I felt compelled to write this article and discuss some pressing issues with my fellow brothers and sisters here in America.
The first is our financial well being.
We as a people are falling farther and farther behind financially. We own less, we work for less and we waste most of the money we earn on needless mind numbing accessories and activities. We are making other races and cultures rich by not starting, building or owning our own businesses, selling our own products and services to our own people. We are not participating in the distribution chain of products and services to our communities and families. Because of this we are making others rich.
Our culture has told us to spend $100.00 on a pair of shoes in order to look good but not to find a way to sell the $100.00 shoes. We participate in the supply chain for most things but are almost always at the end of the chain which makes us the buyer. We justify spending $3000.00 on rims to put on a $300.00 car. We have become our own worst enemy by adopting the look good mentality, even if we are broke. Until the mindset changes, our communities and families will stay the same and we will continue to pass the curse of poverty onto our children.
The solution is educating ourselves first, finding a way to be in business for ourselves, teaching our family members and children how to do it as well and spending our money in our own communities from black owned businesses. Most importantly is to stop making excuses! Far to many of us blame others or situations on our failures. It is your life and you are responsible for its success or failure. Find a way and make it happen. Stop looking for a hand out, stop worrying about looking good and start looking for a hand to pull you up. Get your business education hand up here:
http://www.ilearningglobal.biz/enterecom .
The next is our health well being.
We are dieing younger as a race compared to other races and most if not all of it is preventable. We eat to much processed, poorly prepared foods and to much fast foods, we rarely workout and as a result we have become one of the most obese races in America. We have high blood pressure, heart disease, and a host of other health problems all because of the choices we make.
This problem makes me more angry than anything else because our bad eating habits and workout habits are all preventable. We can learn to cook healthy tasting meals but we don't. We could learn to workout from home but we don't. If we just replaced one fast food meal a day with a healthy meal and worked out for 45 minutes 8 times a month we would see a huge decline in premature deaths in our race.
If you eat fast food and don't workout then know for sure that you will more than likely die well before your time. You will end up with some sort of disease because of what you put into your body and your lack of regular consistent exercise. You can prolong your own life and the life of your children if you start changing bad habits for good ones. Bad habits are hard to break but you can get help and support that makes it much easier to get on the right track. You can find the help you need from me by clicking here now:
http://www.beachbodycoach.com/enterecom . Don't wait on this, your life depends on the change. Decide - Commit - Succeed!
Eddie Holford
Helping People To Better Health and Wealth
Posted By: Eddie Holford
Saturday, May 30th 2009 at 4:37PM
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