Not knowing your employees is Cancerous, Smile!!!

      With the number of stress issues we have today, employers must be aware of how all these stressors can lower or even halt productivity in a diverse multi-cultural staff of employees. Some of your employees may be world thinkers, in other words they may have their finger on the pulse of what happens not only in their town, city, state, or country but around the world and with having a diverse staff this may play a big part in the company’s overall moral. They may have families in other countries suffering abroad and coming into work and being beaten with the work force whip will only have them retaliate with no production or it will plant a seed of animosity towards a firm that is only concerned with the bottom line, the stock holder’s equity. I have seen many fortune 500 company downsize, close, develop internal silos, or have many internal issues, especially in hiring new staff.

       Employees that realize that a company doesn't care about worldly events that may affect them can easily fall out of loyalty and rebel by lessening productivity. They can also become a host of cancerous effects, meaning they start to spread this ill feeling of abandonment, of worthlessness, they start to think of themselves as a numerical value to stockholders who are often out of touch employees and the firm in which their attached to.

       Once this cancerous effect take place in a company it’s hard to stop it and eradicate it because the opportunity to address world issues as a weekly monitoring session has passed. Once employees become detached, and their loyalty to the company drops, their next mission is to break the work machine by recruiting other employees to adapt the same mentality of abandonment and worthlessness to say company. One this cycle happens it then jumps onto the media world, the internet in which employees can then have an open arena to the world on how corrupt, insensitive and immoral your company is and thus making it extremely difficult to recruit prime candidate for key roles within a company that has bad review on this internal culture.

        Employers must be sensitive to world events such as natural disasters, world wars, religious wars, and financial economic hardships in third world countries. Having an early morning meeting to express sympathy, empathy and looking for ways to donate or help employees affected by this will show that you are in tuned with world events and that your money making entity (your employees) are worth their time in skills and labor. It straightens your staff cohesiveness and loyalty and loyalty has monetary value. 

        Another effective way to eradicate a low moral staff is to imply some sort of healthy living sessions once a day, once a week or once a month or all three. For example, on Mondays after you weekly meeting at 3pm you should have everyone get up for five minutes and do some sort of exercise by their desk, play music from all genres loud in the office, even the CEO should be present for this at all cost, all managers, all above the line personal should simultaneously take a pause to mesh and build cohesiveness with their employees. Employees like to see above the line personnel in the trenches with them, this gives them a feeling that they’re not just a number but also their known by face and stature.

        Another great way to ease tension or eliminate some stressors is to have a weekly team-building event that is fun and quick. For example, the Olympics happen last year, our supervisors made a weekly team-building event. We have an Olympic theme with gold silver and bronze medals and we had contest on product knowledge, processes, and compliance and the team who got gold was allotted a jeans day. One of the most effective way I was able to boost morale in many companies was to have a comedy hour. I went into a company to build its moral, the employee body was diverse but you can see the morbid and depress spirits of certain employees who walked around like zombies. I saw that to encompass everyone, instead of singling out certain individuals I needed something that would bring everyone together and put smiles in their faces, I felt like changing this companies culture was going to need a different approach. There was nothing fun, exciting happening in this company, no softball team, no monthly potlucks, no midweek meetings of concerns, no direct contact between the hair ups and their subordinates. It was run like a concentration camp. NOOOOO GOOD!

      I implemented a 30 minute off the clock comedy half hour. I found thru YouTube and various other online media sources clean funny comedians from around the world from all different ethnic backgrounds. I had the company buy a movable TV in which we can have many options on where to have our weekly comedy session. "Humor is tonic to the soul” it eases the daily pains of merely surviving, and it brings people of all ethnic backgrounds together. I stood back and while the slew of funny ethnic comedians entertained the staff I saw smiles, I saw a great appreciation for the time out, I saw a great appreciation for the supervisors who signed off on this precious activity. I saw employees laughing, smiling, relating, and well I saw that moral was being lifted. This worked and the company started to focus on their employee’s mental status on a daily basis. All of a sudden, this company changed around to being very productive after they implemented many other employee interaction activities and addressed worldly issues that may directly or indirectly affect their bottom line.

        Adding a little humor into the workforce tactfully, with respect to others religion, gender and sexual orientation may be a super weapon to offset a low moral and low loyalty consensus. Employers must be world thinkers; they must truly care about their employees just as they care for their families. A good CEO must be transparent; they should implement a transparency within the "above the line" staff as well. I know that they are certain aspects of the company business that cannot be shared with their employees but the more you make your employees feel like their part of the overall growth of the company the more their loyalty and production grows. Remember bad reviews are online forever, bad internal culture and under par communicating styles between supervisor managers and Owners are crucial to the success of any company. Employees run the work machine that produces dividends and I say dividend because at the end of the day it’s all about numbers. Getting the best candidates for your company to produce dividends can only be done successfully with having a well work life balance employee internal company culture.

Times Ticking, make it happen or get out of the way!

Times Ticking

This piece is particularly for the men out there who have dreams and passions but are stuck in the rat race and the false ideology that time is endless and guaranteed. You cannot continue to have a dream work a full time job, be a parent, a lover and then place whatever little windingly energy into your dream. Don’t be that person at your 9 to 5  job that is  always talking about that book you’re going to write, that screen play you’re going to write or that hit record your going to record, that movie you’re going to make or act in, that business you’re going to open. You can let that measly, going nowhere job, rob you of those precious once in a life time hours.

Once those eight hours go their gone forever, we can never get them back. Am I saying to quit your job, not at all. This rant is for those with real legitimate talent, who has had success before, that believes in oneself, to continue chasing his dream but just can’t get to grasp it because of time, money or relationships, kids and work. If you believe in your self you must accompany it with chance, our everyday existence is by chance. You can die in your sleep, go for a walk and get hit by a stray bullet, well if you’re in Orlando night scene, that might happen, but the point is stop blaming everything else in your life for why you’re not who, or what you want to become.

You have to take a risk on your dream. How can you ask or expect people to be onboard if you’re scared to quit and walk out on your job to follow and commit to your dream, if you don’t believe in yourself one hundred percent , they won’t either. You cannot continue to be that cancer of an employee, coming into to work always saying how much you hate this job and how much this job is robbing you of doing what is going to make you happy but yet continue to punch that clock and get that convenient paycheck that gives you no more than 10 days of “peace of mine” just enough funds to eat, pay rent and or pay a mortgage.

You are living a lie, fear has crippled you, and your circle of friends, family even your own girlfriend/significant other is your biggest silent killer.  All that drama, all that negative resistance you receive or inherit when you want to do something to make your dream happen will come from people who is closet to you. You know what I mean there’s let’s say there is a lucrative local music event and lots of producers are going to be there and you know that this may be the golden opportunity for you and you really want to go, then your significant other/your closet friends start to place doubt, a “shadow of a doubt you’re your ears, they are like  a wet blanket that quickly douses your tenacity, your motivation and influenced you to be lame as they are and to stay normal and content in the no eventful life are in. They, in their under par lifestyle, quickly paints their reality, their perspective as to what you should do instead of pursuing your dreams, like a “B”  movie showing  you the life she wants you to live.

Yes, she/they will ask you where you are going.  Why are you going to that for? You’re wasting your time, your kids need you, you’re not getting paid, and the last negative statement is” For what are you going there for , you’re not even going to get paid” My advice is to drop them like they was a finish beer bottle and get with a companion that is DRIVEN and has BIG dreams and Has AMBITION!

This negativity BullShit is one of the most subliminal dream killers there is.   You must say to yourself, No, no, no she wants me to live a normal, uneventful, no dream having life. She/he  wants your ambitions to be rat race qualified and not more, in other words, get up go to work, come home, make love and do it all again the next day.

You get up, go to work, pay bills, take care of kid, go to sleep, got to work, come home and then give you some love a month from now, yupppp! That’s your worthless life you live, and please don’t be that guy that gave up on his dream cause of pussy, pussy don’t pay bills and doesn’t complete a man…..it sure as hell motivates but it cannot be the reason why you’re scared to make major moves or make major decisions on your dream conquest. I say you stop that negativity ASAP. Tell he/him  your either for me or against me and if your against me you really don’t believe in me and if you don’t believe in me that makes a weak link in our chain of a relationship and that’s not going to last the test of time.

I’m talking from personal experience, I have been at red carpet events alone, big exciting events alone, because my significant other was in normality mode, she was content in being a regular person, the dream was just make a pay check and exist. They had no passion, no big dream that they was pursuing. They had a good job, a nice BMW, she was pretty and that is where her life had stalled, and then there was me, writing a book, shooting a film, producing a children’s cook show, working a job, enrolled in my MBA and on top of that  I was a lover and a supporter.  Don’t get me wrong there’s nothing wrong with being secure and complacent in life. If  your that guy, that guy that has what it takes to make it, if your that guy that already has the resource within yourself, if your that guy that everyone says “ He’s going to make it” if your that guy that’s working a nine to five and your miserable there , if your that guy in a failing relationship, do not waste one more second on that old, boring , non-eventful life, take chances and apply yourself to  making your dreams come true.

Time wasted is time lost, the time it took you to read this blog you will never get back. Don’t idle time, be brave, be bold in all your endeavors.  Nothing is impossible, nothing at all. Do not let fear cripple you, it’s all mental, you cannot continue to be your biggest enemy, once you believe in yourself one hundred percent you will see a huge difference in your dreams and passions coming to reality, it will take sacrifices, risk and chance. We would work all our lives to make millions, we are saving for the future, and we want that house and that brand new car to say what? Oh while we lived on earth we drove a nice car and we lived in a nice house and we worked hard all our lives to live the last few years of our lives comfortable…….that’s bull shit!!!!!!  This lifestyle is a facade, because you’re not guaranteed to live another day, not another second. The richest people, the most valuable things are in the graveyards. Those are dead people with dreams not yet made, inventions not yet completed, wisdom, intellect, wealth that is now gone cause they kept waiting for the perfect time, the perfect weather, the perfect mate, the perfect conditions.

All of these elements come by chance, and if you’re not into taking chances you will be dead with millions in the bank, a Bentley, obese, a woman who you hated but couldn’t; leave cause that’s all you got, a woman that killed your dreams and had you chasing money, houses, cars, and then you die. The reality is that none of those worldly things have any value to you dead. It only has value to the owner of them. A new Bentley sitting on a car lot is absolutely worthless until it’s bought; now it’s worth 100k to the owner of it. So why, us, the owners of the most precious commodity “Time” do we throw it away, let them slip by, you might as well take all the money you have, buy diamonds with every penny you have, and every second throw one of those precious diamonds  into a volcano for ever more.

I’m not saying that having a house, working 8 hours a day and having a family is not the right thing to do. What I’m saying is if you’re “THAT GUY” this piece applies to you. Now if you are not “THAT GUY” then why the hell are you still reading this piece? If you are that passionate dreamer, make your life complete, close the circle, even if you try …let say you quit your job, place a hold on your lady, kiss your kids good bye and tell them that daddy is going to embark on a short term motivated push for his career or dream… it still will make your life more adjusted, more complete. It will let you know if you really have a dream that has merit or if it’s a pipe dream. You will also know if you have what it takes or not and if this is a realistic dream or passion  for you to continue to chase.

Believe me you would be at peace with yourself. Once you make it send me a check for 1 million dollars for motivating you before I forget to mention it, words are powerful and this piece may help you motivate you.

By giving your dream a hundred percent it will also allow you to find out that “hey this is not for me” or is It.?  or  “I can stop living a lie” and  just die a peaceful  regular guy. Or you can guy who thinks only about making money,,,, that left millions or left hundreds in the bank and works  30 years to retire and to be in terrible health and just die, die, die,  you slow ass, no having ambition ass, die , die, with a home that someone else is going to take over,  yes the home you worked 30 years to buy that will never belong to you cause in actuality your just paying mortgage on the right to live there and pass it on when your gone…  and well you get the idea. Don’t talk about it anymore, be about it. Stop telling people your plans as well this brings envious spirits and it brings in negativity; only tell people of your accomplishments, desires and goals after you have met them. This will have a huge impact because it nothing those negative envious people can do. I’m so good at this I let people think I’m dumb, I’m a clown, that I’m stupid, I let them think they have an upper hand on me , like I’m in the same pathetic boat that they are in,  but I’, laughing all the way to the bank, then I hit them with oh hey” I just wrote a book’ or hey I just shot a movie, or hey I just graduated with my MBA…..then they look at you with more hate more envious spirits and then guess what they say nothing….in fact these cancerous friends don’t want to be around you  because they cannot equal up to your status so they find a weaker a less ambitious person to swim in the slop with.

In conclusion do we make this trot today and embark on a more exciting journey or do we wait for tomorrow that chance may happen again. We are not guaranteed any thing in life but grief meaning death is inevitable. So be ambitious think BIG, do today what can be done today don’t wait for tomorrow. Don't live like you got time because you can be a victim at any given second.  So make that song, make that movie, write that script, be that clothing designer, open that business, fix that car, pay that bill, take the shot, write that book, dance to that song, make that baby, and live life like it's the last day.  Don’t be that fool that died with an heart ache, that every time he sees TV he says  “I used to do that”, or “I could have been that”, don’t be a “had a man”, don’t be that idiot that died one day before your book dropped, or one day before you made that major move or signed that deal or quit your job……don’t be that fool that dies with millions, or dies broke and didn’t leave the most long lasting, most precious element in life and that’s a legacy. Legacy can last the test of time, make history, get documented in history and change a life through your humanities, make a difference. It’s all mental, be strong, be brave take more calculated risk on dreams on your goals on your self, time is ticking.

THE DREAM BATTLE

The Dream Battle

Is there something you ever wanted really bad in life, a dream you want to pursue, a goal or mission dear to your heart but actually scared to pursue it or scared of fame or even make it? It's a certain type of fear, It's crippling it's a battle of discipline and tenacity and one of them will win and will produce tangible results.

But it's just a fear of entering a battle your going to loose  and it's all in your mind. It's like you are your worst enemy. You know you can make it, you know you have the skills but the dream battle starts to dethrone your ambition.

It's like you know  you got it inside of you, you have this feeling that your going to make it no matter what. Then you start daydreaming and summons the fear the mere thought of it actually happening, being in the moment when your there, your dreams are coming true, the moment of truth, where you have to show your skills produce and manifest dreams into a tangible asset scares you and doubt overtakes you and you say "who am I kidding I'll never be that" yes the old easy way out type of thinking.

This! this moment of possible failure, this moment of doubt that scared you to death is your battle the battle that you run from. Failure, is the battle, doubt is it's cousin and they are dream snatchers.

This is the moment when you have to produce,make it happen,shoot that film,make that track, write that book, pitch that idea, make that car, take that photo , buy that property, fly that plane, make that liquor,  ride that horse, take that promotion, make that tv show, and ride that goddam bike to China, (breath) but instead you freeze up in doubt and in fear of failure.


This is the " battle you must engage in and win to achieve your dreams. But of course, when you're  alone watching TV or out and about you tend to see your peers surpassing you, they are making major moves towards their dreams,their making sacrifices and you, you stay moldy, stale and stagnant like a old hotdog bun in the cupboard for ten years.

Suddenly you get a gut check feeling like "my dreams are slipping away" and you start to say to yourself " I better start producing" you get motivated for a quick, fast,  hard New York second and you see the "battle" of believing in yourself, making the sacrifices, and pushing forward with great and thunderous tenacity, with all ideas from every angle and make something happen!!! But sadly you deflate and come back down to your 99cent,sad,pathetic,boring,uneventful, no nada reality.

The problem is really simple, the  reality you set for your self is not aligned with your dreams reality. Your thinking is very low, very complacent it's not daring and fearful, you must start to think BIG!!! Your reality is not in the "wow" factor it's just a convenient reality, boring, ordinary, low hanging fruit reality. It's a 99 cent reality just like everyone else who has no ambition and wants to barley exist to collect a check and make no significant contribution to the mankind.

The reality for your dreams should be and are usually high, they take guts,grit, and strong blazing intestinal fortitude to achieve them.

Caution ! if there's  no passion for you dreams then puhhhhllleaaase spit it out and stomp on it like a chewed up stale piece of gum stuck on a stingy sidewalk of strip bar.  Passion is one of the major keys along with talent of course in making your dreams a reality. If it is your passion and you believe you can do it then go for it 150 percent.  If you don't have any passion for your beliefs, goals or dreams and I mean the type of passion that leads you into battle,  that leads you into overcoming yourself and your own self destructive doubtful demons then you will not make it and should reconsider staying in your 99cent dream of reality and merely exist.

Once you fight the "battle" and make your dreams, goals, mission first priority then you'll eventually win the war. Once you have entered battle and win then you finally met it head on and made your dream a tangible reality. On the other hand if you enter the battle and come out defeated it's ok if you don't quit you'll eventually make it. Being the worst sometimes gets just as much publicity as being the best in some cases. Now staying positive, if you win then  you was thinking BIG and your dreams are more then reality, it's destiny.

Never give up on your dreams!!! you must love the chase, it's worth chasing it gives you a purpose to leave a legacy to make a mark to be an advocate of dreamers. I'm going to leave this consolidation. " If it's written in the book of life then it will happen". 

Are you a FRIEND of me or a FRENEMY?

Ok!!!!! I took some time off to write a few screenplays and I actually was in Los Angeles pitching them for quite a long time. I am back on my weekly blog so here it is. This rant is really stemming from my recent endeavors of pursuing my screenwriting and directing dreams. Ever had or have a friend that act like they are your best friend but in reality they envy you and envy your progress, your dreams, and your good fortune? They acted like their supportive but they also want to ride on your coat tails as well. They the kind of person that will sabotage your goals or bring down your drive to make themselves  feel equal to you or make them feel at ease with their own short comings. Well you’re not alone, when I told people that I was moving to Los Angeles they acted like they was excited for me but they also wished me bad luck. I would see their actions and see their true stripes when they ask me how things are going, hoping to hear bad news, they will ask “hey still have your Mercedes Benz “ hoping it got repossessed  or something. When I tell them of all the splendid things happening in my professional career they seem to find a fault in it or they seem to be little them.  I call theses poisonous people “frenemy” they are friends that are actually enemies. I had a few of these people I had to block from my face book because they was following me and hating, talking hatred and envious verbiage and well just being fake. Not only did I erase them from my FB and other social media accounts but I also stop telling them of anything positive or great happening to me. I make them think I’m broke and hopelessly depress and not going anywhere with my professional goals. It makes then feels so good about themselves and well l it keeps them closer to you. Yes you’re going to have to make them your closet friends “keep your enemies closest” to make sure you got the upper hand in the Jedi mind manipulation. It’s sad that we have these people in our lives and its sad that they cannot be real and have a life and ambition as big as yours.  Please get rid of these friends and eradicate them from your life once you do this you’ll free up the malicious and unfortunately envious sprits that hold your success down. Never second guess yourself always follow your dreams. Remember make a inventory of who’s a real friend of yours or who’s a frenemy!

The Children hold the answers

           We are subjected to constant bombardment of the mass media and their advertisements, ideology and propaganda. We must put the lens back on the media and scrutinize every piece of data they shove down your mental piehole, its brainwashing our minds. We no longer teach our children values and life sustaining skills and ideology. There’s a  diminishing humanities in the curriculum of our lives.George 17 years old throws away 15 pizzas in the dumpster behind pizza hut. We eat as gluttons and throw away foods, in where there are people starving in the world, in your back yard, your mother that you admitted to a olds folks home like a used pair of shriveled up jeans. 


            The mere thought of food now sustains the weak and starved children, till help arrives. Eating thoughts to sustain wow!  and when it arrives its overtaken by thugs and militias fighting over the foods that fell from the skies from the huge mechanical birds, fighting for the control of the rice and flour along with drinking water to find out that they themselves must wait yet another month as they all fight and eat of the help, wrong shipment indeed soap, pure clean ivory soap but they eat it because they are subject to the human condition of intense, starvation.  A wrong drop location and wrong product makes a killing frenzy common as turning on bathroom lights. 

                         All subject to the human condition, but caring and empathy has withered with the clues that built pyramids. We have failed as parents, we heavenly depend on televisions to be our virtual babysitters with a supplement of video games and unlimited access to the net. The children are the future; they will hold the keys to saving our planet. They will understand Going Green as law. They will understand that life is more than a digital world. They will incorporate the high culture humanities such as ballets, theater opera, and symphonies as pre requisites to being civilian.We now leave that up to Television and DVD players


                   We are failing as parents, the answer to saving our planet and conforming humanity into one human race, equal, with equal right to a good quality of life. This now lays in the hands of our children.....only they can make a change...Like we were supposed to but rather seek war, rather seek fame, rather seek tangible enlightenment instead of thru happiness call life....not us, we are bound by greed.

Shaving The restistance

Shaving the resistance is the new lingo for the 02’. Resistance is the phenomenon a force, that’s invisible, a negative power that stifles progress on any project. It’s harder than diamonds, but you cannot see it, touch it or smell it, but it’s the hardest entity to conquer when you’re trying to make it happen, start a project and or complete a huge task. How do we conquer it? My suggestion is, do like me, once a year I change the people places and things that is my life. I usually erase all numbers from my cell phone. That will eliminate dead weight and losers. People who truly are for you will call those you save to contact. This usually diminishes resistance and negative influences and allows me to surround myself with liked minds. People will want to know what you are doing, then they will copy you, and then they will think that they are better than you, then they will develop this overnight “I’m king attitude” and every idea you have is negated by them. Then they will eventually fall and they will grab unto your coattails while falling. Do not help them, walk away exclude them from your life they are false and they are dream snatchers. They will send resistance your way when the envy they have towards you is too strong to bear. Change your people places and things and see how you will develop and complete any task you put your mind too.

What's your craziness?

What’s your craziness?

There are a lot of crazy people living among the sane. People who truly need psychiatric help and counseling are mainly my tiff. People, who need to take med’s, and needs be hospitalized or in a mental institution. Some of these clinically mentally ill people are not in our mental health system. They rome around the sane because they fell through the cracks. Now I have been called “crazy” when doing a dare and actually completing the bet. Some of us have been called “crazy” because we think outside the box. Some of us have been called crazy when our stories are of life are full of outlandish outcomes and actions because we live, take chances and well you can’t bring sanity to the grave. Sanity doesn’t guarantee financial stability. There is levels of craziness, the clinically mentally ill, or the ambitious beyond belief, the bold, the fearless, the doer, the outspoken, and the one who stands for change. Call me crazy, you small minded , weak feeble, no ambition having, no creativity having, no , nada, silch, zero balls having, no strong character having no crazy having person like YOU.  If you are calling someone crazy, look deep into your life, take a clear concise analysis of your life, a detailed inventory or the claims you’ve made, of the lives you help change through encouragement, thru advice, thru taking a chance in someone or something. Have you crossed the line for the common good of things, have you’ve been crazy in love, have you purchased a dress, bought a car when you really couldn’t afford it. Before pointing your finger, find out what level of craziness you are and how much of it will bring change and provoke action. Any comment appreciated. OMG, a crazy man is blogging, please someone call the police to baker act me!!!! OMG I’m Crazy!!!!