We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Arriana ( Ana ) Carter. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Arriana ( Ana ) below.
Hi Arriana ( Ana ), appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
Hello and Good Day,
I hope all is well with your and yours to whomever is reading this.
For me the #1 source I receive my resilience from is God / My Lord Jesus Christ. If it wasn’t for him I truly would not know where I would be. I thank God for his strength to help me to keep going, to not give up and to stay true to the person he made me to be; loving, kind , caring , compassionate, someone with a giving heart.
No matter how many times I was knocked down emotionally or physically he always gives me his love, his strength, his mercy , his peace / joy to get back up to seek for a better tomorrow.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
Since I was young, I always loved helping others ( children and animals and even volunteering and my church’s soup kitchen, giving someone money when I know they need it more than I do & etc.. ). Growing up,
I was in A variety of many different sports / activities / dance, and lots of extracurriculars, I have done many fashion shows, and many plays ( including one in New York City as a main narrator for Wizard of Oz ).
Far as activities and adventures ago, in my later day in age I was a part of a African modern gospel dance group for all ages and in 2019 I lived in Australia for six months doing missionary work with Youth With a Mission ( YWAM )
and doing my discipleship training school there.
My life has always been one amazing thing to the next I can be getting my construction certification/handling heavy machinery one day to the next day bringing a baby and other children ( one of my God children now ) into my home to help raise them 5-6 days a week.
I have always had a loving, caring and an adventurous heart and a lot of of that is thanks to my mom for her being a traveler, and turning me into one as well, putting me in different things, and her giving me at least three months to stay with that thing before going onto the next because you never know if you really like something if you leave in a less amount of time than that.
Although I have been through a lot of things in life and people may not always treated me with the same love and kindness, and or respect back I do pray everyday for those people and for this world in general to better themselves everyday ( this reminder of bettering yourself oneself is also for myself everyday as well ),
but just to have the opportunity and to have an open heart to want to receive the opportunities that I have had; for them now and in their adulthood and if they’re raising little ones because I truly see the impact that it has even as an adult. Children exposed to many activities and adventure versus when one child is not I can really see the heartbreak in the child Or even when they are an adult, I can see how comfortable they are with the living in some kind of box that God did not put them in or didn’t want them to stay in just because the way they grew up and they continue to stay in.
Now I am not speaking for a place that is uncaring, but I’m speaking from an loving and caring place.
I’m not saying, I have it all because I don’t and I never did we just saved money , discounts, points & things like that or even try a couple of travel clubs etc… but I am speaking from a place Where I know both sides of things in different ways.
When it comes to children since I have babysat / taken care of a lot of children worldwide in many different situations good and bad …
for some adults those that are my age, those that are way older and even those that I have taken care of as well or watch have watched grow up, when I am speaking about everything today it is coming from experience in some shape, way or form.
I can go on and on about me all day, but I feel like someway/somehow it’s always going to lead back to talking about somebody else in this world and just wanting to help them and wanting them to receive the blessings in life/experience the things that I have had and more.
For a little bit more about me my Instagram is: arriana.carter
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
For me it was always being willing to better myself for myself and better myself for my relationship with God. I also developed the skillset of going over my day what could of been better and if I could of responded or acted different to make the day better and or to make the person I am around not feel bad, asking forgiveness and forgiving others etc..
Is there a particular challenge you are currently facing?
For me the number one obstacle I would say I am facing is the fact of keeping the faith that my future will be bright. It has been hard for many reason to keep that hope ( I still have some but ) because it feels like when I take steps towards something, something always happens to push me back.
What is really helping me to keep moving is God and what he has shown me all this time is his ever lasting love and how he has never left me nor forsaken me. God has been answering so many of my prayers back to back to keep me reminding me how great he is and how much he loved me ( this is what keeps me going to overcome / resolve these obstacles ).
Contact Info:
- Instagram: arriana.carter
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arriana.carter.9
- Youtube: YouTube.com/@AnaTime
Image Credits
Some pictures are taken by me ( A.M.A.C. I use to have my own photography business ), others are taken by Althea Carter, Old friends and people on set.
