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Scraping the Noise to Build the Tribe: The Power of True Ujima

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Scraping the Noise to Build the Tribe: The Power of True Ujima Why are you so exhausted? You’ve been grinding day in and day out, stacking up obligations, checking off endless boxes, and trying to build an entire empire on your own isolated shoulders . We’ve been tricked into believing that individual success is our ultimate armor . This relentless hyper-independence is a direct symptom of an oppressed mind state, reinforced by historical "divide and conquer" strategies designed to turn us against each other and separate us from our collective cultural traditions . But what if your frantic pursuit of the solo hustle is actually the very wall blocking your true transformation into a life of peace, power, and joy ? The Internal Friction: Ego and the Unbalanced Passions There is a deep, underlying tension between the frantic urge to do more and the ancestral mandate to bind together . When we look at the internal friction fracturing our families and communities, the problem is...
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Salute to Nommo X

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I have to start this by saluting the men who have blazed a path in my life. I will do this in order and then I will dive in to this tribute. First I have to give shots out to my grandfather Cleven Brown who taught me to care and take care of my family (RIP). Next in line I have to say thank you to the person who this article is about Nommo X. Nommo then introduced me to Dr. Moriba Kelsey the founder of APDS, and the Tawi Village. Through Dr. Kelsey and Nommo I met Dr. Lewis Dodley entrepreneur and the Baba of the Simba Nation. Through Baba Dodley I was introduced to Gaylord Thomas. These men have shaped me through the fire of their love into who I am today. You may never hear about these men but they are in my pantheon of greatness. When I needed fatherly guidance each of these men gave it to me in their own way. Nommo X was a historian, warrior, entrepreneur, and a all around great man. He was a mentor that accepted you where you were and helped moved you to where you needed to be. ...
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Sending Props to Seth Godin

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On this Journey you have to sometimes adjust your trajectory. You sometimes end up on a dead end trail, because the Journey is about gaining the experience so that you can share what you know. At these times it is good to humble yourself and admit that you are lost. What I have found in life is  that when you let your ego go and ask the universe for help, something always appears. Sometimes it's a book, a map, gift, and if you are lucky  a person. During one of my lost moments, I happened to be on TED.com looking for videos. This is when I ran into Seth Godin's presentation entitled " The Tribes We Lead ". He presented answer to questions I had been wrestling with. I suggested that those on the Journey check the video out. Now I want to send props for a few major things I learned from @sethgodin: 1. I was not trying to build organizations, but Tribes. It was something I had being doing but did not know what to call it. By being introduced to this idea, I have cha...
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