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    8:59 AM Revealed…

    Guys, believe it or not I just spent 40 minutes writing this blog for the second time and my computer wiped it out… Forgive me but this one, this 3rd edition if you will, mayl be “briefer” than the previous two as I’m slightly disappointed but I will get this right…

    I received all the messages from you all about the follow up for the last week before I checked to see that the first time I wrote this response to “8:59” never posted; I was quite surprised. So, I sat down an hour ago determined to write another version as good as the first… I had done so… and then pressed the “back” button by accident and the whole blog was gone…for the 2nd time… 🙁

    I want everyone to know that I really do appreciate all the comments, notes, subscriptions and all that you say. I am quite humbled by it. I know some of you wonder when the next Tankism is coming and why it takes so long to get them to you sometimes. Well, you all have been sharing them with a lot of people so now I’ve got over 11,000 friends and I do my best to get one out to everyone. It just takes a little longer now for obvious reasons…

    TANKJONES.
    My personal website is almost completely renovated and when it is, I will be posting the Tankisms there more frequently so I’ll be sure to let you know. I’m also going to offer my last CD, Antithesis (an autographed copy) there along with a free poster. I’ve been asked by a lot of you to do that. I only have a couple hundred and will not be making any more of that CD so if you can’t wait until I make the announcement, shoot me a message about it. First come… 🙂

    OK, here we go again for the third time…

    A QUICK RECAP
    I love to read. You will either catch me reading something inspirational, motivational, educational, spiritual or a script. I feel the need to balance the scales. I need to search out the positive side since there is so much negativity out there. If you don’t actively seek out the positive stuff you will find yourself behaving negatively for no other reason than that is what’s out there. Hey, most of us are addicted to the negative, the gossip, the car wreck on the side of the road. It sells ads so that’s why we get so much of it, because as much as people complain about it, they’re addicted to it.

    One of my quotes is: “Now! That’s all you’ve got.” I try to make the most of each day because you never know. You’ve got this life, this Now, this moment. Take advantage of it as often as you can. Remind yourself to live life to the fullest. Even if you believe in reincarnation, you still have to take time away from your NOW to remember who you were, which wastes more NOW time so by the time you figure it out, you may have NO time. Now, what was I saying?

    I consider myself a lot of things…QUITTER is definitely not one of them…then 8:59am PST on today, Friday, July 17th, 2009 happened…

    I thought I understood what it meant and what you had to do to be a success…then 8:59am PST on today, Friday, July 17th, 2009 happened…

    I was at the gym, working legs and as I was doing my reps I was listening to “Think and Grow Rich.” In the beginning of the book, Napoleon Hill writes about there being a “secret” contained in the book that, if he were to just point it out to you would rob you of the joy of finding it on your own. He also mentions that when it occurs to you, you should “turn down a glass for it will represent a turning point in your life.”

    MY MAMMY’S GOTTA HAVE THAT 50 CENTS!
    Napoleon writes of a story of a young “colored girl” who came to a farmer’s work area and asked him for 50 cents. This was back in the 1920s. Well, the farmer refused and told her to go away and the little girl replied, “Yessa.” But, SHE DID NOT MOVE.

    The farmer went along doing his work, not noticing the child had not left. When he did notice that the girl had not left, he got angry and began to yell at the child. He told her to GO! or she would not like the consequences…Again, she replied, “Yessa.” But, SHE DID NOT MOVE!

    The farmer became enraged and ran over to the girl. The farmer’s nephew that was in attendance thought for sure the child was about to receive a beating at the hands of his uncle. When the farmer reached the child, the child actually STEPPED FORWARD and yelled, “My mammy’s gotta have that 50 cents!”

    This response stopped the farmer cold in his tracks…then…he reached in his pocket and pulled out the 50 cents and handed it to the girl. She thanked him and went along her way…

    8:59 AM PST, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2009 A.D.
    I have read this story many times…
    I have listened to it many times…
    I truly thought I had the meaning of it many times…

    I often found it amusing but it never had that much impact on me. Then, that day, that time I realized that I had just discovered what it means to THINK AND GROW RICH. If I had a glass, I would have turned it down to mark the occasion.

    Picture the scene: early 1920s, a white male, a colored girl, his property, deep south. Doing what she did, she could have been hurt, beaten or killed and more than likely nothing would have been done about it.

    How could I have missed the lesson of this story the previous times I had read it or listened to it? It is the most powerful story in the entire book! This girl had a mission. She KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED. She knew what she needed and had determined that she would stand by, no matter what until she got it.

    She asked for 50 cents for her mom. “The man” said “No!” At that point, who would have blamed her for going home with her tail tucked between her legs so to speak and say, “Sorry, mama he wouldn’t give it to me.” That’s what 90% of the people in that position would have done; she did not.

    When “the man” became angry because she did not leave, he felt disrespected and felt this child needed to learn her place. So, here he comes charging after her and about to teach her a lesson…Now, she was supposed to cower and run at that point, right? After all, she’s just a “colored girl” on the property of “the man,” a man who could harm her and no harm would befall him. This was a big OBSTACLE, a big MOUNTAIN, seemingly insurmountable.

    But, what did she do? She took a STEP FORWARD! What did “the man,” the obstacle, the mountain do? It had no choice but to crumble, to fall, to realize it had been beaten at its own game. In other words, it had no choice but to give the girl what she was after, if she could stand up to that type of resistance without blinking and not only stand up, but STEP FORWARD “the man” had no choice. He was severely over-matched.

    STEP FORWARD
    When you are so convinced that you must have something that you are willing to STEP FORWARD, give it your all and stand by that decision until you succeed, you WILL SUCCEED. Life has no choice but to give you what you want because you would not let life push you around any longer. You told life that you will not run away any longer, you will not “Duck and Run” (3 Doors Down, love that song) any longer. You know that that there’s going to be turbulence, wind, rain, potholes, in-laws, naysayers…

    But, if this little girl can stand by and get 50 cents after total rejection three times at the risk of physical harm…whew!

    There is no obstacle that can stop you when you have that type of determination and I am ashamed that I let the prejudice of the language stop me from getting maybe the most important lesson I’ve ever learned, perhaps that’s why I had to type this three times and the words kept getting erased. Maybe that was the Lord’s way of making sure the lesson “really” sank in.

    I have had life rain of my parade. I have had plans not work out. I have failed and I have walked away. I have been knocked down so hard that I felt paralyzed with FEAR. Now, I know that no matter what, I must GET UP. I must NOT BLINK. I must be determined. This story showed me that even I had another level to go up in my determination level.

    Now, I know without a shadow of a doubt, that when “the man” comes charging at me with his nostrils flaring saying that you can’t have this part, you can’t have this money, you can’t have this house, you can’t live in this neighborhood, you can’t drive this car, you can’t buy this apartment complex, you can’t…

    “Yessa!” And, I will smile and STEP FORWARD into my destiny…

    How about you?

      Date: July 29th, 2009 Publisher: admin
      Time: 6:08 pm Category: Uncategorized Comments:     + 1

    What happened to me at 8:59am PST 2day…

    I am an avid reader, mostly inspirational and goal-setting books. Some of my favorite authors are: Napoleon Hill, Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, Solomon, David, Brian Tracey, Spencer Johnson and few others…

    I consider myself to be a positive, optimistic person. Hey, take a look at my blogs and my Tankism’s that I leave…

    I consider myself to be a driven individual. I strive everyday to move forward and make the best of the day. One of my quotes is: “Now! That’s all you’ve got.”

    I consider myself a lot of things…QUITTER is definitely not one of them…then 8:59am PST on today, Friday, July 17th, 2009 happened…

    As I said earlier, I’m an avid reader. Repetition is the mother of skill so I tend to read some of the same books over and over again. Like a good movie that you haven’t seen in a while, you always find something new in the film to make you remember why you liked the movie and some new wrinkle that you didn’t notice before that helps make the overall story even better to you…

    Now, I have taken to downloading books because I’m not always able to read as much as I want so instead of listening to a lot of music, I’m generally listening to a book looking to improve because, after all “Now! That’s all you’ve got.”

    I thought I understood what it meant and what you had to do to be a success…then 8:59am PST on today, Friday, July 17th, 2009 happened…

    I was at the gym, working legs. Today, I decided to do the “Breath Leg Press.” For those of you that don’t know what that is, you pick a weight that it would be difficult for you to do 25 reps with and you do 50! Then you take some of that weight off and immediately do 25 more reps. Then you take a little more weight off and you do another 25 reps for a total of 100 reps. For me, during that time I lift about 20,000 lbs when you combine the weight and the reps. Hence, you are out of “Breath” and your legs are probably shaking… And, that’s only one exercise!

    Well, as I was doing my reps I was listening to “Think and Grow Rich.” In the beginning of the book, Napoleon Hill writes about there being a “secret” contained in the book that, if he were to just point it out to you would rob you of the joy of finding it on your own. He also mentions that when it occurs to you, you should “turn down a glass for it will represent a turning point in your life.”

    I thought I had found that “secret” before…years ago when I first picked up the book back in 2005? Then 8:59am PST on today, Friday, July 17th, 2009 happened…

    Napoleon writes of a story of a young “colored girl” (that was the language of the day and I take no offense to it for everything that you are against weakens you anyway…) who came to a farmer’s work area and asked him for 50 cents. This was back in the 1920s I believe so 50 cents is like $6,000 in today’s money 🙂

    Well, the farmer refused and told her to go away and the little girl replied, “yessa.” But, SHE DID NOT MOVE.

    The farmer went along doing his work, not noticing the child had not left. When he did notice that the girl had not left, he got angry and began to yell at the child. He told her to GO! or she would not like the consequences…Again, she replied, “yessa.” But, SHE DID NOT MOVE!

    The farmer became enraged and ran over to the girl and the nephew that was in attendance thought for sure the child was about to receive a beating at the hands of his uncle. When the farmer reached the child, the child actually STEPPED FORWARD and yelled, “My mammy’s gotta have that 50 cents!”…

    This response stopped the farmer cold in his tracks…then…he reached in his pocket and pulled out the 50 cents and handed it to the girl. She thanked him and went along her way…

    People, I have read this story many times… I have listened to it many times… I truly thought I had the meaning of it many times… then 8:59 am PST, today, Friday July 17, 2009 happened… and I will never be the same…

    Stay tuned, for in my next blog I will finish telling you what happened…

    And, if you want to inspire someone today, invite them to read this blog, subscribe to this blog. I’m all about growth and if you are too, allow me to help you keep going, let’ help each other to KEEP GOING…

    Until the next one…

    Tank

      Date: July 17th, 2009 Publisher: admin
      Time: 1:46 pm Category: Uncategorized Comments:     + 1

    Every “NO!”…

    Hello, my friends. I hope everyone is doing fantabulous (my word, got the copyright, lol). I get a lot of questions like “Am I the one writing them?” or statements like “That’s the Law of Attraction.” or,… you get the idea.

    Truthfully, I write them all and if I borrow from someone, I give them credit. They say there really aren’t any new ideas, just different ways to say the same thing, so perhaps that is why some of them sound or read like you’ve heard it before. The best advice is timeless. 🙂 Also, my website is being updated as I write this and it will feature my Tankism’s, my blogs, my albums, pictures from events, updates, etc. When it’s done I will be posting a bulletin and try to get the info out to all of you via comment. There are a lot of you now, so sometimes the Tankism’s come later than they used to. If you need encouragement, shoot me a note and I will do my best. Some of you already know that, though as I’ve sent you something when requested and I hope it helped 🙂

    I have been on the phone, writing emails, scouring the web and its sites to find investors for the films that I’m executive producing. Honestly, it’s so much fun and the only other thing that I’d rather be doing is the actual “acting.” This is the setup that will allow me to do that more often so I’m just laying the groundwork.

    I don’t have time to wait on someone to “need me.” I continue to audition, continue to persevere and “KNOW” that every “NO” leads me closer to my “GOAL,” my “DREAM” which I have clearly defined. I encourage all of you, if you have not made up your mind as to why you are here on this planet, please do so NOW! Don’t wait, don’t delay, don’t waste another day, hour, minute or second. Don’t waste another thought on “woe is me.”

    Zig Ziglar, the famous author, saleman and motivational speaker talks about people having pity parties all the time. The problem with these types of parties is that often the person throwing the party is the only one that shows up and the people that do come don’t bring presents!

    I often wonder about the news junkies out there that have to know what’s going on, have to be tuned in to CNN (C.onstant N.egative N.ews for those of you who didn’t know what CNN really means 🙂 ) who spend their time and their thoughts on everything under the sun EXCEPT what they really want… They leave it all up to chance, leave it all up to somebody else…

    People are the creators of their own lives, their own fates and so few realize it until they are faced with a life threatening situation. My advice to anyone who is searching is to keep going, keep pushing, keep striving for what you want. And, if you don’t know what you want, then that’s the first thing you need to do is FIGURE IT OUT in as much detail as possible and keep your thoughts on it with full faith that it will come to fruition.

    When you meet with obstacles, and you will, don’t focus on the obstacle, focus on the goal. Your mind is your world, your thoughts are the GPS and your emotions are the compass. Point all of it in the right direction. If you don’t know the direction, it will take you all over and leave you clueless as to where you are.

    Lastly, whenever you are met with opposition and people and circumstance keep telling you “NO!” just “KNOW!” Thomas Edison said that he knew he was going to succeed because he had run out of ways to do things wrong! Imagine having that kind of mind, that kind of fortitude… Not the “Why doesn’t anything ever seem to work for me?!” attitude but the, “Wow, I must be close because none of that stuff was working so let me try this!” attitude.

    With millions of minds working like that, there is no room for war, no room for poverty, no room for illness, no room for despair. Those thoughts, on a massive scale lead only to prosperity, enjoyment and happiness. Try it, I DARE YA!

      Date: July 10th, 2009 Publisher: admin
      Time: 5:36 pm Category: Uncategorized Comments:     None