THE FOCUSED INK BLOT

Focused Fans hopeful each and every one of you had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! To all those who have served or currently serve...THANK YOU! Although, my weekend (outside of my nephew's graduation celebration/which was the best) was not all smiles and sunshine I am still thankful for the opportunity to just try again at LIFE another day! Every day I get up and Thank GOD for another day. Today I want to also Thank HIM for the opportunity to be apart of the Atlanta African

UNLESS you were under a rock this past weekend...you should know that the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took place. She was beautiful and is officially Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex. My takeaway from the whole extravaganza is that anything is possible!!! Starting with the fact that Meghan (an American and of mixed race) took a picture in front of Buckingham Palace at the age of 15, lives life, gets married, gets divorced AND 22 years later she mar

Hey Good People! Someone posted this image on social media and I thought yes this could potentially help someone, heck even help me on my focused journey. A lot of times we sit back and don't go after what we want. We sit back in awe of something that we want or need but we don't ask for it. We don't take steps forward in life. Sometimes even, We sit in misery. Two of the root causes of not getting out there and just doing and speaking up for ourselves is fear and complacency

As we go through life, so many things happen to us...Good, Bad and Indifferent and as those moments happen people will sometime casually say, "Everything Happens for a Reason"..... And for the life of me I can't figure out why certain things happen to certain people. Have you ever felt this way? I mean really do you get confused in those times when you stand back and look around you and examine everything that is LIFE and you attempt to put reason into a thought or into words

The pressure to get things DONE......The concern of so many of us. A healthy amount of pressure helps to drive an individual. However, too much pressure can DRIVE an individual CRAZY. Pressure busts pipes right? On the flip side pressure also makes diamonds. & Diamonds are FOREVER. Whatever the case or "saying" may be.....Utilize the pressure you are under to motivate and push you toward your end goals. When the pressure becomes too much find ways to DESTRESS and release the