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You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to live a positive life. – William Hicks
We all struggle with letting those friends and family go that seem to have more power over our decisions then we do. They usually have strong opinions and make what they’re saying sound like it was written in the Bible.
For you to move up you have to expand your circle of friends. To grow you must talk with people that have progressed. You owe it to yourself to find positive people that will give you wisdom as to how to achieve your goals.
Negative people are dead weight and they’ll make the journey longer than it has to be.
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Famine is the Real "F" Word – Watch the Video & Sign the Petition TODAY
Drought is inevitable, but famine is not. The current crisis in the Horn of Africa is the result of a tragic combination of factors that are man-made, including abnormally high food prices, lack of governance and security in Somalia, and a historic lack of investment in long-term agricultural development in the Horn. Over the past few years, we lost the political will and public support necessary to prevent the famine – and its causes. As a consequence, tens of thousands of children have died.
We have also missed the opportunity to help 200 million people from poor farming families lift themselves out of poverty. Communities in Africa can cope with droughts and natural disasters. But we need donors to put resources toward seeds, irrigation and teaching farmers new growing techniques. We need leaders to invest in early warning systems and national social safety net programs.
Congress can help keep our commitment to farmers in developing countries by fully funding Feed the Future— a life-changing USAID initiative that is investing in long-term agricultural development and could help put an end to famine for good.
Please sign our petition to Congress calling on them to fund this vital program:
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The Man Responsible for Bridging Urban Music & Advertising: Steve Stoute Someone You Should Know
Steve Stoute is an author, entrepreneur, advertising executive and American record executive and artist manager.Stoute is the founder of Translation. With a diverse client roster that includes brands such as McDonald’s, State Farm, Hewlett-Packard, Target, Reebok, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co and Lady Gaga, Stoute has greatly influenced the way blue chip marketers and superstar artists connect with consumers. Whether he’s turning a jingle into a hit single for Wrigley’s, marrying the work of fashion icon Valentino with technology from Samsung, or making Gwen Stefani relevant to mothers with cameras, some of today’s most innovative marketing efforts are the brainchild of Stoute. His strategic insights were behind McDonald’s recent broad, long-term partnership with LeBron James, Samsung’s limited-edition Beyoncé-branded B’Phone, McDonald’s iconic “I’m Loving It” campaign featuring Justin Timberlake, and Tommy Hilfiger’s True Star fragrance for women with Beyoncé.
Translation is a full service transcultural advertising agency that focuses on delivering prescient ‘game changing’ strategies and inspiring clever creative to increase client value among target constituencies. In 2008, Stoute expanded Translation’s footprint by partnering with Shawn Carter (aka Jay-Z) to co-found Translation Advertising, which specializes in the multicultural market. Translation believes that its ability to manage ‘cultural’ nuances allows consumers to know the difference between marketing communications intended to relate to them versus those that intend to ‘sell to them.’Translation’s expertise in Branded Entertainment alliances helps to strengthen and codify this bond between brands and consumers through proximity, alignment, and partnerships to achieve rich and measurable engagement.In 2009 the American Advertising Federation inducted Stoute into their Advertising Hall of Achievement, the industry’s premier award for outstanding advertising professionals age 40 and under.In 2010, Steve was recognized as “Innovator of the Year” at the ADCOLOR awards ceremony, an initiative launched by the ADCOLOR Industry Coalition, to promote increased diversity in the advertising, marketing and media industries.
Steve Stoute Talks with the Breakfast Club about The Music Industry Shift for the Worst,His New book “The Tanning of America” and Why he made the shift from the glamorous Record Exec to Advertising Genius.
Getting a Grip on Power: 10 Tips for a Successful Career
Provided by: Fortune Magazine
Ever since Fortune, in 1998, started ranking the top women in business (yes, we were first), I’ve been asking the stars of the Most Powerful Women list how they reached the top and how they stay there. One month away from revealing our 2011 MPW rankings, now seems a good time to share some of their best career tips.
Here is my Top 10:
1.Don’t plan your career. Most of the women on the Fortune MPW list, starting with PepsiCo (PEP) CEO Indra Nooyi, No. 1 in the rankings since 2006, had no clear career map when they graduated college or business school. Rather, they stayed flexible and open to the possibilities.
2. Forget the ladder; climb the jungle gym. What good is a ladder when the world is changing so fast and unpredictably–and who knows what tomorrow’s ideal job will be? Think of your career as a jungle gym, sharpen your peripheral vision, and look for opportunities all around.
3.Worry about the job you’re in. “If you don’t do that one well, you’ll never get the next one,” says Jan Fields, who started out cooking French fries at McDonald’s (MCD) and rose to U.S. President. While it’s important to envision some ultimate goal, says Fields, “you have to focus on what you have right now, or that long-term opportunity won’t come.”
4.Follow your compass, not your clock. Avon Products (AVP) CEO Andrea Jung lives by this advice, ever since she got passed over the first time around, for the CEO job. Former Time Inc. (TWX) CEO Ann Moore, on the Avon board at the time, gave Jung this advice. It’s good that Jung stayed. In the CEO role since 1999, she’s now the longest-serving female chief in the Fortune 500, and she’s on the Apple (AAPL) and General Electric (GE) boards.
5. Take risks. Google (GOOG) VP Marissa Mayer had a slew of job offers from well-known companies in 1999 when she was coming out of Stanford University with a Masters in Computer Science. She chose Google, then a brand new startup, because, she says, “I wanted to work for smart people, and I wanted to do things I wasn’t ready to do.”
6.Be yourself. When Ursula Burns learned that she was going to be named CEO of Xerox (XRX), she knew that one of the easiest ways to succeed would be to act like her popular predecessor, who brought the company back from near-bankruptcy. “You can’t try to be me,” Burns recalls Mulcahy telling her. Burns says this is one of her rules today: “You can be somebody else and follow all your life, but you cannot be somebody else and lead.”
7. Don’t balance. Juggle. “Stop believing in balance,” says Anne Sweeney, who has raised two children including an autistic son while overseeing Disney’s (DIS) Media Networks. She calls balance “the B word because it just doesn’t exist.” On days when you can’t get it all done, “the best thing you can do is say, ‘You know what? I gave it my best and I’m going to wake up tomorrow morning and try again. She adds, “There are days when it falls into place, but chances are, it happened because you had a lot of smart people that you work with who were knocking it out of the park.”
8. Give thanks. While, this may sound Polyannish, the people who make it to the top and stay there–especially women, who are judged within a narrower band of acceptable behavior than men tend to be–give out more appreciation than they take for themselves. “One of the greatest unwritten rules of business,” says Gina Drosos, in charge of a $20 billion beauty business at Procter & Gamble (PG), is that it’s so important to appreciate the hard work of your team and the people around you.” As Drosos notes, the higher you climb, the less you do it all yourself.
9. Don’t leave before you leave. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg introduced this advice in an essay that she wrote in Fortune’s 2009 Most Powerful Women issue. She wrote the piece out of frustration–seeing way too many young women crimp career ambitions as they anticipate having children or otherwise settling down. Instead of “leaning back”–and then, almost inevitably getting bored–Sandberg advises: “Take life one step at a time and don’t make decisions before you have to.”
10. Own your power. Most women on our MPW list cringed at the word “power” 13 years ago when we launched the annual rankings. Sandberg came around eventually (She describes her “a ha moment” in a recent New Yorker profile). Oprah Winfrey has too. The secret to getting comfortable with your power is to define it your own way. My favorite definition comes from Oprah, who told me: “Power is the ability to impact with purpose.”
Message From the Chief Inspiration Officer
The pursuit of happiness isn’t a specific destination but the beautiful moments leading up to your destiny.
– Chanel Hemphill
The REAL Rick Ross Drops Some Knowledge @ UCLA – Video
Donnell Ross, better known as “Freeway” Ricky Ross, is one of those rare figures whose experience as a drug kingpin has lead him to a life of rebuilding the community in which he once helped destroy. According to the Oakland Tribune” In the course of his rise, prosecutors estimate that Ross exported several tons of cocaine nationally, and made more than $600 million in the process. Counting inflation its 3 billion dollars comparing 1986 to 2010. Now, he has applied the passion that helped him build an empire to helping the youth, Ross has been given a second chance to uplift his community by giving back through mentoring and sharing his story. He plans to inspire many of today’s youths to achieve their greatest successes without following in his footsteps.
Watch Rick’s Presentation to UCLA
Visit here for more information on Rick Ross’ Community Work
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"Your gift will make room for you" by Dr. Myles Munroe
How is the fulfillment of vision meant to work in practical terms? Proverbs 18:16 is a powerful statement that reveals the answer: “A man’s gift makes room for him” (NKJV). What you were designed to be known for is your gift.
God has put a gift or talent in every person that the world will make room for.
It is this gift that will enable you to fulfill your vision.
It will make a way for you in life. It is in exercising this gift that you will find real fulfillment, purpose, and contentment in your work.
It is interesting to note that the Bible does not say that a man’s education makes room for him, but that his gift does.
Somehow we have swallowed the idea that education is the key to success. Our families and societies have reinforced this idea to us, but we will have to change our perspective if we are to be truly successful.
Education is not the key to success.
Don’t misunderstand me. I believe in education. However, if education were the key to success, then everyone who has a Ph.D. would be financially secure and happy.
If you are intelligent but are not exercising your gift, you’re probably going to be poor. If you’re educated but have not developed your talent, you’re likely going to be depressed, frustrated, and tired.
You will hate going to work on Monday mornings.
Education, in itself, doesn’t guarantee anything.
It is your gift that is the key to your success.
The second part of Proverbs 18:16 says, “A man’s gift…brings him before great men” (NKJV). You don’t realize that the gift you’re sitting on is loaded.
The world won’t move over for you just because you’re smart.
However, when you exercise your gift, not only will the world make room for you, but it will also pay you for it.
Anyone – yourself included – who discovers his or her gift and develops it will become a commodity.
If you’re a young person in high school or college who is planning your career, don’t do what people say will make you a lot of money. Do what you were born to do, because that is where you will make your money. No matter how big the world is, there’s a place for you in it when you discover and manifest your gift.
Alexander Graham Bell believed that sound could be converted into electrical impulses and transmitted by wire.
No one remembers those who thought he was crazy.
We remember only the man who had the vision and created the telephone.
If you do things in a halfway manner, you can always find a job somewhere. Yet if you do just enough to get by, you are going to remain simply an employee.
However, if you decide that you’re going to find something that is truly yours, then you will fulfill your vision, and you will be remembered by others.
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