Quarterback SmarterbackUnity Consciousness #992

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A continuation of “Abolish MVP, Hall Of Fame & Contradictions, Unity Consciousness #988”.

What quarterback has ever won a game without the defense also winning the game?
In any sport, we acknowledge a player's success also depends on the right system and supporting cast.
Yet some folks continue to elevate the quarterback position in American football to be the single most critical piece and no other position comes close.

I contend that a good team with an average quarterback will have more success than an average team with a good quarterback. It's basic math that tells us this. A good team has more players performing at high levels who can make up for some of the quarterback's deficiencies. On the other hand, if the quarterback is the best player, the quarterback cannot make up for the deficiencies of several players. Multiple examples are clear such as the great catch by a Patriot receiver at the end of the game in the last Superbowl. There are thousands of examples. In basketball, we see it clearly when players miss free throws. It changes everything.
We sometimes acknowledge a coach's success is dependent on his players.
It has been proven that Kareem, Erving, Kobe, Lebron, Olajuwon and Michael could not win championships without several other players and a whole bunch of moving parts, including bench players. Remove one piece and the whole thing wobbles, teeters, falters and often falls apart and short.
We acknowledge all teams must have a core group of players.
Yet, we want to anoint Tom Brady as the hands down best quarterback because he was the quarterback of multiple Superbowl winning New England Patriot teams.

Let's put Tom Brady on the Cleveland Browns and change nothing else and then see how great a quarterback he is.

Why hasn't Tom Brady won every Superbowl and every game? Is he the reason for their winning and not the reason for their losing?

Any person who pays attention to any team sport knows every play and every position matters on and off the field.
When it comes to quarterbacks, we all know, that if not for great receivers, there would be no great quarterbacks and no great teams. We all know that if not for some pass catches and dropped balls or a good block or missed block or good offensive, defensive or special teams coordinators, equipment managers, trainers or field goal kickers, that the entire game changes and so does the narrative of teams and so does the narrative of quarterbacks.
Quarterbacks are not an island, especially not Tom Brady. He is the beneficiary of being in the right place, right time when everything worked out right.

In regards to the success and failures and greatness of individuals compared to the team, Russell Westbrook is 100% correct.

Intelligent Athleticism & Unintelligent Calisthenics Of RacismUnity Consciousness #952

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In the face of all evidence to the contrary, it is false and foolish to assume accolades heaped upon black athletes, also extends to black athletes as people and also extends to some kinda changing heart of these same sports fans such that they are not haters of blacks in general. In other words, most sports fans love black athletes but still hate them as black people. Don't get it untwisted.

Likewise then, it is foolish for black athletes to put their “love” for sports and teams and cities, before their love for their own blackness of self.

False Dichotomies

As a result of the split personality of sports fans, sports industry and sports media, black athletes are praised for being athletic while white athletes are praised for being intelligent.

As a result, white coaches are touted as the reason for a team's success.
In the sport of American football, the reason for winning is also due to the white quarterback and not due to the rest of the players who are mostly black folks.

If it is true that the winning teams coached by Greg Popovich, Phil Jackson and Bill Belichick, etc. are due to the greatness of these coaches, then is it also true that Tyronn Lue must be even greater since he was the reason the Cleveland Cavaliers won a championship in just six months, after a white coach failed to figure out how to win.
Secondly, black Lebron James' making good on returning a championship is a greater achievement than the much more praised, yet unfulfilled “run the table” statement of white Aaron Rodgers.

In the rare instances when media does allude to a black person's intelligence, they say it as if the black athlete's intelligence is the exception, rather than the rule for black athletes and black people.

Sports Excellence Requires Mental Intelligence

Sports excellence requires much more than strength, speed or physical ability of the body. It requires the physical ability of the brain and high functionality of the brain to correlate and process multiple constantly changing variables in real-time in an environment of uncertainty. Multiple pieces of information must be processed in fractions of seconds. Continuous learning must take place over many years to achieve sports greatness.

No one achieves athletic greatness without conquering mind, emotions, spirit and body simultaneously. To the degree to which one of these areas is lacking is the degree to which potential greatness is not achieved.
In other words, if it is true that black athletes are unintelligent, imagine how much greater they could be if they got rid of miseducation and strengthened emotions and spirit-soul, thus using the total self rather than the partial self.
In other words, black athletes are great, even in a weakened fragmented state.

Therefore, now you should be able to understand why 365/24/7 efforts, weapons and tools are used to try to prevent black people from “getting it together.”

First Truth

Athleticism and intelligence are inseparable.

To the degree an athlete achieves is the degree to which:
1. The athlete is optimizing mind, body, emotion and spirit-soul.
2. And/or others in the sport are not.

Therefore, the hater mentality against the intelligence of black folks is a self-indictment against those who achieve less that black athletes – those underachievers are under-utilizing their intelligence.

Yet, the media, which pretends to be a highly educated intelligent bunch of folks, always finds a way to keep alive the dichotomy of intelligence versus athleticism.

As said earlier, athletic excellence is the manifestation of intelligence.
So also is the ability to sing, dance, play instruments and do many other things that haters like to say is due to physicalness but not due to intelligence. That's foolishness coming from those who have to daily face the reality of having hurt feelings for not being able to achieve as much. As a result they claim intelligence is not the reason, only physical ability.

In other words, the whole foolishness that blacks are not intelligent is for the purpose of boosting the fragile self-esteem of white folks.

Remember: The European worldview is that humans are supreme and that white humans are supreme and that the thinking ability of white humans is supreme. Everyone else is less than human and is an animal and is for the purpose of serving white humans. Everyone else and all other creations are useful for their physical abilities but do not think, have no feelings and no spirit-soul, thus are not deserving of any form of equal consideration. This is why Europeans and similar suboptimal worldview holders are always trying to distinguish between intelligence and athleticism.

Media Props

I love the mass media because they are a good gauge for the mindset of the masses.
Listen closely to the media and you will hear them mention, as evidence of intelligence, the school and or “majors” studied by white athletes but rarely is the same mentioned in regards to black athletes.

Newsflash: A college education and highly functional thinking ARE NOT positively correlated. It is an inverse relationship. College is another place to pay a higher price to be certified as a prisoner of war.

Cutting To The Chase

The less your thinking functions based on human beingness, the less intelligent you are.

Intelligence is not based on being the greatest in a sport and neither is it based on winning.

Play To Win

Do not get this message twisted. Black folks do not need white folks to change. It is a good thing when the enemy continues to function stuck on stupid. The moment black folks start using the process of becoming a good athlete and the mindset of being a competitor against an opponent and apply that to the rest of life, then the game changes quickly. We only need to improve a little bit and we will succeed. We don't need to be totally unified to beat these people.

In other words, the reason black folks achieve more in sports than in other areas is because creative genetic potential genius is being applied to sports.
Once we begin redirecting resources to playing the game of life the way we play sports and play spades and bid whist, things will turn around.

All athletes, regardless of their accomplishments in their respective sports, are talented in multiple ways outside of their sport. This is true because they are just like us, endowed with the same creative genetic potential genius from the same gene pool of Creation.

Black athletes are just as intelligent as African Black Egyptian Kemite Nagas who are still great wonders of “super-intelligence” who excelled in all areas of human activity, reminding us of who we more fully are.

Repetition Harms & Helps

In other words, it is a false argument to say: black athletes are great due to physicalness rather than mentalness.
It is a true argument to say: due to mentalness, black athletes are great.

Because sports have our eyes, sports also have our ears. We must remain aware we are being programmed on two levels by what we see and what we hear.

The language used by people that tries to subtract intelligence out of black athletic achievements is an attempt to try to get you to not feel good about yourself in a wholeness, healing, restoring sort of way so you won't then take that power and turn the rest of life around.

Note To Those Inebriated On The Sports & Entertainment After-Kick

Just because other groups of people clap for us, want our autographs and give us all the trappings of fame, success and ability in sports and entertainment, it still doesn't mean our Black Lives Matter more than any other black person on the planet.
We are considered entertainers for their enjoyment. These people also clap for circus animals and for whales and dolphins at Seaworld.
This is why black sports and entertainment personalities are quickly “brought to task” for being anything that resembles being human or anything that demands human beingness.
Do not get it twisted that sports and entertainment acceptance reduces racism in any way. It does not one single bit.
In fact it does the opposite. Sports and entertainment acceptance is their way of saying you will succeed in areas that pleases us but does not fundamentally change a damn thing for you or for your people. And you black people will be grateful to us for the opportunity to be divided and conquered. Say it loud! I'm getting paid and I'm proud! - to be a professional, an award winner, an MVP, a champion, an All-Star and in the Hall of Fame. Yes, yes y'all, that's success y'all for the rest of y'all to focus on and to hell with the Ancestral call.

Professionals, Amateurs & Goofy Judgments | DefinitionsUnity Consciousness #594

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The definitions of what a professional is and what an amateur is, are just plain goofy. Because those definitions are the only contexts considered and because we have been dumbed down from our default setting to be critical thinkers (something critical to surviving and thriving and evolving and maturing), so many people suffer by being retarded by the ongoing negative bombardment of these goofy definitions.

No need to look up the definition. We all know the definitions because we hear them all the time in some form or another.

According to today's post-modern weak-thinking societies:
A professional is defined as someone who is certified, licensed, authorized and recognized as having a certain ability. The person usually gets to claim a certain title and usually gets paid for using this ability.

An Amateur is defined as someone who is none of the above and their usage of their ability is considered of lesser quality than a professional. An amateur cannot use the same title as a professional without being ridiculed or penalized. If the amateur gets paid at all, it's at a much lower rate.

Based on these definitions, to compare two people expressing the same ability as one being “a professional” and the other being “an amateur” is in no ways valid.

Consider this, as it pertains to a doctor, lawyer, thief, teacher or NBA basketball player. All are called professionals but compare any two of them and you will find differences in how they express the same ability and differences in how much they get paid, yet both are still called professionals. This is goofy when you consider society's definition of an amateur.

Time to remind ourselves of some much better definitions.
Simply put, a professional is someone who is highly qualified.
Everyone is highly qualified by the highest qualifier of all, the Creator. Thus, everyone is a professional. We all start out the same. We all possess the ability to do what we came here to do which includes adapting to circumstances created by self and others which includes getting back on track which could include a revised version of what we came here to do.

A valid comparison between two people is not between professional and amateur but between which spirit each one chooses to follow as they express their abilities.
Are we following the higher self, the higher spiritual nature? Or are we following the lower self, the lower spiritual nature?

This is a much more valid comparison and much more worthwhile because it connects us to what the Creator values and not what humans value.
In other words, there are professionals who are using their abilities in accordance with destiny. There are also professionals who are not using their abilities in accordance with destiny. These are the amateurs, who have not yet matured into the knowledge of self. An amateur is immature, disunified and isn't aware of it. An amateur is someone who is not where they should be according to their intended level of development under the set of circumstances encountered. Many amateurs by the highest universal standards are called professionals by human standards.

A valid comparison takes place within self. You started out as a professional, highly qualified. What have you done with those qualifications? Have you now gone from being a professional to being an amateur by not doing what you were created to do? What are you doing to get back on track and re-find your way? If you are on track, are you taking it even higher and even wider and even deeper? Are you expanding and evolving or are you just moving right where you are standing because humans have approved where you are?
A professional honors the highest standards of the universe. An amateur does not.

Are you using your abilities as intended?
Focus on this question and your answer to it as the true test of your greatness. Forget what simple societies say.

The more you know yourself and the mirror images of self that the Creator has created everywhere, you will understand more about how the Creator's abilities are expressed and you will know that the self test is the best test.

The societal view of what constitutes a professional and an amateur is only valid if you allow your thinking and esteem to be lowered to the level of human valuation of what the Creator found worthy to make possible within you and through you.

Whoever is going to judge your life in “the end” should be the one who judges you all along the way.

Think about it. The way societies define professionals and amateurs is pretty amateurish even by their own standards. The Creator has been creating much longer than humans and have created much more. No group of humans have ever created a system, a civilization or society that has lasted as long and functioned as well as ecosystems. The Creator created you and no human can create another human without using what the Creator created. Who are these humans who think their money and their appreciation of your God-given abilities is sensible?
Free yourself from this context and get on with the best of your life.

There is a dangerous not-so-thin line being crossed to the low side when people enter contests on television, or not on television, and these people are competing for a prize and title that they think verifies they are good at something. All of these contests are judged by people who perhaps can do something to a certain degree in a certain way, but none of these judges can do all things to every degree in every way. It is dangerous to allow their judgments to be the highest barometer or any barometer for what you do or attempt to do or should do. Study yourself to be approved and appreciative of the higher spiritual calling.
Let me be clear. It's okay to be in a contest, but only use it to learn from and challenge self. Do not use these contests to limit yourself in any way by limiting your assessment of your abilities to what others think about them. Until these people create an Earth or universe or create you or any aspect of primary creation, there is the higher Ancestral calling you should be listening to in order to learn to judge yourself correctly.
Finally, what is true for the losers of these contests is also true for the winners of these contests. Just because you win at anything doesn't mean you are using your abilities in the right way or that you are being your intended best. To rely upon someone else to judge you as a winner is not the way to get healthy self-esteem. Both “losers” and “winners” and viewers, should use any contest as a means to a higher end but not as end to what you mean.

Are You A Human Making Progress In This World?Unity Consciousness #575

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This applies to the vast majority of people taught in places where there are few and thin, single-stranded traces of knowledge of self being practiced. Chances are, you are one of those people.

Far too often, at the beginning of a thought process, either within yourself alone, or a thought process shared with others (discussion, conversation), you begin off-track. You remain off track because you are not aware you are off track in the first place. You do know that something ain't right but you either set that aside or justify it away.

You begin with inconsistent, incongruent premises and incomplete definitions.

The context of the subject you are thinking about and talking about, along with the related definitions of key topic areas and words, must be established. In other words, you must be aware of the meanings attached to words and ideas that form the framework and reference points that fuel your thought processes.

Beginning, with the upheaval and fulfillment series, context and definition have received more focus; however, in review, this is what has been taking place all along since the beginning in the bringing forth of the messages in this blog. This has aided the sorting out and straightening out process and reconciled a lot of confusions that are only confusions to the extent context and definition do not complement the higher universal context.

If your thought processes and conclusions and decisions are to lead you to what is best, in the higher sense of the word, the framework (thought processes) and program information (data and instructions) must all be in agreement with the motherboard (genetics) and operating system (genetics) of the Creator, which provides universal context and definition.

It is not possible to make progress if this groundwork is not laid and established.

What will happen is a whole bunch of activity while the foundation of all knowledge remains thinly attached to by a few strands, thus you attach yourself, in identity and livelihood, to shabby notions, false notions, weak notions and incomplete notions, thus whenever you encounter foundational things that are stronger, you are exposed for the thought processes you possess and the knowledge of self you don't possess. All along you go around being weak, sick, scared and unsatisfied beneath the pretensions you put forth otherwise. You end up in a lot of trouble, universally, even if you are able to temporarily avoid trouble at the localized human level. Even so, it is a certainty, that in some way physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually, you will not be able to escape the energies of truths and lies. This is an inescapable karmic outcome, when your context is out of sync with the stronger higher context that governs and rules all. As such, how can you claim to lay hold to human progress until you lay hold to the proper context and how can you lay hold to progress your thoughts?

In other words, you can't make progress for self, if your self-context is way out of sync with the higher universal context.

Also, understand this: the confusions you have with another person are not due directly to each other but rather it is due to the degree that each of you are aligned with the higher universal as you interact with each other. This is what is playing itself out in the universe. This is what is playing itself out in human relationships with each other and other aspects of creation such as water. Without this knowledge of self, human progress will continue to be in a state of mess that is making Earth a sick ball of confusion.

Even so, despite the vast majority of humans, human progress is guaranteed. If the eternal nature of the Creator is true, then the Creator must heal self. Since Earth and humans are a part of the self of the Creator, humans must be healed with knowledge of self. This is taking place in conjunction with Aquaria and the African female, who both helped bring humans into existence. Because their power and presence is foundational, humans have always been maintaining and regaining context and are making progress somewhere in this world.

Grading On A Curve: The Human StandardUnity Consciousness #574

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Who determines at what age someone can do something?
Who determines at what age someone cannot do something?
From birth to death, who's to say?

Who's to say and determine when a child should be talking, walking, dressing themselves, and so on?
How can anyone say, with a fixed certainty, the age at which a child should stop doing certain things.

What we should know by now is not only do these things vary in general, but they vary specifically and they vary per person.
These variations are caused by multiple factors. As a result, each situation must be assessed on its own merits.
Yes, we can use generalities as a starting point but that's all they should be.
If someone does or doesn't do something before or after a general guideline or milestone, so what? No need to panic or count it as negative or make it into an anomaly. If fact, for most of us who do or don't do things that match the generalities, that is the anomaly.
When we are grading anything, our thought process (evaluation and analysis) must ask, “What are the circumstances as it relates to that area?”

Once we stop grading things and ourselves based on each other and start grading things and ourselves based on what we are truly capable of, at that point, we will be making progress.

We will stop saying all manner of things such as “she is wise beyond her years,” or “this gender can't do that,” or “he's an old soul,” or you're too young or too old for something.”

We already know it's normal and natural for certain skills to be acquired at different ages for different people.

The human standard is okay as a starting point but in no way should the human standard be considered the beginning or origin or foundation of what humans are capable of.

Humans must reach to what is higher within self, which is the higher universal standard.

Our universal genetics are the baseline for what we are capable. Our genetics manifest themselves differently due to a variety of factors.

The test for humans in this life comes from the Creator. We must prepare with that in mind and grade ourselves accordingly, on the Cosmic Curve or Creator's Curve, so to speak. This is the same curve Dr. King spoke about. It is the curving arc that bends towards justice. How do we score on this curve? How do we rate ourselves? It is clear some on the curve are heading one way towards justice and far too many in societies are heading the opposite way.

Winning & Losing The Worst & Best WaySelf-Improvement & Weight LossUnity Consciousness #573

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Far too often, athletes say the only thing important is winning and winning it all.
This goes against the importance of sportsmanship, playing by the rules and the whole bunch of life lessons gained through practice, training, preparation and adjusting. Self-improvement is supposed to be the main purpose of sports, not winning and not, not losing.

To put winning and losing above self-improvement is to win and lose in the worst way. To think of winning and losing in such limited terms is to place a gigantic weight upon self to perform and accomplish something that is not able to be 100% controlled by an individual or a collective in any sport or life endeavor.

Again and again we must remind ourselves in life and in sports that self-improvement is the most important thing - more important than winning or losing.

Winning is a byproduct of self-improvement. Winning is the automatic result of continuous self-improvement. Winning cannot be achieved directly. Winning most be achieved through process.

Despite self-improvement, losing, in sports, can still occur. Even so, an athlete or team that loses, despite self-improvement, still wins. An athlete or team that loses sight of self-improvement as the ultimate prize, loses and wins in the worst way. The same is true in life.

Self-improvement is the greater good. This must be properly understood.

As long as we are self-improving, we are winning. When we stop self-improving for too long, we start losing.

Even though someone must lose and someone must win in sports, all competitors can always win as long as the life lessons that lead to self-improvement are always the greater portion of the experience.

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By the way, this also applies to many other things in life such as losing weight. If we believe losing weight is winning and not losing weight is losing, then we completely miss the point and purpose of the need incentive and the process. We somehow believe we can achieve what we want or need for self, thus improve self, without self-improvement. We somehow believe that meeting a goal or need comes first and results in self-improvement when it is the other way around. We don't focus enough on the need incentive of being healthy overall and we don't break down the goal enough to affect our weight in the way we want to. We focus on the goal of weight loss or looking good, rather than spreading our focus also to improving the mental, emotional, spiritual and to increased understandings of the physical and nutrients and nutritions. Weight is linked to, and caused and affected by, all these things – tangibles and intangibles. In other words, if we want to make our bodies better, we must also make our minds, emotions and spirits better by getting to know all four of these areas better. All must be improved. Self-improvement is an overall concept that always includes the entire self. Self-improvement helps us become healthier so that no matter the sport or goal in life, we begin to develop increased awareness that the need incentive to win or to be the best or number one or champion is actually the need incentive to improve self through improving understanding of the four inseparable aspects of self. This is the best way to lose the weight of the worldview that is interfering with our health, thus peace, within and on Earth.

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If we focus on winning and losing in relation to what others do and in relation to other competitors or in relation to others who are pursing similar goals, then it is possible to “win” without being at our best and possible to “lose” while being at our best. Under this ill-advised approach and suboptimal context, what we are doing is grading ourselves on a curve based on how well others are performing, which is the same as “living outside of self” because the dominant consideration for self-esteem (which is what winning and losing relates to) is defined by what others do rather than on what we know and do. In fact, this is exactly what Europeans and others are doing who feel it is necessary for the African and others to look bad in order for them to look good. They do so because they are unwilling to put in the work necessary to be better in relation to the higher universal nature. This is what happens when the human standard is our standard rather than the standard of our Creator, our Oldest Ancestor and Oldest Parent. The best we can be has everything to do with the higher spiritual nature of the universe. Aspire to that.

Our topmost comparison must be to the self we are continuously getting to know as it relates to the Creator's intentions (destinies) for us. Thus, if we are getting to know ourselves better and doing better because we know better, we are winners.

Steve Spurrier, Another Quitter & Case In PointUnity Consciousness #513

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Context

Steve Spurrier is a person who had a job.
Chances are, he was born just like the rest of us.
Steve Spurrier was not a godsend.
If he was, then so are all of us.

Context is necessary to help us catch ourselves from making exceptions, excuses and rules for some that don't apply to others. There should be no Steve Spurrier rules just as there should be no Donald Trump rules or American rules, etc.

As A Coach

Whatever accomplishments and accolades Steve Spurrier deserves should not be diminished by how he finished no more than performance in most things should be judged solely upon the end result or one play.

It is not difficult to understand that achievement by anyone in any way is always a team sport. Football just happens to be one of the most obvious of obvious examples.

A job as a leader (coach, preacher) is one thing. A job as a supporter (player, parishioner) is different. Leaders have much greater responsibility in all their doings in all ways always.

As a coach, the ability to perform that job and maintain that job depends on everything everyone else does. Coaching decisions affect everyone. No decision can be made for personal reasons – to join the team, to guide the team or to leave the team.

As A Person

In civilizations, who people are at work is the same as who they are at home. The person is the person. Since this optimal approach does not apply in this society (it is discouraged and seen as weakness and stupidity), neither does a coaching resume' apply to this section.

In other words, character as a coach and person are not necessarily the same things no more than a person's work persona is their true persona.

Steve Spurrier made a commitment and reneged on that commitment to self and to multitudes of others. Whatever the circumstances, he was the head coach. A player quitting is one thing, an assistant coach quitting is another thing and a head coach quitting is very different.

It is unfair, disrespectful and selfish for a leader to quit without a step-down adjustment process for a replacement and for all others to make adjustments and decisions. It stops being about the leader once the leader joins the team and accepts the role, rights and responsibilities of being a leader. Steve Spurrier forgot or never knew that a leader is a supporter and servant of those whom are led. A leader doesn't get to return to “it's about me” type thinking without going through the proper process of separation and succession so that what you were a part of to help establish and build does not suffer because of one person, especially the head coach. Of course Steve Spurrier had an ungrateful boss. Most of us do. Of course Steve Spurrier had the boosters/alumni to deal with, we all do – they're called family, friends and Ancestors.

I'm not sure who these sports analysts, columnists and football players are that are coming to Steve Spurrier's rescue of his own character assassination, but they have overlooked the fact that Steve Spurrier just told a whole lot of people to go to hell, it's all about me, about how I feel and about what I want and it doesn't matter how hard anyone else has worked or the commitment they made to me and this football program and this school and this community, etc. Dealing with disapproval is part of the job Steve. Do you not practice what you preach? Getting no love is part of being a head coach and is not a significant enough reason for taking the nearest exit. It is better to be fired than to quit on the team. It is better to endure a losing season than to quit thinking and behaving like a winner.

Just like great coaches, great people will face, deal with and overcome adversity. Who is the real Steve Spurrier, apart from the media-hype? We shall soon see more of this unveiling. Is quitting going to be his last and most memorable play of the game or will it be acknowledgment and apology? Is there any more room under the rug to reason away more ridiculous behavior?

Indications

The media (people with character-matching jobs) is using bogus reasoning, as usual, and blackwash to try to make Steve Spurrier white as snow.
Why?
For some of the same reasons as always. Just like others, Steve Spurrier wants to clean up his self-supposed image.
Why?
1. Legacy (pride cometh before us all)
2. College Football Hall of Fame
3. An NFL job before the end of this season as the result of a made-for-consumption drama of an NFL coach not being able to fulfill their duties.

Fanatic or Fan Addict & The Desire To WinUnity Consciousness #295

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”My sports team is not always the best sports team.” Ths is one of the things we should say more often according to Kid President.

It's okay for a sports fan to want “their” team to win. What's not okay is to allow team support to distort rationality.

A fanatic is a good thing. A fan addict is not. Many people confuse the two. A fanatic is simply a fan in the pure sense of the word who loves the game and how it should be played. A fanatic does not put any team above the sport. On the other hand, a fan addict is a fan in the impure sense of the word. A fan addict puts whatever they support above anything else, even rationality. Many who call themselves fans are actually fan addicts.

Fanning The Ego

When personal identity is guided by ego rather than conscience, a reality is created where, whatever a person decides to support becomes the basis for truth.

This occurs because the person's sense of identity comes from “their” sports team and “their” team winning rather than the person's identity coming from self-esteem based on knowledge of self. The person's self-esteem comes from the desire to “be right” and intelligent enough to make the right choice of sports team, religion, spouse, etc.

The above is also true when a person's identity, sense of self and pride are tied to other things such as country, race, ethnicity, culture, political party, group, club, organization, age, martial status, gender, financial status, occupation, formal education, etc. rather than identity being tied to knowledge of self.

Ego Corrupts Character

When the ego dominates how a person thinks, bad behavior is encouraged.

For instance, basketball and football supporters are encouraged to be loud and distract players on the other team.
Thankfully, in tennis and golf, this is unacceptable behavior.
Within many sports, players are expected to break rules and cheat as much as possible and hopefully get caught fewer times. To them and their fan addicts, that's a winning strategy.

It gets worse. In many sports, verbal and physical attacks on a supporter or player of another team is acceptable gang behavior.

All About Winning

Unfortunately, many people know more about their sports team than they do about themselves and human history/ancestry. For this reason alone, it is nearly impossible to have a conversation with a fan addict of a sports team or a fan addict of anything because the desire to win is greater than the desire to know self well enough to be able to say “My sports team is not always the best sports team.” If more of us gave our conscience a fair chance, humanity would have a much better chance of winning.

Stop Fighting Truths & Defending LiesUnity Consciousness #287

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Because I'm addicted to what I'm accustomed to, I fight truths in order to defend lies.

An obvious lie has been mentioned several times and recently in the last paragraph of Unity Consciousness #285. What I learn from that last paragraph is:

Holy Books interfere with Human Beings. This can be shortened to (hbs ≠ HBs).

Even so, truth is written in holier places within. Within each person is the Holy of Holies or the most sacred of places where the Essence of the Most High dwells. This is one of the reasons why the body is a temple metaphor. Also, each person contains the Holy Book to read, understand and follow. Scriptures are written on the walls of DNA. This is why the Ancients still say to this very day,” know yourself.”

This Spirit of Truth within us and its teachings are inside every cell of our bodies. DNA contains the memory of Ancestors, all of them, all the way back to the Creator. To reach this knowledge within self, each person must ascend, descend and extend through the process of becoming one with Khepera on the return journey home to oneness.

Basic truths within always rise. The only way to deny them and survive is to constantly fight these truths.

1. Of course I don't want to hear what someone has to say that's different than my deep spiritually-seated, cognitively-defeated, emotionally-seeded beliefs because I don't want to hear the different things inside myself.

2. I must fight the obviousness of truth that the reason people don't get along is because their Gods don't get along because their holy books were written by different humans who got harmony wrong because the books favor one group of people rather than the entirety of creation.

3. Each person contains the primary source and reference for the most reliable information in the universe. I must learn to refer to it more than I do schools, governments, religions and popular media.

4. Many holy books are only corroborated by belief. Not much outside the book confirms it. This is as sensible as defining a word by using the word. On the other hand, the Holy Book in each person is corroborated outside of each person in multiple aspects of the ecosystem. The importance of interconnectedness, interrelatedness, symbiosis, etc, is confirmed. If I fight this truth, I am a defender of inequalities and all that comes with it, i.e., murder and crimes against the Rights Of Creation. The only thing Divine about this is that it is representative of the Spirit of the Lower Self whose reign of error, terror and isms is nearly over, thus so are followers who stand alongside lies and fight truths with bitterness until the end.

5. Being good at fighting truths is not a winning strategy.

20 Expanding Possibilities, Opportunities & BlessingsUnity Consciousness #227

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The universe is expanding. So are possibilities. Universe is a metaphor for the conscious thoughts and spiritual power of the Creator.

1. Thought and power create possibilities. Thought includes understanding which transforms information into knowledge.

2. Possibilities are the raw materials of blessings (opportunities). The process of understanding uses thoughts and power to put possibilities together to bring opportunities (blessings) into being.

3. Every aspect of creation contains abilities yet to be expressed. There is a universe filled with aliveness, with black energy, black matter, ways of knowing, and more. This potential is not just “out there” somewhere, it is everywhere.

4. The Creator has reserve power and so do we. Right now, in the DNA of all things, there are unused combinations of genes. Unused genes mean unused possibilities and unused abilities.
Let me say this another way. What we face today is a humanity that has maxed out on it's lower self and bottomed out on it's higher self. The lower self is winning because we are operating at minimal power and using minimal possibilities while the other side has used all it can think of. We have not. With this thought realization, this understanding, this unity consciousness, comes raw material for opportunities.
Human reserve power goes beyond adrenaline. Even so, adrenaline is a metaphor for other types of reserve power in humans and all creation, thus the universe, thus the Creator.

5. There are even more raw materials to ”Optimize & Minimize Genius For All Possible Power.”

6. Even though there are uncountable possibilities waiting to be expressed, the Creator needs creation in order to express these things through us. Why? Because the Creator needs our experiences and our thoughts so the Creator can gain understandings.
As we open our senses to the possibilities of the Higher Spiritual Self, the Creator will manifest these thing through us also. This is a logical result and the reason why the Lower Self is being manifest in many ways because we have opened ourselves to it.

7. The Creator is figuring out how to reunify self. This process is why the universe is expanding and climates are changing. The Creator made this, the Creator can fix this.

8. There is more than one possible solution to simple problems. This we know because we have all experienced it. An all-powerful Creator cannot create the universe into a corner of a box with no other options except those we and the Creator understand. There is more than one possible solution available to the Creator. We have been shown this through Maat, who is both fixed and variable.

9. If it is possible for humans to “rise to the occasion,” then certainly the Creator can raise her game to a new level to overcome all challenges and challengers within self. These challenges and challengers include humans.

10. If all things are possible, the human species will be healed into one peace. A necessary precondition is for the truth of history to be revealed(re-cognition of history), thus knowledge of self (health) restored.

11. This possibility has already been proven. We have seen evidences of healing and self-correction within individual humans and other organisms, including Earth. More healing must be headed this way.
Consider this: If the “unnecessary” is possible and continues to be brought into being, the necessary is also possible and will also be brought into being.

12. If it is necessary to eat today, everything needed to create this food will be be possible before today. All the possibilities of fruit harvested today are rooted in previous days. Likewise, any other resource necessary for today, has already been provided as raw materials, natural resources and basic needs that are spiritual needs. Yet, to have what is necessary today requires doing what is necessary in previous days. Today's food must be planted long before today. This is to say, what we harvest today is always planted and rooted in the past. Likewise, whatever our hope is for tomorrow, we must do all that is necessary to bring it about today.

13. We have already been shown the resilience of humanity in countless ways. Africa has given new life to Europe several times by bringing her out of several Dark Ages. This is in favor of the possibility of humanity being brought back from the brink of miseducation.

14. Right now is the best time to be living - not because of the circumstances but because we were chosen for this time. Right now is the best time to be living because this time is the same as any other time - full of resources to use to construct the reality we imagine is possible.

15. The more time we spend strengthening our communication with the Higher spiritual, the more we will receive revealings of possibilities.

16. The possibilities that reside with Ancestors must not be wasted. Because we exist, our Ancestors must have existed. Because we are alive, our Ancestors must also be alive. As long as any descendent is alive, so are the Ancestors. It is possible to understand more by comparing the similarities and differences of our thoughts about Ancestors and Angels.

17. Reaping all possible benefits of understanding implies studying.

18. The Savior Of The World is the Higher Spiritual Self within each person. The Higher Spiritual Self is unifying energy that has the power to unite all creation. Humans must follow the Higher Spiritual Self back through the dimensions of separations while making connections until they return to Oneness. This is the one possible way of many ways, yet all ways lead to the trunk, to the roots and to the seed – the Creator, The Seed of Seeds who seeded the universe.

19. Change is a farmer because change cultivates possibilities. We must do the rest.

. 20. If all things are possible, then they are.

Know Yourself For More Good ReasonsUnity Consciousness #202

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”Know yourself” is not just a catchy cool phrase that applied to people living a long time ago.

In addition to reasons already expressed, there are more good reasons to follow the simple advice to know yourself.

1. The process is the same as becoming your best in your best context.

2. The moment you stop thinking like your enemy, you stop losing.
The moment you start thinking as you're beginning to know yourself, you start winning.
The time it takes to win is extremely short compared to the time spent losing.

3. The process helps you know I am, the Creator (I am what you need me to be to lead your journey to unity).

4. Know yourself contains all keys you'll ever need.

Real True Willie Lynch Speech Letter & MoreWhat's Real & What's FakeUnity Consciousness #15

1. What's Real

We are in a war. We must be if we are being attacked mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically. Any information that helps improve understanding also improves chances of winning.

What's Fake

Those who are paying attention to minor details, relatively speaking, at the expense of the war. This is being done by attempting to erode the confidence in a document causing us to pay more attention to what's going on or at least gain a more informed perspective.

2. What's Real

The essence, substance and main points of the Willie Lynch Speech.

What's Fake

Focusing on "Is the Willie Lynch Speech real?"

3. What's Real

Flooding the internet and all other media with critical analysis of historical lies told by the enemy, most of which can be easily proven with mountains of evidence. This is necessary to offset the smooth sounding lies all over the internet, education system, religious system and all other institutions.

What's Fake

Relentless pitbull-like investigators of truth who do not do what is real in the section above. There has been plenty of time to dig deep into all the historical inaccuracies in existence prior to the introduction of the Willie Lynch Speech. Are you not concerned about exposing major lies that have us trapped into modes of thinking and behavior?

4. What's Real

Those who have tried to discredit the Willie Lynch Speech have not done so sufficiently. At best, they only have circumstantial evidence and nothing conclusive. Their conclusions are based on thin threads, subjectivity and leaps of logic also known as faith.

What's Fake

Attacking peripheral facts while undermining trust in each other. [Note: All people have trust issues with each other. One of the advantages others have had is knowing they are in a war for survival and not having to fend off attacks from multiple groups.] The Willie Lynch Speech leads us to this understanding. This improves our odds.

5. What's Real

What is widespread and front and center in the media and in the top search results is usually what the enemy wants you to think. Search engines are not objective. How can they be when they are designed by subjective people who are not ordinary people?
What the enemy denies is truth. What the enemy supports is false. Whoever the enemy tries to discredit, we should listen to.
Whatever the enemy tries to make sure you know is a myth or hoax, even if it is, it must also have significant benefit to us, otherwise the enemy would leave it alone.

What's Fake

The enemy is interested in truth.

6. What's Real

21 Behaviors To Counteract The System Of Human Racism White Supremacy

What's Fake

Those on our side publicly questioning helpful information. This is an indication the impetus of the pushback against the Willie Lynch Speech has its origins in the enemy camp and in the enemy still deeply encamped within some of us. This is exactly what the Willie Lynch Speech is talking about.

7. What's Real

Africans know, just because someone has their foot on our neck, it is still our responsibility to breathe. We would not be here if we were prone to giving up and prone to blaming someone else and doing nothing else. We have taken the odds as they are and have put forth tremendous effort to survive. We are a people who take responsibility for our responses to the behaviors of others.

With that being said, just because we take responsibility, those who have caused situations, do not get to escape responsibility.

Africans understand simultaneous responsibility. Yes, we are responsible for changing our thoughts in order to change our situation. At the same time, others are also responsible for changing their thoughts and doing something about their behaviors that harm others.
Africans do not rely on others to change, but we still hold them accountable. We hold them accountable from now on until the results of their changes are evident. This will be so even as we change our situation because we must always be wary and aware of the negative thoughts still resident in the population so as not to let our guard down during the war.
We hold others accountable for not divesting themselves of all the benefits of the past and present. We hold them accountable for continuing what their forefathers and mothers have done. We hold them accountable for their laws. If things were fundamentally different, the amount of effort Africans are used to putting in to stay above water would automatically propel us to the sky, in the face of far less resistance. In other words, we would leap or fall forward when a wall is removed we're pushing against. Natural order and balance would reestablish itself. It hasn't and is going in the opposite direction.
Now that we have Willie Lynch understanding we will go from seeing the necessity to be twice as good to thrice as good. This is entirely within our responsibility and entirely within our created capability.
Historically, as we remember the accomplishments of our ancestors, we see we have been at least 5 times as good at one point based on the fact that, through Africans, all fundamental knowledge in use today was transferred from the Heavens to Earth.. No one in history comes close. No one in history has been around as long as us. We have continued to excel to this day. This has been explained in ”Study Perspectives: Later Stone Age.”

Anyone who claims contributions can only do so because it is built on an African origin of knowledge. This is true outwardly and inwardly. Anyone who creates anything today can only do so due to DNA. Every person's DNA has an African origin and African roots. Not by a little bit, but by a lot. Most differences in people today are falsely enhanced and are superficial, especially relative to the commonality we all share.

All groups of people have African origins. They are either direct descendents of those who migrated from Africa or the direct descendents of those who had already migrated from Africa and migrated some more. In essence, there is only one indigenous people and only one indigenous land. We are all Africans from Africa. The sooner we reconcile this understanding the sooner we can get on with our greatness.

It is necessary to state these facts emphatically to offset the false notion that Africans have no history, no contributions, no culture and are of far lesser value, though children of the Creator, yet deserving of far fewer rights. Of course none of this is true. It is so not true because all other groups have “borrowed” huge amounts from our history, our contributions, our culture and our spiritual philosophy and traditions. This just came to me from the ancestors within. Perhaps when it comes to our contributions and culture, the reason we haven't missed them is because they are in use throughout every society's systems.

I recall as a child in my twenties that a male from western Asia told me my people had no culture. I had no response. This did not help my self-esteem. I wish anyone would try that today. Yet, this is still being done to our children and us every day in every way. We are being told and shown who they are and who we are and most of it is a lie. The Willie Lynch Speech is a lie detector. This is the power of knowing ourselves, truths about ourselves and about other people. No one will be able to pull the Willie wool over our eyes.

What's Fake

Implying and explicitly stating Africans are weak in the willingness to overcome through their own efforts. It is fake to say we are trying to wallow in misery, blame someone else and wait for "massa" to return to his pre-Ice Age status of human being.
Those who quickly try to shift clear and present responsibility from the attacker to the victim have bought into the notion of feeling ashamed of blaming the attacker. They are ashamed of us. They also feel their “making it” is jeopardized by those who have not “made it.” This is their secret sin. They also clearly deny we are still under attack in a war because they are attempting the impossible - allegiance to two flags.

8. What's Real

Willie Lynch Speech is a valid summary that helps explain history. Even if it is an allegory, allegory is used by all people to teach lessons, especially in their religions. But unlike religion and education, at least the Willie Lynch Speech has begun to wake us up rather than put us to sleep. I suspect this has a lot to do with the negative attacks as to authenticity and the further maligning of Afrocentric as eccentricity when Eurocentricity is the real falsifier.

What's Fake

Characterizing the Willie Lynch Speech as a simplistic explanation of tactics of enslavement. It is not necessary to have a comprehensive understanding in order for an explanation to be useful. This explanation does not violate the truth then and the truth now.

9. What's Real

Even if the tactics described in the Willie Lynch Speech started in the 1900's, what naysayers fail to understand is everything that existed then was simply a version and transformation of what existed before. Likewise, what exists today is a version of what existed in the 1900's. The content of the Willie Lynch Speech exists in substance today and has for the past several hundred years. It has only shape-shifted.

What's Fake

Suggesting other books of slaveholder tactics are more appropriate when these books have not been able to accomplish what a single speech has. It is inappropriate to substitute an unproven tool for a proven one. This would only take away momentum, which is the enemy's intent.

10. What's Real

It matters not that we have resources when our minds are messed up. It matters not when we are following so many other ideologies foreign to our nature. It matters not that we have resources, we still want our sh*t back and monies owed. The judgment is valid until satisfied.

What's Fake

To suggest we use our minds and yet undermine what is helping us get our minds together. Yes, we have resources and billions of dollars and we work hard as hell to get it. The enemy simply takes money and makes (prints) money and uses it to fund studies and work against us. We are so powerful, one Speech can defeat all their supposed intelligence.

Conclusion

If you don't know poking yourself in the eye makes it difficult to see, but then you find out and also that the enemy taught you how to do it, it's a wonderful revelation. This is what the Willie Lynch Speech helped accomplish for many. For this reason, and all other reasons in this article, the Willie Lynch Speech is brilliant and masterful. There are dimensions to it for every level of learner.

I will continue to refer to the Willie Lynch Speech, a document deeply grounded and based on facts. Its content is evident and relevant both past and present. Willie Lynch ideology is part of the ongoing System Of Human Racism White Supremacy. Willies are all around us.

Although we are in a war, we are still not the aggressors. We are in a defensive posture or at least should be. The Willie Lynch Speech begins to wake us up to what's going on and brings clarity to our experiences.

This war will not be won or lost based on who wrote something. It will be impacted not knowing strategies of the enemy.

Let us be clear about the main objective of this war. If the enemy wins, there will be continued suffering. When we win, there will be harmony and peace on Earth. This was the case prior to the enemy's rising.

With or without the Willie Lynch Speech, many people are in slavery and don't know it. They readily embrace the Lynch-like tactics being used against them. In doing so, they ensure the same or worse tactics will be used against their family, children and friends. If something allegedly made up can wake us up, let's make up as many speeches as possible and attribute them to other “good ole' boys.” There's enough to go around.

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Meanwhile, as we expend resources on the trifling and trivial, the enemy is in preparation for continued war on another level: The Navy Plans Electromagnetic War Games Over National Park and Forest in Washington State

Keep The African Promise To A Nation

Life Plan | Follow “Stupid” Animals To A Winning Strategy

Some of us run right past critical analysis in our thought process. Therefore, we run head wrong into critical choices. We forsake natural world teachers whose lives demonstrate instructions from the Great Strategist. One reason we disregard instruction is the misconception only humans have intelligence.

Who Has Intelligence.?!

Have we not witnessed animals, insects and plants live, thrive and do more than survive? Have we seen any of them go get a job? These forms of life perform work, but that work is directly for what they need. Their jobs are performed within the context of their community and who they were created to be. Thus, they are fruitful and multiply.

There's such a thing as living outside yourself. There is also such a thing as working outside yourself. Work that doesn't match self according to purpose and destiny.

Since animals, insects and plants do what they were sent here to do, all of them have food and shelter. Yet, how many of these creatures have houses, refrigerators, cupboards, closets, drawers, basements, garages and sheds filled with food and other life-supporting supplies? What they do have plenty of is Divine-given abilities. Humans do too. We just don't apply ourselves properly. If we applied our abilities directly to the natural world to get what we need, there might be enough evidence to prove we're also intelligent.

Clearly, humans have devolved from natural world self sufficiency to human-replaced dependency. During this backwards progress phase, we have made the easiest part of life and existence, food and shelter, the hardest. This can be explained by false notions and stupid behavior.

Lessons From Intelligent Beings

1. Apply what you naturally have directly to what's naturally available.

2. Use the hand you're dealt and the cards you've chosen.

3. Work with others trying to do the same.

Working, Winning & Approval | The Difference, Mathematically Speaking

Gaining Access To The Formula

Upon seeing others gain access where I could, but could not, I presented a question to my brain computer, Why can't I enter?
You must work first, came the reply.
But I am working as hard as I can.
Study to approve yourself a winner.

I didn't know what to say to myself since I thought I was talking about access and working, not studying. I couldn't make the connection between working and winning. What is the difference? I wondered. My mind read itself and answered. What is the difference.
I don't know I finally said.
How can you not know when you just said it and I repeated it?
I was still stuck, but silent this time.

WHAT is the difference my mind echoed.

Think about it in mathematical terms. Questions can be translated into formulas and can be approached scientifically.

The question, “What is the difference?” can be broken down into three parts. What | is | the difference.
What is unknown and is therefore “X.” Is represents “equals.” The difference is also unknown so is the same as X.

Thus the formula becomes, X = The Difference

Simplifying, Expanding & Transcending the Equation

To move through this equation, replace the unknown X with what it represents. It represents the first question posed, Why can't I enter?
Thus the formula becomes, Why can't I enter = The Difference.
Once I figure out why I can't enter, I will know the difference and vice versa. This answer has already been provided in the first two responses above. I can once again replace the left side with that information.
Working + Studying to be a winner = The Difference
Since I am the one who must work and I am the one who must study then the equation can be simplified further to I + I = The Difference
Since I must do two things I must divide my energies, therefore I + I are really percentages of my total energies and the equation becomes %I + %I = The Difference.
Since the left side of the equation is me in total then the two percentages of me must equal me. The equation becomes I = The Difference.
What is the difference? The difference is I. I am the what and I am the difference. I am the difference.
I am why I can't enter. I am why I could but could not. Children will get this quicker than most adults so have their flexible, open, receptive minds process it and explain it.

More On Working & Winning

I am the difference between working and winning. Since I am the same person whether I am working or studying then there is no difference between working and winning. This is true because I am the difference and there is not supposed to be a difference in me just because I am working or studying to be a winner.

It is possible for me to make the mistake of trying to be two different people - one when I'm working and one when I'm studying and trying to win. If so, my two energies won't be complements or enhance each other. In fact, one will subtract from the other which will reduce the difference I am able to make. I become my own house divided.

In other words, work that does not help me make the difference I am supposed to is a negative. Studying that does not help me be the winner I am supposed to be in order to make the difference I am intended to make, is negative learning that will cause setbacks by degrees.

Self-Approval

Since I am the difference and the difference is always equal to my self-work (work on my self) and my self-study, then I can make my own difference. I can make the difference I make, whatever I want it to be. I can make my own access because I become the key to the door I want to enter. I become the door as I become the purposes I am here for.

By studying and working to be a winner, I gain access to self-approval because by doing both, I will know within myself I am doing what I should be doing. No one else need acknowledge it for it to be real, true or valid. This is self-approval.

When is a worker who completes tasks not on task?
When is a winner who scores points not on point?

Going Farther By Going Further

Manifest Essence has nothing to do with career, job, occupation, what is done for a living or the type of work I choose.

Many more begin counting all their resources and abandoning other measures of success. And through the spirit being, a life of meaning follows, according to plan. The host of voices grow and blend into a cadence already in progress - elements forming numbers in Divine Order counting all things from 1 to 11 to 22 to perfection. (From, Epilogue: Back To Plan A)

Time & Mathematics – Converting Creator Time To Earth Time For Fun & Curiosity's Sake

Outlook, Outcomes, Greatness & Everything

The stories of the London 2012 Olympic Games are as numerous as the almost 11,000 athletes. Elation, disappointment, heartaches and hearts vindicated still flow from these varied experiences. Instead of limiting the view of achievement to outcomes, a broader perspective of what it takes to perform well provides opportunities for learning. This starts with gaining a fuller context of what an Olympian is by asking, “How do they get here from there?” Is it perseverance, heart, training, support, drive, giftedness, determination, passion, belief, overcoming fear, avoiding what doesn't contribute or having the will to find the way?

Do Not Run Aimlessly

Who didn't see or hear of Oscar Pistorius? A double, below the knee amputee, whose mother refused to treat him like he had a disability. He qualified to run in the Olympics, plus had to fight for the legal right. This approach is similar to the Ray Charles story and others. Oscar is a champion in the Olympics, Paralympics and in life. He has a tattoo of I Cor. 9:26 that reads: “I do not run like a man who is running aimlessly.”

Preparation

In an interview, Michael Phelps spoke of not winning the gold medal by five hundredths of a second in the 200M Butterfly. “The most prepared person wins,” he said.

Strengthening Weakness

After winning gold in the 110M Hurdles, Aries Merritt explained how he changed his starting foot in just eight months, a feat similar to switching writing hands. “Diligence. It took me a long, long time and a lot of hours that I put into, to building power on my weaker side, to balance it out. I think that's why I've had so much success this year because I focused so much on my weaker side and it balanced things out so now I have equal power in both legs so I'm able to apply equal force.”

Champion The Hard Way

"It means so much, all the hard work and dedication and effort put in the gym and hard days. "And hard days are the best because that's where champions are made, so if you push through the hard days you can get through anything," Gabrielle Douglas, All-Around Gymnastics Champion at age 16, reminds us.

Almost Out-Never Down

a. The Russian Men's Volleyball Team was one point away from losing the match. They then scored the next three points to win the set. Russia then won the next two sets to win the match against the USA. Individuals centered themselves on core beliefs and made the same kind of comeback in the championship match against Brazil.
b. The Brazilian Women's Volleyball Team, the favorites against Russia, facing six match points and elimination, stayed true to the game of focusing on each point that could be won and not those already lost. Brazil won the match. They steadied themselves with this same wisdom in the championship match. After getting blasted in the opening set, they won the next three.
c. Brittney Reese, the favorite to win the Women's Long Jump, fouled on several jumps and was not in medal contention. With pressure building and time disappearing, she pulled herself together and did what she came to do and was capable of doing.
d. Manteo Mitchell, in his first Olympics, continued running after breaking his leg partway through his portion of the 4x400M Relay Preliminary Round. Without coming in first, he won because he kept going. He said he couldn't let his teammates down. “Faith, Focus, Finish” helped him succeed.

During every Olympics, there are far more winners than medals awarded. There are also far more winners in everyday life - those striving to become better. Though unheralded nationally, millions are reaching personal bests, even though they have not touched the pinnacles they pursue. This is true because greatness is not determined by outcome but by outlook. Outlook answers the question because it goes with everything.

Related: Mental Preparation & The Basics Of Performance

Food Fight: Fixing The Fight!

Food Fight #1

Who does not want to be healthier? Since no hands went up, the next step is a firm foundation of understanding. As always, this is about sharing things I've recently learned. By reviewing some very simplified but necessary basics, we will have a better chance of winning the food fight we're personally responsible for instigating every single day.

The food fight I'm talking about is happening inside our bodies. Food is responsible for a huge part of our health. Food is not just something to put into our mouths and swallow when hungry. In its purest sense, hunger is a reminder that the cells in our bodies need energy. Food is how the energy gets into the body.

Our stomachs are the primary energy replacement storage tanks. If the food in our stomachs does not contain energy, even though our stomachs are full, there won't be enough energy to go around to the trillions of cellular mouths we have to feed. Some cells will get fed, others won't and many will be partially fed. We have over 50 trillion cells in our bodies. They are all alive and need energy to do their job. When a cell does not get the energy it needs, it becomes tired, weak and does a poor job. Sometimes it dies. The moment any cell doesn't get the energy it needs, we are one cell closer to poor health. It's that simple and that serious.

Here's the definition of food: Food is good. “Good” means it is helpful and healthful. This means that in order for food to be good it must supply the energy our cells need. Whatever we eat that does not supply energy for our cells is not food. Call it what you want but not food. Even though it's FDA approved, edible and sold in stores, if it is not helpful and healthful to our cells, it's not food and it's not good. This is why we must focus on feeding our cells and not on filling our stomachs.

Don't believe me. Do a bit of internet research. For example, apple + benefits. Do the same for doughnut, soda, juice, broccoli, coffee, hot dog, nuts, hamburger, onion and anything we put in our mouths and swallow. Once we perform some quick searches, we will notice a common theme of two words being mentioned. If anyone knows now, please mention below. Go ahead and venture a guess, otherwise we'll discuss next week.

Food is manna from heaven. This energy was placed here to help us in every aspect of living. Food is here to assist the body, the spirit and the mind. Nothing says personal growth, nature and spirituality like food. Food is a direct, daily link to living fully.

Here's how I look at it for myself. Several times a day I have a choice to continue to ignore these basic facts and keep doing as usual. If what I put in my mouth and swallow only serves to fill the stomach, it serves me right if it kills the lummox.

Here's the forgiving part. Our cells are the original “will work for food” crew. Our cells will give us back more than the energy we give them. All we have to do is help them fight their way back by giving them energy.

BTW: Why is it, in food fights, people are always throwing soft, mushy, cooked things and desserts. Why isn't anyone hurling apples, oranges, brussel sprouts, carrots, etc. Because there ain't any around! How quickly the fight would be over if there were. If fact, imagine what a cell might say if it is holding some of this energy and a bacteria, virus or renegade cell approaches. “Don't start nunthin', won't be nunthin'.”

That's how it will be inside our bodies once we start giving it weapons of fruits, vegetables and whole grains. We can fix the fight in our favor.

Quotes & Proverbs To Live By

1. Fear and opportunity use the same window.
2. Feelings can only be hurt by your own thinking.
3. Winning is only possible when losing is possible.
4. Before children can achieve their own dreams, they must sleep in their own beds.
5. If artists starve, they don't do it alone.
6. The more time I use hiding things, the less time I use finding things.
7. Silence strengthens the status quo.
8. Money cannot change your standard of living.
9. Reinvent instead of lament.
10. Instead of looking for the light at the end of the tunnel, look for the light in the tunnel.
11. Losing can't exist in the same place as trying.
12. The only thing performed with 100% accuracy is waiting.