(ThyBlackMan.com) Did you know that this popular phrase is generally thought of as a British army adage? It was used to accentuate project planning or when training for life or death situations. Educators and trainers in contemporary military or civilian situations found it useful to first introduce the phrase as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m getting pretty excited about our upcoming Coach Training Intensive this weekend in Atlanta. Something came up during our CTI preview call last Monday with my friends Marshawn Evans, LaFern Batie and Kimberly DuBrul, all-star coaches who have built very successful, profitable businesses as coaches. More than 200 of you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In his New York Times best-selling book The Charge, Brendon Burchard writes that people generally live one of three types of life: caged, comfortable and charged. Those who live a caged life are trapped in a tight box of beliefs about what is possible for them. The comfortable are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I grow older, I recall with increasing clarity and gratitude the indelible and enduring lessons that I learned from my parents while growing up in the Arkansas Delta. Although my parents had little schooling, they were literate beyond their formal level of education and blessed with an enormous ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a petition circulated online, change.org minced no words, “NAACP: Hire the First Woman President in the NAACP’s 104-year History.” Seventy percent of the respondents agreed that it was time that the NAACP elected its first permanent woman president in its history to lead the organization. The petition and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first heard that Rev. Marvin Winans (of the gospel-singing Winans klan) refused to receive and Bless a child before his congregation because the child was born out of wedlock, I thought it was just another one of those ridiculous urban legends, because no Black minister could be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A woman reached out to me on my Facebook page and asked an interesting question. She asked me if dark-skinned women are “frowned upon.” I wasn’t sure what to think about the question, but it certainly gave me a moment of pause. She said that she has a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Yvette Carnell recently wrote an article with the title, “Bloomberg: Blacks Wrongly Believe Obama Made Their Lives Better.“ The article references the fact that many African Americans, because of their deep love and loyalty for President Obama, are typically disconnected from quality-of-life indicators that would determine how effective he ...