Ted Williams Encourages us to accomplish!

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Today was a rather interesting day for me; I came to the realization that no matter what I should and can never let go of what dreams and goals I have for myself.  At the the place where I decided it was over I was forwarded an e mail of "the homeless man with the golden voice!"

I read his story, I looked him up, I identified with the things I read and the things he said about himself. This man was honest about his life, he was grateful for whatever he could get in the form of help from passersby. What intrigued me most was his humility but I mean how can you be homeless and uppity (no offense). This man said he “prayed to God for one more chance.” In a time when the power of God is continually questioned, and the ability of prayers strength is continually talked about as something that needs to be proven, this man got an answer!

Who would have thought a reporter from the Columbus dispatch would have stopped by and changed this man’s life for the rest of it. Yesterday this man had nowhere to go and today it has been made official that he has signed on to be the announcer for the CAVS. Along with the job the man was given a house by his new employer. This man was so blessed with the opportunity of a second chance it is stated that various entities went into a bidding war for the gift this man has.

“The homeless man with the golden voice,” is living proof that strong faith supersedes factual doubt, and that your gift will indeed make room for you. This story screams to us that life never gives up on a person who has not given up on themself. I think what’s greatest about this story is the fact that through all the years this man was reunited with his mother. What a blessing! After years of living beneath who he is, he returns home to see his mother to show her how he has cleaned himself up and turned his life around.

This man gave me some hope! Many times we mistake “no” for “not right now” or we may be seeking something beneath what we are entitled to and until we get the vision for more it seems as though we live life stuck in/on pause until the moment clarity interrupts our current vision to take it on as the continual sight to see with. We are entitled to all the greatness we can believe for, through that it is promised that we can have success if we work for it!

Even in a world turned upside down, with a housing market systematically gone to pots I still believe in miracles! If a homeless man can come to himself miles away from home, still live on the street and survive to one day become one of the most sought after individuals on the face of the earth with millions viewing his viral video, to in turn to ink a promising job that he enjoys, land a home, and end up reunited with his mother.

Then I too can achieve that which I have set in my heart as a goal and a dream for my life. I hope that you all who dream, decide today to dream big, to live on purpose, and to execute to the best of your abilities, I hope that you understand that you in deed are the greatest miracle walking, talking, and breathing. If life had no use for you then it would do away with you, the mere fact that you are still breathing, and dreaming, proves that there is great need for you now! At this time!

I challenge you today to live your life maximizing your gift and your usage of it. Open up the box that contains your treasure given to you and work it!

 I have to find out who made this, and where I can get one!

Advice for the fellas

Alright fellas! This piece of advice is going to be the best advice you can get. Scratch the flowers drop the candy! It's all about the shoes! Every woman loves, craves, desires shoes. You can never go wrong with shoes as a gift! Learn your woman, peep her style and then make it a lil more sexy! She'll love you for it! Besides its an investment for yourself the more sexy she is the more you notice, the more you notice, the better things get! Investing in your woman fellas is a great investment for your self, that yields great interest accruing returns!!!!!

Rodarte Fall 2010 Collection

E mail! You have it, need it, and in today’s world, cannot live without it. We all need e mail to make it, ESPECIALLY AT WORK! I am a fortunate person of many to have a serious e mailing circle that helps get me through the day when it’s slow. There are five (5) of us!

Annie -Em

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Buffi

Johnny know no good, and myself. (They know who they are!)

Throughout the day we discuss a vast array of topics from current events, to finance, gossip blogs, to regular living. The co-workers who sit beside me at my regular 9 to 5 ( styling is my goal right now this corporate is paying the bills!) think I have some sort of issue as at any moment I may burst out laughing, silently squeal into quiet tears as the pressure that builds up in my face causes them to run because I won’t let me holler, we get angry we take sides but at the end of the day we come together to help each other make it through a work day that may be stressed, demanding, or downright wrong!

In the end we do it all over again the next day with the first arrivals hurling the mornings run and the stragglers coming on into the convo catching up! I am thankful for employment in today’s world but I am also thankful to have e mail buddies in the struggle trying to make it but also lending a shoulder. This indeed is not only a great support group but a circle of people who have influence with one another through a bond!

Today be thankful not only for your job, but for the resources you have to get you through a day in the life of your job when it becomes a little challenging!

Over the Christmas holiday I had the privilege of viewing “For Colored Girls.” This by far was a wonderful movie, with a great expressed theme of the joys and pain, and struggles of the African American woman. I enjoyed the film, but was somehow taken back at the fact that throughout the course of the film, it was as though men could do no right!

In the world in which we live today, the images thrown on us are the lazy, dead beats, with saggy pants, fuzzy braids, and hustles that turn more tricks then clowns in that little car at the circus. I am no dummy to big business women like chick flicks, and they will come in droves to see their counter parts be abused, beat, raped, played, dogged or just outright done wrong. Personally for me I think it’s a form of therapy that aids in the viewers ability to relate the characters on film.

Needless to say I know if any man brought his lady there for a date, the evening had to be rather awkward, and on the silent side (lol). Through it all I am not ashamed to say that I was a bit upset by yet another film where men do wrong. I am no angel I believe that I am an imperfect being striving for the shared eternity with a perfect God. With that said, I am still a man who, works everyday, who tends to his children loves his wife, supports her and pushes her to her max even when it makes her uncomfortable at times.

I am a man who gives back to his community one person at a time, I am a man and I am a good man. I still have issues but for once I would like to see a film where the small number of good men get the credit they are due! Credit is not a plaque, or a congratulatory speech, but it’s simply knowing that you are being seen, and you are being shown as an example. To me this type of credit strengthens a man’s awareness of his place to his family, his community and to his people. “For Colored Girls” was a wonderful film, I’d like to throw a pitch “for dark skin men!” lol hahahahahahahahah

Free indeed?

What does it really mean to be free? The dictionaries definition states:

·         the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints

·         exemption: immunity from an obligation or duty

If I am to understand this, then to me freedom is the ability to live one’s life without the power of other persons, views, thoughts, or imposed mindsets affecting the outcome of the choices that an individual makes for his or herself. As we start out the walk of a new year I question as to if we are really free or are we merely getting by with the small tokens of freedom we have been given as a result of our small progress to break curses, bonds and unhealthy ties to our lives.

Are we totally free or does something still enslave our mind, our will, and our emotions? Has the way we have previously lived life seemingly programmed us to a way of living that we are used to, but because we no react on our own terms as opposed to another’s we consider ourselves freed? I think that we are way off, if we are only free from something physically then we still have the mental and emotion to go back and bring to freedom! We can no longer be content with small steps of what being free is, but we must settle at being totally free in all aspects of our lives!

It is not enough to partially detach from things that are unhealthy, as your partial detachment still renders you susceptible to the affects of the portions of your life where you are still attached. Freedom should be your life’s pursuits your soul’s aphrodisiac, and your hearts place of rest!