In this episode of Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary, I talk about the importance of workflow and project management.

Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary is all about sharing my social mission and passion for building brands, empowering communities, and uplifting humanity.

My experience in business, education, media, and music has made me who I am today. As a result, through sharing my experiences, insights, and learnings, I hope to encourage and inspire others to do the same as we all aspire toward becoming the most optimal version of ourselves.

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| Talking Points |

1:07 - Create a destination for everything...

2:07 - Prioritize the deadlines and requests that are the most time-sensitive...

2:44 - Schedule calendar invites for every meeting...

4:08 - Have an agenda for every meeting...

5:50 - Create folders to store anything that may need to be referenced in the future...

7:55 - Delete emails that are not relevant to our job responsibilities...

8:49 - Prioritize our own mental health...

10:44 - Functioning at an optimal level...

11:10 - The power of collaboration, community, efficiency, and effectiveness...

In this episode of Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary, I talk about the importance of stepping into our own space and owning our strengths…

In this episode of Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary, I share my thoughts about a short exchange I had with a student of mine and talk about the power of doing something...

Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary is all about sharing my mission to promote positivity in an effort to uplift the condition of humanity.

In this episode of Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary, I talk about the importance of sustainability and determining what we may or may not be able to sustain...

Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary is all about sharing my mission to promote positivity in an effort to uplift the condition of humanity.

| Talking Points |

1:01 - Sustainability is essential for starting a new project…

3:02 - The more excuses, the more friction, the more worries, the less progress…

3:30 - We all have gifts, ideas, and talents but what can we actually sustain?

5:41 - Friction hinders sustainability…

10:14 - Be a practitioner and do the work…feel it out!

14:29 - Sometimes “just good enough” is the perfect starting point.

17:40 - How can we expect anyone to see our “potential” if they do not know anything about us?

19:28 - Our existence may be limited, but our message lasts forever…

20:39 - If we do not share our message, there is no way for it to spread…

21:26 - What messages are we blessed to have been given?

In this episode of Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary, I talk about being inspired by closed doors, leaving it all on the line, and defining our own readiness.

Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary is all about sharing my mission to promote positivity in an effort to uplift the condition of humanity.

| Talking Points |

7:37 - Inspiration lies in the moment…capture it!!!

10:42 - Our passion is an ice-breaker. Our excitement is an ice-breaker.

18:53 - Put out good work…

25:10 - Focus our energy on getting ready…

30:30 - Prepare, practice, and define our own readiness.

31:36 - Be on the hunt, put our name in the hat.

Inspired by my good friend, Isaiah Rogers, in this episode of Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary, I talk about appreciating the art and practice of patience. When I initially recorded this episode on June 7, 2020, I spoke about viewing patience not as “wait time” but as an opportunity to improve ourselves in some capacity. In addition, I also spoke about patience as an opportunity to be productive while other events take their course that are outside of our control.

Earlier today (Wednesday, February 17, 2021), after coming across a post by Joel Daniels (@iamjoelleon) on Instagram that stated, "good things take time...and great things take a lot longer than good things do," the following thought came to mind:

Although being patient may cause for a “delay” in timing on our watch. Ultimately, under Universal watch, divine timing varies. Nonetheless, we do have influence over how we decide to allocate and spend our time in the present. Although we may have to practice patience, we can still continue to plan and prepare for what it is that we deem requires our patience until we reach the level of achievement we aspire to attain.

Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary is all about sharing my mission to promote positivity in an effort to uplift the condition of humanity.

| Talking Points |

1:09 - When we can view patience not as “wait time” but as an opportunity to improve ourselves in some capacity, we then learn how to appreciate the art of patience.

1:43 - Just because we are waiting for something does not mean that we have to stop doing something else.

5:31 - When we are busy, we occupy time. When we are productive, we optimize time.

7:06 - Patience provides us with an opportunity to be productive while other events take their course that are outside of our control.

In this episode of Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary, I touch on my belief that that when we prioritize proficiency by creating the conditions and environment to foster connection and engagement, the overall achievement disparity will gradually decrease and student performance will gradually increase. One assignment at a time. One day at a time!

Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary is all about sharing my mission to promote positivity in an effort to uplift the condition of humanity.

| Talking Points |

4:40 - Prioritize proficiency over pacing…

5:31 - Access to academic support…

6:37 - Academic performance rubric…

10:14 - Capturing student growth…

12:53 - Closing gaps…

14:31 - Challenge and question the status quo…

16:07 - One assignment at a time. One day at a time!

In this episode of Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary, I talk about the importance of putting in the work that leads up to the moment.

| Talking Points |

4:22 - Put in the work that leads up to the moment...

6:44 - #HELP1SELFNYE

8:23 - Be nothing less than grateful for the opportunities that we have been afforded...

9:25 - How do opportunities unfold?

18:02 - As long as we are doing the work, it is only a matter of time before opportunities will present themself 

19:04 - Create a ripple of impact (ROI) as coined by Amanda Slavin...

20:38 - Out of sight, out of mind...

23:03 - What are we doing right now to practice? What do we define as our game time?

23:58 - Building a meaningful, significant, and impactful community is not an overnight success...

25:48 - What are we here for?

28:00 - What is at the core of our human experience?

30:33 - Shift the paradigm...

31:19 - Put in the work that leads up to the moments we are looking to experience...

On October 12, 2015, when I drove for Uber, I walked into the Rite Aid on South Orange Avenue in South Orange, NJ. To this day, I still remember being greeted with a hello and good morning from three employees at the front register.

Whether or not a customer has intentions on purchasing a product or service, a simple hello may aid in a potential transaction, a rewarding long-term relationship, or even helping to make someone’s day a little bit brighter.

| Talking Points |

1:17 - Stopping at Rite Aid...

2:21 - A simple hello makes a HUGE DIFFERENCE...

3:21 - Feeling a sense of hospitality...

4:05 - The power of saying hello...

4:48 - Focusing on the small gestures...

5:50 - Treat everyone as a guest...

In this episode of Love + Ambition: A Digital Diary, I talk about the importance of creating a frame of reference as it pertains to building meaningful relationships.

| Talking Points |

0:45 - Meaningful relationships are built through context and creating a frame of reference...

3:00 - Turn a "cold introduction" into a "warm introduction..."

3:54 - The Seventh Level by Amanda Slavin...

4:28 - Make and take the time to genuinely learn about the people we are interested in getting to know...

5:49 - The magic happens at the core level of engagement...