The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you’ve created your world, with actions of your body, speech and mind. When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life. It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands. ~Keanu Reeves
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Some years ago my friend ordered a CD program called “Time Robbers.” And he told me about the program at the beginning of this year. As he shared with me how he monitors his time I remember thinking “he really needs to get a life” and “why would I want to take minutes, if not hours, from my busy schedule to investigate what was stealing my time.” Little did I realize my thoughts were negative, and, more importantly, they were keeping me hostage to situations I wanted to be freed from.
Then as I began my recent journey focusing on positive thoughts, having a positive attitude and cultivating positive actions, it became clear that my shortsightedness was a negative emotion that kept me “behind the eight ball” by hindering me from capitalizing off the 86, 400 seconds we’re given each day. Since I’ve started watching how I spend my time I have a full schedule with completing projects. So, how are you spending your time today?
Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about….Reading was illegal because if you limit someone’s vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can’t even think of freedom because they don’t have the language to. ~M. K. Asante
I have this neighbor and she makes a daily list of things she needs to do or complete. Her house is spotless. Her lawn looks amazing! Her health is excellent. She looks younger than 51 years old. She has a body that would put a twentyish to shame. She drove her ex-husband crazy with her list. She makes her children run and hide for cover when it’s time to do daily chores. She even has her pets on schedules. Each cat and her dog know when to expect their monthly baths! Yes! Her cats get bathe without clawing . . . They know the routine. She has an amazing dating life! She expect the men she dates to give her their best! Some would say she sounds like a “female dog,” but those who value their time and expect the most out of life would say she has it going on. I can tell you it’s Saturday and she is cleaning her home and she is planning to meet some successful guy later for dinner and or a movie. So, how are you spending your time today?
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. ~Haile Selassie I
A couple going on vacation but his wife was on a business trip so he went to the destination first and his wife would meet him the next day.
When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email.
Unfortunately, when typing her address, he mistyped a letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher’s wife whose husband had passed away only the day before.
When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint.
At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
Dearest Wife,
Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
P.S. Sure is hot down here.
If you can control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one. ~Carter G. Woodson
Don’t forget we ALL have been given 86,400 seconds to live and succeed at life. And I can sincerely write, time is the only thing that is given to everyone equally. So use it wisely! ~Annette Harrison
Black Women Have It Going On 