Lost my footing for a second

•June 6, 2012 • Leave a Comment

I am so ashamed to admit that as I have been on this quest for success and personal development, I looked at my radar screen and began to doubt the BIG dreams that I was creating and chasing after. It’s absolutely amazing to realize just how the mind works. Indeed, if you change your thinking you definitely change your life. It’s definitely the thoughts that control our actions. If you can control your thought life which controls your feelings, then you can control the outcome of your life…thinking for a change is a definite!

Onward I forget on…stay tuned

Thought for this week

•May 14, 2012 • Leave a Comment

What atmosphere do you create? Is the aura around you conducive for positivity?

Somnambulism

•May 9, 2012 • Leave a Comment

“The journey of a somnambulant is seldom predicated by the decisions made when totally conscious.”

Well, somnambulance is a noun defined from the verb ‘somnambulate’ – to walk while asleep.

My metaphorical rhetoric is based on our cognitive processes and the results we strive to achieve while walking through life’s journey. Therein, I ask the question, often what is our chief purpose? Napoleon Hill addressed this notion and appropriately published notable lectures and guides as to how to amass wealth not by tirelessly toiling but by ‘thinking’ and then ‘applying’ the knowledge attained.

Often times I have been faced with the constant query as to what I am actually created to fulfill. The response is as clear as mud. I am a steward while on this earth. Opportunity knocks every day and as Thomas Alva Edison stated, “Opportunity is missed by most because it is comes dressed in overalls and looks like work!”

Powerful statement…yet that is the truth for the 95% that despise where the wealth of the land resides in. Now I am not chastising anyone that works hard for their paycheck and is diligent about how they carry their day-to-day affairs. I am merely stating that even I have succumbed in more than one occasion to the temptation to just sit back and ‘pray’ that the ‘RIGHT’ opportunity will present itself.

I implore any scientist to research and let me know when in history has a gazelle laid in front of a lion and said, “King of the jungle, I present myself wholly and ready to be devoured by you.”

Have we become so retracted to just sit back and expect hand-outs or big billboards pointing at opportunities?

The time has come for us to stop sleep walking during the day and take hold of our futures. Allowing someone else to determine our cost of living is not an option anymore especially when we have the ability to change that. Everyone is responsible for “minding their own business!”

Your business is anything that you participate in which contributes to your direct disposition. We spend too much time worrying about other people’s perception about us yet we have not taken the time to correct the perception we hold of ourselves. How do you expect to be treated if you don’t accord yourself the same honor? You can’t expect genuine love if you cannot genuinely love the person who stares back when you stand alone in front of the mirror!!!

Forget not, God’s promises are made perfect in our weaknesses, insecurities, short-comings which are really not short-comings as long as they are pitted against societies designations.

Rejuvenated and Revamped

•May 8, 2012 • 4 Comments

Well,

Hiatus from the hiatus. So shall it be. I have been awoken today by the thrills of the potential that just took precedence in my subconscious. While scouring the information superhighway of updates – Facebook; visibly enthralled by one of my friend’s wonderful life decision, I happened upon the resurgence of an activity I was recently introduced to by another endeavoring friend. Vision board creation.

Briefly, I had made the decision this year and embarked on a journey that has seen me accomplish many a task that would have had me stressed and depressed. Thankfully, I was issued a set of inspirational material that simply stated, “Your Wish Is Your Command!” Now from this arose a multitude of emotion, confusion and eventual clarity on what I thought was merely hear say. Luck is created and we are definite called to be fruitful, prosperous and stewards of God’s blessings. My beautiful friend is the owner of Turning Paiges and is impacting people in such a humongous way it is amazing to me just thinking about how bright her star will continue to shine. Her activities that include vision board creation workshops reminded me that our subconscious mind functions with the abundance of visuals and pictures of your desires. Thoughts really are things. I have since renewed my thoughts and currently in the process of recreating my vision board. That being said, I will definitely have to enroll in one of her workshops and fine tune my process as well.

While on the very tangent of revitalizing my subconscious mind, I was asked what my vision board had /will have on it and the word that stuck out in my mind was FREEDOM. I continue to define the very word in so many ways it is surprising just what it really meant to me. A few excerpts of what shall be seen on my vision board:

a. Freedom to love without reservation
(Emotional freedom aka no baggage)

b. Freedom to travel as and when I please (Geographical freedom)

c. Freedom to purchase whatever whenever (Financial freedom)

d. Freedom to spend as much time with family as I deem necessary or at their request

e. Freedom to impact others lives with the same reward

f. Freedom from despair (Happiness and joyous memories)

g. Freedom from the proverbial glass ceiling (Business empire)

h. Freedom to create and maintain a legacy…

It continues to take on a journey that I am more than willing to take.

Stay tuned to this channel for updates in real time…

Deafening Silence

•March 14, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Little has been said for empty vessels that gather moss and reverberate nonsense. The epitomy of success sometimes may involve silence so that the internal audience can be catered to before the external can be made a part of the orchestra.

Verily I say, I have returned a tad bit enlightened and continue to struggle with maintaining victory! “For the greatest victory will always be the victory over self!!!!”

Dinner and conversation

•May 11, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Had an absolutely fabulous time with my mother last night as we conversed about life and matters of the heart. It is simply a blessing that I have the opportunity to enjoy such heartfelt conversations. There is definitely a God and He is represented by the life and strength that I see in my mother…There is nothing like cultivating a beautiful relationship…this garden life has me in is simply amazing!!! Love you mum…

Dinner and the Crew

•February 21, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Meals are such an eye-opener whenever they are shared amongst the most relevant of characters in your life. However, the same characters can bring out the worst or best. It depends on the intrinsic magnitude of the deepest darkest eating habits you choose to leave hidden in the confines of your humble abode. That said, I was utterly entertained as I wined and dined with some of the special friends I have met while in this city.
 
When I thought that making fun of people I knew and cared about was my way of letting them know just how relevant they were to me, I was also enlightened to acknowledge that they too feel the same way. So the night in itself was full of superfluous pomp and vigor because it had been told to us weeks in advance that we should get ready for this celebration of friendship and brother/sisterhood. I believe we are all brothers and sisters in Christ and at the same time, we have all come from different backgrounds cultures and still took time to allow none of the mundane stuff to affect the budding relationships that as they were.
If there was a camera in this particular ritzy restaurant located in the affluent intersection of Preston and Park as it went down, the definite synopsis would have been that we were well dressed hooligans who didn’t realize that there should have been some decorum at the dinner table…I call it unadulterated fellowship. We let go of the superficiality that comes with dining in the midst of affluence to give thanks to the simplicity of friendship, the dichotomy of love and the honor that is reverenced in fellowship…Rib tickling anecdotes, and the highlight being simple renditions of movies and comedies…absolutely priceless.
 
These are the social forums I enjoy…good food, unsurpassed company and an assortment of memories. Thank you CREW!!!!

To new beginnings…again…

•January 12, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Well, the secret is out and my folly has been expressed to the world. I am in the midst of yet another restructuring campaign. To topple the current governance is almost necessary to achieve the very idea of independence. But how do you gain independence from yourself? The notion of which, might I add, sounds ludicrous but yet captivating nonetheless…

So now, the journey to self preservation and procurement begins with the first call of duty, total disclosure…

Here we go…

Today is Yesterday’s blessing

•August 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

If I could put my finger on the number of times that life looked so bleak, I would probably have my hands in an absolute bind. I reflected on a few occurrences lately that had me rescinding my disposition when really, they were merely the realizations that were necessary at this point in time to let me know how short this existence can seem when all we do is misappropriate the very opportunity we are blessed with.
Hitherto, the resurgence of my mortality has made me appreciate every single second that I am able to make a positive change in my somehow sedentary state of mind:

Beaten and bruised by the inability to see past the haze, a single moment seemed gruesome
Still the sense of self held my head up high and recapitulated on the necessities of years to come
With tongue in cheek I admitted to myself that I was not living the dream or so to some it may seem
Understanding my stance I have engaged in making amends and signing up with the winning team
For the tunnel was so dark and dastardly, so full of despair and detriment, engulfed I was in failure
Renewed with the passion to show the miracle I am, prepared to take on the tasks of this new tenure
Always will I be greatful to the Most High for a repeated chance to make this right and justify my accolade
Verily I say, the curve is great and maybe a little painful, but hopefully it may not cut as much as a double edged blade
With my eye on the prize, fighting the good fight and keeping the faith; I march on steadfast and inspired
Heart on my sleeve, soul of a reborn man, rebirthed in the sanctity of a redefined silhouette with renewed vigor and fire
Humbly abounding in love for my family and appreciating the torment that comes with discerning the best
I resort to staying true to this metamorphosis of a boy into the man I see myself becoming and standing up to the impending test
Beating the foes like a drum I will forever hope to claim victory over these tests and stand tall at every moment
I am now on the brink of rediscovery as I cherish this semblance of renewed commitment.

The prologue to a new chapter…

My humble apology

•August 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment

I am as black as the night and with the tenacity and resilience of a warrior or so I thought. I can no longer hold my head up with so much as a whimper for my load has overwhelmed me. I am ashamed that all I can manage is but a sigh. I have let you down and it seems so clear in the way you look and talk to me that I am almost a lost cause.

I cringe at the thought of your sympathy and yearn for the ability to regain my stature in your full view…yet all in all I am told to stand tall in all things. I have let your teachings slip from my lips and this has weakened my conviction. I am sorry that my hiatus has almost been my demise. I have lost myself in the search for a reality that is not real but a notion that only exists to those in the situation.
Forgive my insolence, for I alone have decimated the very statutes you had preset. I apologize for the misappropriation I have exhibited. I have decided to relinquish all I have attained for what I am ordained to be from this point moving forward…

My inability to rest easy has plagued me and now I know why. I have not been worthy of your forgiveness but you are faithful and just. I have witnessed your wonder, demanded favor and received it on multiple levels and now I vow to be careful about my appropriations.
For those I have interacted with at all levels, I appreciate the candor, patience, rebuke, the affection, the criticism, and the tough love; I thank you from the bottom of my heart…. I know I will be better person for it.

To you my Jesus, I surrender it all!!!!!!

 
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