Focal Point: Occasionally more than I’d like to admit, I always tend to feel a sense of happiness as well as despair when reflecting on my recent vacation memories because those magnificent recollections are so hastily finite. I think it speaks to my desire to add more than one getaway every year or in some cases every two years to unexpectedly undergo an out of body reminder on where I stand in this point of my life with stamped goals in my rearview circumventing outdated ways and incompatible experiences as I try to stand on a plateau of balanced sovereignty.

Directly speaking, the location routes were phenomenal (Miami, Honduras, Costa Maya, Cozumel & Coco Cay, Mexico) in a confluent montage of putting a pause on the group’s general diet to try exotically strange foods, nearly depleted credit card lines, sharing struggle tales on our lives and jobs, conducting tipsy and loud group sing alongs, late night UNO card games, capitalizing on every situation to use my Mexican pesos to the last banknote and picking up unexpected membership upgrades while vibing on The Royal Caribbean.

The Entrepreneurial Push: To bridge the gap between hobby and lucrative small business requires a blend of motivation and assistance. I thank Allah that I was able to scrounge up enough dollars to finance my own seat to partake in the Co-Starters program through The Build Institute. Once the program has been completed, each participant will be granted access to not only a database of previous graduating alumni, I’ll also qualify for reasonably frugal capital access for yearlong sustainability.

Quote of the Year: “You never know the value of a moment until it’s a memory” ~ Dr. Seuss

Local Events: Follow up adult field  trip currently loading – Although unsuccessful last Friday, perhaps another early day visit to the Motivational Museum on Joseph Campau to meet the director/curator might produce a better outcome. The size of the venue tells me that business can be manifested to host showcase features as well as art gallery extravaganzas.

Outside Of The Box Thought: My scheduled first week being comfortably into permanent financial freedom would go like this…..….

*Monday: Plan my individual pilgrimage the next anointed time

*Tuesday: Hire a personal trainer to push me to hit new fitness goals

*Wednesday: Setup extended family tree lineage to corroborate results from both ancestry.com and africanancestry.com

*Thursday: Sign up to be a Big Brother/Mentor to be of service to certain receptive youngsters

*Friday: Donate food/clothing/recommended shelter intel to the local homeless

If I can believe it then I can achieve it. So until I actually live that desired lifestyle, I’ll continue to wisely maximize each week and juggle the current two job hustle to square away immediate and long term obligations as they arise.

Man Law #136: Expecting a man to be a gullible yet willing stepfather nowadays is like expecting that same woman to wipe out the exorbitant credit card debt that the man’s ex-girlfriend generated when they were in a relationship.

Let that seep through a few levels of your mind for a few seconds.

Before I Slide Out: 2023-2024 was certainly sweet and acidic. Tough challenges and odd encounters made me contemplate thoroughly about the timing aspect of accomplishing a task. Some other aspirations just didn’t fall my way, but so what? That comes with the turbulent path of life.

My Uncle Vaughn unexpectedly transitioned last year which was a gut punch to absorb for the worst.

A lot of actors/celebrities has left us (Dikembe Mutombo, Kris Kristofferson, Tito Jackson, Chino XL, John Amos, Rich Homie Quan, James Earl Jones, the musical institution known as Frankie Beverly of Maze and last but certainly not least Carl “Action Jackson”  Weathers), but we pay our respect and keep it pushing for the better.

I’m getting closer to age fifty with more sincere observations to express. Thank you for your reading support thus far and get ready for website upgrades in early 2025.

Aquil H. Rowe