Journeyman Stories

I  really don’t know how I am standing now and not sleeping. Last night I slept only a couple of hours. Do you know what I was doing? I was watching documentaries. It is my new passion now. I remember one of my coaches saying how Netflix could be a dangerous thing when you don’t pay attention. How true were his words! After a movie or a documentary, Netflix always suggests one or two more documentaries similar to what you just watched; and I found myself saying yes to all of them. Before I knew, it was five o’clock in the morning. It is crazy. However, I learned so much from those documentaries. I went from politics to business, from fashion to music. And from Basketball to…I don’t even remember. I think the last one I watched was on Tony Robbins. It was fascinating. While browsing the Internet, I bumped into a short video. It was so amazing that I watched it several times, and even sent it to a number of friends. My friend Roger wrote me back to say that it felt like the ...

As I am writing this blog, it is almost one in the morning.  My wife and I are watching a Bobby Brown interview about his life with Whitney Houston. It is so captivating and my wife keeps asking: "why did she die?". I have heard so many times that Bobby was the reason why all the bad things happened to Whitney. I must say that it is refreshing to hear his side of the story. Regardless of who is right it is a very heart breaking story. There are always two sides to a story. Always. I always give people the benefit of the doubt and now, more than ever, I understand why. Anyways. Back to my promise of writing my blog every week. Here I am again. It has been a very productive week. I am anticipating a very busy month of February. Do you know why? Because it is the Black History Month. I have been involved in the festivities for many years. Now I work with a Speakers Bureau that has booked me for speaking engagements for the last two years. In fact they have alread...

Last week I was proud of myself and I think you should be proud of me too. The reason why I say this is because I kept my commitment to send you the blog this week. Some of my friends stepped up last week and agreed to hold me accountable and to make sure that I keep my word. Some others did it in a more informal way. This weekend, I was at a reception, and while I was about to go and serve myself some food, a friend came over and said: ‘remember your promise to eat less food’. Somebody has been reading my blog. Changing habits is not an easy thing. In fact, last week was a little bit hard for me to keep the lifestyle I promised myself to follow. If I were to grade myself, I would give myself a six out of ten. Needless to say there is a lot of room for improvement. To be honest, when it comes to the food part, I think I can actually increase the score to eight out of ten (just because I am hard on myself). I have also been catching up with people that I haven’t spoken to ...

I am so proud of myself. I just reached a milestone with one of my goals on my list of this year’s resolutions; I  published a blog! I have a goal of publishing 52 blogs this year, meaning that I will not miss even one week and I would like you my readers to hold me accountable please. Aren't you happy that you won’t miss me this year? I know that you are celebrating and dancing now (by the way, your dance moves need some improvement, lol) Yes I am back and it's for good! You may ask yourself why did I stop writing? To tell you the truth, I don’t know. Maybe I got carried away with the hustle of life that I failed to connect with you, my dear readers. I truly and sincerely apologize; it will not happen again.   This blog won’t be long; I am only checking in. But before I go, I want to let you know that….Are you ready to hear this? Are you REALLY sure that you want to hear this? Ok, now that you insist, I am going to tell you. I am eati...