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Speaker 1: Sixty five. WHOA. You know, I was at the Wrestle
Speaker 1: of Mania last week and you know, we was imitating
Speaker 1: Rick Flair who the whole time. You know, it was
Speaker 1: right here in my backyard, right here in Inglewood, right
Speaker 1: at the so Far Statium, and it was electric and
Speaker 1: the people were electric and exciting, and people was in character.
Speaker 1: I had a one the full time. You know, I
Speaker 1: grew up watching wrestling and it's it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people say, oh, that's fake. Listen, it
Speaker 1: might be scripted, but one thing for sure, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to be athletic to be a wrestler, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to endure a lot of impact on your body.
Speaker 1: The reality is that, you know, this sport was exciting
Speaker 1: and we had a wonderful time, and whoa, that's all
Speaker 1: we were doing out there and we were throwing up
Speaker 1: the ones for we are the ones, and we were
Speaker 1: just cheering, and so many people they was in constones,
Speaker 1: you know, and it was just a fun time. It
Speaker 1: was a fun time, had a great time. When I
Speaker 1: saw this wrestler Mania was coming to La Hollywood, wrestler
Speaker 1: Mania goals, Holly Wood, I had to give my tickets
Speaker 1: and we had some good tickets and we had a
Speaker 1: good time at the Soul Out Soul Far Stadium. Who
Speaker 1: you know that came from Rick Flair. But now this
Speaker 1: episode is entitled road Block. I'm going back to the basics,
Speaker 1: book reviews, inspiration, community, back to the basic So enjoy
Speaker 1: episode sixty five Roadblocks. My motivation for this episode, it's
Speaker 1: called roadblocks. Road blocks, roadblocks. I believe it's in everybody's
Speaker 1: life and their challenges. The question is what are you
Speaker 1: doing to overcome the road block? We all have them. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I do. I've tried to find
Speaker 1: the fastest and most effective method of overcoming the road block,
Speaker 1: or going around the roadblock, or going underneath the roadblock,
Speaker 1: or going over the top of the road block. And
Speaker 1: it always work. It don't always work, but at least
Speaker 1: I tried to come up with some strategy or tactic
Speaker 1: or just spontaneous because sometimes you got to get over
Speaker 1: a roadblock in an instant. Sometimes. Man, I was at
Speaker 1: a track meet and this young lady, these two young ladies,
Speaker 1: they were balanced. It was like neck and neck, side
Speaker 1: by side, and they were on the outside lane and
Speaker 1: all of nowhere, I guess, they bumped each other and
Speaker 1: one of them fell on the ground and rolled into
Speaker 1: the lane just on the inside, and another runner who
Speaker 1: they were she was beating, was right behind her, and
Speaker 1: she had to make a course correction. She had to
Speaker 1: make a decision. This rod block just got in her way,
Speaker 1: this body and she running with these spikes on the
Speaker 1: bottom over shoes. I mean, you ain't got but a
Speaker 1: split second to make a quick decision and go over
Speaker 1: and get through that robot. Go over that rodbot, go
Speaker 1: underneath that roadblock. Oh guess what she did. She hurtled
Speaker 1: over that rod block. She jumped over the girl and
Speaker 1: kept running and finished the race. They were running the
Speaker 1: two hundred meters and she finished the race. Now, I
Speaker 1: know that might have been frightening. I know that might
Speaker 1: have been you know, scary. Here you're running full speed
Speaker 1: and out of nowhere. This girl just falls in her lane.
Speaker 1: And this young lady didn't want to stop. She didn't
Speaker 1: want to quit, so she hurled over her and finished
Speaker 1: the race. And that's what you got to do sometimes
Speaker 1: when roadblocks get in your way. You know she heard
Speaker 1: over hers. How are you gonna get over the roadblocks
Speaker 1: in your life? Because we all got them, we all
Speaker 1: need to, you know, overcome them. These are just obstacles
Speaker 1: in your life. But the reality is that you got
Speaker 1: the power of the ability to force to get through
Speaker 1: any and all roadblocks in your life. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you about an incident. Um I remember I experienced years
Speaker 1: ago on the freeway and this could have this could
Speaker 1: have ended in depth though this roadblock now here. I'm
Speaker 1: driving along, were hiding out the Vegas and got my
Speaker 1: sons were hidding knowing out the Vegas. You know, we're
Speaker 1: traveling down the freeway. I'm in h the fast lane
Speaker 1: the farthest to the left. I'm going about seventy right
Speaker 1: and out of know where this car, this is a
Speaker 1: full five lane highway out of nowhere. This car blew
Speaker 1: by me on my right side. Must have been going
Speaker 1: over one hundred and something miles an hour, and you
Speaker 1: could see smoke coming underneath the tide. That's how I mean.
Speaker 1: They went by me like I was standing still out
Speaker 1: of nowhere. Now, you know, it was a time when
Speaker 1: there would be a bigger lane on the left hand side,
Speaker 1: the emergency lane on the left hand side. I guess
Speaker 1: you could say where if something had you can pull
Speaker 1: over on that side as well as the right side.
Speaker 1: But in this case, there was no there. It was
Speaker 1: it was limited. It was not that much room. I mean,
Speaker 1: it had a little space on the left side for emergency.
Speaker 1: But anyway, this car man blew by me and it
Speaker 1: was going, man, I don't know one hundred twenty thirty.
Speaker 1: I don't know because I'm going seventy and it went
Speaker 1: by me like I was standing still. So let me
Speaker 1: tell you what happened. This car right in front of
Speaker 1: me went out of just blew by me. But then
Speaker 1: it went out of control. It turned, it turned left
Speaker 1: into the barrier separating you know, both sides of the highway.
Speaker 1: So it crashed into the barrier, the big CEMKE blocks
Speaker 1: and what have you on the on the left side,
Speaker 1: and boom, and I'm and I'm driving right there in
Speaker 1: the fast lane and this car is now in front
Speaker 1: of me, crashed into the barrier, sitting there with the
Speaker 1: front end. You know, I guess it was then to
Speaker 1: the passions side because they that car like a slinky
Speaker 1: right and I have much room. I had to make
Speaker 1: a split decision, a split second decision. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I can't stop. A matter of fact, I ain't even
Speaker 1: have time to look to the right. I ain't you know,
Speaker 1: if I stop, it wasn't enough time. I reacted because
Speaker 1: this roadblock was riding from it. I turned my wheel
Speaker 1: to the right so I can avoid hit on collection
Speaker 1: right into that car, and I'm going seven. So you know,
Speaker 1: that jerk real quick made my cargo out of control.
Speaker 1: I'm going out of control and now I don't got
Speaker 1: them turn this wheel fast and try to get my car.
Speaker 1: It's leaning on some tires, a couple of tires, and
Speaker 1: it looked like it's about to rise up. You know.
Speaker 1: It looked like I'm about the hydroplane and a couple
Speaker 1: of tires on the driver's side was you know, every
Speaker 1: time I would turn the wheel in that the direction
Speaker 1: of the swerve, then the other times it looked like
Speaker 1: they're about to elevate it. So anyway, I'm swerving, zigzagging
Speaker 1: on the streetway. I ain't even had time to see
Speaker 1: if anybody was on my right side when I pulled
Speaker 1: to the right, but I had to make the sales
Speaker 1: for decision. It was life and death, and I turned
Speaker 1: that wheel man to avoid getting that car and I
Speaker 1: went out of control. And I'm just turning the cars
Speaker 1: trying to slow it down and get it under control.
Speaker 1: And I'm turning in the direction of the skirt of
Speaker 1: the swerving and then trying to just you know, keep
Speaker 1: it under control and slow it up man. And finally,
Speaker 1: you know, I was able to get it under control.
Speaker 1: Cars behind, you know, decelerated and we got under control.
Speaker 1: Where my nerves was shot. I made a split second decision.
Speaker 1: I made a split second decision to avoid that role
Speaker 1: out there could have been fatal with me and my kids,
Speaker 1: and I was, you know, was blessed to avoid that collision.
Speaker 1: Saved my life my kids like or injury or what
Speaker 1: have you, and lived to speak about it and talk
Speaker 1: to you about these role blocks. Well anywhere, I had
Speaker 1: to pull off to the next exit because I got
Speaker 1: to get my nerves right. I had to get my
Speaker 1: nerves right because my nerves was shot, you know, I
Speaker 1: or something like that. I'm like, wow, you know, it
Speaker 1: just unfolded in front of me, the implications that could
Speaker 1: have occurred as a result of this person who didn't
Speaker 1: value that life, let alone anybody else. Because why are
Speaker 1: you going that fast on the freeway? Who are you
Speaker 1: trying to impress? What are you doing? What's going on
Speaker 1: in your mind? I don't know, but I know one thing.
Speaker 1: You're reckless and you put everybody in danger. You could
Speaker 1: have you you don't cared about your life, and you
Speaker 1: didn't care about nobody else's, and you out here going
Speaker 1: that fast and then your car get out of control,
Speaker 1: and then you crash into the barrier, and you know,
Speaker 1: and then it could have been a cascade of effect
Speaker 1: with every other car coming forth. So I give thanks
Speaker 1: to God. I made a split second decision to avoid
Speaker 1: the roadblock, hit on collision or avoided hit on collision
Speaker 1: or avoid it crashed into that car. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say hit on, but because his car was was hit,
Speaker 1: hit the barrier straight on and was sitting there, so
Speaker 1: I would have went through his driver side door because
Speaker 1: it looked like the engine was into the driver's side,
Speaker 1: so I would have went power applied. I would have
Speaker 1: plowed right through that part. Probably it would have caused
Speaker 1: me to probably go up in the air, who knows.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I made a split sickness, a split second
Speaker 1: decision to avoid that collision, which was a roadblock, and
Speaker 1: I swerved to the right, not even knowing if a
Speaker 1: car is right beside me or anything, and then the
Speaker 1: car out of control and I finally got under control. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I made a split second decision to avoid the roadblock.
Speaker 1: And that's how life is. Sometimes you gotta make a
Speaker 1: split second decision to avoid a situation what could implicate
Speaker 1: life or death. Sometimes you got more time to deal
Speaker 1: with a role block, but you know, but nevertheless, you
Speaker 1: gotta deal with it. You got personal role blocks in
Speaker 1: your life right now. You got personal roadblocks in your
Speaker 1: life health wise, relationship wise. You can't avoid it. You
Speaker 1: got to deal with it. Why are you waiting until
Speaker 1: something drastically happen when you have a chance to deal
Speaker 1: with the roadblock right now? Eat? You know you're eating
Speaker 1: the wrong foods. You know it's gonna be a cascadish effect.
Speaker 1: You know, by eating all that sugar, you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna get diabetes. These are roll blocks. You got a
Speaker 1: chance to make a decision right now before it gets
Speaker 1: too late, before you get a heart attack from heart disease,
Speaker 1: you know, before you know you're in a relationship and
Speaker 1: you need to make it. You got a block. You
Speaker 1: got your roadblock there, you know, and it's disrupting your relationship.
Speaker 1: You got issues on the job. It's disrupting you know,
Speaker 1: this roadblock is disrupting a healthy relationship on your job.
Speaker 1: You know you you you know it's right there in
Speaker 1: front of you. Are you refusing to do something about it?
Speaker 1: The course correct to make a change, to overcome the
Speaker 1: role block. Sometimes you want that promotion, You got some role.
Speaker 1: You got obstacles in front of the roadblock. How I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get that promotion? Do the work, find a way
Speaker 1: to get the job, to get that promotion. Role blocks,
Speaker 1: we got them in our life. You gotta ambition. You know,
Speaker 1: you got kids, You got life, that's what that is.
Speaker 1: You got life, you got you gotta go. You got roadblocks.
Speaker 1: You got roadblocks you gotta overcome because you got obstacles.
Speaker 1: These are roadblocks. You got obstacles you gotta overcome. You
Speaker 1: gotta overcome them. It's part of life. And I know
Speaker 1: I got personal I got a lot of roadblocks in
Speaker 1: different areas, but they got to be addressed. They're not
Speaker 1: you know, you know the definition of insanity, right, doing
Speaker 1: the same thing expecting a different results. Well, hey, that
Speaker 1: roadblock ain't going away, So you got to figure out
Speaker 1: how to overcome it, how to address it, how maneuver
Speaker 1: around it. Bottom line, you gotta deal with it. We
Speaker 1: all got them, we all got him. But recognize that
Speaker 1: you gotta do something. Bottom don't overcome obstacles. These are
Speaker 1: roadblocks there in your life. They're there for a reason.
Speaker 1: Everything happens for a reason. They in your life with
Speaker 1: that car coming in and blowing by me and all
Speaker 1: collision or hey, I might not know what the reason
Speaker 1: it is, but there's always a reason. You know, there's
Speaker 1: always a reason, and we need to overcome these roadblocks.
Speaker 1: And I like it. So anyway, that's my take, that's
Speaker 1: my you know message today on the podcast Milik's Bookshelf
Speaker 1: bringing a world together with books, culture and community Roadblocks
Speaker 1: Overcome my book reviewed for this episode. It's a book
Speaker 1: that was mailed to me at Milik Books as a gift.
Speaker 1: It was autographed, and it was a book with a
Speaker 1: little note by the author suggesting that he thought the
Speaker 1: book had value and that it would be a good
Speaker 1: read for me and if I didn't want to keep bit,
Speaker 1: to gift it or sell it to someone. The name
Speaker 1: of the book is called The Wealthy Gardener lessons on
Speaker 1: Prosperity Between Father and Son, written by the author John
Speaker 1: so Fork. Now I get a ton of books. I
Speaker 1: mean a ton of books mailed to me every day
Speaker 1: every week for review, whether from the publisher of self
Speaker 1: published authors, independent authors, I get a ton. But for
Speaker 1: some reason, for some reason, this particular book by John
Speaker 1: so Ford got my attention. I don't know whether it
Speaker 1: was depict you on the front, whether the father and
Speaker 1: the son, whether it was the title of The Wealthy Gardener,
Speaker 1: or I saw something lessons on prosperity. Nevertheless, less the
Speaker 1: book intrigued me and I decided that I would read
Speaker 1: this book. And boy, oh boy, this book was a
Speaker 1: Jim The Wealthy Gardener. I'm still trying to dissect this book,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to continue to reread it because in
Speaker 1: the journey, as I read it's a book with fiction
Speaker 1: mixed with nonfiction because John support thought that his son
Speaker 1: could digest his book in the way without preaching to
Speaker 1: a son, and he would it would be more effective,
Speaker 1: more meaningful, and more enlightening instead with this approach, instead
Speaker 1: of just writing it completely nonfiction and coming across as
Speaker 1: though he was preaching to it. So, but it's a
Speaker 1: book about the lessons of prosperity. The motivation, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's you know that John wanted to use the lessons
Speaker 1: he learned on prosperity and success as a as a
Speaker 1: real estate because he owned a real estate guru. He
Speaker 1: owned m a garden and he was nicknamed the wealthy gardener.
Speaker 1: And he found that his friends gave him that name
Speaker 1: why because he worked a lot. He worked, you know,
Speaker 1: he had a vineyard and he had a farm and
Speaker 1: a restaurant. He had, you know, this business model that
Speaker 1: made him work a whole lot, and he was considered
Speaker 1: a work or harder. And he had these conversations all
Speaker 1: the time, or why do you work? So are what's
Speaker 1: good if you have all the money and can't enjoy? Oh,
Speaker 1: you know, it was just as he he didn't want
Speaker 1: to be normal, and he wanted to work to acquire
Speaker 1: financial freedom. That's what this book is about, lessons of
Speaker 1: prosperity to become financial free. We're all all your money worries,
Speaker 1: all these problems that we get for a lack of money.
Speaker 1: He wanted to eliminate that by becoming financial free and
Speaker 1: being able to have enough money to change his life
Speaker 1: in a way than any obstacle that comes in his way,
Speaker 1: he had the money to address it. If he wanted
Speaker 1: to take a trip for a year, he had the
Speaker 1: money to be able to take a trip for a year.
Speaker 1: If he had a medical issue, he had money to
Speaker 1: address that's the medical issue. If he was sued or
Speaker 1: what have you, he had insurance and money to have
Speaker 1: the insurance probably to deal with the situation. He just
Speaker 1: wanted enough money to have financial freedom and not have
Speaker 1: the problems that money had the lock of money produces
Speaker 1: in people's lives, and that was his driving force. And
Speaker 1: this book it's about three hundred and fifty pages, but boy,
Speaker 1: oh boy, is it powerful. Every chapter I found insightful
Speaker 1: and relatable and very on point, easy to read. Powerful
Speaker 1: lessons I mean powerful. He takes you on a journey,
Speaker 1: I mean you start to see yourself, You start to
Speaker 1: see like He used this one parable in this book
Speaker 1: about four people dying, each living a different life. Each
Speaker 1: their book of life was unfolded before Saint Peter's and
Speaker 1: each person to make something of their life, even if
Speaker 1: they was of average intelligence, even if they wasn't born
Speaker 1: with much, even if they had the car stocked against them,
Speaker 1: grew up in a house fatherless or motherless, or was
Speaker 1: an orphan, that there was an opportunity because you had time.
Speaker 1: You had the same time, even though you might start
Speaker 1: in the back at the time twenty four hours a day,
Speaker 1: to make a change in your life. And these four
Speaker 1: people that he talked about, um, they opened their life
Speaker 1: up to Saint Peter's and so he could judge them.
Speaker 1: They all two of them was sent back to the
Speaker 1: earth as one as a cow, so be so he
Speaker 1: could just you know, eat grass his whole life, and
Speaker 1: the other so he could work his whole life. Because
Speaker 1: they didn't take advantage of the opportunities that they were
Speaker 1: afforded in life despite their situation, and so Saint Peter's
Speaker 1: judged them in a way saying, you used to go
Speaker 1: back as a cow and see grass and the other
Speaker 1: your ox thats you was born of of of of
Speaker 1: talent and failed to use it. Then I'll just let
Speaker 1: you work hard and be mindless like an ox. Sent
Speaker 1: them back. See and just one lady, you know, to
Speaker 1: two women. Um what one of the ladies was sent back, well,
Speaker 1: one of the ladies sent back there as a cow,
Speaker 1: and one of the men was sent back as the ox.
Speaker 1: But one of one of the men was sent back
Speaker 1: because he was a good person. Um, he helped other people. Um,
Speaker 1: he worked hard. He didn't have much, he wasn't born
Speaker 1: with a lot of talent, but he was afforded the
Speaker 1: opportunity to go back and just you know, live a
Speaker 1: meaningful life and be helpful towards others. And then the
Speaker 1: female she excelled more sold than her talents and her abilities,
Speaker 1: and she was very helpful and she was engaged in
Speaker 1: the community. So he you know, he sent her back,
Speaker 1: you know, as an angel, because she was sold Um,
Speaker 1: always giving and always working hard to improve upon her
Speaker 1: quality of life. So she was sent back his anger anyway. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just all these lessons in here, particularly the lesson
Speaker 1: in this book where Santos, who was his operations manager,
Speaker 1: he was going to afford him an opportunity, but he
Speaker 1: needed for him to offer his time to help improve
Speaker 1: a punt the farm that he brought next door, and
Speaker 1: he wanted him to cultivate the farm, make something of
Speaker 1: the farm, us his imagination, improve upon it. But he
Speaker 1: needed to do he needs need to run his Why
Speaker 1: he went out of town for about a year. He
Speaker 1: wanted to Santos to make sure that he maintained his business,
Speaker 1: his vineyard, but also developed with his imagination and find
Speaker 1: a way, a creative way to make the farm next
Speaker 1: door turn that around into a thriving business. When he
Speaker 1: came back, you know, he found that Santos didn't do
Speaker 1: nothing with the farm next door because it didn't wasn't
Speaker 1: associated with any profits, any increased income, any increased moneys.
Speaker 1: So basically, Santos say, I'm only motivated if you're gonna
Speaker 1: pay me so, But if I'm not, why would I
Speaker 1: give up my time to cultivate this farm and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna benefit money wise from it. So, unfortunately, John
Speaker 1: had a gift that he wanted to give to Santos.
Speaker 1: If he had shown his place, he put in position
Speaker 1: of authority to run his place. And to develop a
Speaker 1: new business and so doing he would have. His intent
Speaker 1: was to simply if he could show profitability and then
Speaker 1: develop the farm next door. He wanted to gift Santos
Speaker 1: the farm next door. I guess they were be in
Speaker 1: business together. He wanted to It was a long sir,
Speaker 1: It was I mean, he was one of his best
Speaker 1: and longest workers in his business and he wanted to
Speaker 1: elevate him. But he had to show that he was
Speaker 1: willing to make a sacrifice in his absence. So it
Speaker 1: was like a test. But at the same time Santos failed.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we get gifts in our lives and opportunities of lives,
Speaker 1: and we don't take advantage of it soon because we're
Speaker 1: looking at to get something right down for it and
Speaker 1: the bigger pictures what we're gonna get later on down
Speaker 1: the line. If we would just accept the opportunity, the
Speaker 1: challenge you had to me. Instead of Santo saying this opportunity,
Speaker 1: maybe you know, I'll get promoted or maybe something of
Speaker 1: value will come out of this, he left me in
Speaker 1: this position of authority. He put this extra weight on me,
Speaker 1: instead of me using that as an opportunity to elevate
Speaker 1: into advance. He saw it as a burden and he
Speaker 1: didn't do nothing. So hey, like I said, this book
Speaker 1: right here is relatable, is mind bunding, is thought provoking.
Speaker 1: The Wealthy Gardner Lessons of Prosperity between Father and Son
Speaker 1: by author John so far it. Now, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to order this book for the store, but you can
Speaker 1: rest the show. Pick this book up at Beligue Books,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be coming back with you with someone
Speaker 1: some more of these lessons that I'm learning from this book.
Speaker 1: But this book right here is very, very enlightening. Thanks
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