I was reading fellow thinker Harry Webbers’ blog (www.madisonavenew.com) recently about how when you see something so freaking great, that a part of you hates that it wasn’t something that you created.  Mr. Webber’s example was the Converse ad where Mos Def did the narration with just a CGI ball moving throughout a empty gym.  The first thing that came to my mind was the this Apple Commercial that I originally posted in August of 2008. (more…)

Remember to think for yourself!!!

Yesterday I worked for about 12 hours creating cover concepts for my new book, “A Book of Questions with One Answer”.  I didn’t realize how much time had passed until the 8th draft. The thing that I like most about being creative is the magic of connecting with my soul until something is revealed. I really can’t explain it, but I always know it once I see it.

The fire was really ignited after showing the first couple of drafts to Armand and Kanye due to neither of them having a problem with telling me just how wack they were!  It is a good thing that I know the importance of keeping an open mind to constructive criticism…especially when the other person is right!

Although it’s not quite ready yet, I’m getting quite anxious to share it with the world!!!

Barney Pressman, founder of New York-based luxury chain Barneys, owed a lot of his success to his wife.  When Pressman saw a small store in Manhattan going under in 1923, he wanted to buy it and open a clothing store of his own.

There was just one problem…he didn’t have the cash.  When Pressman told his wife, Bertha, about this predicament, she slipped off her engagement ring and told him to pawn it.  With the $500 Pressman got from hocking his wife’s diamond, he took over the failing store’s lease and bought 40 high-end suits, which were the original inventory when Barney’s Clothes opened its doors shortly thereafter.

What a trooper that Bertha was!!!  I really like this story because it exemplifies perfectly the importance of your circle of influence.  More often than not, it is the key factor that will have the greatest impact between your success or failure.

I leave you with the words of one of my best friends, Mr. Erik Canandy…success is a choice, so choose wisely!!!

Topics range from business to politics, religion to education, relationships to self-empowerment, to pop-culture and everything else in between. Tune in and join in the discussion where great minds don’t think a like…they think for themselves!!!

Hoboken Public Library
500 Park Avenue / Hoboken, NJ 07030

Free General Admission

For registration, call (201) 420-2347, email hobkref@bccls.org, or visit http://hoboken.bccls.org

MEET THE ENTREPRENEURS…

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“In general, I feel if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself.”

-fellow thinker
John Searle

“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living”

- fellow thinker
Nelson Mandela

SHOW HIGHLIGHT: Too many to list!

Topics range from business to politics, religion to education, relationships to self-empowerment, to pop-culture and everything else in between. Tune in and join in the discussion where great minds don’t think a like…they think for themselves!!!

Tuesday / December 15, 2009 / 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Hoboken Public Library
500 Park Avenue / Hoboken, NJ 07030

Free General Admission

For registration, call (201) 420-2347, email hobkref@bccls.org, or visit http://hoboken.bccls.org

MEET THE ENTREPRENEURS…

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Try to regard all encounters and situations, including your job, as a game, as the world of illusions.  Pull back a little and enjoy it all.  Do you best, but don’t fall apart if everything doesn’t pan out the way you’d like it to.  Remember that things are seldom what they seem.  Even skim milk masquerades as cream, and as Oscar Levant once said, “When you strip away the phony tinsel, what do you find underneath?  The real tinsel.”

I highlighted this passage over ten years ago.  When I came across it over the weekend, it dawned on me just how much I’ve applied it to my life!

A couple of weeks ago during the We Think Radio show, I stated that I’ve never had an argument with anyone who was smarter than me.  What seemed to be something just said in passing has actually made a profound impact in my way of being…for I have not argued with anyone since!

I know now for sure that there is no reason to argue with anyone based on this new way of thinking.  Allow me to further explain… (more…)

SHOW HIGHLIGHT: Why are men afraid of strong women?

Topics range from business to politics, religion to education, relationships to self-empowerment, to pop-culture and everything else in between. Tune in and join in the discussion where great minds don’t think a like…they think for themselves!!!

The Muslim Problem:
Clarity in the age of the Anti-Muslim Industrial Complex
By Preacher Moss a.k.a Undercover Muslim

A while ago, a good friend, and fellow thinker, Sakiya Sandifer, asked me to compose and article on the recent and tragic shootings at Fort Hood military base.  As I watched the news, the words “killer, Muslim, terrorist, and Islamic seemed to role across the screen as it made its way in the context of conversation being offered by the journalist.  It appeared, in a continuing trend, that the media was looking to take the actions of alleged Muslim gunman’s act of terror, and immediately try to connect his actions to a fundamentalist, violent, radical, but extremely profitable and marketable form of Islam.  I affectionately call this making doe on the “Muslim Problem. For those who are new to this, welcome to the world of the Anti-Muslim Industrial Complex (AMI Complex) my friends…or maybe not.

If you want to know what the Muslim problem is, I would submit to you as Example A, (more…)

Often when one is labeled with the term “judgmental”, it carries a negative connotation…and of course I strongly disagree with that notation.

By definition, judgment means (more…)