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Empowered Greetings.
There are countless stories of how people went from rags to riches, broke to millionaires, un- known to known and from wel- fare to winning in life. A common thread you will find in most of these, life-altering ac- counts is the willingness for these individuals to persevere and make a change.
The change was jump started in their mind before it ever manifested in their situa- tion. There are those of you reading this column who are looking for a change. You are frustrated and upset with your- self and with your life.
You know that there is something more you are sup- posed to be doing. You’re anx- ious for your change to come. You can’t fully describe what you’re feeling.
All you know is, the place where you are at, is not the place where you want to be. You know it’s not the place that God has
designed for you. You are ques- tioning, “When are things going to turn around for me?”
The answer is today!
Today, I am going to share 4 basic steps to follow that will give you a boost for beginning your own life altering change. These steps when applied will put you on a path to accelerating the achievements of your goals, dreams and aspirations.
They may seem so simple that you think you shouldn’t do them. However, because they are so simple, that’s the reason that you should. Big change can come when small tasks are exe- cuted daily.
Step 1. Believe in your dreams. Jesus said everything is possible to the one who believes. Mark 9:23. Catch this. Your desires become possible for you if you believe it’s possible for you. In other words, it’s all on you.
Step 2. Meditate on your dreams. To meditate is to men-
tally use your imagination to see yourself already having posses- sion of the things you are hoping for. Get a picture in your mind but also on paper. Clip magazine pictures and words that repre- sent your goals and visualize them daily.
Step 3. Speak over your dreams. Develop an affirmation that correlates with your goal. It’s your I am statement. You’re speaking as if you already have what you are believing for. Ex. I am vacationing in a new city around the world every 3 months.
Step 4. Get focused on your dream. Where your focus goes, energy flows. Focusing on your dreams attracts awareness of new opportunities for you to take to achieve them. You’ll be more inclined to act on that which you are focused on. Ac- tion creates traction. Traction pulls you to successfully achieve your dreams.
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Blame Games And Autocrats
o you remember growing up with other siblings in the
household and being told on by your brother or sister about something you did in order to take the heat off of them and to make your parents turn their attention (and full wrath) to you? That’s called deflection (among other things).
Indeed, every time President Donald Trump is caught with his hand in the cookie jar, he doesn’t fail to mention Hilary Clinton or President Barack Obama’s Administration didn’t get blamed for imagined offenses or offenses he wished were considered illegal.
Since he appears to act like a 5-year-old snot, maybe we should take his telephone privileges from him for a while so he can stop Tweeting his foot in his mouth. Better still, he should be told that he can no longer mention the “C” and “O” words when he gets caught doing something un-presidential.
The next time a minority of voters elect an autocrat, (ruler who has absolute power, someone who insists on complete obedience from others, or a domineering person), they will remember that an autocratic style corporate president oper- ates with at least five disadvantages. Among them are: 1) one- way communication without consideration of others’ input, 2) failure to secure employee commitment to organization’s objectives, 3) decreased employee morale and productivity, 4) style is inappropriate with highly skilled and knowledge- able employees, and 5) style is inappropriate when team work, shared decision-making and cooperative spirit are re- quired.
Very clearly, America elected a “What You See is, What You Get” president.
Now, let’s see if that truth is changed by the reality of the job itself.
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TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2017 FLORIDA SENTINEL BULLETIN PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY PAGE 5
On Women Raising Men
BY BILLY WHEELER
nough with the, “A
woman can NEVER teach a boy to be a man,” rhetoric. It’s always some Hotep-minded male or emotionally repressed woman who pushes this hyper- masculine pretense, which only serves to victimize boys and fur- ther subjugate women. It is part of what’s wrong with society.
Seriously, what are you say- ing to mothers who find them- selves in this situation? What is your message to boys who have no choice in the matter? More importantly, what, by your defi- nition, is a man? Is he that clichéd, hard-nosed, emotion- ally unavailable, crotch-grab- bing, “bad mutha shut ‘cho mouth” sex machine who’s re- lentlessly pushed at us as a mas- culine role model?
You are telling me I can
never join the Man Club because my father left the family. When in truth, some of you “gatekeep- ers” have violated the tenets of true manhood twenty different times in twenty different ways. But you suggest the mere pres- ence of a male in your house- hold earns you automatic and unrestricted admittance to the “Club?”
What is this great and mys- terious way – this secret knowl- edge that can only be passed between persons of specific and identical gender, hormone and chromosomal makeup?
The truth is, millions of suc- cessful adults (men and women) come from single parent house- holds – homes led by mothers, aunties, and grandmas. So those of you who thoughtlessly parrot the line, “It can’t be done,” should take several seats behind those who are successfully doing
it.
A woman raised me, which
makes me, by your decree, not a man. Does that mean I get a free pass if I run afoul of the law? Does it release me from finan- cial responsibility and paying bills that I incur? Does it cause my existence to have less value, or my contributions to be of lesser worth? Don’t we all de- velop into men and women in our own right?
Please tell me, exactly in what way are you better or dif- ferent than I am because you had a father in your home?
Borrowing from Shake- speare, “If you prick me, do I not bleed? If you tickle me, do I not laugh? If you poison me, do I not die? And if you wrong me, shall I not revenge?”
I particularly dislike hearing this narrative coming from reli- gious pulpits as it totally disre- gards God’s place in the matter of child rearing. Psalm 27:10 reads, “When my father and mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.”
So, my fellow Christian brothers and sisters, whose word are we to believe?
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‘Let’s Wait For The Facts:’ Good Luck!
nd do you recall Senator Marco Rubio... “Little Marco,”
they call him? What’s he been doing, these days? Sources say he’s been waiting for the facts, whenever and wherever he may find them.
For instance, the idea that Florida’s hurricane season is about to descend upon us and we should get ready for it is a sure thing. So?
Rubio is throwing his whole political weight into the “Get Ready for the Hurricane” campaign, and why not? Both 2018 and 2020 may as well be lifetimes away, and as we said be- fore, these days, it’s best to “wait for the facts,” wherever and whenever they show their tenuous heads.
But, Marco Rubio is a fighter. Remember when former President Obama set out a welcome mat to Castro’s Cuba, Marco (a second generation Cuban-American) was one of the first to fling Obama’s friendliness back in his face. Well, guess what?
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Though Castro is long since dead and cremated, Marco is still keeping the idea hot that America should have little to do at all with its Afro-Caribbean-Latino neighbor (there are more Black people in Cuba than there are Black Americans in the entirety of Southern Florida).
So, what is America to do while Rubio makes up his mind as to what fact he will attack? Perhaps, he’s learned a thing or two from his former foe, “Tricky Don” Trump, who changes enemies the way some people change a grocery list.
Or maybe, Marco is indeed, simply biding his time like another Marco (Mark Anthony) when Anthony crawled out of the woodwork and accused Brutus of becoming “an honorable man” (Remember Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar?). But, these days, is there any possibility that Donald Trump could ever be seen as an honorable man?
Therefore, we wait for Marco “Mark Anthony” Rubio to discover the facts as we also pre- pare for a hurricane that has no name and a presidency that has no sit-com substance. What will come first? As we said, earlier, “Let’s wait for the facts.”