Me Inc

Listen to "Me Inc" on Spreaker. I was blessed with the opportunity to sit with a large group of creative people. You know me somewhere in the conversation I'm going to bring up daily writing. So many heads nodded. It was if they were saying "Whoa please don't invade my place of safety." I get it. So many times we jot things down we don't want others to read. But in reality it doesn't belong to you. In the months and years ahead your dark cloud actually serves as a winning tool. You made it through the mountain. I've been studying the paragraphs of my daily writing laid into the veins of the living tree on March 23,2016. Before jumping into the final paragraphs I truly didn't have a clue as to what I was putting so much energy into. Then I realized the artist had come face to face with a moment of crashing.

Barbara Tucker

Listen to "rBeatz Music Update Barbara Tucker Take It Back" on Spreaker. The depth of Dance continues to grow back to its arrival. Barbara Tucker is the master at putting bass in your face. She says, "Before there was Techno, Progressive and Trance there was House Music. Her latest release on rBeatz Radio is Think (About It)

Addison Agen

Listen to "rBeatz Music Update Addison Agen Talks About Writing" on Spreaker. At the age of 16 Addison Agen is creating one heck of a story. Is she writing it down? She's very open with the process of documenting the journey knowing that 5 to 50 it will still be a learning place for the one thing she loves most... Her music.

Boat Docked At The Edge Of The Bay

Listen to "Boat Docked At The Edge Of The Bay" on Spreaker. All too often I feel like I'm too full of myself. Only to take note of the number of notes I'm endlessly writing down. Not to serve me but others. To lend the open hand while locating paths of performance by way of being a leader. On March 23, 2016 I penned out a couple of paragraphs that were down right deep. Way to far to travel for most. Until I break it all down in November of 2017. Once the sentences and paragraphs are explained the picture becomes clear. So why didn't I just come out and say it the first time it was written? It's what I call Hidden Speak. Most of us don't want others to know how we truly feel. A bad day doesn't have to come with a book. But the person carrying the weight needs to get it off their chest and away from their body. Through Hidden Speak I'm able to walk in peace without causing an irritation. Going back over a year to reexamine the layout of words becomes a modern tool. To use that moment to not only question my own steps but to challenge those who are in need of quality leadership.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 87

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 87" on Spreaker. We all go through it. We're so consumed by work, play, dreams, far away wishes and too many commands. The cup is so full that it's become too easy to get lost and confused. You wake up from a simple catnap and your mind can't instantly plant you in a place of easy recognition. The sweats set in. You begin to doubt and quite possible feel fear. It takes longer than normal to readjust your awareness only to realize it was a moment of disconnection that felt like a completely different direction. With our amazing ways of staying in touch with those we love and create with. We keep protective eyes on the steps that make up the circle. But when something doesn't look or feel right it becomes too easy to forget about their existence. You can't say this is what it's like when you get older. My grandson walks the same trail when he wakes up. How do you prepare for this? The body is already beaten down by the everyday world. It doesn't need mental departures to add to the confusion. I lose my keys a lot. So I started placing them in the same location every time with my wallet and everything else required to be carried. Can we leave objects of recognition to bring us back safer? Then it hit me. It's not a trinket that's required. It's something much larger than a breadbox.

Trash Treasure Vinegar

Listen to "Trash Treasure Vinegar" on Spreaker. I've always been fascinated with what people put out on their curbs for the trash man to take away. In today's world that doesn't always guarantee a trip to the dump. Walking through a flea market I'm reminded of one man's trash is another man's treasure. We collect a lot of things. So much so that we've outgrown our homes. Storage units three to five stories tall have become a huge business. So why is it we can't throw things away? If we aren't using it why keep it? Oh I'm no angel here. I'm extremely guilty of collecting things because I want them in my present moment. When I'm finished with it the next step of the journey is to locate a closet or find space in the garage. I do dream of the day when I can rent a dumpster and throw it all away. Downsizing your life is a horribly difficult task. What about downsizing your emotions? How can we take what we've experienced and let it go? I write everyday because I can physically tell you it creates room. I rid the mind body and soul of all things that could and will lead to bad thinking and decision making. Preparing for a storm and or growth requires space. You can't get it at Walmart or Morningside Storage. They say being creative is a space maker. The more you paint or write music the easier it is to find your path several miles from imploding. But are you getting rid of the right stuff? I read your Facebook, Instagram and Twitter talk. You may think you're shedding your fur, feathers and skin but it's still there on the digital imprint. Just as it is with my daily writing. Oh boy it can take me back 17 years in a heart beat. How do we grow forward carrying so much trash? Is it another man's treasure? My heart recently reminded me that a great bottle of wine if not taken care of will become vinegar.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 86

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 86" on Spreaker. The story beyond the story. The lessons learned while marching through the storms of everyday. While studying Martial Arts I learned very quickly that winning is a choice. Sounds like a tool of insurance more than assurance. Learning to live that path helped me embrace the unexpected while celebrating the carefully planned out. Then when life takes a swing at you the forest student steps back into the circle and realizes the importance of learning. I didn't learn how to kick, block and punch but rather opened my awareness. That's a tough life to live up to. Being aware means you stand on the roof of your foundation and take on the storm. There's a reason why willows bend with the wind. But were they always that way?

Ask Questions

Listen to "Ask Questions" on Spreaker. I am firmly convinced that we are the generation that's forgotten how to ask the "Right" question. We have Google, Bing and Yahoo! Not a good enough answer. No website has the ability to showcase the value of experience versus information. I am blessed with the opportunity to speak in front of many many people. In the opening of the conversation I always invite the passerby's to ask me three top of the mind questions. Not because I'm conceited or feel my time is more valuable. I'm trying to train people how to get back to asking questions. Bosses tell us what to do and how to do it. Followed by invisible angst. They know you're upset with the multi tasking but they don't care. Ask questions. Showcase your concern. Be alive in the moment and stop being a human robot! No boss holds their position without asking questions about the level of play they're expected to maintain. Nowhere is it written that once you get to that decision making position that you have the right to never answer questions. Being transparent is the fad word. But very few people in control actually live it. Start asking questions. I truly don't care if it makes them uncomfortable. They've got knowledge and the experience and it's your goal to gain access to it. Taking what you know and making it greater is the gift. If you don't ask questions there can be no growth.

Time

Listen to "Lost Time" on Spreaker. Yep.. Its almost 2018. What happened here? A minute still requires 60 ticks on a clock. The actuality of a day is still 24 hours. How then did we get to the end of 2017 so quickly? I believe it's the cause and effect of two things: Your job and what you do on the social networks. We keep our mind body and souls so busy that time means nothing to the hearts requiring rest. Your job owns 8 hours of your day but expects 12 to 15 without pay. The social media gets everything in between. Will And Grace are back on NBC. Really? When did they leave?

Power Of Choice

Listen to "The Power Of Choice" on Spreaker. Nothing stops my steps from moving forward quicker then hearing someone say, "You are so talented. You were born with the gift. Success is your victory." Seriously? We're all born with the ability to bring light to all shapes and shades of darkness. The power of choice is the key that unlocks or blocks the door. A great day doesn't begin the moment you walk in the door at work. Nor can you call it a brilliant chapter written when you arrive back home. Being a daily writer gives me the opportunity to study the requirement to build upon the presented foundations. Instead of trying to always win in the moment. The goal is to study what's been laid out and or experienced. To study the paths of choice that make tomorrow a place of achievement. That's not a gift but rather an open palm that simply says "We can do this. But it's not going to be easy."

Give It To God

Listen to "Give It To God" on Spreaker. A sentence recently fell from my writing instrument, "I'm not sure people know what's going on. The reaction is to have no action for it may invite more darkness." Instantly I called such a statement wrong because we've become the generation of having too much to say. Podcasts to Youtube a lot of noise is being broadcast. But the sentence goes deeper into the process of who and what we are. How often do we sit through an entire newscast? We get the initial first paragraphs and bolt. It's too heavy to hold. Microsoft Edge isn't shy to put up global news on the face of the computer. I can't figure out if it's actual or propaganda? Which makes me wonder about who is and isn't accepted on our social networking devices. How many of them are planted there to control your thinking? Do we truly know what's going on or are we acting and reacting to something someone digitally put into play inside our place of growth?

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 85

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 85" on Spreaker. If I were to truly explain what this entry is about you'd judge the book by it's cover. In fact if you have a difficult time dealing with reality I suggest you don't pull your vehicle in. Life is a series of changes and challenges, victories and reasons to grow outward a quarter inch at a time. We love to pull things toward us without realizing at any given moment it can be taken away. But how do you deal with it? Anger? Depression? Do you instantly get locked up on new vices that send your already awkward path into a spin before you win? Writing with truth is how I deal with faith. Growing up is what we are invited to do everyday. It's something so many never get used to. Mainly because it's too easy to wear a mask.

Bebe Rexha

Listen to "rBeatz Music Update Bebe Reha On Writing" on Spreaker. Getting the opportunity to push your music beyond the recording studio isn't always the easiest step. Record labels know what they want and if you don't fit in the twist and spins on the path of creative flow can easily take out those writing and performing. Bebe Rexha has learned to put it in her writing which has opened new doors of incredible success. Her latest release on rBeatz Radio is I Got You.

Dennis Drummond

Listen to "rBeatz Music Update Dennis Drummond From NBC's The Voice" on Spreaker. Can you imagine the world of music without guitars? I'm not sure Dennis Drummond from NBC's The Voice can. There's always six stings somewhere near him. Which is important to the sights and sounds of modern music because it's become so easy in 2017 to recreate the instrument inside EDM digital studios.

Without You There Is Silence

Listen to "Without You There Is Silence" on Spreaker. Through out our lives great friends and supportive family members will gut check us. There's always a challenge with the self we are. Not everybody likes them self. It's completely natural but very destructive. And after you've spent thousands on books of motivation and or doctors to help you recover there's still that shape of silence. You can like yourself. But that doesn't mean it's an automatic to motivate, influence and inspire yourself. Those are usually thrown out the window by business leaders who've taken control of your process of growth. You will be injured today at work by a leader that's doing everything they need to look good in front of their boss. You don't have to get used to it. Motivate change. Influence yourself to locate a stronger path. Inspire others to take your lead. It's time you reach beyond liking yourself and become a stronger you.

Listen to "I Feel Something" on Spreaker. So often we're so caught up in the past or too far in the future that we take our hearts off the present. Then one day you walk the typical everyday path and you feel something that doesn't seem right. It's completely natural to become nervous and or sick to your stomach because your inner core has finally gotten your attention. Change is on the way. Time to embrace the storm. What keeps us at bay are the number of times we've been here. It's almost as if we're crying wolf. Because I'm a daily writer it was easy for me to spot the changes that were about to unfold. Being honest on paper and not playing a fantasy game has kept my pace locked on forward motion. Evidence of change started showing up in my writing in February of 2016. By mid March the temperature of the atmosphere had heated beyond reasons why I should talk myself out of it. I knew I was headed into a storm. Here in November of 2017 I find myself face to face with what I thought I knew and what I physically know. But is it a tool?

Stages

Listen to "Stages" on Spreaker. It's not very often that words written today make their way on the air in the moments that follow. I usually return to these daily pages 18 to 24 months later. It helps me measure growth which becomes an incredible teaching tool. But not today. Openly I admit that I struggle with receiving gifts from God. I feel as if I'm taking. I don't like being a taker. Enough people have taken from me and I know the emptiness all too well. During today's writing something very special was placed in my heart. The word taken needs to be replaced by accepting. The artist isn't me. It's God. By accepting what he shares, it becomes our calling to help him locate the stages required to display the writers, musicians, actors and other creative hearts. Accept the gifts from God by activating the mission.

No Excuse

Listen to "No Excuse" on Spreaker. I'm not a time hog. I'm a respecter of time. Three hours early to me is six hours too late. We are designed as humans to always be prepared. The best tool we hold is knowing the importance of time. But in 2017 being on time is what freaks like me do and most people want no part of it. I'm so sick about time that if a meeting has been set up for 12 noon, modern day technology allows me to record incredible conversations from anywhere in the world. So why put pressure on the process by trying to wiggle through unexpected traffic and weather? Be alive in the moment by trusting no tick on a clock. You can beat it at its own game. Instead of gambling on the walls falling. Leave early. Prepare early. Being on time makes you a leader. Writing that I have to laugh. I know a lot of business positions that truly shouldn't be held because being on time means nothing to them. It all starts at the top. We've become masters at making up excuses. Not on my time.