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Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's Bookshelf, bringing a world together
Speaker 3: with books, culture and community. Hi, my name is Malik,
Speaker 3: your host of Malik's Bookshelf. Well, I'm hitting another milestone.
Speaker 3: This is the seventieth episode. I started this journey in
Speaker 3: the middle of the pandemic, and now I'm on my
Speaker 3: seventieth episode. I appreciate all the people who continually tune
Speaker 3: in every week to hear my insights on books, culture
Speaker 3: and community. This particular episode seventy is huge. It's a milestone.
Speaker 3: I had a conversation with my son and I thought
Speaker 3: I'll feature that conversation and things in my advice that
Speaker 3: I was telling them. So the name of this episode
Speaker 3: is called Decisions Have Consequences.
Speaker 1: That's right, this Decisions have concanen cause.
Speaker 3: That's kind of how I was talking to him, a
Speaker 3: young guy in his early twenties, and you know, decisions
Speaker 3: that he's making consequence. You know, every decision we made,
Speaker 3: is it a benefit or is it grunt? So when
Speaker 3: you make a decision, you got to see you know,
Speaker 3: what are you trying to gain from that decision because
Speaker 3: some of them moves that we make sometimes they have
Speaker 3: more adverse conclent then they have benefits.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of how I was talking to them.
Speaker 3: We all got to make better decisions because that's all
Speaker 3: life is the sum total of all the decisions that
Speaker 3: you make.
Speaker 1: Also, am going to feature on this episode.
Speaker 3: A segment that I did talking to my kids because
Speaker 3: I'm a track coach and I was teaching them about
Speaker 3: certain things that not only them you demonstrate out on
Speaker 3: the field, but it carries into your personality and it's.
Speaker 1: Called the killer instinct. So I'm talking to them about.
Speaker 3: Having the killer instinct and it's raw and it's fresh,
Speaker 3: and I have just recorded, but I'm talking on about, Hey,
Speaker 3: you know, everything that you do in life you gotta
Speaker 3: have is there always a moment where you gotta kill it?
Speaker 1: So that Kevin to killer instead. I'm featuring that on
Speaker 1: this episode.
Speaker 3: Also did an interview with a young lady by the
Speaker 3: name April Russell who wrote a book called Blay Home,
Speaker 3: Say I got it right this time.
Speaker 1: Blay Hoolme.
Speaker 3: She wrote a book about Blayholme, the Warrior Goddess. Okay,
Speaker 3: so I got that interview on here. Very refreshing and
Speaker 3: new and upcoming self published book that just came out,
Speaker 3: so we featured her on this particular episode. Also went
Speaker 3: to a school called Middle College High School and I
Speaker 3: talked to.
Speaker 1: The kids about why you love to read bl This.
Speaker 3: Event was sponsorble by BSU and and Middle College High School.
Speaker 3: And what happened was we gave away three hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty books to the high school students. So that was
Speaker 3: just a wonderful event where we gave away all these
Speaker 3: books sponsored by BSU and Middle College High School, and
Speaker 3: I went.
Speaker 1: Around to talk to the kids. You know, it's pocket
Speaker 1: is about community.
Speaker 3: Went around talking to the kids about why they loved
Speaker 3: to read, because it seemed to me that these students
Speaker 3: at this school had an appetite for reading. They was
Speaker 3: preaking all kinds of books. So this was a yogivent,
Speaker 3: very positive. And they also had that day and an
Speaker 3: assembly where all the schools that the college students were
Speaker 3: going to they were you know, had an assembly where
Speaker 3: they was announcing all the schools that they were gonna
Speaker 3: have parents and students, and it was just like the
Speaker 3: energy was high. It was electric, and they had all
Speaker 3: the high schoolers in there. They were all cheering each
Speaker 3: other on. It was just a wonderful thing. And I
Speaker 3: happened to be present and to give away what I
Speaker 3: call a golden ticket, which is I gave away to
Speaker 3: the volevantory and the saluted turn at the assembly. And
Speaker 3: I featured that particular segment on this episode too.
Speaker 1: The Golden Ticket.
Speaker 3: So hey, hey, stay tuned and enjoyed this episode. Number
Speaker 3: seventy Decisions Have Consequence.
Speaker 1: Warrior.
Speaker 4: I think I'm feeling like just accomplished. I'm feeling satisfied.
Speaker 4: I'm feeling like kind of in shock. But I you know,
Speaker 4: this makes me, I'm feeling flattered. So online, I've been
Speaker 4: getting a lot of people that love the cover and
Speaker 4: that like the story, and so just the idea that
Speaker 4: people are going to go away and read it and
Speaker 4: have a takeaway that.
Speaker 5: Just makes me.
Speaker 4: That's probably one of the most rewarding feelings out of all.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, Okay, people will read this and
Speaker 4: take something away from it. So I think I feel
Speaker 4: it's rewarding. Yeah, it's rewarding.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that's an actually exact way. Actually the
Speaker 1: title your book, So how you come over with that time?
Speaker 4: I will tell you at The title was lay Home,
Speaker 4: very easy title to remember. So I came up with
Speaker 4: it with a character that I did originally in on
Speaker 4: the corner of Hollywood and Highland, the famous Hollywood Walker
Speaker 4: of fame. I was a character of black Hollywood, Maryland,
Speaker 4: and I was on a lot of character development trying
Speaker 4: to figure out who this character was cause I wanted
Speaker 4: to write a story about this world. And as I
Speaker 4: started writing the story, I realized that I needed to
Speaker 4: figure out the backstory of who she was on her homeland,
Speaker 4: and I knew I could only do that through book form.
Speaker 4: And I was scared to write a book because I
Speaker 4: come from TV and films, so writing a novel was
Speaker 4: not in my forte. My aunt is a children's author,
Speaker 4: and she kept telling me I could do it. I
Speaker 4: could do it, but I was nervous, didn't wanna do it.
Speaker 4: Just had no COVID hit and I was really considering leaving,
Speaker 4: like the whole business all together. And I enrolled in
Speaker 4: law school and I was, you know, studying entertainment law
Speaker 4: and I went through my first year of law school
Speaker 4: and read more books, wrote more essays than I probably
Speaker 4: ever have in my life. And I had an Aha moment.
Speaker 4: And the Aha moment was, if I could write that
Speaker 4: type of have that type of discipline to write those essays,
Speaker 4: to read those books on subject matters that at the
Speaker 4: time wasn't as important to me as being a storyteller,
Speaker 4: I could take the same discipline and transfer and write
Speaker 4: the book that had been lingering in my soul. And
Speaker 4: so I dropped out of law school and took the
Speaker 4: same discipline that I learned, and I started writing the
Speaker 4: novel and so and it took me about two years,
Speaker 4: but I finished it because it was something I needed
Speaker 4: to be done right.
Speaker 1: So what is the backstory?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 1: Well at Home.
Speaker 4: Home comes from a planet on planet Serious, and there
Speaker 4: are two different species, the zae species, which is they
Speaker 4: leave heavily in God and they have divine powers. And
Speaker 4: then they're the Delhian's that leave heavily in technology and
Speaker 4: they do not have divine powers. And for years, these
Speaker 4: two she's have been at feuding with each other. Recently,
Speaker 4: there has been a war declared against the women of
Speaker 4: the Zayids and blay Home and her sister as royals
Speaker 4: are completely locked down, and now dream has happened, and
Speaker 4: now they will have to become warriors, and they're training
Speaker 4: to become warriors. And so throughout the book we see
Speaker 4: black Holme and her sister kind of shifting from these
Speaker 4: goddesses to these fierce warriors, and we see her brother
Speaker 4: trying to protect them so that they don't become warriors.
Speaker 4: And like anything, there's family secrets, there's some you know,
Speaker 4: a couple of scandals that happen along the way, because
Speaker 4: we really wanted to paint the picture of them being
Speaker 4: life right. Life happens amongst the good. So we see passion,
Speaker 4: we see hero's journey, but we also see like the weakness,
Speaker 4: and so that was important for me to show that
Speaker 4: in both the male and the women on the planet.
Speaker 3: And you have some unique in your book because you
Speaker 3: have these QR codes and tell us all about that
Speaker 3: implemented out of the book.
Speaker 4: So I like to do creative things, and so you know,
Speaker 4: after I do one creative thing, I want like three
Speaker 4: more to do. Then I have to do three more,
Speaker 4: and what like fourteen want to do? So I wasn't
Speaker 4: joined enough and I really wanted to get really, I
Speaker 4: really wanted to give the reader a lot like I
Speaker 4: really wanted to pack them. If you go to the website,
Speaker 4: you'll see I spend a lot of time creating characters
Speaker 4: and putting just I wanted it just to be juicy.
Speaker 4: And so what I did in the book was I
Speaker 4: embedded some QR codes in secret places in the book.
Speaker 4: And if you when you read throughout the book, so
Speaker 4: there's five and book one, you'll scan the QR codes
Speaker 4: and I'll ask you to log in and to go
Speaker 4: to the fan club. And so under the book there's
Speaker 4: two flan clubs. There's a Blay Home Blade Club and
Speaker 4: then there's a Blay Home Book Club. If you're part
Speaker 4: of the Blay Home Blaye Club, you will not be
Speaker 4: able to see this. The only way you'll be able
Speaker 4: to get this is one if you have the code,
Speaker 4: which is getting the book, and then if you join
Speaker 4: the Blay Home Book Club. And in there there's some
Speaker 4: artistic work of the different scenes. So at the end
Speaker 4: of the book it's to articulate it's going to show
Speaker 4: you some of the different scenes that are.
Speaker 1: In the book.
Speaker 3: So that's maybe very interactive and artists.
Speaker 4: That's very interactive.
Speaker 2: Different got a million books up in here, but I
Speaker 2: ain't got one with a budget. Yeah, I like to
Speaker 2: take it outside of the box, keep the match that
Speaker 2: a lot of that.
Speaker 1: What's to take away from what you want? You know,
Speaker 1: if a person read your book, what do you want
Speaker 1: them to come away with?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 4: The biggest thing was important for me was I wanted
Speaker 4: to pay homage to both the male species and the
Speaker 4: female species on the planet right now at the grid
Speaker 4: of society that's male and females are there's something that's
Speaker 4: happening that we're at odds, and I think understand the
Speaker 4: value of both. And so in the book, you'll see
Speaker 4: I pay a lot of homage to the men and
Speaker 4: the warriors and what they contributed to the females and
Speaker 4: vice versa. There's some strong women in here, and they
Speaker 4: contribute a lot to the males as well. And so
Speaker 4: for me taking away from that, through the weakness, through
Speaker 4: the mistakes, through the betrayal, right, there's still that sense
Speaker 4: of unity in both the different species.
Speaker 3: And well, I think you gave a beautiful description of
Speaker 3: Black Home.
Speaker 1: Why my brain is like twisted it with so easy.
Speaker 5: Like that it's just the us.
Speaker 4: Just it says, you gotta say the.
Speaker 3: April lay Home.
Speaker 1: It's different. I got his wife's name is April because
Speaker 1: he has a.
Speaker 8: Long a y.
Speaker 3: Hey, thank you April April Russell new book lay hold Home.
Speaker 1: Fa y'all.
Speaker 8: I love your energy, and y'all need to give it
Speaker 8: up to each and every one of y'all.
Speaker 1: Because y'all high school. It's a mind store.
Speaker 8: Y'all going to college and the love. But I got
Speaker 8: some wars and I got the golden ticket from the books,
Speaker 8: the golden ticket.
Speaker 1: We want to give it up to two people here now.
Speaker 8: With this golden ticket, you can pick a book, any book,
Speaker 8: don't I don't care what price it is, at the
Speaker 8: bookmoll Bill. You can visit Milligue Books at the Westfield
Speaker 8: Coomba City Mall.
Speaker 1: That's a big store.
Speaker 8: So you can come through there and pick a book
Speaker 8: out of there, or you can pick it.
Speaker 1: Right out here today, don't mind at the price. You
Speaker 1: got it.
Speaker 8: This golden ticket right here for the botting victorian of
Speaker 8: the middle College high scho.
Speaker 3: Golding up and get to a got ticket. Let's go,
Speaker 3: get to go ten.
Speaker 8: Yes, you heard it before you take you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Listen, give it up
Speaker 1: for the boy the Victoria.
Speaker 8: You know, that's a milestone. That's a big achievement, and
Speaker 8: you need to be appreciated, if you know, because that's
Speaker 8: that right there. He's doing big things, all right.
Speaker 1: He put it into work. He put it in the work.
Speaker 8: So hey, I got the next golden ticket and that's
Speaker 8: going to another stead.
Speaker 4: Come on up.
Speaker 3: Or you knows ever you know, so hey.
Speaker 8: Again you you can get go right out here and
Speaker 8: get a book, any book, don't mine at the price
Speaker 8: or come to the store. Congratulations to lie you a salutary.
Speaker 8: You're right, they're okay. I got to say this because
Speaker 8: I hope everybody joined the book for here putting on
Speaker 8: a book fair.
Speaker 1: And you picked the wonderful book. But I'll tell you this,
Speaker 1: it's dead. You gotta give a.
Speaker 8: Thing in a wove explosion of celebration for the person
Speaker 8: who smoked the organizations. But the b and you who
Speaker 8: sponsored the book fair in the middle college.
Speaker 1: High school, they helped parganize and putting this.
Speaker 8: So give it up because they spent a lot of
Speaker 8: money because they.
Speaker 6: Believe in you.
Speaker 8: You'll go out of decent in the future without too
Speaker 8: many have no future until we come to y'all to
Speaker 8: take the torch and carry it to the next generation.
Speaker 8: All right, thank you, And I appreciate.
Speaker 1: Why you enjoy reading.
Speaker 3: It's a story about different things, fictional and nonfictional.
Speaker 1: Why you like read?
Speaker 6: Because they tell stories, They tell different perspectives. They can
Speaker 6: be informational fictional, but then they all provide enjoyment and
Speaker 6: you can sometimes relate to them.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Why you enjoy reading?
Speaker 7: I really like enjoy reading like fantasy type books because
Speaker 7: I'm not the biggest reader, but stuff like comic books
Speaker 7: and stuff that's really eye catching, like like fighting stuff.
Speaker 7: It's really interesting to me and it grabs my attention
Speaker 7: and it helps me learn about different things historically, even
Speaker 7: if it's a historical nonfiction.
Speaker 1: Absolutely wonderful. And what about you? Why you enjoy read?
Speaker 3: Because it's from reality when times are hard, So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just trying to read.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you picked up Rise of the School for Good yep.
Speaker 3: Fantasy amazing, amazing, thank you? All right, all right, so
Speaker 3: tell me you picked up Nick Stone Jackpot.
Speaker 1: Why do you like reading?
Speaker 9: I like reading because I've always read, even when I
Speaker 9: was like a little kid, and books are just really
Speaker 9: interesting to me. Also, I read one of her books
Speaker 9: before I read this one. It's called Dear Martin, and
Speaker 9: it was really interesting to me.
Speaker 1: So I think I like this book too, wonderful.
Speaker 3: Wonderful, moving on to the next young lady here. So
Speaker 3: why do you like you reading?
Speaker 1: You know me, I'm back with another love book.
Speaker 10: I love romance, especially when it's about black people. And
Speaker 10: I've always been interested in reading. I've been a high
Speaker 10: level reader since like first grade. I've read all the
Speaker 10: Harry Potter's. I just I like reading. It makes my
Speaker 10: brain feel big.
Speaker 3: My daughter read all the Harry Potter. So y'all got
Speaker 3: something in common. That's what's up. Yeah, like reading books
Speaker 3: on imagination. You came back because you had one earlier. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess you found another vout you. That's what's up
Speaker 3: because I know, hey, you get three hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: kids students that are not kids. These are high schoolers.
Speaker 3: Not everybody like love reading, you know. So that's the
Speaker 3: reason why we're out here. Come over here, black man.
Speaker 3: I need I need to know why.
Speaker 1: You enjoy reading. I mean, it's fine.
Speaker 5: If it's it's time passing, I don't know, it's just
Speaker 5: it definitely helps me test my ringing level too.
Speaker 1: I mean if I would understand the word and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, you picked up
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 3: What's system called future Legend of Skating Sword Okay, okay, this.
Speaker 9: Thing about action and teams like so I'm excited about.
Speaker 1: Wonderful wonder Well, we appreciate you enjoying them. Books. Now
Speaker 1: Enjoorge's book we At. We're out in the community.
Speaker 3: Were middle College High School putting on a book fair.
Speaker 3: You know, part of my podcast is all about community.
Speaker 3: Elik bookshelf bringing the world together with books, culture and community.
Speaker 3: This is about community. B as U help sponsor this endeavor.
Speaker 3: They sponsored three hundred and fifty four students. Each one
Speaker 3: here gets to pick out a book of their choice.
Speaker 3: So that's amazing, incredible. I'm moving on to you, so
Speaker 3: tell me about why you like reading.
Speaker 5: I like reading because it puts me in another universe,
Speaker 5: kind of gets me away from reality for a little bit,
Speaker 5: and even if it is nonfictional, it just gets me
Speaker 5: out of my head.
Speaker 1: That's why I like reading. What you pick up right
Speaker 1: here today.
Speaker 5: It's a Big Body creator of Kobbe Bryant, and it's
Speaker 5: about two athletes that gott to choose between becoming being
Speaker 5: an athlete or being a leader.
Speaker 1: So wonderful, wonderful, enjoy that.
Speaker 3: Enjoy happy reading, happy reading, happy reading.
Speaker 1: So moving on over here. Why you enjoy reading?
Speaker 5: I love reading because it helps me escape?
Speaker 1: You escape? And what book did you pick up? Well,
Speaker 1: you're going to pick up me, mo. I think it's
Speaker 1: a poem book. I really love poetry.
Speaker 3: This book happened to be a national finalist National Book Award.
Speaker 1: Couliss got a war already. So hey, that sounds like
Speaker 1: a great read. Enjoy, Thank you so much. Joy. Yeah
Speaker 1: you're still looking.
Speaker 3: You found a book yet, somewhat okay, So why are
Speaker 3: you interested in this book?
Speaker 5: I don't know. It just kind of streaked my interest.
Speaker 1: Like you're enjoy reading?
Speaker 10: Yeah a lot?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 5: It just gives me like my own space, gives me
Speaker 5: your own moment, gives me like an escape from all
Speaker 5: the real world, you.
Speaker 3: Know, open up a whole new world of imagination.
Speaker 1: Expansion. Boom. We're middle college high school.
Speaker 3: They sponsored a book fair for every student here gets
Speaker 3: to receive a book. It's three hundred and fifty four students.
Speaker 3: We put out the bookmobile. We got books all over
Speaker 3: the place. So I'm walking around just interviewing some of
Speaker 3: the students and asking them, you know, why they enjoy reading,
Speaker 3: and some of them asking about what book did they pick.
Speaker 1: And to talk about it?
Speaker 3: You know. So it's a wonderful, wonderful thing. And the
Speaker 3: background is my theme song Releak Books music video soon
Speaker 3: to come out, so stay tuned. We already completed it,
Speaker 3: so we got to be putting together a launch party
Speaker 3: for the music video. So stay tuned, Stay tuned, Stay tuned.
Speaker 3: Let me see if I can get one more before
Speaker 3: I end this. Y'o William, how you doing, my brother?
Speaker 3: What book did you pick up earlier today?
Speaker 1: Blackly? Okay, so tell me why that book? Why that
Speaker 1: book sounds interesting?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 3: The Black A little Return of the King by Rodney Barnes.
Speaker 3: You know, he's uh accomplished.
Speaker 1: A lot over his years.
Speaker 3: I've interviewed him on my podcast. He's uh has a
Speaker 3: lot of graphic novels and he's put together the movie
Speaker 3: Blacker that came out, plus a whole lot of other
Speaker 3: TV movies TV series has come out. So roll accomplished, brother,
Speaker 3: and so enjoy the book. Appreciate you and why do
Speaker 3: you enjoy reading with.
Speaker 1: Did I ask you that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 4: Oh no, you did not get Okay?
Speaker 1: Why you enjoy reading?
Speaker 9: I enjoy reading because you can picture the story in
Speaker 9: your brain.
Speaker 5: You're even though this one it has specials, you can
Speaker 5: still like picture what's going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like imagine it.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, well said my brother, thank you enjoyed reading?
Speaker 1: Enjoyed reading? Well, hey, that's community.
Speaker 3: That's what we're out here doing doing community, paying it forward.
Speaker 3: We book activists. We're out here talking to the students.
Speaker 3: Were out here putting on a book fair and sponsored
Speaker 3: by the Black Student Union, right BSU.
Speaker 1: That's what that.
Speaker 3: Means, the BSU, right at here at middle College high school.
Speaker 3: So some of them moving on. I got a chance
Speaker 3: to talk to a few of them earlier today. So
Speaker 3: I hope you enjoyed this segment for community.
Speaker 1: You got no killer instinct.
Speaker 3: Listen, listen, when you got somebody, this is the difference
Speaker 3: between you and your brother.
Speaker 1: One is laid out on the ground and.
Speaker 3: You still standing up because you don't give one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: You led that race the whole way and then you
Speaker 1: let him pass you right at the end.
Speaker 3: Why why Because you got no killer instinct? You're not
Speaker 3: gonna go far in this world if you don't apply
Speaker 3: yourself with every ounce of ability and talent. You cannot
Speaker 3: take advantage of a situation and then follow a part
Speaker 3: at the end. What that does is that you gotta condition.
Speaker 1: Yourself to kill it at the end. You what was that?
Speaker 9: I just don't sit down?
Speaker 1: Well, they don't have nothing to do with that.
Speaker 3: You If you're not laid out, you don't give your best. People,
Speaker 3: when I used to run, I was laid out on
Speaker 3: the track because I wanted to be great. I wanted
Speaker 3: to give my best. You're not doing that. You you
Speaker 3: you You led the race the whole way and at
Speaker 3: the end you lose. You know why, because you didn't
Speaker 3: take advantage.
Speaker 1: Of the last hundred. You have to take advantage of
Speaker 1: the last hundred.
Speaker 3: You're not standing because you're not because you're not tired
Speaker 3: as you should. You should be laid out, you should last,
Speaker 3: should be burning, you should be light headed, you should.
Speaker 3: That's the way you gotta push yourself. This is this
Speaker 3: is some things in life. You gotta self ref You
Speaker 3: gotta what I call self inflict pain. You're not putting
Speaker 3: the pain to get the game. You're not putting the
Speaker 3: pain to get the game. I'm telling you that you're
Speaker 3: only hurting yourself in the end, and that's how life is.
Speaker 1: You must apply your ability.
Speaker 3: What I saw right there was that no killer instinct
Speaker 3: in the end. You don't pass a person, lead them
Speaker 3: the whole way, and then let them come back and
Speaker 3: get you at the end. This is what you do
Speaker 3: in the track meets.
Speaker 1: Because you don't care, and when you don't care, you
Speaker 1: don't get better. You gotta care. You gotta care. You
Speaker 1: gotta have some pride.
Speaker 3: You gotta have. You gotta feel something. You gotta feel
Speaker 3: some disappointment. You gotta feel some kind of pride. You
Speaker 3: got to stop feeling about her other period, feel about
Speaker 3: how you feel, because what I'm seeing here is that
Speaker 3: you're giving up and are not applying to killer instinct.
Speaker 3: This required to win in this world. You've got to
Speaker 3: apply the killer instinct. You got to finish, and you
Speaker 3: gotta finish with everything.
Speaker 1: You gotta stop that.
Speaker 3: You've been doing it for too long, and I don't
Speaker 3: know what it's gonna take for you to extract it
Speaker 3: out of.
Speaker 1: You, because you keep letting people beat you and you
Speaker 1: don't have to. You lead them the whole way, and then.
Speaker 3: You give it up right at the end because you're
Speaker 3: going through the motions and not killing it at the end.
Speaker 3: I told you there's nothing. You gotta take off fast.
Speaker 1: And you gotta end fast in this sport. But that's
Speaker 1: like life. You gotta take off and you gotta finish.
Speaker 3: If you start to tell you gotta start good, right,
Speaker 3: and you gotta finish the test right right, Okay, then
Speaker 3: this ain't no different. You gotta start off fast and
Speaker 3: you gotta finish with everything you got, and if the best,
Speaker 3: if you give your best at the end and it
Speaker 3: still means you lose, then you know you gave your best.
Speaker 1: But that ain't your best. That ain't to killer instinct.
Speaker 3: It's because you make no transition in your arms in
Speaker 3: order to close it out.
Speaker 1: So that tell me you're just going through the motions.
Speaker 1: You just have hazard. It's like, I don't care. You
Speaker 1: gotta get out of that.
Speaker 3: Mindset because it's carrying over in everything that you're doing.
Speaker 3: Classroom test personality out here on the track.
Speaker 1: It's not a good thing. You can correct it now
Speaker 1: you're young.
Speaker 3: You're gonna come to me when you get older, and
Speaker 3: you're gonna say my dad was right. I'm telling telling
Speaker 3: you everybody out in coach, and all of these years,
Speaker 3: them girls got old. I've been coaching girls since they
Speaker 3: were five, they become a dawson, go to college. You
Speaker 3: know what, they come to me and say, my coach
Speaker 3: Miley was right. Cause I'm telling you right now, this
Speaker 3: is what's gonna happen in life.
Speaker 1: You're gonna find out the hard way. I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Oh man, I got a lot of thoughts.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to figure out what direction i want
Speaker 1: to go in.
Speaker 3: But one thing that stuck in my mind was talking
Speaker 3: to my son Tyreek Muhammad today out here in a
Speaker 3: park right behind my mom's backyard.
Speaker 1: And you know what we talked about.
Speaker 3: We talked about benefits in consequences from our decisions, Benefits
Speaker 3: in consequences from our decisions that we make, because every
Speaker 3: decision has it benefit and a consequence. And I'll give
Speaker 3: you an example. Let's eat an apple. It's wholesome, it's
Speaker 3: full of nutrients, it's delicious, it's sweet.
Speaker 1: It is one of the most favorite fruits on the planet.
Speaker 3: But you can eat that apple and you gain a
Speaker 3: tremendous amount of benefits a tremendous amount of nutrients, and
Speaker 3: there's also some consequences that you might not be aware
Speaker 3: because the body only wants nutrients when we eat food.
Speaker 1: It does not want other properties just in foods.
Speaker 3: So there's a part of the apple that the body
Speaker 3: just don't want, and so the body eliminates it because
Speaker 3: it's toxic and if it stays in the body, there
Speaker 3: are consequences.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 3: So there's a benefit in a consequence, but the benefits
Speaker 3: of eating an apple farly by far gives you the
Speaker 3: most benefit versus the consequences. So therefore that's a good
Speaker 3: decision to eat that food.
Speaker 1: See. And that's how life is.
Speaker 3: Every time you encounter a situation, you gotta look at
Speaker 3: your benefits from it. They're from your consequences. Talk to
Speaker 3: you about level. It's a lot of people emotionally get
Speaker 3: involved there in committed relationship with someone, but or they
Speaker 3: get involved in a side piece an affair because emotional reasons,
Speaker 3: financial reasons, maybe whatever the reason might be. There's a
Speaker 3: benefit and there's a consequence from this decision. And this
Speaker 3: high life is safe because a lot of people did
Speaker 3: are marrit or in good relationships that have families make
Speaker 3: that decision to get involved with a jump off from
Speaker 3: the side piece and an affair with another woman or
Speaker 3: another man, or whatever the case is.
Speaker 1: What happens is.
Speaker 3: Might feel good at that time, that experience might have
Speaker 3: an explosion of memories, explosion of emotions, and the explosion
Speaker 3: of just a good time.
Speaker 1: And it's all good and why, but it's short lived.
Speaker 3: It's temp work because a lot of people is gained
Speaker 3: no small short term benefits. In the end, many other
Speaker 3: relationships and marriages have broken up, or they went home
Speaker 3: with disease and gave it to the house with your
Speaker 3: little friend, or what have you. The kids broke up,
Speaker 3: the family broke up, the finances broke up, all over
Speaker 3: that emotional scene to have an affair. And what I'm
Speaker 3: saying is there's a benefit in the consequence, and you
Speaker 3: gotta calculate those I'm talking to my son, because life
Speaker 3: is nothing but a sum total of all the decisions
Speaker 3: that you make.
Speaker 1: And so when you look back at all your gains
Speaker 1: and all your your your your and you and your
Speaker 1: things that you didn't.
Speaker 3: Quite do well at, you know, you got the gains
Speaker 3: and you got the disappoint right, Well, the thing is
Speaker 3: is decisions that you made because they came with a benefit,
Speaker 3: and it came because but in time so was all out.
Speaker 3: Because they're clear cut decisions. Sometimes we get in life,
Speaker 3: well we gotta say, WHOA, I'm kind of stuck. I
Speaker 3: don't know whether I should go left or right on this,
Speaker 3: And you go with your gut, you go with your instinct,
Speaker 3: you go with might feel right, and time is gonna decide.
Speaker 1: Whether or not that decision was right or wrong.
Speaker 3: And what happens is, as it does in any situation,
Speaker 3: we'll see in time whether or not that was the
Speaker 3: right call, because they are close calls sometimes, but every
Speaker 3: decision is a consequence and benefit, and that's the point, whether.
Speaker 1: It's right or whether it's wrong. And sometimes right and wrong.
Speaker 3: Has nothing to do with decision that you made. There's
Speaker 3: a situation where there's no right or wrong. There's just
Speaker 3: a decision that gotta be made. See, everything ain't right
Speaker 3: or wrong, everything ain't up and down. There's just times
Speaker 3: when it's just you gotta make a call. And if
Speaker 3: it's the you gain the most bang for other decisions,
Speaker 3: and if it's the wrong call, you gain less from
Speaker 3: the decision.
Speaker 1: And that's how life is. That's the point. Make better decisions.
Speaker 1: Think about it before.
Speaker 3: You act, think about it before you act on whatever
Speaker 3: it is that you gotta make. And believe me, if
Speaker 3: you live long enough, you're gonna have to make some
Speaker 3: major decisions. You're gonna have to make some major decisions
Speaker 3: and they come with major benefits and they come with
Speaker 3: major consequences. So you got to learn how to do
Speaker 3: this better because life is simply a word problem. It's
Speaker 3: an equation and you getting to some total out of
Speaker 3: an outcome of a decision that you gotta make.
Speaker 1: And that's what I was trying to talk to my
Speaker 1: son about making better decisions as he, you know, become
Speaker 1: you know, he's.
Speaker 3: Already young man, but now he has to grow up
Speaker 3: into a mature man and he has to make better decisions.
Speaker 1: And none of us always make perfect decision, but we
Speaker 1: gotta learn from the decisions that we make.
Speaker 3: Even if they're wrong, they're still a game because you
Speaker 3: learn from them. And that's the greatest way we learn
Speaker 3: is through our experiences, and that's how we become more mature.
Speaker 3: So a lot of our mistakes are still a game,
Speaker 3: but we got to learn to do better, not to
Speaker 3: make those mistakes. That's all because when you continue to
Speaker 3: make the same mistake, you know, it's not call a mistake,
Speaker 3: it's call it error down because one is accidental. Mistake
Speaker 3: is accidental. An error is intentional. See like in baseball,
Speaker 3: they call an error when they drop the ball. They
Speaker 3: call it error when they don't make it because they're
Speaker 3: supposed to do that. They're not supposed to make that mistake.
Speaker 3: That's not why it's a mistake. I was supposed to
Speaker 3: catch that ball.
Speaker 1: I supposed to make that play the first base, and
Speaker 1: when I don't, they call it that error. They don't
Speaker 1: call that no mistake.
Speaker 3: So learn to dive between a mistake and an error,
Speaker 3: because an error is intentional because you you weren't supposed
Speaker 3: to do that, and you did it anyway, So it's
Speaker 3: not a mistake and it's not an accident. It's intentional
Speaker 3: and you know it was, and you need to learn
Speaker 3: from it instead of say, oh I made you know
Speaker 3: you didn't. You did not make a mistake. So hey,
Speaker 3: this is life and life is a journey. In life,
Speaker 3: we grow and we evolved and we make mistakes. But
Speaker 3: are you gonna keep making the same mistake over and
Speaker 3: over you're gonna keep getting the consequences over and over
Speaker 3: or you want the benefits? Do you want the benefits?
Speaker 3: That's the question. I want to benefits. Everything we do
Speaker 3: there's a benefit and it's a consequence. I want to
Speaker 3: gain the most out of every decision that I make.
Speaker 3: That's what was on my mind at heart that I
Speaker 3: wanted to share with my podcast audience benefits in consequence
Speaker 3: from our decisions.
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