Thoughts: Super Sperm

"You have to want it harder than anyone else."

If you are going to sign up for "Any" role or position you have to prepare yourself to go harder than anyone else could even imagine. Its like this- I figure, the mere fact that you are here is the proof...You had to defeat millions of other sperm cells trying to beat you to be you. So what'd make you think that it stops there. IT DOESNT.

Everyday, there're going to be forces that will come and block your game like a conterceptive. Therefore, you have to be strong in mind, soul and heart to get to the goal. You have to ask yourself, can I be the best in the world at this? If the answer is yes then you ask-What will that take? Then you proceed to doing everything it takes to be the best at it.

If the answer is No...you might want think about doing something different. For, "if you aint in it, to win it/ might as well dig a hole and jump in it/cause your game's dead and finished before you even begin it." -Shine On (circa 1998)

Thoughts: Kings Stay Kings

Here's a clip from The Wire where D'angelo Barksdale is teaching the the young soldiers how to play chess after he finds them playing checkers on a chess board. He teaches them by likening the game to their life. If we take the same approach to our life where will we end up on the board?


The best Part of the clip is the thesis of "Why y'all playing checkers with a chess set?"

That is what most of us are doing by not looking at the bigger picture, and using the tools we have, to get the life that we want. We do shit like work at jobs we hate then just go to work,bust our ass and come home. Wake up...Repeat. All that Just to pay for the plasma that entertains us, and the car that makes us feel good driving to work. The game is not that your boss is king and you are not. The game is that you are the boss of your life and dreams. Work strategically to get the life,family and work of your dreams.

Jay Z Said...
Niggahz playing Checkers wid Chess playing Hov
This game is over I dunno if y'all know
You in a hole.


I Say: Get out of that hole. Invest in yourself, because if you don't your life belongs to someone else and when its over its over..and You dug the hole for yourself.

Bottom line is the Kings Stay Kings...Be the King of your own Life.

Thoughts: Box Boy to Billionaire

In the 3/18/07 edition of Ny Times Magazine they asked billionaire, financier, Ron Burkle some questions. Here's one that I found interesting...

NY Times Magazine: ...Although you’re selling off Pathmark to A.&P., you seem destined to be known as a supermarket guy:

Ron Burkle: I started out as a box boy. You know, I didn’t go to college, and I did well in supermarkets.

Now on the surface it was tame, but the way it seemed to me was that the interviewer tried to put "shame in his game" by implying that after all he's done he will go down just as a grocery store owner. But he shook her right off...

Like if it was in "real" talk it would've went down like this...

Ny Times: Although your are selling off your stores, we are never going to let you forget you were the grocery store boy.
Ron: Look here!- I started at the bottom and took over this shit... and quite frankly---MuthaF@#er, I'm rich!