New York City Day 20: Challenging myself

I can't believe it's the 20th day already! I feel like I just got here! Wow.

So today was the final day Lauren and I had to work on Tom Joyner. It seemed like it would be a good day until I started receiving emails about how bad it was. Apparently Frenchie Davis wasn't too pleased with the questions she was asked on the show and felt attacked. She sent me an email on Facebook that said:

So when you asked me to come on the show, were you aware that they were going to be in attack mode for this interview???? If so, shame on you.

Caught me completely off guard. She seemed fully aware of the show, she kept mentioning how she know's and loves Tom and was excited to be on the show. She knew we'd be discussing her sexuality being that it's recently been discovered that she is homosexual. So, I don't know where the confusion was. Aside from all else, she was apologized to countless amounts of times and hopefully she can just agree to disagree.

I went to the Grio today of course. I feel like this was one of my most productive/busiest days. I had to write a Michelle Obama peace the other day and took too long writing it if you ask me. So Alexis spoke with me today about it. Her advice was very helpful, but I knew it was coming. Politics, Inspiration and topics around that area are not my strong points, however. After talking to her and Ms. Reid later on, I felt more confident that I could maybe take on the challenge. Ms. Reid was very helpful in telling me about what websites to look at everyday and how to be consistent about it.

I also realized something. The same energy I spend fighting change, challenges & things I'm not used to, is the same energy I could use to turn that negative thinking into positive thinking then on to purposeful actions.

Like I said before, I have been challenged since the first day I got here. People have challenged me as well as certain situations. In every circumstance, I was aware that it was happening and in every situation, I feel as though I was given a choice to react the same way I respond to something different/new or to make a new/better decision. In most cases, I made a new/better decision. And today I choose to take on a new challenge.