7 Day Gratitude Challange

grat·i·tude

ˈɡradəˌt(y)o͞od/

noun

1. the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.

Something that I have been doing a lot more of lately is trying to seeing the brighter side of things. One thing that helps me do that is showing gratitude. Being thankful for things that I have and the things that are coming into manifestation in my life. I see so many people complain or post negative things that I thought it would be cool to challenge my friends, family, and followers to a 7 Day Gratitude Challenge. During these 7 days you will be finding the bright side of things. Posting the positive instead negative on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Below are some ways this challenge can be completed: 

• Write in a gratitude journal each day. 
• Send a heartfelt thank you text to a different person everyday for 7 days.( A written on would be awesome but we live in an age of technology so text messages are safe. lol)  
• Find and share a different quote about gratitude everyday.
• Buy a book and gratitude and spend time everyday reading it. ( I subscribe to Scribe. It is an app I pay for that has tons of reading material. Check it out!)
• Go for a walk around your neighborhood and take a photo of something in nature that you are grateful for. (Nature is 
• Commit to thinking 3 grateful thoughts first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

These are just a few things that will assist you with this challenge if you are up to it. I encourage everyone to begin to see and feel the love that surrounds us everyday. Become seekers of the life affirming things that surround us daily. Tag me or hashtag #7DayGratitudeChallenge if you do it... I want to see everyone progress! 

God said Stunt!

I consider myself a pretty humble person. Always have been. Whenever a girl gives me a compliment and says don't let it go to your head.. that should be the least of her worries. I feel like if I get too high on myself or something I've done it could be taken away from me just as fast. But I also realize that the same could happen to me or anyone else regardless... So the other day I was riding around in my car feeling absolutely amazing! I had just come from getting a haircut so you already know where the confidence was at and I was more than likely playing something by Future the god. By this time I've drifted off into this little world where everybody is looking at me and thinking of the best adjectives for me at the time. All kinds of crazy scenarios with everybody I see run through my mind and every single minute is like this huge movie where I'm the star. It's actually kinda dope... But as soon as I started feeling that way I stopped because I felt like I was doing too much... in my mind. To me it was almost like I was bragging. Even though there's nothing to brag about... Then I thought about it. Not one single person outside of my car cares about me or what I think of myself... and then I said you know... God probably wants me to stunt! I mean not stunt like showing off but stunt as in being excited for what I have or how I'm feeling at that moment. You're supposed to be happy and excited and feeling yourself. That's all positive energy that everybody can feed on. We can't get any moment back so we might as well enjoy it because we're all stars and the universe just wants us to shine! 

Positive Side of Things

"The mind is everything. What you think is what you become"

This year I grew up. I mean really grew up mentally. Fresh off a bad break up that left me crying like a baby and in my room like my mom just put me on punishment I learned something. I learned about positivity. I learned about energy and vibes. I learned how to speak things into existence. And I learned the results of negative thinking and how I need to eliminate all negative thoughts. It's crazy how it took that breakup to change the way I thought and the way I move now. It removed a lot of the filth from my life and now I can see the light! Hallelujah! But seriously.... I learned that all you have to do is change your way of thinking and an entirely different way of life will reveal itself to you like beer goggles! I realized that my thought process was more powerful than anything and all I have to do is think positively and my actions will follow. I wake up every morning happy to be alive and when someone asks me how I'm doing I say wonderful even if I'm not at the time. Crazy thing is I usually end up feeling amazing shortly after. Now I feel like I can do anything I can think of and life is absolutely beautiful! I learned to embrace who I am 100% *inserts 100 emoji* and everything is dope now. One of the best parts about it is spreading that energy to the people around you and they begin to spread it and before you know it we can change the world! This is something so simple but yet we don't really know how to do it. So I hope y'all don't have to go through any bad times, drunken nights, or breakups to realize that all you need to do is think good thoughts and good things will soon follow.... I did that so hopefully y'all won't have to go through that *Hov voice*  Bless. 

When was the last time you wrote a love letter?

"We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it." - Lauryn Hill; Rapper, Actress, Creative

When the last time you wrote a love letter? 

When the last time you wondered how YOU could love better? 

When the last time you rejected the impulse to be negative? 

When the last time you told somebody you love them that wasn't a relative? 

When the last time you wrote a love letter? 

How's your penmanship? 

It's the little things that can breathe life into a relationship 

The power is still in the pen no matter how much technology appears to diminish it

When the last time you wrote a love letter? 

When the last time you received one?

I remember when "love always" and a ❤️ ended them 

Maybe a little perfume if she was experienced 

When the last time you wrote a love letter? 

Nobody pours their heart out anymore? 

Love letters used to be so significant

Whenever life seemed to fade feelings you could read back to remember it! 

When the last time you wrote a love letter? 

Let today be the next time

Because love may last forever but life doesn't 

While you can put ya heart between those lines

Express yourself 

Because love is truly the only wealth 

And loved ones sometimes need to be reminded 

How your life changed when you found them 

A love letter is and always was symbolic 

You took the time out to acknowledge 

Everything you're feeling

In a time of dying feelings 

A love letter might awake the living 

Mirrors

"If you looked at my life... and see what I see..." - Mary J. Blige; singer

You see, what separates me 

Is that I can see what you see

But you haven't seen what I've seen

So you can't see what I see

I see a girl

That's so likely to go unseen

Because what she has in her jeans

Is unlike many others that's seen

But see she still goes unseen

The irony

Seeing what's inside of those jeans

Limits seeing her true being

You see when she looks in the mirror

She wants to see what they see

But see, the angles and curves she sees

Doesn't stop her from seeing misery

It seems...

Imagine if everybody that sees you

Seems to see such a dream

But you seeing so many nightmares 

That you just wanna scream

See

They never see you 

They never see what torments you

Seeing is believing

They'll never see you how you see you

But it seems

that even though people have seen

That things are rarely what they seem 

She still goes unseen

Because seeing what's in those jeans

Limits seeing her true being

I want that ...

I want that black love 

That take me back love

To the days when it was as simple a ball and jacks (childhood game) love 

When do you like me came with boxes

And yes no and maybe were options

I want that black love 

That "this was me and ya daddy song dear"

Older , you realize thats how you got here 

That Im black and im proud

Chanting, fists to the crowds

I want that black love 

And no one was afraid to say it out loud

Show it off in a crowd

When pictures were only black and white

And making up followed after a fight

That take me back love

When your words were your truths 

And you were proud of your roots

I want that, need that, and wont settle for less

I want that black love 

Long for it if I must confess

That take me back love 

**hopeless romantic living in a popcorn generation. Ill be forever waitin**

Unfinished ... 

What Wo{men} Want

"If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise?... See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need." 

-Ms. Lauryn Hill; Rapper; Actress; Creative

When was the last time you took your woman’s trash out at her house? When was the last time you took your woman’s car to get cleaned?  When was the last time you took your woman’s car to get serviced? When was the last time you sent your woman flowers to work?

Ok…. If you don’t know the answer to those first questions, tell me… when was the last time your woman was tripping over some small shit? Let me be clear, there are some women that can’t be pleased, I know this all too well, but right now I want to focus on the ones that can and what it takes to do so. If you ask the average man what women want they’re probably going to tell you a bunch of materialistic things, I can’t fully disagree with this but I just think its deeper than rap! What do women REALLY want? I think women REALLY REALLY REALLY want…. MEN!

If nothing else, what I’ve gradually and thoroughly noticed about women is a seemingly growing desperation to be tough. There’s been decades of the systematic emasculation of black men. The domino effect of that is the disappearance of gender roles and mainly men being men. Primary art of war tactic has been to take black men out of the household whether thru war, intentional drug placement, or welfare regulations that required men to not be in the homes and watch the structure fail. So for the last 30 years women have had to take on the responsibilities of men, regulatory, physically, mentally, financially, disciplinary all while maintaining their traditional domestic responsibilities.  The proof is in the pudding.

Daily on twitter there’s some recycled gender war topic whether it’s the price of dates, should women ever pay on dates, should men always take out the trash, what’s too clingy, who should cook, who should do laundry, etc … all it tells me is that women honestly just haven’t seen enough men be men to know what to expect from one. So in seeing this constantly I was just forced to come to the conclusion that women, even those who seem so materialistic, just really want men! They want what men are supposed to do naturally. They want men to lead them, protect them, console them, compliment them, and to appreciate them… and show that appreciation. Nowadays we get so caught up in not wanting to do more for the other than they are doing for us that it becomes competitive. That’s fear and doubt that I feel naturally women should exhibit, men shouldn’t. Men should eliminate it. However, so many males haven’t been taught how to be men properly so they just learned to be womanizers. They go with what works the most and requires the least. Men and women of this generation have been miseducated and it was prophesized perfectly by Lauryn Hill. That album (The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill) is so great because it exhibits what was happening and has come to fruition; we got distracted so much we forgot how to love… intimately. Communication is the key. Women just have to make a conscious effort of requiring what they need and communicating what they need after themselves, thru self-examination, learning what they need. Because what they really want is often times someone to really look beyond the surface, it’s a war cry. So ladies… What do you need?