Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
Instead of being a person to whom things happened, I became a person who made things happen.
A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.
On January 27, 2001, the focus of my career and the process of changing the desires of my heart all began. It was no longer about me but rather how I could impact others for the Kingdom. I officially was in the people business. That philosophy, combined with a warrior mentality, I believe, has endeared me to being labeled a positive clubhouse influence.
Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.
But at the end of the day, I refuse to believe there arent more qualified African-Americans, women, people of color in general for a role from the janitor all the way up to the owner of the club. I refuse to believe there arent more out there that can positively affect any of our games or any of our industries.
Social media reaches farther than we can physically reach with advertising.
The night is a tunnel. . . a hole into tomorrow.
Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.
Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!
That would bring tears to the eyes of a rocking chair.