Be A Diamond In The Rough!!

[King of Action]

Are you a diamond in the Rough

Are you a man – A man identify himself by knowing who he is. In other words, be your own man. Do not identify yourself by being surrounded by material things everybody in the neighborhood is trying to be like, such as a hustler. Remember, everything is a hustle. My favorite hustlers are Donald Trump, Oprah Winfrey, Napoleon Hill, Malcolm X, Bill Clinton, E. Joseph Cossman and Roosevelt Roby. If you do a google search, you will learn a lot about the two last names I mentioned. Believe in your heart but learning from other people is the best way to succeed.

I never forget when I was watching the NCAA sweet 16, and I heard this commercial that came on, I can’t remember word for word, however, I remember what it said “trust everything you learned and believe everything you learned and you will not fail.” It was talking about SUCCEEDING.

1. What is inside your mind : Is it SUCCESS!! Well the great people knew and know what SUCCESS really is and was. You have to realize success is not a coincidence. NO!! Success is planning, practice, organizing and whatever you fear and not being afraid of SUCCESS.

2. So what is FEAR - It’s a temporary set back!! Believe it or not, fear is a personal challenge. We ALL challenge SOMETHING!! But do we all know each individual fears everyone carry inside of our hearts? THAT’S A BIG NO!! Man and Women) So, let’s not make fear something big but make it small and I have a fear myself!! Let’s step forward and share our fears and share them with each other. Nothing is wrong with that, RIGHT!!

I learned so much from this website, that I CANNOT DJ EVERY WOMEN (that’s plural) that give me signs to DJ them… I never forget reading about this one thing I learned on this website, and that is, “Women Know When You Got It”!! I feel sorry being a DJ because I can’t DJ ALL the women when they want me to…

Like I reading ALL the DJ Bible, Discussion Forum and Front Page articles from this website, it can happen to YOU!!

BE A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH!!

 

[Big Eee Zee]

Interesting post. Sort of a pump-up.


BTW, the grammer is stellar.

 

[PRMoon]

I don't know anyother way to reply to this thread other then to say this.

"Winning isn't a sometimes thing; it's an all-the-time thing, You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing." - V. Lombardi

My Father gave me that quote when I was 7 with a packers hat and scarf, and no I'm not from Green Bay. I don't believe there are any more words that strike accord in my heart more then these though. Take it for what it's worth but I always want to be the best.

 

[penkitten]

fear is not real, its just a figmint of your imagination, a feeling that will pass.

 

[PRMoon]

Originally posted by penkitten
fear is not real, its just a figmint of your imagination, a feeling that will pass.

Fear and pain are not just passing thoughts that go through our mind from time to time. When used correctly, fear and pain are both excellent indicators that something around you is not right. Like for instance if you had your hand on a hot plate, you feel pain because your body is being injured and you need to stop that kind of damage.

The same is true with fear. Often times you'll find yourself in a situation that just by looking at it, you may not know anything is wrong. But you'll have a strong sense of fear about you and know that things are not as they seem and you need to study the situation more closely and then act accordingly

If you let these feeling overwhelm you, yes they can be damaging but if you understand and control them, they can be great tools for you. They guide you and keep you out of harms way when used apropriately.

 

[penkitten]

Originally posted by PRMoon
Fear and pain are not just passing thoughts that go through our mind from time to time. When used correctly, fear and pain are both excellent indicators that something around you is not right. Like for instance if you had your hand on a hot plate, you feel pain because your body is being injured and you need to stop that kind of damage.

The same is true with fear. Often times you'll find yourself in a situation that just by looking at it, you may not know anything is wrong. But you'll have a strong sense of fear about you and know that things are not as they seem and you need to study the situation more closely and then act accordingly

If you let these feeling overwhelm you, yes they can be damaging but if you understand and control them, they can be great tools for you. They guide you and keep you out of harms way when used apropriately.

we are born knowing how to love.
we learn fear.
it is not real.
it does not really exsist.
fear is our individual hells.
it can seem very real to the person experiencing the fear, but is not real.
nothing real can be threatened.
nothing unreal exsists.
anything that isn't love is an illusion.
our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.fear manufactures a kind of parallel universe where the unreal seems real and the real seems unreal.


this is all taken from marianne williamson's book a return to love , reflections on the principles of a course in miracles

 

[PRMoon]

Originally posted by penkitten
we are born knowing how to love.
we learn fear.
it is not real.
it does not really exsist.
fear is our individual hells.
it can seem very real to the person experiencing the fear, but is not real.
nothing real can be threatened.
nothing unreal exsists.
anything that isn't love is an illusion.
our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.fear manufactures a kind of parallel universe where the unreal seems real and the real seems unreal.


this is all taken from marianne williamson's book a return to love , reflections on the principles of a course in miracles

Though I appreicate the philosophy here what i just read is complete BS... Fear is what keeps us safe. When you were five years old and a snarling pit bull came rampaging towards you, you get scared and RUN becuase your safty (which is very real) is in jepordy. This Williamson chic must have grown up in some weird utpoian society where there are no physical dangers to threaten it's populous.

Fear is an essential element of life. If there were no fear there would be no men because larger predetors would have killed them off millions of years ago. Look at the dodo bird as an example a completely fearless animal. Fearless but not very strong (or smart) so even when a dodo witnessed the brutal slaugher of its brethern dodo they did nothing. Had they even an ounce of fear, they would of instinctively ran from the humans (like the bulk of animals in the world) instead of fearlessly standing there, till they were extinct.

Fear is a necessity, it always has been and it always will be. When you see a guy with a gun, and a mask, you're afraid. When a pack of wolves is hunting you in the woods you're afraid. And rightfully slow because if you weren't you wouldn't act appropriately. Fear has many levels, and we are born with it. It keeps us safe and ensures our future. Again you can not let fear rule your life, but being afraid is not necessarily a bad thing and doesn't need to be conquored but controled and used.

 

[penkitten]

Originally posted by PRMoon



Fear has many levels, and we are born with it.

fear is not real. we are not born with it.
society says " be afraid of men with guns."
we learn to be afraid of men with guns.
fear is learned.

( the question here is why are there men with guns? because they are afraid and they fear that you will catch them at the wrong they are doing without the gun)

what you are describing to be sounds more like a gut feeling.
a gut feeling isnt fear.
its a voice that says , something is off here, things are not right.
ok i can dig what you are saying there about trust your inner gut, it doesnt steer you wrong.


i just feel like fear and inner gut are two completely different things.
perhaps the inner gut says, things are great.
that of course is not fear.
that is all i am saying.

 

[PRMoon]

Originally posted by penkitten
fear is not real. we are not born with it.
.

I don't think we're gonna see eye to eye on this one.
I remember being afraid of angry dogs before I could speak. Before I was ever bitten I knew that whatever this thing was that was making bad noises.

I knew to be afraid of that before I could even concieve of love.

This gut instinct you're talking about is primal fear. Again all animals have it. If your gut instict is to be afraid but that's still fear that drives you to safety.

 

[Life-Trainee]

Fear is both learned and programmed. It's up to your smart brain to figure out which fear you should obey.

 

[PRMoon]

Originally posted by Life-Trainee
Fear is both learned and programmed. It's up to your smart brain to figure out which fear you should obey.

I can agree with this. I'm definately not saying parts of fear aren't learned. Just as parts of love are learned, as none of us are born understanding the love you feel from a relationship.

The second part of this statement is especially true and is the point i've been driving at. Though you have fear of somethings, you do not fear others. Also your conscious is what determines what fears you have to face. "Nerve" is your minds willingness to accept fears and face them regardless of the outcome.

I'm not fearless and I doubt there are many people who are. But what I do have is a good amount of nerve. My willingness to face my fears is what drives me. If I didn't have any then I'd have no where to advance.

 

[penkitten]

Originally posted by Life-Trainee
Fear is both learned and programmed. It's up to your smart brain to figure out which fear you should obey.

who programmed it?

 

[penkitten]

Originally posted by PRMoon
I don't think we're gonna see eye to eye on this one.
I remember being afraid of angry dogs before I could speak. Before I was ever bitten I knew that whatever this thing was that was making bad noises.

I knew to be afraid of that before I could even concieve of love.

This gut instinct you're talking about is primal fear. Again all animals have it. If your gut instict is to be afraid but that's still fear that drives you to safety.

thats ok, no one has to agree on everything .

i just think that you concieved love before you knew what love was, as a newborn in your mothers arms when she held you and fed you and sang to you and rocked you. you trusted her completely to take care of you.

now as far as the dogs, perhaps someone told you to be careful around them when you were tiny and you learned to be careful and to be afraid of what they might do.
sure a dog bite is real, but the fear of getting one , when you arent even sure if you will get one, is an illusion.

i wasnt saying dont trust your gut.
i always trust my gut.
sure i am afraid of things too, and trusting your gut can keep you out of trouble, however i know that fear is just made up and i put myself thru that everytime i get afraid of something.

 

[PRMoon]

Originally posted by penkitten
thats ok, no one has to agree on everything .

i just think that you concieved love before you knew what love was, as a newborn in your mothers arms when she held you and fed you and sang to you and rocked you. you trusted her completely to take care of you.

now as far as the dogs, perhaps someone told you to be careful around them when you were tiny and you learned to be careful and to be afraid of what they might do.
sure a dog bite is real, but the fear of getting one , when you arent even sure if you will get one, is an illusion.

, however i know that fear is just made up and i put myself thru that everytime i get afraid of something.

If I learned love in my mothers arms then I certainly was not born insinctively knowing it then.
Regardless I base my assersion on psychology.

"Primal fear, we must admit, is observed in animals, whether infant or adult. When we say of a person "she jumped like a startled doe" we begin metaphorically what could be a minute comparison of all respects in which mammals respond to events with fearful behavior. We go to accounts of disasters, which may be read into fossil palaeontology or come from histories of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and floods. We note such facts as, or see that, animal and humans flee alike and together into caves to avoid flood and fire"

And less we forget "who programmed it"

"The earlier in life that stress is applied the more quickly the total development of the organism. Stress stimulates the organism's hypothalamus and pituitary glands, as well as its spinal cord and celiac plexus, and the aforesaid glands release hormones (ACTH) into the blood stream that activate the adrenal cortex to release more hormones that accelerate metabolism. The system functions a few days after birth. In these senses, there is no reason to deny the assertion that primal fear may be hereditary or even pre-natal."

Dr. Alfred de Grazia, New York University

So base your thoughs of fear on whatever you want, I'll stick with the knowledge based on the thoughts of the people who know it best.

 

[penkitten]

wasnt it some dr that said if a baby doesnt recieve love, it will die?

 

[PRMoon]

Nature vs. Nurture yes, I'm not saying love isn't a crucial part of survivial, but fear is equally as essential