Alex’s Reviews > Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers > Status Update

March 29: It doesn't take much to find the high road to success. The path that leads to life's most precious treasures and triumphant possibilities. But to discover those joys and feel zest for the future, you desperately need an agenda for the present. You need directions for today. You need a purpose.

March 25: The same hammer that shatters the glass, Marcus Garvey explained, forges the steel. Looking at adversity and challenge in this manner, we really can love our enemies. They serve as hard shots until we learn to return them.

March 24: Your imagination is a magic wand. Use it to visualize success

March 23: Am I stopping for realistic reasons because I hope to avoid some impending danger? Or am I stopping because I do not believe myself capable of reaching my objective?

Mar 20: You are a gardener, and you are planting seeds (thoughts) in your subconscious mind based on your thinking. As you sow, so shall you reap. That which is possible only becomes possible after you have used your can-do mind. The can-do mind believes in success, abundance, health, and prosperity. The can't-do mind, on the other hand, succumbs to negative thinking, fear, and disbelief.

Mar 8: But there are times when we fail to trust our worthiness, when we do as we are told and blindly follow orders. Consequently, we live marginal lives. Ironically, some people have to be dragged kicking and screaming to a better life.

Mar 6: Integrity makes life easier, as well as more joyful and powerful.

Ive been astonished by hearing individuals who inherited wealth in childhood warn against sharing resources because people needing help should work for money in order to appreciate its value. Their acceptance and use of this money to strengthen their economic self-sufficiency exposes the reality that working hard is rarely the means by which enough of us can gain enough access to material resources to become wealthy.

Mar 5: Take time to think. It's the source of power. Take time to make a friend. It's the road to happiness. Take time to love. It's the highest joy of life.

Mar 4: Trouble arises when we try to fashion our success to the world's expectations even though these are not the expectations drawn up in our own hearts...Success if it is to be meaningful, it must be personal.