Saturday, September 1st, 2012

“So I live by a real simple philosophy
If you stay grounded watch God keep giving you reasons not to be”

– Joe Budden on “Get Up

Sometimes, you have to really persevere to get where you wanna go. As you grow older, obstacles pop up more and more and try to get in your way. It’s amazing how your goals seems so simple, yet all these other factors in life turn it into something so complicated. From working with difficult people to meeting other commitments to simply being too tired, it’s so easy to succumb to life’s difficulties. But I assure you, if you keep on…if you persevere…if you look the obstacles in their face and continue on with your journey, amazing things will happen. I speak from experience.

What is up my peoples? Happy Labor Day! Welcome to the September 2012 Opinions Column. Indeed, this is the place to go to dig within the chambers on my brain to explore my thoughts. In other words, this is where I talk about anything and everything going on. Thank you to everyone that’s reading this! It’s a new month and there’s lots to talk about, so let’s jump right in.

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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

‘Cause sometimes you just feel tired,
Feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up.
But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength
And just pull that shit out of you and get that motivation to not give up
And not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse.

– Eminem on “Till I Collapse

Sometimes, you gotta strong arm the game. I mean, you gotta REALLY muscle your way through every hurdle and every obstacle and everything going against you. There comes a point where you can’t sit back; instead, you have to step up, take charge, and fight your way through the BS. We all encounter it, and let’s face it…lots of people give in to the pressure. Well, I wanted to give in myself this past month; instead, I did the opposite. I got my ass back up and fought through it. This month wasn’t bad by any means, but it did require me to push harder. But yes, I’ll get to that in a minute.

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