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Nothing left but photographs

Hard to move on when you regret one.

Trying to do the right thang, for you,

But

What
Happens when you're exhausted, cut off
From the the sun that reifies and the
Voice that edifies?

Now perhaps long gone, left to face it.
Face you.

And you can't replace it. Can you.
Can you?

Distractions they are, vicatin loves,
Then you awake, and deep down,
All you want, desire, is what you
Chose to lose.

Nothing left but photographs.

JuJuan Buford

The problem with the body and politic of this nation is one of mindset. For all the talk of U.S. exceptionalism, this country is behaving like anything else but exceptional. It's as if this nation's best years are behind it, and now folks are tearing each other to pieces over the last crumbs of splendor.

The greed. The selfishness. The acidity. The game is over. At least that is what it feels like for the supermajority of U.S. citizens.

JuJuan Buford

Every time I watch Chris Rock's "Good Hair" I can't help but to break out laughing hysterically.... and then cringe at the same time.

I mean folks will spend about, let's say, about six, eight, ten, twelve! thousand dollars for a weave. Hey, and that's cool. Salon owners, stylists, artists,... deserve to get paid what the market will pay.

However, I wonder whether these same folks contribute six to twelve thousand dollars per year to their children's 529 plans.

JuJuan Buford

 

Too often those who seek positions of leadership do so for the perceived perks and byproducts – status, celebrity, wealth, authority – without understanding the true measure of leadership itself. Leadership does not just simply make a difference or register in the fine print of media publications or television ads. Leadership is the difference in people’s lives.

JuJuan Buford

 

 

The fountain lady is absolutely hilarious. Hilarious! You have to love this country. If you ever needed a reason to act like you're living in the 21rst century and acquire a Pre-Paid Legal Services membership. Remember fountain lady. Ha!

JuJuan Buford

So the United States & France are ok with 'Baby Doc' Duvalier (one of the most brutal and deadly human beings in modern day history to subdue a nation) returning back to Haiti.

However former President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide (a President that was actually democratically elected), desires to return home and....yes, the United States and France are hell bent on preventing his return.

Interesting, eh.

JuJuan Buford

Amazing. Democrats finally get a little backbone and decide to kick the Republican Party's teeth in. Ooops. I apologize that's suggestive language.

So the Democrats finally decide to finally posit perspectives that expose the intellectually obtuse and morally bankrupt arguments being proliferated by Republicans regarding access to healthcare. .

Damn... why can't Democrats exhibit this type of temerity all the time.

JuJuan Buford

Seriously. If you want evidence of just how bias and obtuse the U.S. media is, look at how much press the Pats and Jets are receiving. Are you kidding me. The Jets are new arrivals, who haven't even proved themselves yet. Isshtt...they just became competitive this year. The Pats are the Pats. I hate them the way Shanon Sharpe hates them. So what?

Now that Ravens Steelers game. That's a rivalry. That's something worth writing about. Something worth pontificating about. Not for the intellectual stimiluation, but for the simply carnal exercise of counting the number of bodies that will require surgery thereafter.

And by the way. The Ravens Steelers game is the AFC Championship game.

JuJuan Buford

Is your Dream bigger than your Excuses?

by JuJuan Buford

Is your dream bigger than your excuses?

 It’s a real simple question really.

Can I be real?

How many times have you denied yourself? How many poor (passing over opportunities repeatedly) decisions have you made, because of temporal circumstances? How many times have you been distracted by what’s standing before your nose, the chatter of those who don’t have your solutions, or the fear (mythical excuses manifest in your mind), reacting repeatedly with the same responses expecting a different result (insanity), as opposed to responding?

And what does responding look like? The description is coming soon. This blog is already about to be too long.

See you have to embrace becoming, before you become. You have to be, before you become. A two-dollar mindset will be departed from a million dollar windfall.

This one is going to hurt. Remember that one? That one that really, really loved you; understood you, accepted you; no, no mater what? I'm just saying...what the fu#! were you thinking?

How many layoffs? How many periods of insecurity? Feelings of feeling trapped? See you can’t steal second base with one foot on first. Michael Jordan failed his way to the top. Cut from his high school basketball team. The Detroit Pistons (Deeeeeetroit!). Then there was the long hours in the gym, and than the decision.

Decide. Homicide. Suicide. Pesticide. You following? Something has to die. When you decide, something has to die.

See, the excuses have to die. The negative voices have to die. The deprecating self-talk has to die. Critics must die. The opinions of family who are more critical than supportive must die. The influence of friends who rather whisper on the side, as opposed to advocate or possibly even join (who owns gas stations in Detroit?) must die.

Those who critique and even diminish your personal development, because your finances haven’t caught up with your growth yet….because they fail to realize that the extent to which you become valuable to yourself, followed by those around you ultimately determines whether one achieves financial dependence as opposed to perpetual servitude. Or to keep it simple…sharecropping.

And yeah, you can borrow this. I did.

Smell the roses. Smell the roses. Let them Ridicule and Oppose. And smile when your success becomes Self-Evident. Ask anyone who has ever achieved. They knew well before the material became apparent.

But the excuses must die. Must f-ing die.

So what you’re tired. So what folks are criticizing and looking down upon you. So what, it’s difficult. So what, someone rejected you. So what, it’s snowing. So what, you have to do without that big screen television, that $1,000 hairdo, a couple nights at the bar, endure snickers, do without that one who supposedly loved you, but left you hangin…. (yeah, ima go there)… What makes any of this any different from any other day? Would you rather pay now or pay later?

You have all your life to fail. But in life… if you get it right once… it’s done. Just continue to get better. And it’s done! Imagine working because you want to. Imagine pursuing your passion without concern for how you’re going to pay the rent. Imagine your children receiving more yeses than nos. Imagine waking up one morning, dialing up your cadre or crew, and being like…let’s take a jet to St. Kitts. And they respond like, okay, but I gotta brush my teeth first. Whoa!

But in order to know the aforementioned… you have to decide. Make up your mind. Is your dream or your excuse bigger?

To live, doesn’t mean you are alive. Which is bigger?

What inspired this outburst? Nicki Minaj's "Moment 4 Life". Yes, Nicki Minaj. It's another entrepreneurs' anthem. Igore the ignance, and take in the spirit.

  

 

Winning is the only option. The only. Option. I've decided, so all other alternatives must die.

JuJuan Buford

World of Mouth

 

Aint being cocky, we just vindicated
Best believe that when we done this moment will be syndicated
I don't know, this night just remind me of
Everything they deprived me of
P-p-p-p-put your drinks up
It's a celebration every time we link up
We done did everything they could think of
Gr-Greatness is what we on the brink of

Nicki Minaj - Moment 4 Life

Oh dag! What's going on in the black hair industry is straight up economic retardation. It's mind boggling! It's just absurd. Madam CJ Walker is turning in her grave for more reasons than one. Talk about irony.

JuJuan Buford

Interesting isn't it? When you lived a little, you come to appreciate those special moments, gifts, the really good people around you. Unfortunately, many of us have to lose, before we appreciate what's sitting right before us.

Then all of a sudden, poof. It's gone, and all you're left with is thoughts of what if. All of sudden the foolish inclinations, emotional insecurities, absurd expectations, and the ridiculous chatter are exposed for what they are... And another dream is deferred left to fester and spoil like a raisin in the sun.

Leaving some to experience serial suadades. While others blossom in the knowing.

JuJuan Buford

World of Mouth

We march all around til' the sun goes down night children
Broken dreams, no sunshine, endless crimes, we long for freedom (for freedom)
You're free but in your mind, your freedom's in a bind

Janelle Monae - Many Moons

The sky is the limit. Just keep on commiting to becoming.

J.S. Buford