FORGOT TO MENTION ...

...didn't only 'Skye-write' ...

... but I wrote Tee Jay too. Like referee Joe Cortez, would like to think that I was 'firm but fair'. Too much 'whatever, whatever', vibe coming from her. I mean, does that change how I feel about her? No ... but what can I do?


THEORY AND PRACTICE


Another reason that I get that 'understanding' about potential confrontations with those who are close to me, is that what people think and what they do, often are two different things, for multiple reasons.


'Theory and Practice', is about the discipline that takes to sit there, come up with a full plan, and work it to its fruition. It is about not only saying what you want, but also doing what you believe will bring you what you want, as a part of a well thought out course of action.


There are some people who are 'Muhammad Ali', who can say to a big George Foreman that I am going to stand there in front of you and beat you. Those are people who know early on what it is going to take to reach their ambitious goals.



Then you have your 'Buster' Douglas kind of person, who can't tell you how they are going to make things happen, only that their expected result is to 'knock him on his a$$', which was his answer when asked what was his plan for Tyson after the fight.



I haven't done what Napoleon Hill has, gone to rich and powerful people and ask them how they got to where they did. Nor have I felt that I was tasked like Job, and had to bear what he did. But because they have walked the path, and as other have before and since, there is a worn path to fulfillment.



But it is narrow.



"Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude." - Fredrick Douglass

It comes down to the aphorisms and parables that we casually toss around each day. We read them and as Churchill said about men and truths, that men " ... occasionally stumble upon the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has ever happened."

"No man with a good car, needs to be justified." - sample from Ministry's 'Jesus Built My Hot Rod

That phrase stayed in my mind as I tried to make my way up the ranks, an 'upstate cat' fighting down in Carolinas, in the face of convention. Isn't it supposed to be you go from the small towns to the big city? Couludn't I have done what I needed to do in Detroit, which is to boxing as football is to Texas?

That just wasn't my path. I was on my path. I feel that had my determination been greater and my discipline stronger, I would have indeed written my name in the lights. It doesn't matter where you start from, but how you finish. The reason there aren't any 'overnight sensations' is that someone has been somewhere, doing their 'roadwork' in the dark of the early morning, running relentlessly.

Because others have come from where I have been, some from more dire circumstance, to achieve great things by any measure, I know that I am capable of reaching the goals that I have set before me. I have found what my formula is going to be, and I need to stick to it, until it brings about the results that I desire.