Meet S.L Jackson

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to S.L Jackson. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi S.L , thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?
My work ethic came from my childhood. As a kid, I asked my grandfather, Ronald Legion for some money. He told me he wouldn’t give me any money, but he’d show me how to make some. We had a huge garden growing up, he showed me how to work in that garden and from that day forward, I learned to put in work. See with a garden you see the whole process of getting the dirt ready, planting the seeds and watching things grow. So that’s how my work ethic was developed because I was taught to understand the process.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
I do so many things, I’m an award-winning author. It’s so many special things about being an author, then to have books that have won awards is even better. I started my writing career releasing my first novella on March 3, 2020. “Animal Instincts: The Urban Jungle” was the first book I ever released. It won several awards. Next I started a book series with my adolescent daughter, Shelby, entitled, “The Adventures of Shelby Sunshine”. It’s a collaborative effort with us and the series is based on her life. After that I took on a project, “Justice for Nekeshia: A Fathers Pain”. I Co-authored that with Kalvon Hawkins. It’s a true crime novel about a father losing his daughter to violence and never giving up his fight for justice. It also won a few awards. I have a few unreleased novels as well, that when the time is right, I’ll release them, then I retire from writing.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Looking back, the qualities and skills that I learned when my grandfather taught me gardening were all the skills I ever needed. That process is the actual process with everything. You prepare, you plant seeds and they grow. I just apply that process to everything and that helps me over come things because I understand it’s going to be bumps in that road, but that don’t mean the seeds won’t grow. The advice I’d offer is to be real with who you are, long as you’re true to yourself, all things are possible.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?
“The Greatest Salesman In The World” by OG Mandino has played a major role in the person I’ve been becoming in the last few years. The most impactful thing I took from it is when it’s time to pass down the scrolls, you’ll know.

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