The Cycle continues...

 

There's a scene in the movie "Baby Boy" where Ving Rhames(I forget his name in the movie) is telling a young Jody about the concept of "guns and butter" He said(I'm paraphrasing) That the guns is the stuff that appreciates in value(stocks and bonds, property, fine art) and the butter is all the stuff that will melt or depreciate in value(cars, clothes, customized jewelry). Its one of my favorite parts of the movie.

Of course I don't mean this in the literal sense. I don't want people going out and building an armory and getting indicted(T.I. style). I'm asking people to just use their brains when it comes to money management. I feel like black youth today are more concerned with LOOKING rich than actually being wealthy. Now we all like nice things and jewelry is cool but do people really need a custom Kellogs Cornflakes box chain? Say this guy in above picture gets low on money or is just tired of being a walking advertisement.....does that shit really have any resale value? I mean would you buy that...even if was only like 5 bucks?lol

I'm also like most people and like certain brands and designers(if you want to get my something for my upcoming birthday buy me some Polo.)but I just don't understand how someone could be broke and still be head to toe in their favorite fashion label. I think the problem is broke-ness isn't something people like to admit-to themselves or others-so they just ignore it and spend to look like they have doe. Everybody nowadays is "gettin money" but thats a lie in the same way that every girl says she's only slept with 3 guys and every man says he can only fit Magnums.lol

Not to be pretentious....all I'm saying don't try to keep up with the Joneses' becuase the Joneses' are usually in DEBT. 

In the zone....

Now for the record....NO I'm not a Yankees fan(Mets all day). This is from a World Series game vs. the Dodgers where Reggie Jackson hit THREE homeruns off three different pitchers on three consecutive pitches.  He was in the zone that night.

We've all had a point in our lives where we felt like everything was clicking. Our money was right women were feeling us and we had nice rides. Maybe it wasn't even that drastic for some of us.....maybe it only a really good stretch of days or months...or it could've been just ONE great day. If you're like me.....you want to know what was behind it so you can have more days like that. You retrace your steps, see what you ate that day(or during time period), what movies you may have watched or what songs could've inspired you to be that focused.

In the book "Think and Grow Rich"(that I'm currently reading) it tells you to think of a time when you had success. Thats proof that success is possible. So when you want to get back into that zone I think its most important to just remember how you FELT. Because most likely these great times were when you were younger and more open and willing to take risks(within reason). It really had nothing to do with the car you drove, the food you ate, the chick you were with....but it was your attitude and mind state.

Lately I've been giving thought to meditation and visualizations because I want to control the "zone". I'm willing to look into it if it gives me a mental edge.....

But anyway I'm tired of typing. Peace