TEDONA #69
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it...
Quotes
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." —Colin R. Davis.
“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ”— M. Scott Peck.
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” — Mark Twain.
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”— Lucille Ball.
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”—Maxwell Maltz
“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. — Teronie J. Donaldson (yep that's me, cool right?)
Notes/Observations
Every day is an audition. No matter what you are doing or what industry if you treat every day as an audition you won’t get complacent.
Articles
Watched
Lucy and Desi Amazon Prime Documentary
I am fascinated by Lucille Ball. She is such an Icon and I am delving more into her story. I loved this Documentary.
This was an interesting documentary. I never knew the origins of Bikram Yoga.
It makes for a fascinating tale. This documentary talks about the Founder and his weird and predatory behavior.
Interesting Observations
Men in power are rarely convicted of crimes and a cult-like figure can get away with anything.
People will believe anything if it's compelling enough.
Despite his character, his yoga training are still popular. Some people don't care as long as it benefits them.
Strategy
Quick meditation
"A gift you can give yourself right now:
Stop what you're doing. Close your eyes.
For the next 60 seconds, just breathe."
This will help you in more ways than you can imagine.
Book of the Week
The Dead are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X—all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews into an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction.
The result is this historic biography that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist, a work whose title is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his Hartford followers stir with purpose, as if the dead were truly arising, to overcome the obstacles of racism. Setting Malcolm’s life not only within the Nation of Islam but against the larger backdrop of American history, the book traces the life of one of the twentieth century’s most politically relevant figures “from street criminal to devoted moralist and revolutionary.”
In tracing Malcolm X’s life from his Nebraska birth in 1925 to his Harlem assassination in 1965, Payne provides searing vignettes culled from Malcolm’s Depression-era youth, describing the influence of his Garveyite parents: his father, Earl, a circuit-riding preacher who was run over by a street car in Lansing, Michigan, in 1929, and his mother, Louise, who continued to instill black pride in her children after Earl’s death. Filling each chapter with resonant drama, Payne follows Malcolm’s exploits as a petty criminal in Boston and Harlem in the 1930s and early 1940s to his religious awakening and conversion to the Nation of Islam in a Massachusetts penitentiary.
With a biographer’s unwavering determination, Payne corrects the historical record and delivers extraordinary revelations—from the unmasking of the mysterious NOI founder “Fard Muhammad,” who preceded Elijah Muhammad; to a hair-raising scene, conveyed in cinematic detail, of Malcolm and Minister Jeremiah X Shabazz’s 1961 clandestine meeting with the KKK; to a minute-by-minute account of Malcolm X’s murder at the Audubon Ballroom.
Introduced by Payne’s daughter and primary researcher, Tamara Payne, who, following her father’s death, heroically completed the biography, The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating and riveting work that affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle.
Question
What is an area you'd like to improve over the next 5 years?
How are you working toward that outcome today?
Think long-term. Act short-term.