Success is in the Details

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Step by step, stone by stone and brick by brick.  (Whitney Houston lyrics)

Our media, fast paced culture tends to confuse this reality with their non-stop hype.  The detailed work to produce an extraordinary show is what we need to focus on, not just the show.

The victory is in the details, in the step by step.  Media has us focusing on the “grandness” and being seduced by this illusion.  Yet the true work is in the ordinary, mundane details and completing tasks step by step.

Emotions snatch us up and we get caught in the wave of mass emotion.  Yet strategic planning is needed for you, your family, your career, and your goals.  Identifying and completing the step by step tasks is the only way to victory.

Daily observe the details of your present pathway.  Understand the flow that constantly changes.

We are reconstructing and building to create sustainable lives.

It Is That Simple And That Complex At The Same Time.

Full Moon in Aquarius Horoscopes

Full Moon in Aquarius Horoscopes: Patience and planning are going to be essential if you want to get anything done around the Full Moon in Aquarius on July 22, 2013. Read the Full Moon in Aquarius Horoscopes to see how your sign can best cope!

Guidance from Our Elder - Dr. Maya Angelou

     

 

Because we have forgotten our ancestors, our children no longer give us honor.

 

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Because we have lost the path our ancestors cleared, kneeling in perilous undergrowth, our children cannot find their way.

            

Because we have banished the God of our ancestors, our children cannot pray.

            

Because the old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing, our children cannot hear us crying.

Slave being tortured (1839)

Because we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering, our befuddled children give birth to children they neither want nor understand.

Because their ancestors lived on isolated islands, the Gullah are considered to have retained more of their African roots and traditions than any group in America.

           

Because we have forgotten how to love, the adversary is within our gates, and holds us up to the mirror of the world, shouting, “Regard the loveless.”

           

Therefore, we pledge to bind ourselves again to one another,

Ø  To embrace our lowliest,

Ø  To keep company with our loneliest

Ø  To educate our illiterate

Ø  To feed our starving

Ø  To clothe our ragged,

Ø  To do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters.  We are our brothers and sisters.

            

In honor of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues, and in gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless desolation.

We make this pledge.

 Dr. Maya Angelou

Out of Order

How do we address the same problems differently in the New Year?  How do we grow and 
elevate when we continue to disagree and disrespect each other?

We have so many challenges and issues as nation, as people and we continue to use the language of disrespect that prevents constructive dialogue. We demonize each other with words and pictures to justify our positions causing further polarity can only lead to violence.

Our maturity level disintegrates when we are in disagreement, convinced we are each completely right in our respective stances.

This doesn't contribute to consensus, resolution or a sustainable society.

How do you deal with corporations who displace people in order to plant trees to get UN environmental credits? That is not sustainability.

In this New Year and elevated Universal energy, tune in, shift challenge you to grow and expand your mind and spirit. 

We are all Divine having a human experience.  One is not superior to another.

This dominating destructive culture of fear, greed, profit over life, profit over nature, profit from misery, disease and death, violence, profit from violence, we are in spiritual decay and have altered the natural order. 

Our children are paying the price with their lives for our spiritual deafness.

We need to open to the Wisdom of the Ages.  

The murder of our children demands it. 

“…There are no political solutions, to spiritual problems….” A Native American Chief, 1876.

Growing Business with the Ancestors and Orishas

Please click the link below to view the full blog:

http://ricadllc.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/growing-business-with-the-ancestors-and-orishas/

Perspective

Though FaceBook is a valuable tool to communicate important information, thoughts, ideas and concepts; responding to a post is not enough to create change.

My concern is that we think it does.  We are in a critical time in history.  In order to understand why, Sankofa, as children of the African Diaspora we have so many questions to ask in order to learn.

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The questions

 - How can I trust the interpretation of a Spiritual Belief System, Religion of those who conquered my Ancestors to ever be in my best interest?

- How can I trust their interpretation based on historical occurrences?

The consistent Answer based on history:

“When the Portuguese brought African slaves to Brazil in the 16th century, they imposed their authority and suppressed the religions, costumes, rituals, and all aspects of the culture of their African captives.

The Portuguese were interested only in the physical force of the slaves for hard work on the coffee and sugar cane plantations.   (Resource:  Capoeira Sul da Bahia -  http://www.suldabahiasf.org/?q=node/23)”

Why?  Why was it so important that the first strategy to creating a slave was to brutally suppress the religions, costumes, rituals, and all aspects of the culture of their African captives? 

Why?

What threat did captured Africans present by boldly living as Africans mean to Slavery?

Why was it a threat to building slavery?

The strength of the African culture remained with enslaved Africans in the presence of brutality.  It is the only way we survived by manifesting it, adapting it to current conditions, strengthening the connection and growing.

An argument in the justification of the Transatlantic Slave; “we gave them Christianity to save their souls.”

The fact that Americans and Europeans still believe to this day, that the benefit of slavery was the imposition of Christianity to “save our souls” is incredible to me.

This mentality or perspective gives birth to:

https://www.facebook.com/CommunityColearningCooperative

How do you navigate through a society with this mentality as its foundation?

What shifts and changes do we make?

Does this information create a change in your perspective?

What course of actions do we take?

One group – “The Community Colearning Cooperative meets every Tuesday to point out these often hidden necessities. We do this to train our minds and detox from the poison we have consumed.

Now that we can see better we have better direction to build an alternative economy that does not support businesses like planned parenthood or any of its subsidiaries, sponsors, promoters and the like.” https://www.facebook.com/CommunityColearningCooperative

What’s your perspective?  Does it change?

Does it remain the same?  What are your questions?

Elevate Your Mind

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Mfundishi Jhutyms Ka-n-Heru Hassan Kamau Salim"Spiritual Warriors are Healers"

Elevate your mind - your spirit - fear is the problem that must be Healed!

Fear has been used to keep us disconnected and focused on lack.

Humanity continues to suffer from violence, brutality and pain.  Hurt people hurt people.

We are at an unprecedented time in human history. 

This is our choice - Nonviolence or nonexistence.

If we choose wisely our descendants will Bless us.

If we choose fear, our descendants will Curse us.

We are responsible for the next 7 generations.

All of us!