{"id":414,"date":"2024-09-16T17:32:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T17:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2024-09-16T17:32:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T17:32:57","slug":"be-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Be More&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-brown-color\">I recently came across this which I wrote in 2001, it caused me to take a self-assessment on where I am today and which things are still relevant today. <\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Inspired, but that means finding what inspires me Appreciative of the help I receive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Intelligent about everything<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Patient with my children, yelling at them doesn&#8217;t teach them Driven towards success, I have to want to be the best Loving in my relationships<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Fun in every area of my life Dedicated to my goals<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Practical in my approach to everything, understanding before reacting Aware of how my choices affect everything around me Spiritual and gain understanding of the higher powers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Adventurous, remembering what it was like to feel invincible Black and instill that heritage in my kids<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Respected by everyone, especially my kids Wealthy and understand that that is not only monetary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Aggressive and attack every facet of life Confident and Cocky and know when each is appropriate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Motivated to be the best at whatever I do<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Of a husband, father, and authority in my house Comfortable with being me, there no need for change Honest with myself<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Athletic, which is more important that thinking about diets Articulate in every message and conversation Connected with friends and extended family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Deliberate and intentional about living<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently came across this which I wrote in 2001, it caused me to take a self-assessment on where I am today and which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intention"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}