Gifts Update

Well, I am making strides since the loss (or non-win) of an award in my quest to be great.  I am letting the loss feed my need and will to compete.  I made great strides since we last spoke. 
I have had discussions with upper management regarding the future.  They are interested in what I want.  I am pushing for a program that will give my future the thrust it needs.  This week I had discussions with my manager that will give me consideration for the program.  This week I will spend the day with my manager's manager and one of the things on the agenda is my future and my admittance to the program.  I'm not sure when all of this will go down but I am preparing and praying for the best.

That's all I got!!!
I'm Out!!
44Black

Changing People

I have many, many friends all over the country but I have found that as you go through life you only acquire a small handfull of true close friends.  Why is that? 
As I look at my life and friends and acquiantance I see that they change over time.  Some for the better some for the worse.  I have changed also, I hope for the good.  But is it that people truly change or is it that people just at some point show their true colors? 
I only say this as it seems more often than not the change is a dissappointing one and a sudden one.  I would think that if the change was over time it would be because someone is changing but if the change is sudden I would think it is because they got tired of frontin' like they were someone else.
I have dismissed friends (and may have been dismissed also) who suddenly seem like they are different people or just don't care about the world.  The dismissal has no impact on them.  They seem to care less about people than they do their title and what material items they possess. 
Don't get me wrong, I have my own aspirations in life.  You have read of my struggles with greatness and how to achieve it.  The difference is that those achievements don't make me a man or a better man.  There are plenty of examples of men who have achieved great things but are not great people.  Examples would be Tiger Woods and John Edwards.  I will get to Edwards in a future post.....he is a real special piece of shit that needs his own post from me.
I guess my point is to, as Russell Simmons titled his book, "Just Do You!"  Why can't people just, be themselves from the beginning?  If we could all do that the world would be a much easier place.  Maybe it is that people just don't know who they are which is another conversation too.

That's All I Got!
I'm Out!
44Black