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Doing something can be a difficult task especially when you have no idea of what you’re doing! We went on air this morning and oh boy you could tell we are armatures. My brother had to call into the station to host the show because I have no home phone; we do it all on the net and with cell phones. He hadn’t done this before and didn’t know how to answer the call, I called and I waited, hoping he would answer. He started reading the mission statement; I guess it was better than doing nothing. Finally he answered the call about a minute into the show, then my other brother who was sitting right beside me wanted me to do things differently than what I planed.

I recorded a co-worker singing and giving her testimony which I think is beautiful you have to hear her, un-scripted and UN-rehearsed. The Girl can sing and she was crying out to the Father asking and expecting to receive. We went on with the show running on the show format that I hadn’t put to print until this morning or for you guys on the day the show aired. Hey, I can truly say that I am not ashamed of our effort we are truly ordinary Joe’s trying to do some extraordinary for our selves and people like us.

I had to go pick up a few more things from the place I’ve been stay at in Philadelphia. When we returned I check to see if we had any response from what we did to today, the numbers are sky rocketing, I really believe this is something that is starting to catch on. Still have sent emails out, my text messages have been too long, haven’t completed the show format, don’t know what the next topic is going to be, boy oh boy I am having a ball doing my best to serve the Lord. If I had known I could have this much fun I would have done this many many years ago.

Think of Elmer Fund when I say “that’s all folks” and you’ll know how delighted I am to share this with who ever is reading. It truly is an honor and pleasure to serve the father in our small way. I hope you can see, hope you can feel the Love in my heart for you all!

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Well where do I begin this story, a story about a holiday different from every other holiday of the last twenty years. Well by now if you’ve been reading any or most of my stories thoughts you know that my wife and I are separated and I don’t get to see my children too much, hardly at all in comparison to the time spent with them before all this happen. Let me bring you to where we are in time, it’s November 29th, 2010 and I’m sitting in the library of the school where I work waiting for the next run for me to work, actually it’s a early run for me and another hour of work that I desperately need.

So from the date above you probably wondering if I’m talking about Thanksgiving and I am. With all that’s going on in my life and the very little money I have and lack of hours because of school closing for whatever and holidays and having to go to court so much and being down for five days my pay checks haven’t been looking to good. Hey I’m going off story back to it; thanksgiving weekend it wasn’t to bad but not what I wanted.

I am the father that has always been with his children and the son that always wanted to be with my parents especially on the holidays because of what we did on the holidays and some other reasons that I won’t divulge right now. Well this weekend was different in that I had a house guest, a friend from my past, a friend that I call brother, we were rather close in our younger days, not just him his brothers and sisters as well.

My friend I’ll say for whatever reasons seems to me to stuck in a past time and needs to come on over to today, this century. I won’t say exactly what I’m talking about however; I will say he enjoys some things from the past that I absolutely do not indulge in any longer. Let me tell you though it was nice to reminisce about the old days and to see someone who was is still very special to me. I was able to sit with their family meet her daughter and yes her man. Yo let me tell you I was very good for those who know who I am and how I use to be, the person I am today is a better person.

Hey over the holiday I was able to get some work done, see family, some dear old friends, talked to my kids on Skype, so you know what it wasn’t so bad after all I could be down, that’s slang for in prison. Monday or Tuesday I was sitting in my car crying because I can’t be with my kids and cam up with this idea of starting a 501.3.C, that’s a non-profit to help men like myself who have had hard time in the same situation and have no place to turn. I’m not going to give to much information on that just yet; I don’t want any one to steal my ideas. I will say it is going to Bible based with no shucking and jiving to no means because people hurt, I hurt at just the thought of not being able to daily share in the right I earned to be called “Daddy”.

Be famously you and I’ll be famously me, 1!

Fathers for Families, Standing on Faith Ministries is ordinary people trying to help people do extraordinary things under extraordinary circumstances. We have hope and faith that you will help us help men recover from circumstances that weren’t in their control, who have sought help to be turned away, they didn’t qualify. Sadly meaning, they have a job so they can eat, they don’t do drugs or drink for a sound mind, they don’t have a prison record basically conforming to societies rules, and other attributes that qualify him as a man however, because of these qualities they were turned away when they said help even before they where informed the program had no money.

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We’ve all been in need, known someone in need, help us help those in need! We’ve all known that “Father/Daddy” who needed some help, maybe it was your brother, uncle or even your own father.

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After a day of fishing in a stream by my rural home, I proudly came home with a stringer full of bass and bluegill only to be told by my parents we couldn’t eat them because the rivers and the fish in them were toxic and had to be thrown out. The reservoirs in which these streams flowed into were closed to all fishing and the beaches had been closed for swimming. I remember thinking how can we do this to ourselves. The companies responsible for polluting the streams and ground water supply, simply closed their doors and walked away without being held accountable for dumping tons of toxic waste into our environment. Then finally in 1972 the clean water act was passed and many local residents along with state and federal agencies began the massive clean up of our valuable waterways. It took nearly thirty years but finally some of the fish were once again fit for human consumption, that is within certain limits. Then in 2003 the Bush administration reversed many of the policies of the clean water act and once again pollutants began pumping into our streams and wetlands once again. I was recently criticized and actually labeled a cultist for not capitulating to the denialist about the dangers our planet face if we do not act quickly. I make no apologies for my views about global climate change and man’s influence on the environment. My ancestors relied on this land to provide all its life sustaining gifts for thousands of years before my time, and it saddens me to think my children and grandchildren may not be so blessed. During the the 1990′s I worked closely with many companies to take industrial waste and reintroduce what was once land filled, and find uses for their waste for green label certification. Not only were they not paying to bury the waste but were actually profiting in reselling waste. It was an exciting time in which environmentalists and corporations were working closely together to solve the problems we faced as a nation. Sadly with the dismantling of many of our laws and regulations, corporations no longer find it necessary to seek out alternative means to dispose of their waste products and find alternative energy for the future. The argument that we cannot compete with the Chinese if we do not loosen restrictions on corporations is a fallacy that I have seen first hand. So when someone tells me we must work with these people who deny we are in a crises is akin to telling me we must work with the Fox to guard the hen-house.

With the rise of the new Tea Party, a “grassroots” movement that is funded by Koch oil industries and the misinformation channel, Rupert Murdoch and Fox news, there has been a backlash to the green movement. There isn’t much point in arguing with these people who have bought into the propaganda perpetuated by these oil and energy companies. The best bet for a cheaper, cleaner environment rests mostly upon us to do our own part in achieving energy independence.

Solar energy is one alternative to the high costs of powering a residential home and is one that I am fully committed too. Currently at our home we supply all the hot water we need by way of solar heating. This alone has cut the costs of our home energy needs substantially.

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In the near future we intend to retrofit our home to supply even more solar energy to the point we no longer will be paying for our energy needs. Although many may claim that the payback isn’t worth the investment I would disagree with that point. Every little bit we do to minimize carbon emissions is a step in the right direction. Businesses, educational institutions, health care facilities and government agencies are becoming aware that a green building minimizes their impact on the environment and lower energy and operational costs. The research and development in the solar industry is making giant leaps forward to lower the costs of equipment and increase the efficiency of solar collection.

Nothing in life is free but the sun is our constant companion that gives us the affirmation that today is a new day. With a little investment we can all become energy independent, can anyone tell me how that can be a bad thing. It’s my hope and belief that renewable energy can and will be cost effective for all of us.

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Perhaps he has finally realised the folly of spending hefty sums on such projects. Perhaps he has suddenly become wiser.

Anyway, despite the irony, I must say that i fully agree with him on this one.

Any engineer will tell you that when building a high rise, after a certain height, building cost escalates. A 20 storey building may cost 300 or 400 millions, but a 60 storey is no more just 3 times the cost of a 20 storey building; it costs much more. A 100 storey building costs 5 billion on paper, but in Malaysia, costing always goes up in the midst of building, so it is not unreasonable to assume that it will cost more than 5 billions.

That is a lot of money which can be saved by building a much lower buidling or even 5 such buildings.

Another area of concern is this building which will add so much of floor space will cost a glut in the property market.

To think that by pumping money into such project will help to move the country to join the high income rank is naive. It will probably make many millionaires out of those who award the contracts and those who are given contracts and subcontracts.

Then there are the congestions that will be caused by the project. Already the areas around  Bukit Bintang, Jalan Sultan , Jalan Maharajalela , Loke Yew , Jalan Pudu are so congested, what would  these areas become once the whole project is completed? I dare not even think.  And if these areas are congested, the whole Cheras is going to be affected. Those who finish work at around 5pm and get home around 6pm now can expect to be home at 7 or 8pm. And with rain, it will not be unreasonable to think that they would get home only after 9pm. Might as well sleep in the office then.

This is not the time for this type of project. The priority should be the MRTs. KL is getting to be a city that is locked down, especially after rain. People’s time are wasted in traffic jams, which can easily be translated to higher productivities if the time wasted in traffic jams can be used for more innovative creation.

Then there are those who do not care to read arrow signs, and go onto the wrong lanes, or worse, go into a one way street in the opposite direction.

There are those who pay hefty sum to walk on treadmills in Gyms, but would not even want to walk an extra step when it comes to parking his or her cars. They will double-park right in front of their destination, even when 30 feet down the road, there are official car parks for parking. End result:  double parking causing difficulty for other drivers and jams to be built up.

Then there are those with good colour visions who have suddenly turned colour blind when coming to a traffic light junction, and drive their cars shooting across the road when lights turn amber or red.

One recent personal experience. I usually parked my car at the back of my clinic which i have turned into a garage for my car. The garage door opens to the backlane behind my clinic; there are yellow lines drawn on both sides of the narrow lane. I also put a prominent “Please Do not park- car exit” sign, in both English and Chinese,  just outside the garage door. But recently, when I wanted to go home after work, I found a car parked right outside the garage door, blocking the way. I went around my neighbouring shops asking for owner of the car but no one seemed to know anything about the car.

After waiting for about 20 minutes, a stout  middle age man in short and t-shirt came walking with a small girl to the car. He was carrying some “Ta Pao”(take away)  food. When I told him politely that his car has blocked me for 20 minutes and pointed at the yellow line, he stared at me, got his girl and himself into the car, and just before closing his door, screamed at me in Cantonese ” hui  sei lah” ( in english “go and die”).

What is he trying to show, I really do not know. How his behaviour is going to affect the little girl, I do not know. I only know that there are many such people around whose egos are so high that they cannot even acknowledge their mistakes and cannot even have the courtesy to say ‘sorry”.

The whole driving culture is wrong and police are not sending the right message. Only this morning, when I was travelling down Federal Highway from my house to my workplace, I saw a police Waja with 4 persons inside moving leisurely down the yellow lane reserved for buses and taxis in front of Khuan Cheng High school.  And of course , many cars would follow, and hence this really defeats the purpose of having a yellow lane.

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Another was the announcement that there would be 50% discount for those who did not settle summons on time. This really sends a wrong signal.

Those who receive summons are not going to pay on time since they know that there would be discount if they do not pay. Those who settle promptly are thus penalised, as they actually paid 50% more for being obedient citizens.  Actually it should be the other way round. Those who pay early and on time should be given discount and those who pay after the specified period should be punished with a late fees. In Malaysia, we are doing it in a reverse manner.

This is a sure way of encouraging Malaysians not to have discipline.  In those countries where the citizens show good discipline, wrong doing and late payments are punished, not those  who pay their fines on time.

Any wonder why we are not like South Korea, Japan, or  Singapore.

Any wonder Malaysian drivers are not scared to flout traffic rules? When wrong doing can be discounted, it is a signal that it is OK not to follow rules.

(This article is also published in MalaysianInsider as “When it is OK to be wrong”.)

Our name says it all “Teach IT” yes “IT” means information technology but it goes beyond just the name, it’s an attitude, a mission upon which our company stands, if you’re willing to learn we are willing to “Teach IT”. We hope you believe like we do that it’s fun to learn new things and polish old things to make like new.

Now back to “free your mind”, that’s what we want you to do “free your mind” and learn tried and true and new ways of doing business, that’s the real value of being associated we us and our brand. We’re not going to guarantee your success only you can do that however, if you love to learn again we are willing to teach it. Shouldn’t you free your mind, by doing so your health will improve, hey your overall life will improve.

What we’ve done is provide an atmosphere conducive to the learning process. We give the right people the vehicle to express them self’s. We put together hardware packages within the reach of every day people just like us who need to save a little too possible gain a lot.

We are here, standing strong, plum and square with free minds. Today we reaffirm our right to happiness and prosperity. I understand that everyday is a learning experience and I will learn. Every day, every second, 24 7 365 Is a “Teachable Moment“…I will “Impart Skill“…I will “Provide Knowledge”…On Your Mark, get Set…FREE YOUR MIND…Be Famously You…Teach IT.

Innovation is a grand word a grand idea a new way of doing an old thing. I believe Seven Secrets to be an innovative idea, a grand thing to help some one learn whether it’s a child reading or an adult who dreams of enlightenment and has the courage to step up and say I want to read, will you help me!

What where talking about is you get to make money while you help somebody be a better person this is something you want to do isn’t it. When a person can not read or do simple mathematical equations well I can’t imagine me, just for a moment where would you be if you couldn’t, couldn’t read that is, if you couldn’t add 1+1=2 how would you be living.

It’s pretty simple, where is your passion? What are your needs and how can life be better for you and how much better is it that you can read my simple words written in high school level english?
For a moment put the money aside, close yours eyes, now, imagine the smile of that child when he or she returns to school the next day and raises her hand when the teacher ask for a volunteer to read a paragraph from a text-book. Your student is called upon and everyone starts to laugh because just a few weeks ago he was called on and they laugh because she stumbled through and it was over the most basic words “the”, “it”, “Mississippi“. The student begins to read, another student cracks a joke, your student stands turns faces the class as they quiet down in awe of the eloquence your student now speaks, as your student reads, another student cracks a joke, your students smiles they laugh together. What is the feeling of that student, your student worth at that moment when they laugh together, I say it’s invaluable.

Recently I heard about a student being teased to no end. I saw a picture of her on the news she was beautiful, she committed suicide. I don’t know all the details but I would almost bet my life that it had to do with some sort of self-esteem issues on both sides.

We can’t fix all the problems of the world but to teach someone to read, this we can do! Join the race for literacy…impart skill…provide knowledge…BE A TEACHABLE MOMENT…on your mark…get set…be famously You!

I’m not boosting, a quarter million gone in five years and you both worked, where did all the money go. Why has she done and said the things she has to you. Do you now start beating her? Do you get revenge? How do you mend a broken heart, I know sounds like that song doesn’t it. You get all kinds of practical advice on what and how to do what they think you should, but it doesn’t fix it, it doesn’t stop the pain or give you all the lost years. It feels like someone dying, I’m dying!

I don’t know what to do except To stand on my religious faith and have hope for a better tomorrow. Please respond, what would you do?

Faith is the substance of things not seen, not herd…with that faith I claim my job…I claim my future for this new beginning, I thank GOD for allowing me my faith and the opportunity to show and to prove that his word is truth, to GOD be the glory. Be famously U!

PS. A shut door opened by faith! To be continued…

As for me I am absolutely convince, no question, no doubt about my God, my Jesus. Call me a fool if you must, will or want to! If I told you some stories which I’m not, you would believe that I’m stark raving mad I say mad (LOL). I’ll be that fool, my believes do not require you to believe as well. It’s a matter of more than just principle I’m a bit scientific in proving what I consider theory and some times I can figure it out and sometime I just can’t. Hey I could tell you stories that would absolutely blow your mind or you just may think I’m lying, stark raving mad, smile!

Here’s the dilemma lots of people for millieum have tried to proof the bible wrong and simply could not, their finding only strengthen what was written as factual and true at least from an intellectual stand point.

Now here’s where faith comes into play! All the pundents, nae sayers, not believers and there alike say no not true. Well the book says (bible means book) with faith you don’t need proof yet many have given proof, there are those who still don’t believe and write it off as a ufo story or something. See tragedy sharpens the senses if you’re strong enough to walk through the fire to have the faith of a mustard seed. I’ve met and been around many an atheist who at the first sign of trouble and hardship guess who they call on, that’s right, say it again, GOD! They call on the very thing they say they don’t believe in, GOD!

What does all that have to do with being fearless at 50? I never feared any man, woman or child, to walk the streets at night in bad neighborhoods to go anywhere to do any thing, brave, well no! See I wasn’t afraid of God and what he would do if I didn’t obey his commandments. Why do some get rich and don’t believe well 1 unless you personally know them you, we really don’t know what they believe. The other thing that must be considered why does the enemy have to be dumb, if he was, it was, they where there would be absolutely no chaos! Fearlessness is because of the things I didn’t expect and the faith of the things to come. I believe in that precious word, the stories, the lessons, and the sound doctrine that is everlasting to everlasting. You its funny as I write this a man just said he was running, trying to get a way but he two was given an ultimatum he pass the test.

See hears the thing, when you can look back on your life and see where you where, then look at what you’re going through and see why and where your going, it makes it easy to be fearless, to believe, to trust, to have faith, to be fearless! Stay up people and when the storm comes dance through it, be fearless!

Many of the problems I had things I wrote about are still hear I’m just learning to dance through the storm! To keep my faith a little more, kind words from strangers, up lifting my soul, the closing of some doors and how others are opening just in time for my need. I woke up one morning and my thought was vanity, beware of it, yea I love me and I don’t hate you. I see, I feel some good things happening and about happen, and for some reason I always know, I don’t know why, sike I know but you wouldn’t believe it. Sound mind, sound body, moving forward baby forward, going to let favor and good fortune smile on me, not going to force it, going to stand on faith and let it happen. Peace love and hair grease, be famously YOU I’m going to be famously ME!

I don’t know what you believe but I do care, thought I was going to say and project something else didn’t you. I care enough to say God is real more real to me than you, me the cosmos the existence of existence whatever that is or may not be.

Today, on my Mothers birthday, I received a call that maybe I should not have or couldn’t have or wouldn’t have if things happened a different less stressful, hurtful way. What has happened to me I simply can not explain, I can say it’s overwhelmingly wonderful.
Hey…Be Famously U!

I’m not trying to scare you away; I just want you to know there is consequence to every cause and effect. Consequences you may not be ready to face. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Money won’t fix every thing but it sure can help. So I say be sure and honest in your believe and that your passion will not get in the way of your happiness.

People will tell you start a business you’ll make lots of money but first you have to buy my product to really make it happen and fast. I say be sure what you want is what you want you might just get it.

You are only truly successful if you can have your cake and eat it to. My father and I had a talk today and for the first time he talked to me, I mean he really talked to me. I’m not talking man to man but father to son, it felt pretty good to just sit there and listen. He finally told me to take care of home first yet this time in a way that I felt was from the heart. He told me he was afraid, worried how my older brother and I would make it after he’s gone. He finally gave me some advice I could use unselfish and true to his heart. Though some may call it a sin I finally feel pride in calling him my father, my dad, I can finally stop trying to please him and stop trying to live up to what he has accomplished. You as a person have to do what you need to do however, you must remember the people around you are people to and if the ones that care about you the most aren’t happy and that makes you unhappy why do it. Illusions of grandeur, illusions of it being easy, illusions of something for nothing, illusions of success without failure. Wake up and smell the coffee is what “Grits” would say and he was right, wake up. Don’t jeopardize the love you have for a dream, a hustle, for something that may or may not happen. Do it a little at a time while keeping your full-time job until the day comes if it comes you have the money to say, “okay now I can leave this job without hurting my family”

So today instead of you being famously you if only for today let them be famous! I truly love you!

Things are done differently yet they never change. Where it comes from I don’t know but I have this ability to get people to stop and listen, the difference is now I have my brothers with me. Men who have they know how to take my vision to the world however as you are aware we have to start somewhere and that somewhere is, SEO. That somewhere is the discussion boards. That somewhere is in the blog as Docmover because Docmover move the documents that move the paper.

Here’s some pressure for you. When I say it, you have to make it happen because I can’t or it would have already been done. When I dream it, you have to find a way to make it happen. This goes for you and John. I don’t generally give guarantees, yet this I do guarantee. I guarantee if my brothers that I need put just a small bit of faith in my ability I’ll have running to line up around the globe for what we have. Get me up and running, I got to go, got to move, I need you.
I could go on but I won’t. I world depends is trying to slip away I need you guys to get it done. Put me out there. So stop talking and getter done son. A true sales professional listens then acts. Two books to read, “Art of War” Sun Tzu, “Closers” Tom Hopkins, “Sales 101″ Zig Ziglar.

Do you get it yet if we fail, I lose EVERYTHING! Failure is not an option!

It’s funny a year later and we’re still talking about little bits. The kid was attacking another younger kid on the bus I went to save the younger kid, my young friend attacked me. Think that’s funny; if my money stretches long enough we boldly go to the throw together, yea he’s going to church with me on Sunday like I said if I have money for gas. Be Famously You

I ponder these questions almost daily, all of them. My longing to be a preacher and preach Jesus’ word (don’t be angry at what I believe and I’ll do the same), my longing to climb to the Buddhist monks and sip on some tea. Wanting to see and save the world, though it gets saved in my limited point of view I assure you my intentions are pure and only hope for the best. The problem with that is everybody, soul or whatever you want to call it does not see or believe in what I see or believe.

Enlightenment means many different things too many different people, I’ve sought after Enlightenment yet do not know if I have or if it has eluded me, is it even something that is attainable. If what I do connects to you and I try to do what is right and just in my eyes and it hurts you was I wrong and if you do the same are you wrong.

Let’s talk about survival to exist what is it and where did it come from, to have and not to have. To live in palatial quarters or to lie in the dirt. To come into this world not knowing up from down, right from wrong and for some one to tell you that what you thought was right is wrong yet it is what has made you exist, to step forward to another day or is that wrong to. Free to do what, I don’t know, free just to be free. You can do what you want to do and one may say it’s wrong or maybe a whole society.

See you’re God and my god (intentionally not capitalized) may say and see completely different things. Your god may see bad meaning bad and good meaning good or bad meaning good. If I kill you some may say it was the right or politically correct thing to do and others will take the opposing view yet this is what we’re calling freedom.

I’ve been recently watching a program that is a supposed attempt to depict Roman society as it was 2000 or so years ago. Where they wrong living the way this particular show depicts them or did they have it right, if where to be as some believe I can’t see where they could have thought it to be wrong. As a rich roman I would have loved to live like that, my every conceivable desire accommodated at a whim. To simply do as I pleased but we all know how that turned out. I want to say you should but maybe you don’t.

I asked once or twice before what is your passion have you figured it out yet. Are you that person who has it all figure out and know exactly what you’re doing know and what you’re going to being doing in twenty years. Twenty years ago I didn’t and still don’t to this day. In my youth I was either bad or wild I was simply misunderstood for not understanding but was labeled with at the time some of society’s most disturbing labels that can be put on a child. I love people and I hate people and it all stems from my individual take on life. People can be so nice so cruel, cruel on purpose. Could you make your daughter keep her clothes outside under a blue tarp on the dirt? Okay you don’t have a lot of money, you live in a trailer but this is your child, this is something that I know to be true.

I going to be as famously me as I can be…you be famously you.

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As I come home I feel like a stranger in my land. As I look at the people scurry about their business unaware of the world I say how can this be. I walked in a store at the top of the block their was this child with her mother, I wanted to snatch the child up and run away. The child’s mother was lost to drugs and alcohol, I did all I could I ask the mother if she would pray with me she accepted only with the bribe of a cigarette.

This about two months after I originally started writing this. Coming home is back to South Philadelphia where I spent a great deal of time, I kind of grew up in two places with my parents and with my Grandmother. When my parents where acting a fool and wouldn’t listen to a word I had to say off to Grandmothers house I would go. My dad’s mom, as a very young child we where there every Sunday, my older brother and I, he says he kept going but I don’t remember that. I remember the girls my cousins who lived there full time sometime being angry when I got there because it was already crowded in the small house. Me and the youngest of my cousins became very close during those times. She’s been with the same Dude for almost 30 years I always liked him because I could see he really loved her, I never had to step to him about how he treated her, and it seemed he always treated her well like he loved her. I loved her and would’ve done what was necessary for my cousin who was more like my little sister than anything else. All the girls are doing well from what I hear, it makes me happy to know they have some peace and joy in there life I love them all but Prudence was my heart, I guess because she was younger than me. Hey she has a daughter that is either getting or just got married, that’s a beautiful thing. Over the summer I stayed in there house, we all have so many fond memories of, in, from that little old house. That house is a story in its own. I have no idea who came before us, but what I do know is it provided a place where so many of my family called it home. That place that small house on that little street in South Philadelphia has seen it’s share of changes, it watched my Father and Uncle grow up one my father to become a old man to my cousins their children, me and my brothers and now my children, my older and younger brothers children, what a wonderful place to call home!

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There is nothing worst than a office kiss a__ snitch that couldn’t sell to save their life who gets the best of the best leads because the person handing out the leads couldn’t sell to save their life got sold on the idea that if the best comes to them that they would get broke off a little bit. Meanwhile the real professionals that if given half a chance with a qualified customer would make the sale 9 times out of 10 because they are genuine, personable and well versed in sales technique and doesn’t have to lie to lead the customer who is now a client down the right path.

See, the best of the best sales person doesn’t have to lie because they have listened to the client (yes the person is now a life long customer or better said a client) and knows what they want, they now just have to help them get there. The best of the best probes deep to get in side of the clients heart (no not their head), puts them in the place they want to be by asking questions that are pertinent to the end result, a sale. I know I just over simplified the process and some of you may even think the dummy just gave it away, well I didn’t it doesn’t come over night and I’ll say this practice listening. Some of you, definitely not most of you would not be able to run with the crew my buddy and the guy who owns the company are running with because they have practice the art of listening (that’s the secret weapon).

The best of the best listens, over comes fear, and then conquers them self’s by speaking only when you know the answer or discovering the answer to what you already know with out telling the person in front of you what you already know.

Are you shy, you can do it? Are you ugly, yes you can, you can do it. All it takes is two simple things combine, an ear to listen and a little humility. Yes I hear you, because I want you to be successful and not worry about where your next meal is coming from and not to have to kiss booty to get it. This may not sound so humble but I can walk into or onto any body’s sales floor and sell for one reason and one reason only, the ability to listen. As a sale manager I can take any novice and get them making money if they listen. One other notable trait is the ability to overcome fear which is hard when you’re trying to listen.

I could go on but I’m not, be the best. DO your best. Expect the best. The best will come your way. To Teach is first to learn…To impart skill is to known…to be famously You just take YOU!

Ps: some motivational speech huh.

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The Person we are today is a culmination of everyday of yesterday.
I ask forgiveness 4 yesterday, pray for a good day and hope tomorrow comes.

What more can we hope for out of life after all life and everything in it is ever-changing every second every moment 24-7-365 and there is nothing any of us can do about it. Think about it, any thing every thing is definitely changing no matter how minute the best that we can hope for is to be able to have some control of that change, I pray that your efforts are to affect positive change for you and your surroundings.

I beg not, we beg not, Teach IT begs not your presence on this auspicious occasion; we invite you to the possibility of working alongside us as we go forth on our march, our journey to the unknown and beyond. As we continue to build our alliances your invited to take a look at what we offer, we are more than competent, we provide the tools for You to be successful and that is what you want isn’t it.

There are many technical terms I could use to describe our websites for you, I’ll just simply say they are the best product out there bar none, we should charge more money.

So here’s my question for you; When do you want to start saving money on your IT needs, now or later?

Today right now with no delay is what you said isn’t. Look at us because we know you have already looked at them. Yes others can offer many of the same products we offer however not at the saving we offer for your money. A professionally built website with all the bells and whistles, hosting and products to sell that are both in demand and benefit you and your customers. Today is the day you take control of your destiny in this ever-changing world. Now is the time you make your future financially safe by joining in on the e-commerce revolution by building or expanding your customer base 1 very important customer at a time 24-7-365 in this ever-changing world.
Today is the day you let your self be free to build a brighter safer financial future.
This has been another TEACABLE moment presented to you and for your edification by Teach IT…be famously You!

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I remember during the time of my oldest child’s first few days or weeks in this cruel world on this planet we call earth he was small, wired for sound and weak. For the first time in my life I knew fear. I drove to my apartment from work and decided I would take the bus instead of driving; I went to the liquor store to get a pack of Newport’s and a tall boy 45. As I was standing in line some how I dropped my money and this chick reached down and picked up, I ask for it back she said it was her’s when it was mine. See it was all I had, enough for the smokes, beer and bus ticket and now it was in her hands so I snatched it because she thought it was hers because of the gorilla she was standing with. She didn’t know the rage in my heart, in my soul, that I perfected since a young child. That I had master the art of the street brawl, black eyes, sprang, gun play two on me, three, four, more and more. She didn’t know that when I walked in the door that I had sized every person as to ability and the unforeseen possibility that I may have to do something to any one of them or all of them.

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The rage of my size growing up in a large and rough city, the training on the drill field and then back to that city to a little city with players from literally all over the world. I snatched my money her gorilla leaped, we went to the floor a place I didn’t want to be…I punched in his throat to loosen his griped leaped to my feet another came forward, I punched him in his throat, punched him in his xyphoid process punched him in his jar and he was out. Dude the gorilla was up and slammed against the counter more times than I can remember falling to the ground where I began to stomp him. All I wanted to do was get a beer some smokes and go visit my new-born in the hospital. I was pulled off of him and they were escorted from the establishment. I’ve tried to suppress my anger my rage it is a battle when you know that you know that even at my age the rage experience the studying the training the sheer will to win at all cost at pugilist can over power the intellect if not kept in check and the mind conditioned and feed the right things spiritual food to control the rage of the soul and spirit. To suppress the warrior, to pacify restraint.

Working for my father on many occasions I was able to take the stand of a pacifist and maintain a harmony within myself where my thoughts of destroying a person anther living soul could be controlled.

I thank God and give him only the glory of me being here writing this pouring my heart out from my bedroom instead of a prison cell. I thank The Father for being strong and holding me for I am weak. No more, No more for now…be famously You!.!.!

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Look upon life and just try and figure out what is the right thing, the right thing to do. To have spent doing the right thing making mistakes along the way, as we all do, to be the best, give your best, to make it right and to have it said as wrong, yet when the right person does what you did, it is now the right thing. To do what is right and feel crushed under the weight of right, promises to a child that “YOU” will never leave them or forsake them. An unconditional feeling that holds you up that eases the pain of embarrassment and the uneasiness of the situation “YOU” find your self in, doing the right thing. To walk in the WORD to be real about it to know yet not know it because you don’t want to know it because then maybe you say fuck it I’m not doing the right thing today. Today I’m going to do what makes me feel comfortable, put down this weight, travel lightly and swift, move to a better place a place where the pain of someone else doing that exact same thing yet you do what’s right.

You look around at all the people who do that same thing, stupid things, mean and hurtful things, things that aren’t the right thing and then cal it the right thing in the name of so idiotic ideology that they made up to justify the cruelty they afflicted on someone because they made up in their mind that they were not doing the right thing or the thing they wanted them to do so it wasn’t the right thing which really amounts to a whole truck laid of BS!

I look back in time and if you knew who I was would say BS but if you saw what I saw the way I saw it, see it you would be amazed at the simplicity of the complicate to be simple yet some many in direct proportion to the intellect have said me to be brash, arrogant and I had left a foul taste in there mouth with a aroma that offended there nostril. I say now just because you or them if the show fits because of your not being enlightened you are a fool conforming to the per verbal monkey jumping off the building, go ahead jump!

Yes I am I am pissed yet for the promise of my tender child, children I will endure. Because of my faith I will believe, I do believe, that the right thing is the right thing and deserves the respect to do and endure what is necessary to make right no matter how much some one else may say nae. I look to the heavens to sooth my soul, to comfort my spirit, to temper my rage, to hold me together to remember who I am and not let my internal struggle of rage unbridled escape to put me in a place long forgotten buried deep in the recesses of my mind.

I saw this women in or on I believe the senate floor tell the people, said the word, chattel, shall I act in that manner, shall I switch sides, the side I have always been on. Yea booooooy people say they don’t like me, that I think I’m this and I think I’m that and the truth the fact of the matter is they think, they believe it.

I’m going to do the right thing, all will bow, all will confess his name, all will be judged for their action and lack of action…
HOW WILL U B JUDGED…do the right thing…BE Famously You…!!!???
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