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Know when to do nothing

So, I'm headed in my first real vacation in almost 4 years and a year since leaving new york after season 10 of the apprentice. This has been one of the most faith challenging times of my life and lord knows I've had some tough years! In the past I've always been able to smile through it and move on. This season however it's been hard to smile on the inside.
Ill spare you all the gory details, lets just say I never thought I'd make it to this side of the view.
This past year it view seemed as if every demon in hell had been set loose and hunting me down. I want sure what the next day would bring our if my luck had run out.
As a kid, when something good needed to happen, id call on "folkesy magic" you know that feeling where you just KNEW things would turn out alright. In the past, regardless of how bad things would get, I just believed that god  would make them all ok. This was the first time, I not only struggled with the concept, I just gave up on it. It was all I could do to get up in the morning. Let me explain my giving up....ive operated on the pull myself up by the emotional bootstraps philosophy. I would MAKE things better. There had to be something I could do or say to help make my situation improve. So, I did EVERYTHING! The results weren't any better. I COULDN'T do ANYTHING!I felt powerless, impotent and lost. So, I did the only thing left for me to do....NOTHING!
Oh, I kept showing up, I kept pushing through, sometimes, crawling through is probably more appropriate. It was then I saw THE most miraculous thing happen...things began to click, people started acting in ways I still can't explain. I could see things in a way I never could before. The truth was revealed. Information was bring shared and even my enemies started tripping over themselves and all the while, I did and said NOTHING. I prayed, I kept getting up...but the worry subsided, the fear retreated and I began to speak more boldly, be more open and less ashamed and guilty. It is a powerful feeling!
At THE most challenging time of my life, I felt stronger, more confident, lighter and more focused.
You see for the first time in my life, I did nothing and by doing nothing, it allowed God to work miracles in my life! By doing nothing, I could hear God and watch his work. All so that he can work THROUGH me!
Dont be afraid to do nothing, I dont care what it is or looks like...because in doing nothing, you get out of the way to let God work through you....

Everyone should go home

Every family has a story and depending on who's telling the story, it's different each time it's recited. In the age of broken homes whereby children are often disconnected from one parent and one side of the family, they miss a rich part of who they are. In times long ago, there was a sense of pride in knowing your family history, which clan, tribe, sect or region you came from. You would be greeted as the son of x whos father was y and he was an honorable man. This meant you were the keeper of the legacy and responsible for its continuation. Those rules have long gone, but, the sense of knowing who you are in relation to where you come from remains. I was a child with a vivid imagination from a typical broken home, except my father and fathers father were foreigners. From a land where I was born, but knew very little about and what I did learn was through stories...ahh those wonderful stories of beautiful peoplrand a loving, protective father hailing from an island in the sun. I believe the daydreaming started at 8. Id tell myself my dad was a prince searching for us and was lost. When I was scared, I just knew he was going to come and protect me. Of course none of that happened. However, the stories my mother told and the stories I dreamt helped me through a tough upbringing. When I grew up just a tad, I promised myself id visit the home of my fathers people one day and everything would be made right.

Genuine Voices needed more NOW than EVER!!!!

First, let me start off by saying welcome back to The Geneuine Article! It has been far too long since I have added anything to the blog. That doesn't mean I haven't been busy or forgotten about WHY this blog was created in the first place. This blog is a result of my time on The Apprentice which resulted in millions of viewers' positive response to my genuine approach to leadership and authentic manner of engaging relationships. Privately, people would refer to me as the genuine article unafraid to be my 100% authentic self. Given that, the President-Elect is Donald J. Trump with Majority of Republicans being re-elected. So, we, at The Geneuine Article we believe NOW more than EVER is the perfect time for independent voices to be heard. These are unprecedented, contentious times with one of the most controversial Presidential candidates in America's recent history. For all the rhetoric we are headed into VERY unfamiliar territory. My hope is that we will be a genuine voice of calm, reason and wisdom to unpack the upcoming events over the next four years. So, hang in there 'cuz ut's gonna be a bumpy ride!