Monday, June 22, 2015

News Coverage of Opelika 2015 Juneteenth Events

Juneteenth celebrates racial equality, freedom - OANow.com

Charleston on minds during Juneteenth celebration in Opelika - WRBL

Juneteenth celebration ends with Unity parade

Juneteenth 2015 Opelika, Alabama

June 19 2015 was a great day of remembrance, realization, recognition and celebration.  People came from near and far to learn, love and celebrate emancipation of slaves. The Opelika community joined together to engage and embrace community in unity or unison.  The Friday night events included performances of songs, poetry,  and a  play. The host,  which was myself, shared four inspirational, insightful,  illustrative,  poems entitled: 'What is -ment?', 'Hooked',  'Amazing' and 'New News'. Jan Morgan Canada shared one of the most amazing poems I have ever heard entitled: "Who Are Your Folks,  Who You Be".The talented Oscar Penn performed a medley of songs with a familiar sound but with a unique special personal and spiritual message.  Paul Crook sang a song that touch not only my spirit but also moved everyone present at the Juneteenth Flex at The Plex event. Kid GotIt  performed a hip-hop song that encourages everyone to wake up an realize how important it is for everyone to unify and relentlessly promote and engage in positive activity that encourages stronger, healthier and wealthier community. The play Suicide highlighted the message that black on black crime, ignorance, the unhealthy uneducated lifestyle and negative attitude is suicide to black people.  Collectively the  event went off without a hitch despite several technical difficulties from the sound team. Saturday, June  20th festivities concluded the Juneteenth weekend with a parade that began at Bethesda Baptist Church went through downtown Opelika ending in courthouse square.  The 2015 Juneteenth celebration was definitely something to witness. Great people joined forces for the greatest good. Keep up the "Godwork"; there are people that care enough to share engage and support what is important  right to propel and promote positivity for the well-being of the world.

Extra special thanks to everyone involved in making GEMS Empowered Inc. 2015 Juneteenth celebration a major success!











Thursday, June 18, 2015

Three Reasons Why Real Change is Hard

Three Reasons Why Real Change is Hard



Change is a challenge that we must face head on. We can't go over, under or around it. We must go through it to improve the quality of life we seek. Robert Kiyosaki breaks down why it is important to control your check he provides three simple reasons why some are content where they are and why others may never meet their maximum potential. Three reasons summarize why it so challenging to make the necessary changes.



  • Reason #1: It takes time
  • Reason #2: You have to unlearn to learn again
  • Reason #3: This is a transformation, not just a change


Read the complete post by clicking the link at the top of this post to get a detailed "overstanding" how important it is to make the choice to be in the quadrants "B" or "I" business owner or investor. Please leave a comment on your understanding or overstanding of this information for further discussion.

Sign Your Own Paycheck and Take Back Control!

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Misstep

mis·step  
Noun
  1. A clumsy or badly judged step: "one misstep could be fatal".
  2. A mistake or blunder.
Synonyms
false step - faux pas - mistake - error - gaffe - trip

In life steps are taken to carry out courses of action. The steps taken leads us down paths both familiar and unfamiliar. Missteps, often caused by scotomas, may cause one to fall or fail to complete courses of action. Life teaches us lessons in the strangest ways to show that focusing with a clear mindset on proceeding down a clear path. This morning as I was leaving for work I realized exactly how people fill themselves with duties responsibilities and problems that will likely cause them to take a misstep. As I was leaving for work  my neighbor was leaving for work as well. We both were focused on what each had to get done today. I had to get groceries out of my wife's car from a morning grocery store run. I was focused on unloading my car full of groceries so I could go to work and my neighbor was focus on loading her car with laundry for the cleaners so she could go to work. Suddenly I hear "OOOOhhh", my neighbor had fallen and I did not notice because of my focus of on my situation. A  passing driver stopped to ask if she was O.K. She replied: "I missed a step". Thankfully she was fine.  She had fallen to the pavement of the sidewalk but the mound of laundry for dry cleaning that she was carrying broke her fall. I was embarrassed because even though I could not have prevented it,  I should have been more aware of my surroundings. Also, she too had lost focus of the steps of the path taken to get her day started.  If leaving her house there is one step that must be taking off the short porch. From this I took that overburdening oneself will likely cause a misstep or blunder; always being aware and focused on our course of action in order to be sure we don't take a misstep. Also, the fall is not always a soft landing; it may very well be hard, sharp, or rigid.

End thought: Pay attention, WATCH YOUR STEP! One misstep could be fatal!