Master of All Life's Successes

Here's a Motivational Truth, wait, not yet.
First, let the next 14 seconds do what ever they want. Just take a deep breathe will ya, give my words a quick moment to catch up with your brain.
...relax tho...
Smile...
Today, is about all of the things You have done right lately.
No, I mean it.
I don't mean to give you any false hope.
I don't mean to sound corny, God forbid. (Although, you probably like it)
I don't mean to let you see it any other way.

Let's start with a random number. 2,000.
I picked 2,00 because that's the number of calories that are dieted for most package percentages. So now let's say that 2,000 is the number of successes one must complete daily. There is no list, no time schedule, no competition. This is good. I just want to recognize you for being successful so far today. We often focus on distant goals in life that can only be measures "if" we get there. Forget that for a second. Because in order to get there, we have to "get" from "here". And here is were we find great motivation. Every step, every bite, every small cased decision un-praised will get the shine today.

Bad weather, still made it. Mastered!
Emotional, but didn't have a nervous breakdown. Mastered!
Hungry, had to work through it. Mastered!
Rushed and didn't brush, still pressed on, wasn't late, found some gum, then some mouthwash.....MASTERED!

get me.

It's simple. Start with a small success and build upon it. Learn and practice a new small thing, daily. Like you done with the everyday task of living and you might just find that all the seemingly far reaching goals become as easy as waking up, rolling over into 25 push-ups, followed by a full drink of water and at least that's out the way, right? Oh, wait, I just do that. See. Mastered. Go keep being great!



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FMF: Knowledge is Power, Just not Yours...

Hey There World,

Glad to see you again in the written form. I love you for real. So I'm asking real questions, speaking real thoughts, thinking critically with the very small amount of information I've acquired over time. So... Alright then.

"Knowledge is Power" - I remember hearing that somewhere at an early age. At some point in time we all may have experienced the self image of OPO (Odd Person Out). For whatever reason, may it be, how smart you are or how tall you are, where you come from, what you wear, how you speak, your width, color, freckles, hair, smile, feet or family. You might've been well of or come from a wealthy or highly educated family, so, what? We're all people right? All have feeling? All want some love and security, right? Ok. glad we got all of the commonalities out. For me it was not knowing something.

I don't remember the first time I was told "You don't know". But I remember hating the feeling. I wanted to know everything. If you won't speak, I will. If you don't tell me, I'll find out anyway. There we're hundred of ways to piece together information about anything or anyone if one would just take a moment to put the pieces in their proper place.

It didn't matter if anyone knew that I knew what I knew... or how much.
But One thing that I understood. Knowing is much better than not knowing. It's within us, just ask to show a child how to do something "right"... "No, I can do it/ I know how to do it/ please let me do it"... Nothing wrong with ambition... I applaud you tenacious children. I love you.

But some of us in the world have not learned or let go of this bad habit. Receiving instruction. But, "knowledge is power"... yea. If it is actually knowledge of true form. I'm sorry that sounds so proper, it's not how I talk normally, I don't think anyway. Probably why this all sound like gibberjab. Ok, Lets zero in then.

We live in an information age right. So I've been told. But information is not knowledge. Stick with me. Knowledge is the sum of what can be known. For us, we narrow that down to a series of topics. But knowledge vs mere information does us no go. What POWER is there is constantly regurgitating information that has already past. It's all the feelings and opinions that separate the two. It's seems that we have fallen out of place when it comes to applying knowledge that moves things. Gives those causes legs, awareness, education, stability. It is the knowledge, the sum of what can or needs to be known, the know how, so you can do, can be, can stand, can resist or assist. KNOWLEDGE is Power.

But we like information. Too much information, you're getting lost in your feelings, reacting and not responding. Whining and complaining. I tell you what, Start meeting together for real. Behind some closed doors. Peacefully, lawfully, tactfully, preparing to present or make way. Be quiet. Be organized. Be ready. Too much information is still chaos. Don't confuse free speech with venting opinions, passing mere information, and getting your two cents in. Use knowledge. All these feelings keeping the masses in a frenzy of endless information, all trying to catch up and keep up with each other. It's a distraction. Because those with the knowledge, do. And while they're doing, all you find out is the information. Alot of people are walking around with computers in there pockets and purses and won't use them well. Knowledge is power, just not yours... so get it together.

The whole idea behind "knowledge is power"
is that ignorance "is not" bliss.
When you know better, you can make a better way.

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Dating with a Hint of Singleness or Dating without being able to Define The Realationship (Friday Follow-Up)

Happy Friday Follow-Up my Friend,

Monday I talked about dating for a few minutes. I've spent the last few days talking with as many people as possible about dating and views on relationships. Also I've done a bit of research online. It's 2016, weed out the extreme cases and you find patterns and threads. The information is pretty exhaustive so I'm going to do my best to shorten that. If you're ready for me to start this conversation then read on. If you are not ready to hear it, especially from Me, well read on anyway because I love you.

I'll write a book on this one day and it'll be so fun.

Now, on to Dating!... in short.

Let's define dating for everyone right now. This is not "your views" on dating, your parents/your friends/ your culture/ nothing. I'm going to use the dictionary, the universal shut-up to all of us right? I don't know why I wrote that. Here is Merriam-Websters definition that I'm using: 

date -"a person with whom one has a usually romantic date" or 

dating - "to go on usually romantic dates" as in plural to the single date.

or 

date - "an arrangement to meet between two people usually with romantic feeling for each other" or dating -  "to go together regularly on romantic social engagements"

There! After almost 10 years of not acknowledging dating as a real thing, I just did it. I just want to thank my mom(lol), all my family and friends(lol), my supporters, my haters(lol) , and anyone who ever (lol) doubted me (lol) or said I couldn't do it. This ones for you. (*applauds everywhere)

So for all of you out there who think You can tell Me what You Think "dating is for you" is, or anyone else for that matter, just know that I'm going to hit you with this definition before I run it and apply it. Cause I'm a beast at this OK. Get at me bro! hahahaha(you know who you are). 

There's always been a definition. So what the heck is going on in the world. Somebody's been telling us lies I think. Oh, no?Well let's find out then. Im gonna need your input then, OK? Don't wait too long.

So I am not against relationships. I love them and we need them. So to be clear, relationships CAN be defined, and are in fact defined. They are characterized by their state of being, i.e.: we are family, we are friends, we are engaged etc etc... These are the state of relationships... BUT DATING!

Aww man. That's a state of doing...  two people are not "the date", the date, is what two people DO.

And this becomes my problem. 

Do you think that your relationship (civil union, engagement, marriage) will be birthed out of and solidified based on simply doing things together. Notice I did not say living life together. You don't date your friends or family, yet you do things with them. 

Based on the definition of dating it is clear that the motive is not actually establishing a relationship. But participating (usually) in romantic engagements. 

There is nothing that actually suggest making any long term commitment, establishing exclusivity, seeking marriage, (my very best) getting to know someone, or building trust. There is so much I can say, but i hope you understand this. There is no binding, no ownership, no possession and no hidden motive in dating. Let's do something! That's all right? other than the romance part. The romance based on fiction stories from the middle-ages. Rephrase: Let's have some ideal love affair, adventure, or be my hero for a moment please, can we do that? And usual the results are: "yes" lets date and often more than not "no, we're not dating anymore." or "we're dating, but I don't know if we're friends or lovers, because we're definitely not engaged or married."  

And there is so much confusion in not actually having a relationship with someone you may be doing so much with. Thus some become friends who become sexual, or strangers. Maybe lovers who can't seem to become friends. Maybe strangers who can't seem to become either, but just like what they do together. But a relationship? I still can't call it.

You can't only be single when you're not dating, or engaged or involved. You are quite literally "Single" until your married or in a civil union. The LGBT community understand this, and this is why they fight for "Marriage Equality"... So what makes anyone think otherwise? And don't get me started on "us Christians". Maybe in a separate post.

There is no: more than a friend less than a spouse but something like a lover relationship. And i know your brain is probably screaming, "WELL WHAT THEN?"

...Biz Markie yall! aha.

of course that's for Monday's post. Stay Tune. Engage. 

oh yea, some links to help you start you dating research... let me know have fun.

http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/10/21/online-dating-relationships/

https://coffeemeetsbagel.com/blog/index.php/dating-statistics/big-data-seeks-online-love/

http://www.stageoflife.com/StageHighSchool/OtherResources/Statistics_on_High_School_Students_and_Teenagers.aspx

https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-college-graduates-have-never-had-a-romantic-relationship

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Life is full of Beautiful Struggles...

Thanks for listening... Love Yall

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Your past is the past, things can change... Fourword

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Living to be Known: Are You? Living to be Known - 4WORDS Monday #18

Never forget to look at ourselves and keep asking: How am I Living to be Known? #livingtobeknown #4WORDSMonday

Living to be Known: Assumptions - 4WORDSMonday #13

What good have assumptions done for you? ‪#‎4WORDS‬‪#‎4WORDSMonday‬ ‪#‎livingtobeknown‬ ‪#‎belief‬ ‪#‎knowledge‬ ‪#‎practice‬‪#‎relationship‬ ‪#‎communication‬ ‪#‎finance‬ ‪#‎droc‬ ‪#‎valetdelroy‬

Living to be Known: How Much Do You Know About What You Believe? 4WORDS ...

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Living to be Known: Ask the Question - 4WORDS Monday 10

10 Weeks into this new year. Have you been Living to be Known?...Whats going on with you, huh?

Living to be Known: Known by Belief - 4WORDS Monday #9

You may not think so, but you are known by belief...   

Living to be Known: Mentality of Me, Against the World or A Part of the ...

A common phrase right. But does that really mean anything?

Living to be Known: What Do You Believe? 4WORDS Monday #4

What do you believe about yourself? your life? money? success?justice? pleasure? What do you know? And what do you do? It's easy to speak in generalities, but how do you answer for yourself? can you?

Living to be Known: Belief, Knowledge, Practice (blog 1)

"Although it feels as though we see the world as it really is, the perceptual system depends on various short-cuts and assumptions when processing incoming sensory information. These perceptual processes can be exploited or "hacked" by designers, thereby changing how people see the environment. If you alter people's perceptions, psychologists have demonstrated that you inevitably influence how they behave." - (Psychology: adventures in perception and personality , Christian Jarrett & Joannah Ginsburg)

Hello World,

I just want to start of by saying I love y'all, happy new year, 4WORDS Motion, let's get to it yea.

I don't want to be too long with the blog so welcome to this moment. The quote above is great isn't it? Just right there in your face like: "Here(that being anything, right?! Media, Food, Culture, Belief, Knowledge, Practice...*cough), have some of all this in the world, specially designed, by the best, just for you!!...P...s...we hope our influence serves us*cough You. well."

What I'm not saying, is that everyone has some form of plan to benefit off of you by strategically placed designs of hacking your perceptual process just to influence the way you see the world and act in it, No, what I am saying though is:

If you, have not, taken any time(maybe a week, or year or few), to examine, Yourself. Yes, true, even our sometimes irrational selves need to be questioned against what only we know.

I've been trying to do this lately because these are really universal to the human right.

What do I believe about... My future? my options? my family? love? God? other people? money? pleasure? ... oh my goodness why?

Where does this belief come from? Only what you've come to know or experience thus far . (limited Knowledge)

So ask, What do I know about...???

Then, really try to look at what you do... Do I do that???

Ask the people you think may give you an honest answer... Just to observe the answers right.

Then think of others in the same way. Sometimes you begin to empathize and see yourself and the world as you've come to know it(how for skewed or at least which direction) you've been influenced the greatest.

Belief? Knowledge? Practice?

I think this is really important. Do You? 

Of course you don't have to. But I'll keep coming back to these this year as we learn together. At least we may come to find that after examining these, that what we CHOOSE in the end, comes much easier in the matter when we're Living to be Known.  or not. #4WORDS

Living to be Known: Belief, Knowledge, Practice - 4WORDS Monday (Video 1)

(Thinking About It Pt.3)... A Look into Perspective

Today is Dec 30th, 2015. My Moms Birthday!!! Happy birthday mom you look beautiful as ever. You know Black don't crak and you been looking the same since the day you gave birth to me. For that I thank You. And for a portion of my great looks. I couldn't have done it without you!

My favorite day of the month. I read Proverbs 30, which is my favorite Proverb. But it's also the last post date for "Perspective."

You may or may not have been following the music along with each blog entry post but that is OK. If you went on youtube and searched for "Valet Del Roy", you'll find me. What's even more exciting is all the new content I have coming for you in this coming year. New music, poetry, short stories, blogs and video... Ohhhh I think we're going to have some fun.

Thinking About It is the last and final track piece to "Perspective", a music project I composed over a few years of my young adult life from the years 2007 - 2012. We don't need to go into further detail now because I have so much to share. It's a loaded verse ain't it. Please Enjoy.

I hope you find some time to check out the full project on YouTube or Soundcloud. Look out for a special blog tomorrow before we kick off 2016 in full effect. I love yall. Thanks for reading and letting me get into you life. Peace and blessing.