The Most Important Word Ever

Forget talking, explaining, seeking out acceptance, trying to get followers, 'sharing,' looking for likes or comments on social media. Get your hustle game up and build your 'money' up, which is energy, and everything else will follow. Get your zen up, your energy level up, your spirituality up, your discipline up, your work ethic up, your results up. Forget how many people are smiling at you. Do you even like you? Smile at yourself first by hustling.

Bless up and Boss up. 

5 Ways to Love Yourself More.

Loving myself has changed my life. I noticed that a lot of times during my day to day life I wasn't truly loving myself. If asked I would generally say I had self-confidence, I loved myself, and I was generally secure in my self and my own self-efficacy. After closer examination I soon realized I was not loving myself 100%. So I decided to write a blog post on 5 ways you are either loving yourself 100% or you aren't keeping it 100 with yourself, and you may need to re-look at your self-love. 

• Positive Self-talk/Avoiding Negative Self-Talk:  Many of us, including myself, speak negatively and caustically to ourselves. There's a little voice within and it's nothing but negative. It's always self-doubting and self-destructive. "You aren't good enough. He won't like you. You won't do well. How could you do that? Why'd you say it like that? They're not going to trust you." Now if you are loving yourself, your self-talk will be more positive. You will become gentle with yourself and you won't verbally abuse yourself. Life is already hard enough. If you ever notice yourself doing this, you can replace negative self-talk with positive self-talk. "I am good enough. They will like me. It will work." etc. 

• Self-validation: I can't tell you how important this is. You have a unique journey that you've been uniquely prepared for. There is a saying that if you are dependent on someone's approval for your happiness then their disapproval will be your misery. One becomes a slave when always dependent on other peoples' opinions or approval. It's great to seek out the opinions of the wise and those who we care about, but sometimes, no one understands your path but you and God. Your truth can stand alone. The sun shines regardless if people complain, don't understand the benefits of its rays, or the purpose for the nuclear fusion that takes place in its core, it just shines. It's the same for you. When you love yourself you don't depend on other peoples' approval or validation for your dream or life decisions. You came here alone and  you will leave alone. Plus only you will deal with the karma of your actions so go within and validate your own dreams. Don't expect anyone to validate your dreams. They are not their dreams to validate. 

• Self-acceptance: You are tall. You are short. You are underweight. You may be overweight. You have skin problems. Your teeth are crooked. You have cellulite. Your eye is a little lazy. Your nose is a bit pointy. The truth is, no one really cares about these things, you know why? Because people are too busy thinking about their own insecurities and perceived flaws to think about you. Most people can perceive confidence and it isn't just based off of physical appearances. 
• There's a secret. Once you begin accepting yourself 100% you see the beauty in yourself and you start to shine because you don't shy away and hide.  This self-assurance reflects in how you speak, how you carry yourself, and your body language. Your self-acceptance becomes a unique beauty signature that no one else will have. That birthmark is cute. You are cute. You are handsome. You're fine. You're perfect. If you don't accept it though, no one will. 

• Self-investment: People who love themselves invest in themselves. They aren't concerned with what people think about their self-investment and they do not feel guilty about it. Investing in yourself doesn't mean splurging on yourself or feeding yourself before you feed your children. That's just selfishness. It's about showing yourself love and care. There is a difference between investing in yourself and blowing money on yourself and you can easily tell the difference between investments and money blown. With investments you get returns. You spend time exercising, you increase strength and stamina. You do yoga or meditation, you improve flexibility and equanimity. These are investments. Splurging on crap you don't need is not self-investment, it is waste. 
• Self-forgiveness: In the past you may have made some mistakes. There were obstacles you didn't overcome and you may have fell over. Self-loving people do not hold these seeming failures over their heads. What self-loving people do is forgive themselves, learn from their mistakes and keep it pushing. It makes for better and more success. 

If you made it this far, I am glad and I hope it assisted you in showing you how to love yourself a bit more. 

Until next time. 

Bey

Kanye West's Top 10 Rules for Success

She Makes $50,000 a Week and Travels The World.

Kisha Mays is always on the move.

Mays is the 33-year-old founder and CEO of Just Fearless, a business-development consultancy that helps women entrepreneurs expand into international markets.

While she's based in Hong Kong and Los Angeles, she spends around eight months of the year outside of the US, working on projects everywhere from Malaysia to Singapore to Italy to India.

"My lifestyle is unique," she says. "Just because I get to travel around the world; I get to help women, and I get paid a lot of money to do it."

"When you travel, it opens up doors," she continues. "Even my clients in New York who have never left New York City; that is beyond me. I like that aspect of my life. I get to go around the world in the style I'm comfortable with, and I'm the boss."

During a brief stop in the US to renew her passport and visas, Mays shared some of the ways she makes it possible to run her business on the road.

She doesn't stay in hotels. Business travelers often complain of being weary of living in hotels, something Mays actively avoids. She prefers to rent a temporary home through Airbnb. "The most incredible places sometimes offer houses with great views," she says. This past year, she rented a place in Thailand for five months to get easier access to projects in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. "It was easy to be based there," she says. "Much easier than having to go back and forth to the US."

She uses technology to streamline her workflow. Mays manages a team of 17, plus some freelancers. To keep on top of her work and at the head of her team, some of her favorite tools are:

• Trello, for project management. "It helps me keep track of everything and have conversations with my team."
• XE Currency App, for on-the-go currency conversion. 'When you're overseas and you need to understand rates and currencies, that's a lifesaver right there."
• Evernote, to keep track of everything that needs doing. "I can jot down quick notes and record stuff, and it goes with me no matter where I go — it's consistent."

She keeps her overhead costs low. Last year, her company's annual revenue was about $3.4 million, and for 2015, they're projecting $5 million. Mays estimates she takes home about 70% of that, due to the low overhead costs of running her business. "I hire freelancers and outsource," she explains. "At the same time, employees can work from home, or from the office." Plus, she explains, because she travels so extensively for business, many of her living and transportation expenses are tax-deductible. "It all works out in the end," she says.

Mays has just a few words of advice for people who want to strike out on their own. "The greatest thing you can do is bet on yourself and just do it," she says. 'The worst thing you can do is not do it, and keep the security of your job. Have I had failure? Absolutely." (In fact, she's written a book about it.) "But if I didn't have the failures, I wouldn't have the success. As clichéd as it is, it's absolutely true."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/kisha-mays-just-fearless-2015-7#ixzz3fOIYKRgX

Elon Musk: Work twice as hard as others.

Elon Musk, along with many other entrepreneurs like Mark Cuban follow the law of action. They say, instead of planting just 10 seeds, you need to plant 20, or 30, or 50, and work like hell. Work twice as hard as others. 

Mark Cuban Advises 20 Somethings: Live Cheaply.

Mark Cuban followed his friends to Dallas in 1981 after getting his bachelor's degree from Indiana University.

He remembers that when he first moved into their apartment, he didn't even have his own room. Things were so cramped that he'd come in at night after bartending and have to sleep on the couch or, if that was taken, the floor. He kept his few belongings in a heap.

Cuban spent his 20s living cheaply and investing money in his first business, software distributor MicroSolutions. When he was 31, he sold the company to H&R Block for $6 million. The $2 million he personally made on the deal put him on the path to becoming the billionaire investor, entrepreneur, and Dallas Mavericks owner he is today. 

In his book "How to Win at the Sport of Business," Cuban writes that if you're in your 20s, you don't need to share a gross apartment with a bunch of friends. But, he says, you should live cheaply, even if you happen to be doing well.

Paying off bills, debt, and establishing a nest egg is far more important than indulging in a sprawling home or high-end fashion, he says.

"It doesn't matter where you live," Cuban writes. "It doesn't matter how you live. It doesn't matter what car you drive. It doesn't matter what kind of clothes you wear."

If you use your 20s to pay off student-loan debt, avoid credit-card debt, and build savings, you'll thank yourself later.

"The more you stress over bills, the more difficult it is to focus on your goals," he says.

Whether you're using your 20s to build your own business or establish a rewarding career, "the cheaper you can live, the greater your options," Cuban writes.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-on-living-cheaply-in-20s-2015-5#ixzz3ebZOKmAy

Breaking Bad - Gus Fring Tribute

My Favorite Character of all time.