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What it does...Ive been gone since about June. I Know i know! But i been hella busy Working & Coaching & Grad school has had me tied down...but im gonna try to start posting at least twice a week. With my usual topics Mondays Motivation & Words of Wisdom on Wednesday...stay tuned and check back often. Also find me on facebook.com/lbreland & on twitter @Big_Zo...Thanks and Im Gone

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Wednesday's Wisdom

Wednesday's Wisdom:

In order to change your Situation you must 1st Change your Conversation!

Stop Speaking Negativity into your Life and Don't allow people around you to Speak Negativity on you & yours...
Rethink.Refresh & Regroup!

Do you believe in Karma?

What about the Law of Attraction?

The Idol mind is a Devil's Workshop.

People don't realize that what you say and what you hear soon become your actions both good and bad. The situation in your life right now hasn't changed because your are speaking the same old routing that you always have. In order to change your Situation stop and change your Conversation. Don't allow yourself or people around you to speak negative things on you and your life. Try thinking Positive speaking Positive and listening Positive for a week and see if you see a change in you life or situation whether it's your Job, School, a Relationship or even a past problem.

In order to change your Situation you must 1st Change your Conversation!

Wednesday Wisdom...

Wednesday's Wisdom:

" See what's inside the Box before you start thinking outside of it! It may be something in that box that you need! " Repack ReOrganize and Remove anything in your box or in your life that you don't need. But don't let the boxes in your life have you wanting to move all the time. Once you know what's in your box you should know how it got there now you can unpack and start Living.

Wednesday's Wisdom...

Wed. Wisdom: My 8th grade English Teacher Would tell us everyday at the end of class that "The World is what you think it is, Change the way you Think & you change the World" Sam Adkins... Change your thinking and you will be surprised how your life will change...Don't be Afraid to Think Outside the Box!!!

Monday's Motivation...

March 1, 2010

Monday's Motivation: IF you are trying to move foward in Life, Stop looking Back & Stop looking around at others..."Digging In Your Past will only Muddy Up your Future!" Reflect on the Past. Live in the Present. And Plan for the Future...

Be on the look out...

Monday's Motivation
Words of Wisdom on Wednesday
Finace Friday

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Black History Spotlight...

Mary Ann Shadd
(1823–1893)

"Self-reliance Is the Fine Road to Independence."

Shadd holds two titles: first female black lawyer and first female newspaper editor in North America. She was one of the first people to push for complete integration and opened the first school in Canada open to all races.

EDUCATION: At the age of ten, the Shadd's moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania where Mary attended a Quaker School for the next six years. This experience influence dMary later in life, whereby she returned to this location and opened a school for Black children in 1840. Later, she also taught in New York City and Norristown, Pennsylvania.

1889, Mary Ann Shadd Cary became the first woman to enter Howard University's law school. She was in 1883 the first Negro woman to obtain a law degree from Howard University [the Encyclopedia Britannica says the degree is from Havard which seems to me odd for a student at Howard University] and among the first women in the United States to do so. She wrote for National Era and The People's Advocate and joined the National Woman's Suffrage Association. Cary then worked alongside Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton for women's suffrage, testifying before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives and becoming the first Negro woman to cast a vote in a national election. As an educator, an abolitionist, an editor, an attorney and a feminist, she dedicated her life to improving the quality of life for everyone -- black and white, male and female.

Monday's Motivation

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
Booker T. Washington



Born: (1856-1915)
Occuptaion: Lecturer, Civil Rights/Human Rights Activist, Educational Administrator, Professor, Organization Executive/Founder, Author/Poet

Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Hale's Ford, Virginia, reportedly on April 5, 1856. After emancipation, his family was so poverty stricken that he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines beginning at age nine. Always an intelligent and curious child, he yearned for an education and was frustrated when he could not receive good schooling locally. When he was 16 his parents allowed him to quit work to go to school. They had no money to help him, so he walked 200 miles to attend the Hampton Institute in Virginia and paid his tuition and board there by working as the janitor.

Dedicating himself to the idea that education would raise his people to equality in this country, Washington became a teacher. He first taught in his home town, then at the Hampton Institute, and then in 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. As head of the Institute, he traveled the country unceasingly to raise funds from blacks and whites both; soon he became a well-known speaker.

Famous Booker T. Washington Quotes

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

"I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him."

In honor of Black History I'm gonna bring your attention to a different Black History figure everyday. Take time to read the different info and enlighten yourself.Thanks for reading the blog and come back tomorrow. Refresh-Rethink-Renew!!!

Wed. Wisdom

Wednesday's Wisdom:
Are you a person that Acts or Reacts?

Often times different situations show their warning signs even before they happen. We all need to take a Pro-Active Aprroach to life's different challenges and situations, instead of waiting until something happens to make a change..This can be applied to Life, Finance, and even Relationships. Think about it and when a situation happens ask yourself...Am I Acting or Reacting??? Failing to Prepare is really Preparing to fail...Refresh-Regroup-Rethink your current situations...

Monday's Motivation...

Monday's Motivation: I want you to take a sec and look at this Great Man on the left...He had a Dream and we should all have one as well...Today should be more than just a day of work. Take the time to Reflect on how far we have come as a People/City/State/ and Nation…Some of us have Dreams to do many different things, and the sky is the limit as long as you Dream Big. Take the time to share your Dream with like-minded individuals so that it becomes a Vision. Do something everyday to Reach your Dream and to help make it a reality. Once again look at this man on the left and take time to Reflect, Regroup, and now Relive your Dream!!!

Wednesday's Wisdom

Wednesday's Wisdom: "If you see a turtle sitting on a fencepost, he had help getting there”...An old rancher was out working the fields when he looked and saw a turtle on a fence post. He came back and told his farmhands "If you see a turtle sitting on a fencepost, he had help getting there” "You know he didn'...t get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, and he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, and you just wonder what kind of complete moron put him up there to begin with." Zo Says "Everybody and Everything has it's on special place in life. " Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it from Loved ones, Family & Friends. Stop trying to get to the top and stop asking others to help you get there when you haven't prepared yourself properly to be at the top. Don't become that lost, scared, & helpless Turtle."