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January 13th is my birthday, and this year, I will turn 40 years old.
Mostly everything I’ve ever tried to do has failed. I’m not saying this for sympathy or pity, I’m merely saying this due to the fact that each failure has been an INGREDIENT to who I am today. I ran a record label while also being an artist myself, from the year 2002 to 2009. In the course of that time, I learned how to take words from a page and give them life on a microphone. This skill has helped me to perform the audio for these articles. Furthermore, performing on stage taught me to acknowledge my fears, but to still do what needed to be done anyway. My very first show I was boo’d off stage. 4 years later, though I was scared as shit, I went back to that very same place and rocked that bitch. When I first started the podcast, the fear of failure was prevalent, plus, I didn’t know if I could be good at it or not. I took what I learned from my music days, gave those fears a big “FUCK YOU”, and did what I had to do just as I did many times before.
From 2006 to 2007, I hustled CDs with my boy 4C. We used bootleg DVDs as a type of promotion to sell our albums. When you are making music, you can not only make music… you must also be an entrepreneur, similar to how a chef must wear more than one hat. At first, I absolutely hated going up to people I didn’t know. But the funny thing was, the more people rejected me, the more confident I became. After a while, I could sell ice to an Eskimo. To this day, I can approach and talk with anyone.
I was in the US Navy from 2010 to 2014. There, I learned that if you do what sucks now, your future self will greatly benefit from your sacrifice. Every time I don’t feel like going to the gym, every time I don’t feel like writing these articles, anytime I don’t feel like doing something that sucks, I always remember that lesson. During my Navy era, I also managed 3 musical acts in which I learned the importance of trusting a process. Additionally, my experience with managing, cultivated my ability to spot talent in people. This has paid off with my selection of B. Wayne and 4C for the “2 Deep 4 Da Intro” podcast.
I went to college from 2014 to 2019 and got a bachelor’s degree in management. Though getting my degree was nothing but a hustle for me, along the way, I did learn how to perform at an A+ level. I apply that same work ethic I had in college to each endeavor I’m involved with now. In the background of all of this, I have never stopped writing. In fact, since I was 15, I have been writing in the same journal. All those years of jotting my thoughts down… led me to these articles.
I have had many experiences in my life, I even dabbled in DJ’ing for a year, but the greatest experience of them all was my 10-year marriage. When I was married, if I had to choose between either losing all of my loved ones or losing my wife, I would have picked losing all of my loved ones, that is how much I loved my ex-wife. With that said, my divorce is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. I see my failed marriage as the source of my strength. It has been the turning point in my life, similar to the tragedies superheroes face before they become who they are destined to be. Though I would not wish what I went through on my worst enemy, I thank my lord for my suffering, for it is the fire that forged me. If it wasn’t for my divorce, I would have never found my purpose, nor would you be reading what lies before you.
Before I was born, my mother had 3 abortions. Knowing this fact, I cannot help but feel I have favor over my life and a duty not only to my bloodline, my lord, and to my future self, but also to YOU. It is my DUTY to become the ultimate version of myself and to also help you do the same as well.
In order for us to be here today, our ancestors had to either be very smart, very strong, or very fast, and on top of that, let’s look at this…
You are a reprensentative of an unbroken lineage of life going back 4 billion years
The probability of your parents meeting is 1 in 20,000 and the probability of their relationship resulting in offspring is 1 in 2,000
The probability of you being conceived to become who you are is 1 in 400 QUADRILLION
According to scientists, the odds that you and I exist at all are basically… ZERO.
The bible says, “Before I formed YOU in the womb I knew YOU, before YOU were born I set YOU apart, I appointed YOU as a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5)
I have said ALLLL of that, to say this…Everything you have been through was supposed to happen the way it did. Everything you do not understand at this moment will make sense further up the road. If what you are doing now is not “the thing”, do not stress about it… it will be the thing, that leads to the thing, that leads to the thing. EVERY, THING, is an ingredient, for… YOU.
This is your JOB in this life. Honor your ancestry, honor your future self, honor your God, live well… and BE GREAT OUTCHEA.
