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From Scratch To Success
“Today is the day to scratch the surface of your real potential.”
Selphenia Simmons
Empowered Greetings. Many of you reading this column are working a 9-5 job
that you don’t like. You look at your paycheck and feel under- paid and overworked. Some of you may not have a job at all. You desire more out of life than what you’ve gotten so far.
There is a thought in the back of your mind to do some- thing different, but you don’t know what. Or maybe you feel discouraged because you don’t have financial resources. I want to encourage you with the words of a song that says, “You don’t need a whole lot,
just use what you’ve got.” It is with this premise that I have started every business I have ever owned.
As an entrepreneur at heart, I believe that everything you own should be able to make money for you. Here are 5 steps to getting started.
Take inventory of the gifts and talents that God has en- dowed you with.
Take inventory of the ma- terial possession you have.
Creatively determine how they can be used to take you to the next level in life.
Begin to view life through the eyes of others. Observe people to see what problems they are facing. Remember no matter how small a problem is - it still demands a solution.
That solution if developed by you cannot only change that person’s situation, but it can also change yours.
Ask God to open your un- derstanding and allow His creative power to flow through you.
My life is a testimony that you can go from scratch to success using these steps. I would love to show you how I did it. Feel free to call me at 813-603-0088 or by email at selphenia@successcoach- towomen.com for assistance with the 5 steps to your suc- cess.
Let’s stay connected. Follow me on social media. Facebook: Selphe- nia Nichols Success Coach To Women; Twit- ter: @queenofsuccess1; Instagram: @selphenia.
Visit SuccessCoach- ToWomen.com for more success strategies that will Empower, Educate, and Elevate you to your next level of success.
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Justice Department Will Force Court Litigation On Police Shootings
e were heartened to read where a Balch Springs,
Texas police officer was fired for killing a 15-year-old Black honor student on the same day Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the U. S. Justice Department will not open an investigation into the police shooting death of Alton Sterling last July 5, 2016 outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Indeed, Police departments that value accountability and transparency raise the bar for departments that are defen- sive, protective of officers who violate department policies, and who do not value training their officers in de-escalation techniques, race relations and implicit bias. A Psychological testing to weed out officers who are aggressive, passive or passive-aggressive should become a national standard.
Since the Justice Department intends not to enforce exist- ing consent decrees enacted with police departments during the Obama administration, Blacks will have no other choice but to use litigation to secure justice when Black people are indiscriminately killed by police officers.
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Like it worked at Chickamauga and Antietam, and almost worked at Gettysburg, the idea that a certain sector of Americans were being made to take less even though they previously had nothing was enough to sound a battle cry, even if the reason was bogus.
So, Obamacare was defeated by House of Representative members, many who hadn’t even read the document... The Senate waits.
America’s Second Great Con-Game
merica’s first “great con-game” was the Civil War and
the role tens of thousands of white men played on the side of the so-called Confederacy. Lock, stock, and barrel they bought the myth that indeed, they were fighting for a right they never owned: the right to own slaves and master a plan- tation.
Angry at Abraham Lincoln for keeping them from what they thought was their God-given right, white Confederates died like flies... But that wasn’t the only “great con game” to occur. Just recently, our nation has experienced yet another slight-of-hand from the same people who brought us Jeffer- son Davis.
But this time it was called “The Repeal of Affordable Health Care (aka Obamacare). News sources agree Republi- cans on Capitol Hill’s House of Representatives came alive like roaches out of the woodwork to tear down what had been seen as a signal humanitarian effort to bring good health care to more than 24 million Americans whose only doctor was a hospital emergency ward.
But, that would have put thousands of health insurance companies out of business, they put their heads together and invented another Civil War myth. Tell poor and middle class white America that being given free and affordable health- care is the same as being made to take “second-best” from the government . . . it’s mandatory, so, it’s got to be bad!”
The argument worked.
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