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What Is The Psychology Behind Your Self-Image And Self-Concept? | Free Self-Discovery Journal Prompts + Self-Image Test

Who are you really? Ever wondered about something so trivial yet so powerful? Most of us would be having an image of our own self in our brain but is…

What Is The Psychology Behind Your Self-Image And Self-Concept? | Free Self-Discovery Journal Prompts + Self-Image Test

Finally…

I think that I may have just gotten to the point where I’ve accepted who I am as a person, how I think/behave, and why I do the things that I do…finally.

It’s been a long road getting here and a lot of painful lessons were (still are) required. While I may no longer know what I want in life, professionally and personally, I’ve accepted that not knowing is just fine.

Now begins the path to work on being the best dad I can and maximizing my self-growth opportunities. Having shot and gutted my first dear yesterday there’s a lot more room for improvement. My feelings about it are uncomfortably non-existent (more on this some other time🤷🏿‍♂️).

Working this second job is a test to see how much more I’m capable of doing to better my life and the life of my kids. Picking up trash is a humbling experience. Some people look down on labor workers, especially those who have to deal with the nastiest things in our society.

What I do for my real job, the level of work I’ve done before, and what I’m capable of doing don’t matter here…just make sure you pick those bags all up and clean up that neighborhood. It makes you rethink what you may have assumed of others working dirty labor jobs. Who are they, what else have they done, who have they helped, how did they get into doing this job?

If I’m honest with myself I’ve been judgmental of strangers based on the work they are doing as well. While it may or may not have been intentional (haven’t sorted that part out yet), I’m definitely guilty AF.

Who TF am I to judge the next man or woman based on something so trivial as a current job? They’re still a human and contributing member of our society. How does a job make them any better or worse than someone else?…than me even?

This shit is about to get interesting…just hoping that I make myself express this thoughts for later consumption.

(BTW, there’s so much more about other things I haven’t fully digested yet so I don’t know what to say)


Construction boss confesses to 15-year collusion scheme

Collusion between construction companies bidding on public contracts was routinely practiced since at least 1986, a longtime paving company executive told the Charbonneau Commission Wednesday.

Source: Construction boss confesses to 15-year collusion scheme


Just A Taste Of Emptiness

Have you ever felt COMPLETELY useless?

As if your very existence was an inconvenience to those around you? Not wanting to off yourself or anything, but not minding if someone did it for you? Like crying about it would only show how much you deserved everything going on? Almost like you were the “odd man out” and the only one without a clue while everyone else already knew what you still don’t know?

Yeah…that’s me right now


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Back In Partial Effect!

Shit! It has been soooooooooooo fucking long since I’ve been on here. Listening to our old podcasts and realizing how much has changed in everyone’s lives since then. My daughter is almost 3, and was just born when we recorded our last episode.

A whole bunch of other stuff, but I missed posting my thoughts.


An Open Letter to Daniel Holtzclaw

Source: An Open Letter to Daniel Holtzclaw


I Am Not Perfect

I am not perfect, no one is.

My failures and flaws are both my motivations and my tethers.

My accomplishments are shadowed by need for validation.

My struggle is daily and road is narrow.

My future is lighted, but dimly due to my inaction.

My family is close, yet I push them away.

My life is anchored, yet I am able to journey out.

My fear is great, but my passion is strong.

My goal is in sight, but my path is less traveled.

I am only one man, yet I am not a man alone.

I am not perfect.


Black Woman, I Apologize | Nova Sankofa

This is an awesome piece from a truly great guy.

” Just Some Dude”

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Black Woman,
I apologize for all the times you came with an issue and instead of listening, I combatted it with an issue of my own.

Black Woman,
I apologize for excusing or dismissing your feelings.

Black Woman,
I apologize for every time I justified in my head my own verbal abuse of Black women in the past.

Black Woman,
I apologize for every time you told me what bothered you and I argued semantics instead of the real issue at hand.

Black Woman,
I apologize for every time I stood idle while witnessing someone else mistreat you.

Black Woman,
I apologize for the influence I had over other brothers to perform the same ignorant acts I once performed that outlived my own ignorance.

I’m sorry.

If you don’t forgive me, I understand.

Black Woman,
I promise to try my best to love you better now and in the future.

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An Open Letter to Charles Ramsey | an ezv truth

http://ezvenia.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/an-open-letter-to-charles-ramsey/