Hello! Welcome to my daily report card, where
every day is a continuous test with no subject.
What's your answer? What does it mean? Peaks
and valleys, ebbs and flows in this life. And
when you're in those valleys, you're going to
experience that letdown. That feeling bad. Bad.
Timing where. Might have got fired. Corrected.
Let down. Postponed. Looked over. Publicly embarrassed.
Hurt. I could say I felt all those things. Cumulatively.
In different ways. It's tough. Because. We have
in our brain. In our thought processes. Of how
we imagine. How we think. What we know. Is going
to happen. Truth of the matter is we know nothing.
We hope, we wish, we pray, we assume. The only
thing that is truly known is what is going on
right now. For me, this right now is May 2nd,
2025 at 6 .04 p .m. Pacific Standard Time. And
I'm so glad that You're taking this moment, this
time of your precious life to spend with me.
And I hope I enriched it and I'm going to make
it a little bit more better. Because I miss y
'all. And I hope you miss me too. Out the ash
with that. Let's start it. Song of the day. Wow.
Season 59. Playlist undeniable. Just hearing
about all the draft and from the NFL and I heard
a good quote was be undeniable. And that goes
for whatever industry that you're in. If you're
undeniable, that industry, that boss, that place
will accept you and your flaws if you're undeniable.
However, some of us aren't that lucky and we
need to be on 10 on tilt and ready and prepare.
Yet with those influences, you still can make
yourself undeniable. And. Song of the day is
done done. Shout it low. I'm that my future.
My influence by Wiz. Ways really came back. Real.
Cushion Orange Juice Part 2. Just need it. What
did I read today? Following Life After Power.
It's a really good book for me to have some sort
of thought processes of what to do when leaving
the position of power. What came out of that
was just keep on having that new journey, that
new focus, that passion, that direction. And
from that, I love reading books that were referenced
in a previous book I was reading. So The Art
of the Deal by Donald Trump was referenced when
talking about Jimmy Carter. And this book was
made in 1987. And we have to, regardless of whatever
you want to say about whomever, we have to learn
from our enemy. We have to learn from our adversary.
We have to respect them to be able to know how
to overcome. And how do we do that if we're ignorant?
Couple gems. When you set the highest possible
standards, they're expensive to maintain. So.
I really love that. Was I physically active?
I've been falling off. I haven't gone to the
gym for like 10 days. um and that is the ebbs
and flows of life too it's not like i'm not absolutely
active however but my personal goal of stepping
inside of the gym just wasn't there for one reason
another one excuse or another one reason really
doesn't matter Personality and potential only
come before production in the dictionary. What
I get from my meditations. Challenge your own
comforts and thinking within yourself. Yet remain
confident in where you stand and who you are.
What I succeed at. Preparing for the rainy day.
Where I'm coming from. We're more accustomed
to. The foggy and rainy day. And when the sun
comes out. It's more of a blessing. So. It's
not really. Out of the norm. For me to prepare
for a rainy day. But it's good to be prepared.
In real time. When the sun goes down. It isn't
raising. Maybe smile today. Being able to see
my sons enter into the world and be their own
person, knowing that I've done all I can do.
I gave them all lessons in love and food and
gave them all the proper things that they need
to be presentable. haircuts iron clothes clean
clothes brushing their teeth showers doing their
hair being there for them mentally below the
surface knowing what is important to them and
what's going on in their actual life outside
of what i demand from them but their actual personal
likes However, it's just a sense of pride and
love and just amazement and awe to see them in
their element just go out. I know that I can't
watch them that entire time when they go however
far they go. Because my journey is not over.
And I know I'm going to see them again and I'm
going to come back to them and they are me. So
I still have to turn my back. I still have to
walk away. Because we're all on our own journeys
in this life, regardless of what age we are on.
What do I think of my day overall? Humbling.
Necessary. And... full circle being able to lower
your ego especially around other men and being
able to not even just men but especially men
when you're a man your own gender and just being
able to humble yourself and say you were wrong
regardless of who it is and say that wasn't right
even if you know you were Right in certain scenarios.
That doesn't give you a license. To do what's
not acceptable. In your own right. Interesting.
So what grade do I give myself? Going to B minus.
I believe. It was adequately sufficient to make
that bar and be exemplary. However, not by that
much. And it gets like that sometimes. However,
I'm still proud of the person that I am. And
I hope that you're proud of the person that's
in that mirror too. Even if you're at B minus,
C minus, even F status. Because you're still
alive and you still have the ability to raise
up again. Right now. No, it's not easy. No, it's
not fun. Everything won't lead to happiness.
That's the beauty of this human experience. Even
without that happiness, you feel that content.
You feel that fullness. You feel that love. You
feel alive. Let's live. out the ashes and with
that