LIFE IS ABOUT MORE THAN LIVING

Episode 4 Preconditioned To Fail: Howard C. and Me Photo: me, my mother and Howard C.

Howard C. my stepfather became the first father figure I had in my life. This is a synopsis of our story, a story I hope you can relate to in some way.
Howard C.
A tribute poem
He stood ‘bout five foot nine with a head of black and gray when he wasn’t bent over and tired ‘cause of the bricks he laid to earn his pay.
Friday night to Sunday morn’in he chased his demons away with White Liquor and six packs of Miller.
Welded to the motion picture screen of his brain was the image of a man he’d killed in a Jersey bar for a reason long forgotten like an innocent child of war.
Weeknights when he wasn’t drinking, we’d sit and talk, we would sit and talk in front of the Black and White TV as Dan Rather spewed off the evening news.
I’d tell him about my newly found faith and it’s promise of paradise and he would remind me about how life is like a pair of dice, sometimes you roll a seven, other times snake eyes, sometimes the only the prize the winner got was a card deck of lies and when your deck is stacked against ‘cha, he’d say, “You betta know how to shuck and jive.”Bluff your way through before you’re forced to do things you never thought you’d do.
Being young and book smart dumbI I challenged his every word, debated him down, this man with a Street University degree
This man who unselfishly made himself a father to me
His blood does not run through my veins biologically...His blood runs through my spirit
Energizing me mentally when my body is tired and all hope seems to be gone
I remember what he taught me
He taught me that it doesn’t matter how strong a man is, what matters is how well a man holds on.
He loved me like a son and I loved him like a dad. To this day his voice echoes in my ears and my heart for him, longtime dead, still sheds a river of tears.
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Preconditioned To Fail: Dissected

This podcast series is an episode by episode dissection of my very first two podcast episodes almost a year later.
As you join me on my personal comprehensive reflective journey I hope you will choose to make time for you own reflections if you’re not already doing and therefore live each day as if you’re guaranteed another day to accomplish anything and all your heart may desire with regards to your quality of life.
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The Removal of Symbols of the Confederacy: This Black Mans Perspective

Does removal of symbols of the Confederacy actually create greater unity in America’s ever increasing diverse society? Listen on for this Black man perspective.
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Keeping It Real Quitting? Stay in your game? Be a sideline player?

Quitting? Stay in your game? Be a sideline player? Only you can make that choice with the regards to your life achievements.
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Online Dating Some Do’s and Don’t

Alfred Harrell More than a Poet and Irina aka Drop of Sunshine shares their opinions and suggestions as to do’s and don’ts about about online dating in the era of social media
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Sometimes Letting Go Is….

Sometimes letting go is the best way to hold on. Why?
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Dealing With Distractions

Why is it at times easy to get sidetracked from something we’re passionate about doing whether it is a hobby, a personal project, some type volunteer work or a business endeavor?
What is required to get back on track and to get moving forward again?
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You and I are…

You and I are where we choose to be in life until there’s changes our personal thinking, our perspectives and our daily routine. This podcast offers some practical yet possibly uncomfortable suggestions about how to make this adjustments.
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Failure A Close Friend

Failure: Embrace it. Love it. Use it.
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Our Words Affect Our Trajectory

Our words affect our trajectory. How so?
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Episode The Nicodemus Complex

Acknowledgment plus actions creates encounters with positive residual returns.-Alfred Harrell More than a Poet
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What We Don’t See Episode 5 Let’s Keep It Real

As people we see the successful lives of other people either up close, at a distance or by means of some type of media.
This podcast addresses some of what we didn’t ee that lead to their achievements. It addresses some of the commonalities which lead famous and ordinary people to certain levels of achievement in spite of their seeming limitations.
Note: My shared observations are based in stories of successful people I for the most part learned of second hand or from some type of media.
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Let’s Keep It Real Episode 4 Lessons Learned From The Caterpillar

Sometimes nature teaches us life lessons more simplistically than textbooks and other forms of media.-Alfred Harrell More than a Poet
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Let’s Keep It Real episode series Episode 2 Five “P’s”

Five “P’s” for achieving almost any thing desired in life whether they are applied collectively or individually in various situations.
Perspective
Planning
Position
Process
Patience
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Episode Remember why!

Remember why you started. Embrace the moment! Slow down! Take breaks as needed. Just don’t quit! Keep the game end in sight!
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Episode Who’s holding you back? What’s holding you back?

So you want a career change? A better salary? To start business? To turn your hobby into an additional revenue stream.
Who’s holding you back? What’s holding you back?
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Listening Creates Greatness

How does listening create greatness? Listen on for a few suggestions and replay as needed.
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New Year Resolutions Are Useless If?

If you ain’t ready to in__________then 2019
If you and I ain’t ready ain’t willing to make the necessary changes, accept uncomfortable challenges and invest some type of sweat equity going into the new year 2019 then at years end we will look back if granted life through it and see that much of it resembled the 2018. Any new year resolution made is useless if you ain’t!
Are you ready to make changes? Only you can answer that question!
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Episode 1 Racism and Divisive influences Within Modern Day Christianity

Is it possible to overcome racism and the political influences in our modern interpretations of Christianity? Why should we, if we identify ourselves as Christians, even try too?
Christianity was founded and established upon a theology of love and acceptance which challenged the racial,religious and socio-economic culture of its day bridging all type of divisive gaps, so why is it a wall builder for some people and bridge constructor for others in our world society today?
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Episode 2
Racism and The Political influences Within Modern Day Christianity: This podcaster perspective
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Episode It’s Okay! Positive and Negatives of Being Supportive

Pursuing, building, networking, partnering and supporting other people or organizations visions, goals and objectives is Ok.
What isn’t being more focus upon others goals and objectives than your own. Why I say so? Listen on.
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Episode Walk Into Your Now First Of The Week Motivation

No human being can build your future but you.-Alfred Harrell More than a Poet
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Available Options If Single But Don’t Want To Be Alone During The Holidays

The title is descriptive enough for this podcast description.
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Patience: Early In The Week Motivation

Patience in our increasingly impatient society is a key to successful living in all our pursuits when it becomes a habit instead of something we practice on an as needed basis.- Alfred Harrell More than a Poet
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Perspective: First Of The Week Motivation

Our viewpoint of  our day and week determines directly or indirectly our personal highs and lows, failures or successes.
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Our Daily Diet

First or Last Thing We Ingest
What we feed our minds at the beginning and end of each day reveals our current view of our position in life and determines the direction of our dreams, life objectives and methodology of their becoming a daily reality.
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Be Open To Helpful Criticism

One way we know who our real friends are is through conversations.
Real friends tell us what we need to hear not what we want to hear. They care more about our life position than hurting our feelings.
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Learn Daily Episode 3

Learn something something new everyday that challenges, engages and motivates you to become a better you!
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Learn Implementation Learn: LIL Learn Episode 1

Is it about the big accomplishments, the hiccups encountered on the journey or the process of repeatedly doing the little that lead to a successful end game win?
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Preconditioned To Fail- The power of holding on

My stepfather Howard C. taught me in the early 1980’s that it doesn’t matter how strong a man is, what matters is how well he holds on. Why must we that we stay the course during good and not so life situations?
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