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Hello Everyone,

This has been a trying month. Recent weeks, have truly tested the power of strength, acceptance and understanding.
Taking for granted the breathes that we are allow to take. The heart beats on it's own, with little help from us. How many times have you paid attention to yourself breathing. Are you ever cognizant of your life as it's happening, I mean where you're 'really' in the moment, listening to each breath that you take and being grateful of the inhaling and exhaling? Life is the greatest gift, the path that you take, things discovered in route to your greatest achievement.

What are your staples? More and more, you cannot take any of it for granted. Sometimes when I go to sleep, I'm 100% certain that I'll see the next day. How cocky of me. When I wake, am I always appreciative to see the day that I took for granted? Hmm not always. Happiness is a matter of opinion, misery is universal, at some point we've all experienced it on one level or another.

To grow as a person means that you're really trying to put the work in that's required. I have little respect for anyone who wont challenge themselves to be the very best that they can be. Sure you'll have days when you fall off, and grow weary when it seems that the rainbow isn't enough. Take that bad moment, but don't stay there. For anyone who refuse to address their demons, I feel is a coward. Repeated mistakes mean you're not willing to press forth. Be it love, friendship, family ties etc.., a bad relationship that has run it's course, most times wont improve, yet some will stay...WHY? Learn to depend on you survival skills, and know that better for yourself exists out there. Then you have the group that will stay because the other person is in love with you, and on some level you feel that you owe them? WHY? People are resilient enough, when left to their own devices, remarkably, that awful, unbearable hard dreaded day....when forced to, your defense mechanism kicks in and guess what, you make it through. Discover your inner strength, it's a gift that is within you.

Here's a quote that I wanted to share: 'Happiness is not something we seek outside of ourselves. President Yamamoto has said that the Japanese word for 'revolution' literally means to 'transform life'. Everything ultimately depends therefore, on how we strive to transform our lives - to change these tendencies that leaves us easily swayed by Karma or defeated by our weaknesses. The reason is that the source of our happiness exists nowhere but in our hearts, in our deepest resolve and commitment' - Daisaki Ikeda

What are you doing with your life?

P.S. Pop Superstar Whitney Houston's "I Look To You" CD debuts Sept 1-2009, with a LIVE Good Morning America appearance to follow shortly thereafter. Stay Tune....Whitney is coming home. Keep your fingers crossed, BET will make a decision about the fate of the now defunct 'The Game' sitcom. Lord knows BET needs something positive to help their distasteful programming.