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Stop Bowing to the Weather: The Raw Science of Self-Determination

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Stop Bowing to the Weather: The Raw Science of Self-Determination Let’s stop playing games with our potential. Too many of our people are walking through life functioning as pure biological thermometers—measuring the temperature of the room, absorbing the trauma of the environment, and letting outside chaos dictate their blood pressure, their peace, and their bank accounts. When the block is hot, you panic. When the system acts according to its design, you crash out in despair. When society screams scarcity, you download the fear and replay it at your own dinner table. That is not living; that is reacting. That is letting the scenery convince you that it’s driving the car. On this sacred day of Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), wrapped in the sovereign frequency of royal Indigo, the ancestors hand us an uncompromising reality check: "I determine my destination; the environment is just the scenery." The terrain in America is real. The redlined districts, the hostile courtroom...

Discouragement

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Sometimes I get discouraged... I have heard this over and over again in my studies, and being on this Journey, I have  felt it. This feeling can strike at the strangest time, but I like those before me I need to push on. I am in the beginning stages of writing another book. The Idea came to me complete with a title and the first thing that hit me was the feeling that accompanies discouragement and self doubt. The negative question began to hit me from the inside as well as the outside. The book will be about the Journey to success, although I have dealt with this topic in my other books, this book will deal with it more directly and be more universal in scope. The first negative thought hit me and tormented me for the first day, after I put the title on my thinking board (will speak on the "Thinking Board" in an upcoming blog). The question was what gave me the right to write about success? I was embarrassed by the question and images of other people asking me the same questi...