“Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Some days I wake up already over the day ahead of me. In those times where I want to do nothing, but lay around I tend to think about the time I’ve wasted already. That usually gets me out of bed, even... Continue Reading →
Can’t stop, won’t stop
It always seems impossible until it’s done.Nelson Mandela Tell me, what is something you want to accomplish that appears impossible? I have a list longer than what feels comfortable saying out loud. What I will ask is this. What energy and effort have you put into figuring out how to move forward? With the focus... Continue Reading →
knowledge, wisdom, & understanding…
make your next move your best move...Uncle T ( and every uncle in his age group) Being good at anything is hard. It takes a lot of work. Being great requires another level of work. It takes a sacrifice. You won’t see your friends and loved ones as much as you like. You won’t eat... Continue Reading →
Key alert
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.Winston Churchill Just to state the obvious- get up, get out, and get something. Dreaming is cool. Doing is so much more awesome. Beyond this idea though lies a question. What are you working to accomplish with your unlocked potential? That... Continue Reading →
Who are you?
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with it's idea of you-James Baldwin I read this more recently, and was not shocked at all that it was from my favorite author. It has meant different things to me in different moments. At the core of this... Continue Reading →
Sit
Sit your narrow behind down and listen... -EVERY SINGLE PARENT OF COLOR, and some that aren't... Back in what seems like a lifetime ago, I jokingly told a co worker I remember fondly that one day I would write a book. The quote above is a version of the title. From time to time she... Continue Reading →
Are you at the beginning of something you want to accomplish?
"Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just…start.”-Ijeoma Umebinyuo So many times in life I've been frozen by fear. I urge you to push past... Continue Reading →
My Morning Motivation
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun... Continue Reading →
Hungry?
"Bring more to the table than your appetite". My Great Uncle told me this while sitting on his back porch in my youth. It always made me laugh, but it has shaped the way I tend to interact with people. Later in life I was told the rock soup story. I'll break that down another... Continue Reading →
don’t get outworked
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." -Henry Longfello This quote is one of the most important collection of words strung together that I have ever heard. My mother has said this to me more times... Continue Reading →
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