August 2013

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August 2013

10 Steps to Success

Marian Wright Edelman

Having Discipline

Kevin Liles leaves the blueprint for how to achieve success.

Be the first.

Malcolm X describes the effects of having discipline

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Today we live in a world that believes in the concept that sex sells.

However, in 1965, we were left with a message from Elijah Muhammad that informed us that we are being tricked by an illusion. To often young boys believe a half nude girl is sexy and all they need to be happy while young girls believe that this is the only way to get attention.

According to Elijah Muhammad, “America puts on a show of temptation with their women in newspapers, magazines, in the streets half nude, and posing in the so-called Negroes’ faces in the most indecent manner that is known to mankind – to trick them (so-called Negroes) to death and hell along with them. Be wise, my people, and shut your eyes to them – do not look at them in such an indecent way.” He then encourages people to clean their homes of these type of pictures and put up images that represent them on their walls because to many people have sacrificed their time and energy to be positive examples for you to follow.

In other words, don’t get trapped by the boobies because that is what they are, a booby trap.

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Hip-Hop Quote of The Month Adam lives in theory Trying to turn stone into bread Masquerading like he got it figured out Cut off from the sunshine, only smart in his own head Leaving his descendants to hope and doubt Left to his devices, those worthless sacrifices Praying to the alter of himself Making pilgrimages, thinking he's religious Like he's got all the light, and no one else Lauryn Hill

from Adam Lives in Theory

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1. Find Your Will – Look deep inside to discover that you really love to do. You will need that passion to drive you to make it happened despite all the hard knocks along the way.

2. Do You – Discover your own flava, then package it and present it to the world. From the way you tie your shoelaces to how you get down to business, you are your own best brand.

3. Walk This Way – Get educated. Whether it’s in college or the school of life, find a mentor, read and research. Know will give you the tools you need to make it happen.

4. Create a Blueprint – Create a vision of what you want from life and draw a road map to success. Make planning and attention to detail part of the way you live your life.

5. Play Your Position – Don’t act like youre to good for it. Have the humility to do your job and then some. Whether it’s answering the phone or digging ditches, do something to the best of your ability is a reflection of who you are.

6. Embrace the Struggle – Love the hard times because they make you stronger, wiser and more willing to take risks. Hard knocks breed tolerance and compassion. Failure teaches you how to do it better.

7. Get Connected – Build relationships to last forever. Success in business is built on personal networks. Kindness, tolerance and service will bring you repeat business.

8. Step Outside Your Box: M.I.X. – Be open to people from all walks of life. Reach out to those who are different from the usual crowd on your corner. Going global will help you blow it up even bigger.

9. Don’t Let Cash Rule – Greed will only trip you up. Understand that money matters, but only as a means to freedom, access, options and security for the future.

10. Flex Purpose, Not Power – It’s never too early to learn how to lead. Set the example.

When you manage a team it’s your job to inspire, motivate and empower your people.

(Reprint from Make it Happen)

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An activist during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Marian Wright Edelman is the founder of the Children's Defense Fund, an organization that works to improve the lives of children in the United States. Marian Wright was born on June 6, 1939, the youngest of five children of a Baptist minister. After completing her secondary education in South Carolina, she enrolled in Spelman College in Atlanta in 1956 and graduated with a B.A. from the school in 1960. She then enrolled in the Yale Law School and earned a juris doctor degree in 1963.

Wright spent the summer of 1963 registering African-American voters in Mississippi and in the fall of that year moved to New York City, where she worked as an attorney for the Legal Defense and Education Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She returned to Mississippi the following year, settling in Jackson, and became the first African-American woman to pass the Mississippi bar exam.

She maintained a private law practice that handled civil rights cases at the same time as she directed the Mississippi NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund. During her tenure as head of the Legal Defense and Education Fund in Mississippi, Wright concentrated on trying to improve the living conditions of poor people, both African Americans and whites, in that state. She pushed for a larger Head Start program for poor black and white children, for an expanded Food Stamp program to deal with poverty and malnutrition, and for increased funding for education.

Wright remained in Mississippi until 1968. Early in that year, she moved to Washington, D.C., to work as a coordinator for the March on Washington, which was being organized by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. After Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis in April, Wright carried through on her commitment to the March on Washington, which occurred that summer. With several other activist lawyers, she formed the Washington Research Project, a public-interest law firm that helped poor clients with their legal problems.

Marian Wright Edelman founded the organization for which she is best known, the Children's Defense Fund, in 1973. Around that same time, she also married Peter Edelman, a former staff member for Senator Robert Kennedy whom she had met in Mississippi in the late 1960s.

The Children's Defense Fund is committed to pressing the federal and various state governments to pass legislation that will protect children from neglect, abuse, and poverty. "It is time for the richest nation on earth to do what we know works to help all of our children," Edelman has said: Children who are homeless, hungry, neglected, abused, without health care, in unsafe communities and schools are not acts of God. They are our moral and political choices as a nation. We can change these choices and meet the needs of all our children. It is shameful and unnecessary that 12 million children are poor and 10.8 million children lack health insurance. We know how to solve these problems. Now we must build the political and civic will to do so.

Besides forging alliances with a number of other organizations to achieve results, the Children's Defense Fund, under Edelman's leadership, provided support for the Leave No Child Behind Act of 2001. Edelman is a frequent speaker on college campuses and at conferences.

Edelman has received the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award and the MacArthur Foundation Prize. In 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded her the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the U.S. government.

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I said to him, “I don’t eat pork.” The platter then kept on down the table.

It was the funniest thing, the reaction, and the way that it spread. In prison, where so little breaks the monotonous routine, the smallest thing causes a commotion of talk. It was being mentioned all over the cell block by night that Satan didn’t eat pork.

It made me very proud, in some odd way. One of the universal images of the Negro, in prison and out, was that he couldn’t do without pork. It made me feel good to see that my not eating it had especially startled the white convicts.

(Excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X)

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