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Real LYFE: January 2010

Saturday, January 16, 2010

ACTIONS speak louder than your words

Too often we use excuse after excuse on why we do what we do but I've come to find out that we do what we do because we want to.  WE make a decision that we like things the way they are and have no desire to change.  Time after time we hear people talk about how their life is a mess and how "jacked" up things are, but until the fundamental decision is made within your conscience there will be no manifestation of change on the outside.  Meaning, people won't be able to tell that you want something different because your actions SPEAK LOUDER than your words add up. 

Words stack up just like shit does and they begin to have an odor that very few people want to be around.  So if you are wondering why your crowd is too busy for you, check your actions and see if they equate to the verbiage that you have been spewing out of your mouth.  I don't know about you but I'm sick and tired of hearing the same ole' same ole' from people about their New Years Resolutions.  The thing is, they don't do what is necessary to make change take place.  They say one thing but then continue with business as usual.  And the definition of a fool is one who does the same thing but then expects different results!  Stop talking about it and be about it PLEASE! 

REAL Change must take place within the mind FIRST, then and only then, can it be resolute within your spirit and manifest to the physical realm. Without the inside-out transformation all you are doing is talking a good game but if your talk doesn't measure out into actions then it's just hot air.  People all across the world are talking about the people of Haiti and how sad their predicament is...but if you do nothing about the dire situation, again, it's just a bunch of hot air.  The challenge is for your actions to match the words that you articulate from your mouth and follow through with substantial actions that validate your word choices about how horrible their situation is.  Haiti's situation could be your own and when you look at your spiritual condition, the possibility that your spiritual condition and their physical condition are the same.  Right? 

Just something to think about as we bare witness to a world disaster that could be personal if you are willing to take an introspective look into the recesses of your heart.  It's time for fundamental transformation because you never know when your world is going to be rocked with an earthquake of insurmountable proportions and leave you devastated and lacking looking for others to help you at your lowest point of shame, turmoil, or devastation. Let's stand up and make change manifest NOW! 

Thursday, January 07, 2010

DO YOU in 2010

It's the beginning of 2010 and I wouldn't be true to ME if I didn't tell you to make sure you DO YOU this year.  Let me explain this statement before my "religiously legalistic traditional" fan club decides to chime in with proclamations that I have lost my ever loving mind.  Remember, I love to provoke people from time to time in order to challenge them to look at their motives or intentions.  But anyway, let me continue.  Doing YOU in 2010 requires you, first and foremost, understanding what you were sent to this earth to accomplish.  When you understand your assignment, you then can easily begin to accomplish your goal with ease.  Even when there are disappointments, allegations, accusations, or anything else hailed against you, you have to know that you know that you know what you are purposed to manifest and DO IT!

Secondly, after understanding what you were created to do, you have to take a look at your crowd and ask yourself are these the players that will help you achieve your "championship status?"  Not everybody with you can help you, believe it or not, and if you don't realize that it will hinder your progress in reaching your goals for 2010.  Don't be afraid to change your "FAV 5" as it pertains to your crowd, cell phone, etc. because your crowd can make or break you!  At the end of every athletic season you hear that the NBA, NFL, and the other sports go into trades.  Why?  Because their goal is to win the championship in their respective sport.  They are doing what they're doing for recreation and because they don't have anything else better to do.  They are doing what they're doing because they have a goal!  Likewise, it is imperative for you to NOT make a new years resolution but a conscious decision as to what you will and won't accept from this day forward.

Thirdly, use the drama of 2009 and the haterade you have experienced to push you into walking into TODAY!  Don't let people define you, ONLY YOU have the authority to do that!  When you allow others to define you you give them the power to frame you and imprison you.  Uhhhh, I DON'T THINK SO!  I'm done with living out other people's curses on my life, it's time to live out my dreams and achieve bigger and better in 2010.  If you don't do you then somebody else will and THAT MAY NOT FEEL SO GOOD.  Feel me?  I have gone through literal hell for the past couple years and for those who know me it was just that PURE HELL!  The operative word that I love to espouse is "THROUGH" because with all I endured, I NEVER ONCE ENTERTAINED THE IDEA OR NOTION OF STOPPING!  I kept on going because I had something I was predestined to do and nobody was going to stop me.  It was a decision that I made in my mind and that created the atmosphere for my perception to see what others couldn't see!

I challenge you to LET YESTERDAY FIERCELY EMPOWER you to break free from the chains that have been placed on you by others or institutions and DO what it is YOU have been called to do.  Meditate on it day and night, analyze your surroundings and environment and make the necessary changes needed to put the WORD into ACTION!  That's what I mean when I say DO YOU!  Remember, if you don't, somebody else will and you will become a slave to their anal retentive thinking and end up repeating your 2009, 2008, or maybe even your 2007 in 2010.  Let all of that go and pursue some new territory that was off limits!  Don't be afraid to rebel against the systematic thinking or your indocrination from a child, hell LIVE AND LET GO of the preconceived notions of what is and isn't acceptable.  Take a risk and go out on a limb and, if push comes to shove, JUMP! 

This is the year to have NO REGRETS!  DO YOU and encounter new altitudes because when you take that first step, in the words of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, "your attitude will determine your altitude!"You will be able to soar to new heights that will blow your very mind!  So DO YOU! 

Friday, January 01, 2010

THIS IS IT!

THIS IS IT!!!  The moment that separates the grown-ups from the kids, the time that gives one the opportunity to either stand up and remain lazy and sorrowful about what was instead of using the moment to MANIFEST your own DESTINY!  This is it!  2010 is here and 2009 is a thing of the past!  Now I encourage you to LEARN TO USE YESTERDAY AS A FIERCE EMPOWERING TOOL IN LAUNCHING YOU FURTHER THAN YOU HAVE EVER DREAMED OR IMAGINED!  Don't be negative about what happened!  FACE IT, it happened...just like sh** but you can't do anything about it so LET IT GO! 

THIS IS IT!  The moment where you have to make a decision to either allow past mistakes and/or humiliating circumstances hold you hostage and keep you from BECOMING what you have been ordained to walk in!  If you don't make a move this year please no sad stories and most definitely don't blame anyone but YOU, the one in the mirror!  Stop giving people the power to hold you back because, in all actuality, they ain't all that!  Hear me?  They are trifling, shiftless, sad excuses and for far too long you have allowed THEM, you fill in the blank, to keep you enamored in the pre-conceived stigmas that were already embedded in their minds.  To hell with that yall, it's time to MAKE A MOVE and MAKE IT HAPPEN! 

THIS IS IT!  At this point you have nowhere to go but UP so, in the words of a famous quote that I hold near and dear to me, ONWARD AND UPWARD TOWARD THE LIGHT!  Go ahead and march forward and you will see that they never had the power to hold you back and keep you from walking into what is rightfully yours!  Get the hell up and stop pussyfooting around in the cheap seats and get on the court and TAKE the BALL from the opposing team!  You've been lied on, left for dead, and verbally abused beyond recognition but guess what?  YOU ARE STILL HERE because you still have something on the inside that God created you for. 

THIS IS IT!  Now those who know my story know full well that I'm not coaching without going through the "boot camp" of lies, accusations, innuendos, scrutiny from the public, and overblown unwarranted media attention.  Yes I went through it all but I AM STILL HERE!  I'm not bitter but I got a hell of a lot BETTER!  I have a smile on my face and joy in my heart because with all that people tried to do, I realize that it wasn't them but it was the evil that exists in the world that is always trying to steal, kill, and destroy us!  I should have lost my mind and been committed into an insane asylum, but nahhh I couldn't give my haters the benefit!  I've got too much going for me and SO DO YOU!

THIS IS IT!  This is the year to move out into unchartered territory and speak TRUTH to POWER! If you're going to have credibility and speaking to the PARADIGM that shifts you have to have a testimony because no one wants to listen to somebody with book knowledge but NO personal experience, so don't be afraid of your past but use it as a weapon of mass destruction.  If my wonderful haters only knew that I would write a book entitled, THE CONFESSIONS OF A PRIEST, they would have left me alone.  If they had a clue that God would keep my mind, they would have backed off but they were employed by the enemy who is an INDEPENDENT contractor for God to MAKE ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER for good ONLY to them that love the Lord.  Uhhh that would be me!

THIS IS IT!  2010 IS THE YEAR TO GET IT IN!!! Move out and do something crazy that is going to piss your haters off and show them that you're not the person they thought you were...go ahead and finish school, write until your heart is content, start that business, pursue your dreams because I guarantee you as sure as my name is Richard...the impossible is waiting for you to show up to NOW!

THIS IS IT!  Go for it!
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