Defining Your Ownership

Before I go down the road of the title I want to reflect on what we discussed yesterday and

bring it in line with today's idea. We focused on defining responsibilty. We stated that "taking responsibilty gives you power", but now brother ha2tim wants to to take it one step farther. When we take responsibility it puts us in the seat toward ownership, or it should. Ownership of a thing gives you control. There are many things in life that we cannot control; but, there is something that all men have some level of control over, and that is their own physical body - your mind and spirit too. See, I can't make the sun shine, but I can put on my shades. I can't make it rain, but I can get an umbrella or simply stay indoors.

"Taking responsibility gives you power"

When you think about your life, your career and all the things that are apart of your world, who owns them? Who do you give ownership to? If you think about your job, who owns it? Is it your company, or your boss? Do they control what you do with your time, how you work and how you do things? Or is it yours?How about your friends, who owns them? Are they yours or someone else's? How about your family, are they yours or someones else's that you've been conditioned to look after? What about your money? Who owns that?

"The pyramids were not built by drones, that all thought alike."

You see we've been conditioned to believe that many things are not ours because we have not taken responsibility for them. When we take responsibility for something we can say that it is ours and with that we have some control. The issue for most is that we are not comfortable with ownership. It is something that we were not taught about so we ignore it, Unless we are taking about house. But believe me when I say their are plenty of things that you need to begin take ownership for in your life. Of course I am not talking about people (I felt I needed to state this) I am talking about the skills, and unique talents that are yours. Those abilities that you may be trying to hide, or may even be ashamed of. We have been socialized to believe that being an owner of something is wrong. We have been taught that we should not stand out, because we are the same. Bull$#!+!!! It is the differences that we embrassed in the past that enable us to do the amazing things we have done in ancient times. The pyramids were not built by drones, that all thought alike. That is some modern day "brainwash that we beilieve". Wake up... It is your trying to play small and fit in that is stopping the flow of your Ujamaa.

"you must take ownership for the things that are yours"

Finally we have made it to the part where we talk about Ujamaa , but believe we have been talking about Ujamaa the whole time. Ownership falls into the realm of Ujamaa, and because most of us don't own nothing (including ourselves) we have nothing to bring to the collective, the tribe, the family , the community,the village,etc...

I think you get the point., I want you to stop and take an inventory of your life, and list out the things, the talents, the skills that you own. Then I want you to make another list of the things, the talents, the skills that you give away or are borrowing from other communities. I want you to take an inventory of your time, how much time are you spending on projects that uplift you and your people? Remember time is a resource, this is why in Gye-Nyame Tribe (GNJMedia) you here us talking about the 224selfhelpprocess this is process that we teach that help people take their time back. How much of your space belongs to you that you can surround yourself with your culture, and reminders of your past and growth, or are you surrendering your space to others?

"In Gye-Nyame Tribe we teach the 224selfhelpprocess this is process that we teach that help people take their time back."

When will deal with Ujamaa we are talking about the life blood of our people and when we get down to braking it down it because a painful process, because we get to look right in the face of the reality that we are litterally borrowing space in. As soon as your usefulness is used up you are discarded. The last and final questions that I need you to wrestle with is what are you doing about it.