MIDLIFE Blog

"Hence the name: movement. It moves a certain distance, then it stops, you see? A revolution gets its name by always coming back around in your face." -William Stranix played by Tommy Lee Jones in "Under Siege" The Black Lives Matter movement is just that. A movement. We march, we cry, we go on TV, we make t-shirts or posters, we make social media posts. What comes of it? Nothing. We seemingly remain silent until another injustice happens and then we are back to hash tag a victim's name. Hash tags indicate trends. Trends only last until another trend replaces it. It's a vicious cycle... So, where is the problem? Is it the system? Is it that every time we start to get rolling people either take a small percentage of agitators who wrongly attack police and fly them in front of the media screaming, "SEE! THE BLACK LIVES MATTER IS A HATE GROUP! THEY HATE WHITE PEOPLE AND POLICE!" or they point at black on black crime statistics and say, ...

Do you ever think about your environment?  Your "atmosphere"? I recently began thinking about my environment. My work environment. My home environment. What I surround myself with. The only way that you can be successful at anything is to immerse yourself in it. Get in it's atmosphere. LeBron James did not pick up a basketball the first time and dunk. (For the LeBron haters, Stephen Curry probably didn't hit the first three he shot. Happy?) Jay-Z's first rhyme probably sucked. Warren Buffet has lost plenty of money on investments. So on an so forth. They knew they wanted to be masters of their craft so they immersed themselves in their fields. Atmosphere is not only surrounding yourself with the craft but also with people within the craft. I believe one of the ways to alter your atmosphere and enhance your environment is the mentor - mentee relationship.  We have all been both at some time in our life. You can learn a lot being taught b...