Disasters are so devastating. They reveal how little we can do during weather or earth changes. During times like theses we feel so helpless as we wait for it to pass and hope we prepared to the best of our ability. We try to deal with the devastation that comes after as we rush to assist those that have suffered more than us. They reveal how small humans are in the grand scheme of things.

We as humans always try to deem someone the greatest in anything. It stems from our constant need to compete with each other for supremacy. Michael Jordan is considered the greatest in basketball history. Known as a fierce competitor who wanted nothing more than to win. We as a society have deemed him the best there was and ever will be.

Well for starters what does your price going up mean? It means when you start to make more money, have more success with your business’s, you have more influence as leader, or when you start gaining more of a following with your YouTube or social media accounts.

It just means more success in all that you set out to do in life.

I’m not here to write about the song Kendrick just released with his album. But it did spark me to write about our DNA. Our DNA is a lot of things to us, it’s how our gender is decided, whether we have brown or black hair, and blue or brown eyes. There is also this symbolic DNA that’s represented in the song about who we are as people.

Remember being a kid and getting that new toy. The feeling was amazing to have something new in your hands. It instantly became your new favorite toy. You would play with it exclusively but then a couple weeks down the line you would be done with the toy. What happened? Are you spoiled? Is something wrong with the toy?

For most of the questions the answer is no, but let’s explore all of them.

Everyone has a story. Everyone has been through something. Our shoes have been somewhere. The question is, do you recognize where your shoes have been? A lot of times we don’t realize that what we have been through can be used as a part of our story.

I was once in that position. I didn’t know my life had any true meaning or a real story. It wasn’t until I was at a retreat and they separated us into smaller groups. In those groups, they asked during a serious moment if anyone wanted to share about a time when they had been abused. I didn’t think I had been abused when I thought of my story in comparison to my friend. I almost didn’t speak up until I heard the other stories being shared. When I started to share what happened to me, the dots began to connect in my mind to what they were saying. I realized that the situation I was in was abusive.

I haven’t met anyone that loves the dark side of themselves. The dark side being the side with all your flaws and mistakes. Not the flaws that everyone mentions when they say I have flaws, I mean the deep flaws. The ones that have cost you relationships, friendships and even family members. That dark side can be hard to face, most of the time we don’t even know its there.

id you ever want the respect that comes with being viewed as a Phenom? Ever wonder what it would take to become one? The 10,000 rule coined by Malcolm Gladwell, states that in order to be considered a Phenom in any subject you must have had completed 10,000 hours in it. What this rule states basically eliminates natural talent as a cause to be a Phenom,