10 things I have learned from being a mentor at StreetWise Partners
Streetwise partners is one of the mentorship programs I am involved with. We meet every Thursday at Morgan Stanley and practice public speaking in front of a cohort of mentors and mentees. StreetWise Partners’ goal is to leverage mentorship to increase employment opportunities for adults from overlooked and under-resourced communities within New York, Washington, D.C., and […]
Leadership Program
I am currently in day 1 of the second weekend of the Introduction Leaders Program in Landmark’s Worldwide. Its been six weeks out of a seven and half months long program where we deal with life and create change to transform ourselves and the world around us. It’s been an interesting ride so far. We […]
My thoughts on Leadership
One of my fraternity brothers at Rutgers reached out to me about an assignment in Leadership. It was to interview someone who stood out to you to be a leader and I was humbled, and this was the conversation. I’m fortunate to be surrounded by so many leaders, and I felt like I could speak […]
The Roof- Live a Life Inspired by Purpose
These are some of my favorite passages from Marci Shimoff’s Happy for No Reason book. “There are two great days in a person’s life- the day we are born and the day we discover why. – William Barclay, twentieth-century Scottish theologian “When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really […]
The Pillar of the Body- Make Your Cells Happy
These are additional passages that I enjoyed reading from Marci Shimoff’s “Happy for No Reason” book. “Our souls are the individual expression of this larger Spirit. When you experience that the beauty and mystery surrounding you is inside you as well, your life takes on another dimension. You realize you aren’t just getting by in […]
Take Ownership of Your Happiness
These are passages from one of the interesting books I am reading now called Happy For No Reason by Marci Shimoff. “The Happy 100 recognize that it isn’t useful to label events as “good” or “bad” in the first place. Instead, they choose to trust that everything contains a gift or a lesson, though they […]
10 Things I learned from Landmark’s Transformational -Curriculum for Living.
I am in a personal transformation program called Landmark’s Introduction’s Leaders Program. One of my biggest goals is dealing with my blindspots and what’s going on inside my head. We complete this by tackling what we call rackets which are things that keep coming up that prevent us from reaching our goals. We also get […]
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
These were my favorite passages from “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” “She said she not only was sometimes amused at the fresh treatment I would give an author’s subject, but, when I gave some new and sudden turn to the plot of the story, often grew interested and even excited in listening to […]
Favorite Quotes from Fictional Authencity
Kudos to my coach Alex Terranova making it possible for us by leading the way. “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” -Melody Beattie “Happiness is not a goal, it’s a byproduct.”-Eleanor Roosevelt “Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let […]
Jack Canfield’s Day of Greatness
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