I find myself asking this question often. What’s next for me? What is it that I can do that is really going to make me feel complete and fulfilled on the inside? I’m not rich, and as an adult, I have never been without food or a place to lay my head and neither have my kids. I have not considered myself to be a success by any means until my AAU coach read my book, and made these comments to me one early morning at a men’s meeting. He said, “Rhon, I remember when I met you and I knew that you were coming from a place of low means and a tough environment. But as I look at you today, even in the mist of some of your mistakes, you do not resemble a man that came from where I know that you came from. You have far exceeded what was provided for you and you are giving your kids a much better picture as a father than your father gave you. You may not be where you want to be financially, but you made it out and now you have written a book and using your life to help others. If that’s not success, then I’m not sure what is.” Those words helped me to see that I was in a transitional period of my life. I was spending my time trying to be successful when I had already achieved it. It is now time for me to submit to somethings and realize that because I made it out, that I am extremely qualified and have a huge responsibility to help others do the same. I also recognized that in doing so, I would find the provision necessary to do so as well as provide for my family for generations to come. You have heard me say it before and you will hear me say it again. This life is not about us. My friends I am on the verge of stepping into a place that I have never been before. I place that I have always wanted and prayed to be in, and that is standing before people, allowing them to see me for who and am, and encouraging them with my life to come up higher. I have to admit that I am a little nervous because I don’t have all the answers and I don’t know how I’m going to get some of the things done that need to be done, but what I do know is that this is what’s next for me. What about you?

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement:

Many times we are found laboring to achieve something we don’t fully understand and as a result we are spending time pursuing that which we may already have.

Rhon Johnson (1966 –      )