am committed to making a transition back to me. I’ve streamlined my life and taken things off my plate, making it my priority to discover who God has called me to be for this journey. Just like any journey, there are road blocks, bumps in the road, and detours. But we trust that God has prepared us for wherever He takes us, as long as we keep our eyes fixed on Him.
Come along on the journey with me. Be inspired and let’s make 2022 the year that we open the gifts that God has already placed inside us, sharing them and glorifying Him for the blessing of His love.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses,
so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake,
I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.
For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12: 9-10
Heavenly Father,
I thank you for continually blessing me. There are so many things I could complain about but there is far more that I can praise you for. During this fourth cancer diagnosis and the age of COVID, you have taught me to be still, to hear you and obey you. You have shown me time and time again that cancer is part of my journey to be used to inspire others and show that cancer does not have to look like death - even as we don’t know it’s cause or outcome - we can live knowing you will never leaver nor forsake us. Thank you for loving and blessing us. Amen.