Black Success: Remember Your Greatness

Why don't Black consumers buy Black?  Many Black people have an inferiority complex, although we often try to deny it.  We have forgotten our greatness.  

It is so important that we celebrate Black achievers.  I publish interviews with Black achievers - we can learn from their success. 

Listen to the audio below for more. 

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Why We Need to Heal

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The Mistake Most Jobseekers Make

Debo Ajose-Adeogun photo from the London Evening Standard

Yesterday, the London Evening Standard reported on graduates having to take menial jobs as they cannot find even entry-level employment in their fields.  

In the Black community, this is certainly not news. It has been going on for many years - even generations. 

The article focused on London-based Debo Ajose-Adeogun, a Nigerian architecture graduate.  He worked hard for three years to complete his degree, then spent all day every day online looking for work.  

The mistake he is making is that he is responding to job ads and writing off to companies asking for employment opportunities.  Most job seekers make the same mistake.

It's fine to write off to companies, just don't expect to land a job that way - unless you know what to say in your letter. 

The majority of jobs are never advertised.  This means we need to have better strategies for finding work.  For more about this, click here for my free report, Four Steps to Finding the Job You Want.  The report explains how you can stop chasing after jobs and start having employers chase you. 

See also:  Black Success:  Finding the Job You Want. 

Black Success: Finding the Job You Want

There are a lot of people out there struggling now.  There are a lot of people out of work, and a lot more people whose employment is uncertain.  

If you are looking for work or you know someone who is, I can help you with your job search.  Listen to the short audio below for more information. 

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Click here for my blog on Looking for Work.  It contains links to a lot of resources.  

Free Job Search Consultations 

Success Strategies for Black People 

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Black Success: Do You Play the Lottery?

I was recently interviewed by Denise Turney on her Off the Shelf show.  If you haven't had the chance to listen yet, please do click here to listen to the interview.   I had a delightful time.  

One of the things we talked about was how people of African heritage often seem to be waiting for someone else to come along and sort out our problems for us.  Have a listen to the short audio below, see what you think.  

If you enjoy this and find it useful, please share it with your networks.  Thanks.  

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Wishing you every success!  

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Manifestation - Manifest What You Want

I had a delightful radio interview with Denise Turney of Off the Shelf on Saturday.  I greatly enjoyed it because Denise was so warm and so knowledgeable.  Please listen to the interview below.

If you enjoy it and find it useful, please share this interview with your networks. 

Denise is one of the bloggers I interviewed in Secrets of the Black Bloggers.  

Click here for more interviews with me.  

The one thing I forgot to mention when Denise asked me about my ebooks The Key to Everything and What They Don't Want Us to Know was manifestation.  I'm sorry to say I drew a blank - has that ever happened to you?  

I am brilliant at manifesting.  Click here for info about what I have manifested in my life - so far - and how you can do it, too.  

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Lest We Forget: The Haitian Revolution

Toussaint L'Ouverture

Lest we forget, the 23rd of August is African Remembrance Day, marking the day when enslaved Africans on the island of Haiti rose up against their oppressors and freed themselves.  

The Haitian people, under leaders including Toussaint L'Ouverture and Jean Jacques Dessalines, fought off the French, British and Spanish armies, and then fought off the French again under Napoleon.  The Haitians were never defeated.  

The use of traditional African spirituality was a significant factor in the victory of the Haitian people and their emancipation from slavery.  Click here to read more about the use of African spirituality. 

However, a treaty signed by Haiti required them to pay reparations to their former masters, which has led to the impoverishment of people in what was once the most prosperous island in the Caribbean.  The devastation of the Haiti earthquake in early 2010 was greatly compounded by the impoverishment of the population and the lack of resources in Haiti. 

Click here to read more about the Haitian Revolution.  

Click here to read more about modern Haiti. 

Overcoming Blocks and Obstacles

Success Strategies for Black People

When you change your thoughts, feelings and emotions, you can change your results.  I have practical methods to help you do this. For more information, listen to this short audio.  

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Using EFT to help survivors of the Rwandan genocide

Why Positive Thinking Can Be a Negative Thing 

Why We Need to Heal 

Your Inner Wisdom 

$50,000 in Three Days

Marcus Garvey

I saw a documentary entitled "The Promised Ship" last night, screened by Black History Studies.  Did you know that Marcus Garvey raised $50,000 for the Black Star Line in three days?  This was from poor banana-growing communities in Costa Rica in the early 1920s.  

Check out the video below for more info.  

What does this tell us about the potential of Black-owned businesses today?  Remember, Garvey did this without the internet, without mobile phones, without any of the modern methods of mass communication that we have available.  

Black businesses potentially have enormous economic clout.  I have been talking about this on the radio and we will continue to talk about this.  See also:  Black Businesses:  Our Economic Clout. 

Stay tuned for Part 2 on the subject of our economic clout.  

London's Top Black Men and Women of Power

Courttia Newland

Black Enterprise has identified London's top Black men and women of power.  Not sure I agree with their choices.  

London's Top Black Women of Power 

It's great to see writer Courttia Newland included in the list of London's Top Black Men of Power.  

In Black Success Stories, I did not just list people's accomplishments.  I asked them how they achieved their successes.  It's all there in the book.  

You May Be on the Verge of a Breakthrough

You need to have that breakthrough.  You deserve to have it.  And you can have it.  Listen to this audio to find out more.  

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Black Businesses: Our Economic Clout

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Black business owners potentially have enormous economic clout.  How can we harness this power and use it to benefit our businesses and our communities? 

Listen to the audio above to hear my conversation with Heather Shelton on how they are doing it in St. Louis, Mo. 

Wherever you are in the world, your customers are looking for you.  Click here for more about our international advetrtising. This has huge potential for us. 

Stay tuned for Part 2.  See also:  Strong Black Business Community. 

Your Inner Wisdom

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You have this amazing energy sparkling away inside of you.  Listen to the audio above to find out more.  

Click here for a blog on how the Higher Self and SRT is helping people to be free from Alzheimer's and dementia.  

Click here for Success Strategies for Black People.  

 

Why Positive Thinking Can Be a Negative Thing

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Sometimes people in our community can be overly dependent on positive thinking.  We need to be real about how we actually feel. 

Click here for Dealing with Objections.  

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Thousands Get Health Advice at INshape Indiana Black and Minority Health Fair

For the past 21 years, thousands of people have received healthcare advice at the INshape Indiana Black and Minority Health Fair.  

Many African Americans don't know where to go for healthcare advice, or are too embarrassed to ask for help. Many more are without health insurance.  

This year, diabetes was the focus of the health fair.  Free screenings for high blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol and sickle cell disease were provided.  

Click here for more info.  

To see how Black doctors are providing health screenings for Black men who don't want to go to the doctor, see:  Black Men's Health:  Too Embarrased to Talk about It?  See also:  More Black Success Volume 4. 

We Ain’t Crazy! Just Coping with a Crazy System

Disparities between the provision of mental health services for African Americans and other groups have been identified in a report, We Ain’t Crazy! Just Coping with a Crazy System: Pathways into the Black Population for Eliminating Mental Health Disparities.  

V. Diane Woods, Dr.P.H., director and lead investigator of the California Reducing Disparities project (CRDP) has said that "many African Americans do not receive appropriate mental health services, even when they go to places that are suppose to help them".  

Click here to read more.  

She also stated that many Black people do not know where to go to get their mental health needs addressed - but even when they do, they do not get the help they need.  

Click here to read more.  

Business Bootcamp with Mavis Amankwah

I recently attended the Business Bootcamp with Mavis Amankwah of Rich Visions.

As a successful Black business owner and PR guru, Mavis was one of the people I interviewed in More Black Success Volume 10.

At the business bootcamp, we were given loads and loads of valuable information about how you can successfully set up and run your business.  

One thing we were told was that people to interact with your Facebook page – not just “like” your page. Otherwise, they will never see your content.

Click here to read my interview with Mavis (you can download it for free).

The Black Wall Street - Before They Die

Saw this awesome Black history film screened by Black History Studies last week.  

"The Black Wall Street" was  the name given to the thriving community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, which boasted several millionaires.  In 1921, Greenwood was attacked and destroyed by white people envious of its success. 

Some of those who were children at the time, and saw their homes and community destroyed, are still alive now.  "Before They Die" is the title of a documentary about the elderly survivors' fight for justice. 

Click here for more about The Black Wall Street and to watch the trailer for "Before They Die". 

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The attack on The Black Wall Street was a horrible atrocity.  But we can help the survivors to get justice.  We can bring about positive change.  We have the power to transform the situation.

We can learn from history.  The ancestors want us to heal these terrible, terrible wounds from the past and create the future we deserve. 

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We can bring about peace and harmony for ourselves.  We can bring about joy and abundance for ourselves and for those around us.

Black Men Denied Condoms in Prison

Black men in prison are at increased risk of contracting HIV and other STIs as a result of violent sexual assault, according to a study on prison health recently released by the Centers for Disease Control. 

Black (African American) men are contracting HIV in prison through sexual activity and through sharing needles when using intravenous drugs.

This has been going on for many years. When they leave prison, many Black men are going back into the community and conducting heterosexual relationships. This is one of the main ways in which African American women are contracting HIV. 

I read MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO that the fastest-growing group of people who would be contracting HIV were – you guessed it – Black women. This is true in Africa as well as the diaspora.

In other words, it was predicted and could have been prevented.

What I only found out very recently is that, in many prisons in the U.S., prisoners are not allowed to use condoms. This means people are being infected with HIV right now, and it COULD BE PREVENTED.

Sorry to shout, but I feel very passionate about this.

It's not only Black men who are being denied condoms in the majority of U.S. prisons. This applies to all prisoners.

But the numbers of Black prisoners – people of African heritage in prison – is disproportionate to our numbers in the population. This is true on both sides of the Atlantic.

The UK government, in preparation for the Olympics, is bringing in repressive measures including 24-hour courts. Click here to read more about this.

This is effectively establishing a police state. They are cracking down in order to prevent demonstrations. So anyone who disagrees with government policies may find himself or herself behind bars.

These are some of the reasons why I have written my book Success Strategies for Black People and why I lead the Success Workshops.

To get the benefit of these workshops, you MUST be open to trying new things.  The methods I share are very powerful. We are changing lives. And we can do a lot more. 

Please join us for my next workshop. Click here for details of my Relaxation and Success Workshops.

Blogging While Writing

The Schomburg Center presents:  Blogging While Writing

Thursday, July 19, 2012, 7 - 8:30 p.m. 

Are bloggers the new writers? Is there a difference between blogging and writing? 

Writer Jozen Cummings  (pictured left) (UntilIGetMarried.com) talks to Rembert Browne (grantland.com, 500daysasunder.wordpress.com) and Gene Demby (huffingtonpost.com/black-voices and postbourgie.com), to discuss their independent blogs, their work for mainstream media outlets, and how bloggers have become the voice of a generation. FREE! Registration recommended: www.schomburgcenter.eventbrite.com  or call (212) 491-2040. 

Click here for information about my ebook Secrets of the Black Bloggers. 

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South Africa Remixed at the Schomburg

The Schomburg will celebrate South Africa Remixed this Saturday.  The programme will include film, live music and discussions.  

Come Back, Africa, a film shot in secret during apartheid, will be one of the films screened.  Click here to read more.  

Click here for more about South Africa Remixed and other Black history and cultural events.   

This is a free event, but you need to book for it.