Missy Elliott went to Twitter on Thursday to give some much-needed inspiration to dreamers who may be feeling worn out while chasing their goals.
“You been feeling like you been at a standstill & some of you have become tired & lost your drive,” Missy wrote. “Don’t let those AMAZING IDEAS go to waste because it may take a longer to happen 4 you. Keep pushing! Breakthroughs happen when you PATIENT & BELIEVE.”
You been feeling like you been at a standstill🤷🏾♀️& some of you have become tired & lost your drive😩 Don’t let those AMAZING IDEAS go to waste because it may take a longer to happen 4 you🙅🏾♀️Keep pushing! Breakthroughs happen when you PATIENT & BELIEVE💯🙌🏾
— Missy Elliott (@MissyElliott) April 14, 2022
Dozens of business owners expressed gratitude for the inspiring words and used the opportunity to promote their own ventures.
After many many yrs of sweat and tears and prayers my sauce is on a store shelf in my hometown Pittsburgh God will make a way out of no way I'm now 68yes old 18 grandbabies but this is for them to see never gv up pic.twitter.com/DZTAQ9E58E
— BIG MAMA (@RevFranklinBigM) April 15, 2022
Message received! 🥺🙏🏾 We would LOVE to partner with THEE Missy Elliott and have you be our muse at our next private Black Women Photographers studio meet-up! 🙏🏾👀🤞🏾🎶✨ pic.twitter.com/mrsEDnrv7d
— Black Women Photographers (@BlkWomenPhoto) April 15, 2022
Just took a jump from a secure job to a new on with a $18k raise and I get to work from home. Got sent all my equipment this week!
You have to know your own worth even in scary times and can't live a different life if you don't take a chance. 💗💗💗
— ☆ just jenn ☆ (@diosadelmasaje) April 14, 2022
Yaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz THANK YOU MISSY FOR THIS 💯🙌🏾🙏🏾 "I" NEEDED TO HEAR THIS DIRECTLY ❤ HOLDING IN TO MY LIFE'S SLOGAN #NEVERletAnythingBREAKyourSpirit 🙌🏾 pic.twitter.com/G7TMNIR9AS
— #NLABYS☆La Quia☆ (@QaliiDymm) April 15, 2022
Missy on time every time us cancer queens creative geniuses thank u.
— demighatti (@venusvsjupiter) April 14, 2022
Missy, of course, understands what it takes to achieve big dreams. Speaking with Marie Claire in 2019, the iconic artist said she was chasing her goals since kindergarten. When the teacher asked the students what they wanted to be as an adult, Missy said she remembers saying “I’m going to be a superstar.”
She also remembers the kids laughing at her when she talked about her dreams.
“I wonder, do those kids remember me? Because I remember all of them. I have a picture, and I remember their names,” Missy told Marie Claire.
The Grammy-winning artist also looked back on the days where she would sit in the house and act like she was “having conversations with Janet and Michael and Madonna.”
“I then would go and say my thank yous for award shows that I hadn’t made it to yet. I had speeches, and I would be in the mirror thanking my mama,” she said.