Tenacity:
1) I've had my parents murdered in front of me when I just a child. I was an orphan at 8-years old;
2) I had a "partner" swindle my entire business--and assets--and abscond to Cuba;
3) I've been through two divorces;
4) I've had 12 lawsuits;
et al.
And I will say that I'm PROUD of you for having the Tenacity (no pun intended) to keep going and make something of yourself despite all of that.
Do I come into this or other forums crying that life handed me a bad deck of cards? Do I come to this or other forums with a negative attitude complaining how fvcked up the world is?
You don't, but I don't see how we can't walk and chew gum at the same time? I don't see why it has to be one or the other? Why can't I continue along my path for success in life WHILE ALSO time-to-time calling out the bullshyt around me? You do realize that calling out the bullshyt around you is how you can help make life better not just for you, but the people coming up behind you. Imagine if MLK didn't call out the bullshyt around him? My black a.ss would probably still be segregated somewhere.
What I do is take the "crap" life offers, gain enlightenment, and find opportunities within the "crap" from which to proliferate.
But in doing so, you are neglecting the reality that some people are in a situation where they DO NOT have the opportunity to turn failures into opportunities.
- Living in Flint, Chicago, etc., where Ray Ray and Pookie are shooting people left and right, murdering them, if you get your a.ss SHOT to the point of being a vegetable or being dead.....where is the opportunity in that to turn the failure into something meaningful?
- Where is the opportunity in the enslaved 3rd world country worker, who works for food or works for pennies on the dollar, to turn their situation into opportunity?
- Where is the opportunity for Tenacity, who has an internal desire for black women, to find a black woman with no kids, 24 - 30, educated, with good finances, and WITHOUT the stupid stuck up bougie/high maintenance/feminist/dominant/and (insert other bullshyt personality defects here)?
Sometimes there is no opportunity to turn failure into an opportunity. I was FORTUNATE to be able to turn my homeless situation into an opportunity........but the vast majority of people who become homeless in Flint, MI DO NOT come out. They DO NOT become Tenacity. And it's NOT because they didn't TRY.
I was just god damn lucky, period.
Questions to Ponder
- What lessons in your life have those seemly negative events taught you?
- Would you be the same Tenacity today if those seemly negative events did not occur? How would you be different?
- Did those seemly negative events spawn growth in you and in your life in any manner?
- How can you use these seemly negative events to your advantage, rather than to your emotional detriment?
Think.
Let's go down this briefly:
What lessons in your life have those seemly negative events taught you?
Answer: The business/career sided shyt I was all able to turn failure into opportunities. But NOT so much on the social/personal side shyt. The family failures, fake friends failures, fvcked up relations with women failures, I haven't seen the GOOD come out of that and I don't see the GOOD in that. I'm just not going to be lucky in that area.
Would you be the same Tenacity today if those seemly negative events did not occur? How would you be different?
Answer: If I didn't have fake friends, had more decent relations with women, and had a more decent family structure..........everything I've done so far in business/career......would BE DOUBLED OR TRIPLED. You don't understand how much loss productivity I've had in business/career aspects, being depressed over the personal side shyt.
Did those seemly negative events spawn growth in you and in your life in any manner?
Answer: No, the personal side stuff is a weight that I carry around. The best I try to do is ignore it and focus on other things, but it's only a matter of time before I come back to it because again.....it's a weight I carry.
How can you use these seemly negative events to your advantage, rather than to your emotional detriment?
Answer: I have absolutely no clue.