Where are you going? Which direction is your career headed in? Is your life and your career thriving? Ask yourself those above questions whenever you think that your current position is your final destination. It's very hard to start a blog or business and think it's going to thrive within 3-6 months (don't play yourself). So what do you do when things don't take off in the time frame that you imagined? Let me know if any of these below ring a bell. 1) GIVE UP. 2) Compare you

"Excuses are like a**holes, everybody has one." - Someone smart The above quote might register with a lot of people I know. I know for sure it registers with me. We all get lazy sometimes and when it's time to start something we reach in our bag of excuses and pull out the first one we can find. "It's raining out so I'll start tomorrow." "I'll start my diet on the first of the month this monday." "I can't look for clients on social media because my phone is broke." We can get

Back in 2003 I was watching the BET awards and rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson won an award for best new artist. He walked up to the podium after he won his award and thanked a couple of people. With a serious face he finished his speech with... "I'm gonna be honest with ya'll, I wanna thank me." At that moment a lot of people in the room probably looked at him as a really cocky individual. I, on the other hand didn't see anything wrong with it. Why can't a man who works as h

You ever been away from your mother for a long time and when you finally see her she gives you a big hug and squeezes you. When she hugs you a deep sigh of relief just leaves your body. Whatever you’ve been going through in life doesn’t really matter at that moment because the power of that hug from a loved one makes you focus on the love and positive energy that just came your way. I’m a big believer of positive energy and search for it on a daily basis. Sometimes it might b

I was on twitter last week and I read a tweet from INC magazine saying "the world's most successful people start their day at 4am." Then I saw one of my favorite authors J.K Rowling retweet and reply "oh, piss off." I laughed at first then really thought about it when I read the responses of people on twitter. So are really saying that you have to get up at 4am to be as successful as Bill Gates or Warren Buffet? If they are I think that's not realistic and it puts a lot of pr

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October 1, 2013 was the release date for my first book 'Qaddafi's Point Guard'. It took a lot for me to put my life on display because I'm a very private person. The book has done a lot for my life. It was an opportunity to talk about my experiences in life, but most importantly I got to shine a light on the people that helped me throughout my rough time during the Libyan Civil War. It would've been selfish for me to not talk about those people and how they were courageous en

As the summer comes to a close I had a good amount of time to travel to a couple of different countries. One of the most important things I did this summer was to focus on reading a lot of other authors work. My personal favorites are John Grisham and Kate Moretti (they both might be tied for first). As fiction writers our minds have to be a bit twisted at times just to think of some of the shit we come up with. I mean a character in my book dies every other chapter (just kid