as the president of a busy rescue shelter in Florida Megan soar Baro was
hardened to see extreme signs of all kinds of abuse on the unfortunate
animals admitted into her facility which is why the 49 year old was so confused
when animal control officers presented her with a perfectly healthy cat in mid
2017 however on closer inspection the animal lover saw that the felines paws
had been colored purple it came as a physical shock sore Barras heart broke
and she was sick into her stomach
so her borough founded the nonprofit charity Naples cat alliance in her
hometown in 2013 since then the organization based on the
Gulf of Mexico has operated a no-kill Animal Shelter which rescues injured or
neglected cats and rehome strays in addition it operates a tramp new to
return program to control stray cat numbers to this end Naples cat Alliance
volunteers capture feral felines run full health checks on them and dispense
any necessary vaccinations a professional veterinarian then
sterilizes the captured cats before re-released so that they're unable to
continue further the homeless feline population of Southwest Florida
however these animals are not just forgotten about and left at fend for
themselves afterwards indeed as the organization explains on its Facebook
page kittens and tame cats are adopted healthy adult cats too wild to be
adopted our return to their familiar habitat under the lifelong care of
volunteers as a result of her dedication and devotion to Florida Street cats soar
Beres name has been spread far and wide perhaps this was the reason she was
approached on May 14 2017 by animal welfare officers based a hundred miles
away so Barra later shared the story via social media with a particularly
heart-rending Facebook post concerning the homeless cat in question and the
appalling tale had obviously hit the veteran animal rescuer very hard it all
began when Clewiston Animal Control picked up a stray male cat on the
streets despite being based a two hour drive away on the shores of Lake
Okeechobee the Clewiston operatives brought the homeless feline to the
Naples kennel and Indus or bara scare but the
strangest thing was that the Amagi looked well and healthy nevertheless
once or bara took a closer look at the new animal it revealed something even
stranger his paws were purple some wood had spread the colour all over his four
feet and dobbed a stripe down his head however it not only did Sorbonne know
what the markings meant but they also made the color drained from her face sir
bara went on to explain what the color signified in her Facebook update being
an animal rescue you hear and read about a lot of terrible things being done to
poor innocent animals she wrote and then one day the victim of one of these
terrible things shows up at your door and in May of 2017
it appeared that day it arrived I considered myself pretty hardened to a
lot of stuff so bara continued I've dealt with a lot of injured emaciated
neglected and abused animals but this one really got to me by all accounts he
looks good good weight nice coat but the purple paws tell the story
the purple markings were a telltale sign that the captured kant had experienced a
lucky escape from a dog fighting ring illegal in every US state this barbaric
bloodsport forces two or more dogs to fight one another usually this cruel
crime is carried out for the entertainment of unscrupulous spectators
who gamble on the outcome sadly dog fights only end when one of the canine
competitors either flees becomes physically incapable of carrying on or
dies alternatively the dog's owner may submit the fight however if a fighting
dog loses its heartless human may decide to kill the animal often through totally
inhumane methods furthermore it's not just the fights themselves that are
utterly Savage the training is also unbelievably callous to be more specific
the horrific practice usually involves the use of bait animals dog fight
trainers throw smaller canines rabbits cats or even kittens to the competitive
canines to test their bloodlust needless to say it was not uncommon for bait
animals to get grievously wounded or even killed during a dog's training
what's more these hapless bait victims are sometimes former shelter animals or
stole that's in fact some unwitting owners
even give up their unwanted animals to dog fighters voluntarily thinking that
their pets are going to a good home sore Baro reported on Facebook that
colored areas of a feline signify them as bait animals nauseatingly they're
identifying marks which enable a secondary betting market dog fighters
use markers to color the white parts of the cat and kittens the president
explained so they can bat on which color will die first beneath a picture of the
painted puss in question sore Barra continued they're color coded and then
thrown to packs of dogs while these sick barbarians place their bets the second
woman concluded this is cruelty at its worst
so Barra firmly believed that was why the cat she had named mister purple paws
was sporting colored feet moreover the animal advocate thought
there was a distinct possibility that he had been a pet before being snatched by
a dogfighting crew and she said as much in an interview with animal interest
website the dodo on May 17th he could have been a cat who was owned but they
were just letting him roam free sore Barra said I can't imagine he was
handled too nicely by these people when they were marking him but I don't really
know what he was subjected to prior nor does anyone know how mr. purple paws
managed to escape his terrible fate however his eventual Savior had a couple
of ideas someone must have left a door open sore Barra suggested or maybe he
got away during transport while they're going wherever they go to have these
fights in the middle of the night regardless of how he made his great
escape mr. purple paws must have used one of his nine lives to get away
unscathed and unbelievably his ordeal did not seem to affect his attitude
towards human beings in fact the Maggie's happy nature won over everyone
at the Naples cat alliance shelter so barra told the dodo he's just so sweet
rolling over on his back and giving headbutts just adorable thankfully it
seemed that mr. purple paws was now in his element he doesn't have a care in
the world sir barra continued he's mr. happy he
was playing with toys in his cage last night you can just pick him up carry him
around on your shoulder he likes to be held with such an affectionate nature it
was only a matter of time before someone adopted mr. purple paws
in fact on May 30th 2017 just one week after his admission to the shelter the
Naples cat alliance posted a list of recent adoptions on its Facebook page
and sure enough one of them was mr. purple pause pictured with his lucky new
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What You Need to Know About 6ix9ine's Legal Issues - Duration: 5:53.
What's up, guys?
For Complex News, I'm Frazier.
Last year, as 6ix9ine began to blow up, a disturbing fact surfaced: The Brooklyn rapper
had pleaded guilty to a sex crime.
He addressed his history in the months that followed, all while songs like 'Kooda' and
'Gummo' gained momentum, courting even more controversy for him.
He's since released a project, 'Day69,' while he awaits a sentencing that's been delayed
multiple times.
Here's what you need to know about his situation.
February 2015: 6ix9ine's Sex Crime
According to a criminal complaint, 6ix9ine (real name: Daniel Hernandez) was seen in
three sexually explicit videos shot on the night of Feb. 21, 2015, going into Feb. 22,
2015.
In them, a girl of 13 was shown with 6ix9ine, then age 18, and another defendant.
She's seen nude, as well as engaging in oral sex with the other defendant while, as the
document reads, 6ix9ine 'stands behind the child making a thrusting motion.'
March 2015: 6ix9ine Is Arrested
The videos were uploaded to social media and seen by the victim's mother 'on or about'
Feb. 23, 2015.
As Jezebel's Rich Juzwiak notes, per the New York State Unified Court System's online database,
6ix9ine was arrested March 5, 2015.
In his police statement, given the same day, he said he told the girl he was 18.
'The way she was asking [my age] made me think she was older,' he said.
October 2015: 6ix9ine Pleads Guilty
As Jezebel and Genius report, on Oct. 20, 2015, 2015, 6ix9ine pleaded guilty to one
felony count of the use of a child in a sexual performance.
He was initially charged with three.
October 2015: Sentencing Adjourned
Per court docs, on Oct. 20, 2015, 6ix9ine's sentencing was adjourned until Oct. 20, 2017—a
full two years away.
Under the terms of his plea, 6ix9ine was, among other conditions, to serve one year
of interim probation, not post sexually explicit or violent images of women or children on
social media, undergo two years of mental health treatment, and get his GED.
Violating the plea deal could land him in prison for one to three years.
August 2017: Details of 6ix9ine's Crime Surface
On Aug. 7, 2017, as 'Mass Appeal' points out, the Twitter account then known as To Catch
a SoundCloud Rapper highlighted an Instagram post from fellow New York rapper Zillakami.
The post showed a shirtless 6ix9ine with his arms wrapped around a girl wearing only a
bra.
Zillakami—once 6ix9ine's friend—said the girl was 13.
August 2017: The Backlash Begins
The same day, Trippie Redd, who had worked with 6ix9ine before, notably on 'Poles1469,'
commented on the situation on Instagram.
'I'm sorry, brozay,' he said.
'1400 don't promote pedophiles.'
Trippie and 6ix9ine's beef would continue for months.
November 2017: 6ix9ine Gives a Conflicting Account of Events
With rumors and reports of his charges and plea floating about, 6ix9ine sat down with
DJ Akademiks to give his version of the events.
He told Ak he wasn't trying to cover up anything that had happened.
'It's just me not paying attention to something that's not relevant because it's not true,'
he said.
He then contradicted the criminal complaint against him.
As Jezebel points out, he told Akademiks he didn't know the exact age of the victim.
'I think she was 14 or some s**t like that,' he said, before saying the police had told
him she was 13.
6ix9ine also claimed she told him she was 19, and that he was 17 at the time.
And while the complaint describes a video in which the victim is sitting on his lap,
6ix9ine told Akademiks, 'I didn't touch the girl.'
April 2018: Sentencing Postponed
After multiple delays—the most recent of which, on January 30, 2018, owed to the fact
that he hadn't passed the science section of his GED, Jezebel reports—6ix9ine was
scheduled to be sentenced on April 10, 2018.
He posted a video the day before asking fans to pray for him.
'GED is done,' he said.
'Everything is done.'
Nonetheless, the hearing didn't happen.
But while several outlets reported that 6ix9ine failed to appear in court, a source confirmed
to Complex that the sentencing was again postponed.
Akademiks claimed it was because the court didn't have a copy of his GED.
April 2018: 6ix9ine Accused of Sexual Relationship With Underage Girl
In late April, a woman named Martha Gold came forward to Babe, saying she'd had a sexual
relationship with 6ix9ine when she was 17.
She claimed to have met the rapper through Instagram in March 2017.
After he told her he was 20, she said she was 17.
'And he was like, 'Oh, OK,'' she said.
She said she had six or seven encounters with him between that time and February 2018.
'Don't be mad at me and blame it on me just because your favorite rapper likes younger
girls,' she said in a video later.
April 2018: Brooklyn Shootings
On April 21, 2018, as TMZ reports, 6ix9ine's entourage was allegedly involved in two shootings
in Brooklyn.
In the first—caught on surveillance video—Tr3yway, the rapper's manager, purportedly fired at
a car following 6ix9ine's SUV.
The suspect is seen getting out of his vehicle and running in the opposite direction, allegedly
to shoot his gun.
Another person seen exiting the SUV is believed to be 6ix9ine.
Tr3yway is also under investigation for a shooting that unfolded at the Barclays Center
hours later.
That incident is said to owe to 6ix9ine's beef with Brooklyn rapper Casanova.
Casanova's crew was also reportedly shot at the Thursday before; 6ix9ine's crewis alleged
to have been involved.
May 2018: Problems at the Mall
On May 16, TMZ reports that there is a warrant out for 6ix9ine's arrest in Houston.
He was accused of choking a 16-year-old kid who started recording video of the rapper
and then refused to erase it.
May 2018: Driving Problems
On May 20, 6ix9ine was arrested in Bed Stuy for driving without a license.
He parked his SUV in front of a fire hydrant and, when cops approached, they discovered
that his license had been suspended.
But according to Page Six, additional charges for assaulting a cop were added that Monday,
when the rapper reportedly grabbed an officer by the hand as his handcuffs were being taken
off.
What's Next?
6ix9ine reportedly lost a $4.9 million deal with headphone maker Tunes Audio as a result
of what happened in Brooklyn.
He later claimed the company merely used his name for publicity.
There was also a fight in broad daylight at LAX in February 2018.
And, of course, he has his sentencing hanging over him.
There's also his new beef with Chief Keef, which has descended into WWF-style trolling
even as very real violence surrounds it.
In fact, TMZ recently reported that the NYPD is investigating whether 6ix9ine had any role
in Chief Keef being shot in the beginning of June.
Still, 6ix9ine undeterred.
He even dropped 'Gotti' the same day he was meant to appear in court.
Depending on his sentence, we may not see 6ix9ine for a while.
Then again, even if he's locked up, he might not leave the spotlight.
To find out what's next for 6ix9ine, subscribe to Complex on YouTube.
For Complex News, I'm Frazier.
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24 Reasons Spider-Man & Dragonball Evolution Are The Same Movie - Duration: 3:34.
This week's video was produced by Amon91.
A young boy is a hero in training and he's
about to face his toughest villains yet, high school bullies.
The bullies make his life a living nightmare.
To make matters worst, the boy has the biggest crush on the most popular girl in school and
she just lets him get bullied right in front of her face.
The highlights of his high school days are when he gets to see his lady love.
He's always fantasizing about his crush when he's right in front of her face and
it's really creepy sometimes.
His home life is a bit more stable.
Even though he grew up without his mom or dad, he's raised by a strong male role model
that teaches him right from wrong.
Even with a positive role model in his life, his life is still filled with distractions
that stop him from obeying his parental guardian and focusing on his school work.
A prime example of him acting out of character is when he stands up to the bullies.
Instead of being the bigger man and walking away, he uses his abilities to beat down the
bigger man.
Everyone from school sees it, including his crush and you could tell she's only using
him for his powers because she only starts paying attention to him after the fight.
His rebellion leads to the worst decision of his life when he disobeys his guardian
and leaves him hanging.
That same night is the night that his father figure gets brutally murdered.
He blames himself for the murder and tries to fight back tears as he holds his lifeless
father figure in his arms, but after a while he can't hold back the tears anymore and
lets it all out.
With his moral compass 6 feet under, the hero is forced to grow up fast and decides to use
his powers for the force of good.
He gets a new outfit and although clothes don't make the man, it's sort of like
a dress for success thing going on because soon as he gets the new costume, the action
picks up.
The hero goes after the green villain.
Aware that the good guy is on his tail, the green villain goes after everyone the hero
knows and loves including his last surviving guardian.
In both an act of rage and defense, the main character seeks vengeance.
The two go head to head at the scene where the hero goes through the fire to get to his
prey.
The two are evenly match, but the bad guy keeps raising up the stakes.
A vehicle is suspended in the air with the hero's friends and their lives are in danger.
After the hostages land safely on the ground, the final battle takes place.
It's total chaos.
The villain is buried in rock and when the fighters get up, there's these orange balls
flying all over the place and it's like walking on land mines.
The debris starts to blind the opponent and when one of the fighters uses the remote to
activate the flying vehicle, the opponent uses a sixth sense to avoid the collision
which could've resulted in a fatality.
The good guy defeats the villain and makes him go night night (Kevin Hart audio).
The near death experience causes his high school crush to realize she's been taking
him for granted.
She kisses him and is ready to take their relationship to the next level, but right
after the kiss, he proves he's not ready to settle down and has the most immature reaction
you could imagine.
Those are 24 reasons these movies are the same.
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Yes, no, maybe so?
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button for more 24 reason videos.
Huge thanks to all of our Patreon supporters especially Amon91 who actually produced today's
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He picked the movies, found the similarities, and literally helped fund the channel by contributing
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Secret Service Comes To Sarah Huckabee Sanders' Defense - Duration: 6:14.
BREAKING: Secret Service Just Rushed In To Save Sarah Against Insane Leftists, She Can't
Catch A Break!
In an effort to protect White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders from the
unhinged, and vile attacks she has suffered recently, the White House has made the decision,
that she will now receive temporary Secret Service protection.
As the left continues to ramp up violent rhetoric, and harassment it is only a matter of time
until another Conservative, Republican, or member of the Trump administration is targeted
for violence.
Sanders was recently asked to leave the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia Sunday
when co-owner, Stephanie Wilkinson asked her to leave due to her disagreement with Sanders'
employer, President Donald Trump.
The restaurant's owner sanctimoniously declared the establishment has to uphold "certain
standards."
Evidently, Wilkinson means the standard of resisting President Trump, and in her case
resistance means refusing to serve steak or french fries, or a hen of the reddish variety
something – to an employee of the man they loathe because they are so very "tolerant,"
or something like that.
This was the latest in a series of episodes of heckling or harassment targeting Trump
administration officials, and it kickstarted a national debate on civility in American
politics.
It seems to have kickstarted a firestorm of criticisms on both sides of the aisle.
Some in support and others…well, not so much.
Sanders herself addressed the issue head-on as she is known for doing in the Monday press
briefing, stating – "We are allowed to disagree, but we should be able to do so freely
and without fear of harm.
And this goes for all people regardless of politics.
Some have chosen to push hate, and vandalism against the restaurant that I was asked to
leave from.
A Hollywood actor publicly encouraged people to kidnap my children."
It seems that Virginia is not for lovers, but merely lovers of political correctness.
Political correctness, in this case, means that if you disagree with someone's employer,
or their political stance then you must call for deviants to kidnap their children, accost
and berate them in public places, call for violence against them, or in the case of House
Majority Whip Steve Scalise, shoot them.
After Rep. Maxine Waters recently called for the harassment, and refusal of service to
anyone who works in the Trump administration, Scalise made the assertion that civility and
respect would prevail.
In response, people told Scalise, the victim of a political assassination attempt, received
some seriously telling responses.
This political correctness is quickly approaching dangerous, and irrational levels the likes
of which we have never witnessed before in this country.
In the age of social media, anyone can seize an opportunity to publicly take a stand against
President Trump, and know that it could easily become national news, and give them their
15 minutes of fame in the process.
As the 2018 midterm elections grow ever closer, and the left continues to devolve, the right
continues to invigorate their base and bring in rational independents who are sick of the
hatred, violence, and insanity.
A new commercial entitled "The Left in 2018: Unhinged," showcases how the Democratic
Party has been radicalizing.
The ad opens with the voice of Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT-I) speaking.
He states – "A few years ago, ideas that we talked about were thought to be fringe
ideas, radical ideas, extremist ideas — those ideas are now mainstream," over footage
of graffiti that reads "revolution or d***h" and Kathy Griffin holding President Trump's
severed head.
As the ad continues it shows the bullying of White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders,
Johnny Depp talking about assassinating the president, and Madonna talking about blowing
up the White House.
The ad does not mention or specifically endorse any GOP candidates, it simply highlights events
of the last two years in America.
Perhaps we have celebrities like Robert De Niro, Samantha Bee, Michelle Wolf, and Peter
Fonda to thank for leading the leftist mob down this road to what is approaching near
anarchy.
And the mainstream media propaganda mouthpiece enables it all, so much so that the end result
has been that the American public is now beginning to believe that this radically violent behavior
is simply the new normal.
It is not normal.
It is dangerous.
Make no mistake, this is not just about President Trump or even a referendum on Republicans
or Conservatives.
Even if Vice President Mike Pence was president, this would still be happening.
Colleges and universities continue to radicalize students and the cultural Marxists increasingly
turn to violence in an effort to bully their way to public policies.
Hollywood celebrities use their platforms of fame and notoriety to instigate behavior
and the far left mimics them.
Then the media enables it all by broadcasting it far and wide.
One could take notes fom Sanders as she continues to be the adult in the room.
She left the Red Hen without a scene, simply tweeting out after the fact – "Last night
I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and
I politely left.
Her actions say far more about her than about me.
I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will
continue to do so."
Sanders has yet to kick anyone out of the briefing room to "uphold certain standards"
and it is unlikely you will, despite many calling her actions justified if she did so.
And she has yet to take to Twitter to call anyone four-letter words or wish them d**d
or call for the public beating of another human being or the kidnapping of their children
or any number of other vile things recently called for by others.
It seems those that claim to represent "certain standards"- including tolerance, love, and
inclusiveness – should stand up and take notice.
This is what it looks like.
What do you think about this?
Please share this news and scroll down to Comment below and don't forget to subscribe
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Switch your website to https so visitors see the secure icon in Chrome - July 2018 - Duration: 2:10.
Hey everybody! Eagan here. Wanted to let you know that Google is actually going
to be marking websites that are not secure as not secure in the Chrome
browser and that's starting next month July 2018 so what that means is in your
website in the upper left corner when you're in chrome you want to see HTTPS
so to show it you're a secure site this is not just if you're an e-commerce site
or handling other sensitive information this is now for all web sites Google's
been pushing for a while that they really want HTTPS to become the standard
on the web because it's more secure I think it actually encrypts the
information between the browser and your server so this is really something
they've been pushing for for a while we've known that it's been our Google
ranking factor which means it can actually affect how high you show up
when people search for what you do so there's been a number of reasons to
switch to HTTPS and this is just the most recent one so it's really worth
doing Google announced it on their webmaster blog back earlier this year
and July is the day so we're either gonna see this secure green lock or
we're gonna see a warning says not secure and we already know it could be
affecting your ranking so these are all good reasons to switch to HTTPS talk to
your webmaster about this you can usually give it to your host so if
you're on WordPress and you use Bluehost is your host they actually have a free
SSL certificate which is the security certificate you can set that up and then
GoDaddy looks like they're doing about 60 bucks a year you can you can switch
to SSL so just want to let you know this has been a ranking factor for SEO for a
while one of Google's 200 factors they look at when they determine how high do
you rank when people search for your products or services and now it's all
the more reason because it's sort of a trust issue of do I see this secure
piece in the corner do I trust the website I'm on or do I not so those are
two great reasons to switch to SSL if you're not on it do it by July 2018 all
right
you
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Reckless Love (Lyric Video) - Duration: 5:27.
Before I spoke a word,
You were singing over me
You have been so, so good to me
Before I took a breath,
You breathed Your Life in me
You have been so, so kind to me
Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending,
reckless love of God
Oh, it chases me down,
fights 'til I'm found,
leaves the ninety-nine
I couldn't earn it,
I don't deserve it,
still You gave Yourself away
Oh, the overwhelming,
never-ending,
reckless love of God
When I was Your foe,
still Your love fought for me
You have been so, so (good) kind to me
When I felt no worth,
You paid it all for me
You have been so, so kind to me
Oh, the overwhelming,
never-ending,
reckless love of God
Oh, it chases me down,
fights 'til I'm found,
leaves the ninety-nine
I couldn't earn it,
I don't deserve it,
still You gave Yourself away
Oh, the overwhelming,
never-ending,
reckless love of God
There's no shadow You won't light up
Mountain You won't climb up
Coming after me
There's no wall You won't kick down
Lie You won't tear down
Coming after me
There's no shadow You won't light up
Mountain You won't climb up
Coming after me
There's no wall You won't kick down
Lie You won't tear down
Coming after me
There's no shadow You won't light up
Mountain You won't climb up
Coming after me
There's no wall You won't kick down
Lie You won't tear down
Coming after me
There's no shadow You won't light up
Mountain You won't climb up
Coming after me
There's no wall You won't kick down
Lie You won't tear down
Coming after me
Oh, the overwhelming,
never-ending,
reckless love of God
Oh, it chases me down,
fights 'til I'm found,
leaves the ninety-nine
I couldn't earn it,
I don't deserve it,
still You gave Yourself away
Oh, the overwhelming,
never-ending,
reckless love of God
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John Doerr on OKRs and Measuring What Matters - Duration: 27:12.
So we're delighted today to be joined by John Doerr, the Chair of the venture capital firm
Kleiner Perkins.
Now, saying John is a successful venture capitalist is a bit like saying Steph Curry is a successful
basketball player.
It's an accurate statement, but seriously understates things.
John has backed some the most successful technology firms ever, including Google, Amazon, Slack,
Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Intuit, and the list goes on and on.
John has also in his spare time just published a new book called Measure What Matters, in
which he discusses the power of objectives and key results, also known as OKRs,
a tool that he's introduced to a dozens of startups, many of which are now household
names.
So, John, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with us today.
Don, I'm thrilled to talk with you, right?
I daresay, you're quite an expert in this field.
I've been taken by the papers you've written and look forward to our conversation.
Oh, great.
Thank you.
According to a recent survey, more than % of organizations use goals in one form or another.
So many folks watching these videos will be familiar with goals, but not necessarily with
OKRs.
In a nutshell, what are OKRs, and how in your assessment do they differ from more traditional,
more common approaches to goals?
OKRs stand for objectives and key results, and it's a deceptively simple goal-setting
system that was invented in the s by one of the greatest managers of his or any other
era, Dr. Andy Grove.
Grove loved teaching, by the way.
He felt that the role of a leader and a chief executive is to be a teacher.
Andy was building the preeminent microchip company.
You know, in the semiconductor industry thousands of people have to get lines that are a millionth
of a meter wide exactly right, or nothing works and so—
He was kind of mentor of mine, and he grabbed me one day and said, you know, John it almost
doesn't matter what you know.
It's execution that's everything.
And let me bring this back to OKRs.
Andy Grove invented a system, a scalable system for execution, where you write down what it
is that you want to have accomplished.
That's the objective.
And then the key results, which are how you're going to get it done.
What and how.
Objectives and key results.
And this system that he invented differed dramatically from the conventional goal-setting
systems of the days, which were management by objectives.
Those systems tended to be annual, Retrospective, backward-looking,
tied to goals, top down, hierarchical, and honestly not very effective.
Even Peter Drucker, one of the original proponents of those managements by objective systems
eventually soured on them.
So Andy turned that system upside down in inventing these objectives and key results.
And to this day, Intel uses them to great advantage.
I worked with him, for Andy, early on in my career.
And when I left Intel I took literally his slide set, that way of setting goals, to every
organization that I worked with.
Most of them adopted them.
Not all of them.
Everyone adapted them; that is, they tailored them for their own culture and their own particular
business needs.
But no organization has embraced them more fully
than Google has, and it's affected more than what they do.
It affects their culture, their language, their aggressiveness, their willingness to
stretch.
I'll sum this up by saying that there are five real key advantages that accrue
to a user of OKRs.
These are the payoffs.
The first is, you get exceptional focus.
The second is, because these are transparent, you get a high degree of alignment,
focus, alignment.
The third thing you get is an uncommon degree of commitment.
These goals end up being your kind of social contract between everyone in the organization
as they declare, I'm going to go for this key result that relates to these objectives,
and then you can track the progress through the course of days
and weeks and months in the life of an organization.
Finally, at Intel, at Google, this kind of a transparent goal system, which
importantly is not tied to compensation, it—you don't pay bonuses, people aren't promoted
based on them.
That allows you to really build a risk-taking culture, where it's okay
to stretch for something almost impossible to do and not quite make it, but still have
a considerable accomplishment.
Indeed, at Google, if you're achieving all of your goals, you're getting all greens as
grades, you probably weren't stretching far enough
or hard enough.
Now, that's all a matter of management judgment.
But those five payoffs—the focus, the alignment, the commitment, the tracking and the stretching,
are powerful.
They don't come with most other goal systems, and I like to remember them because they're
just the facts, f-a-c-t-s.
Terrific.
But let me if I could dig into a couple of elements that you mentioned there, John, around
how OKRs vary from the more traditional goal-setting approaches.
And one of them is this element of ambition.
The kind of conventional wisdom and goals, particularly as it's embodied in
the so-called smart goal-setting, really focuses on having goals that are achievable and realistic.
In your book you talk a lot about the importance of ambition.
How do you see the relationship between ambitions and goals?
So, Larry Page put it best.
And he's probably the high priest of X goals.
Larry said, I would much prefer that a team set a goal to go to Mars and know that if
they fall short, they're still likely to achieve something extraordinary, like get to the moon.
So, the natural tendency, particularly when goals are the basis of promotions or bonuses,
is to be conservative.
And Jeff Bezos deeply, deeply believed that the natural tendency
as organizations grow is to grow more conservative, to grow more analytic.
He called this the "institutional no."
And it was very important to Jeff that as Amazon grows, that they still be willing to
do bold, nearly unbelievable campaigns, initiatives.
And a lot of those will fail.
The fundamental question is, is it okay to fail?
Do you have a risk-taking, culture?
And that answer will vary by industry, by structure
of the market and the competition.
I for one have wondered a lot about this as it relates to health care
and hospital systems.
I think running a hospital is one of the most difficult jobs in the world, with enormous
pressures.
Lives are on the line and thousands of people are making tens of thousands of decisions.
Do we really want risk-taking in those institutions?
I recently talked about this work with the CEO of one of the nation's absolutely most
admired health care systems, and he said his number
one goal as the new CEO of this system is to get them to embrace and adopt objectives
and key results; that there are a whole host of dimensions in which he wants risk-taking
and stretching.
And then there's others in the parlance of Google where you must achieve % of the goals.
% will not be good enough and the wonderful engineers
at Google decided not only to measure accomplishments down to a tenth of a decimal point, but to
distinguish between aspirational goals, which would be stretched, and committed goals, where
the expectation is, % is what should be achieved.
And John, in your experience with the companies you've worked with, the executives, you've
talked to, how should companies think about that mix,
right?
Because the challenges—the hospital example gives a terrific one, where there's some activities
you really don't want doctors necessarily experimenting with; does it work to wash my
hands or not?
That's really more of an Atul Gawande checklist kind of
thing.
But in other cases, as the CEO you mentioned talks about, there's a need for stretch, a
need for innovation.
How have you seen companies strike that balance well?
How do you think about how executives and leaders to strike that balance?
I have a couple thoughts.
The first is that companies are in different phases at different times,
not just as they grow, but as their market conditions change.
So the book says there's times when you need to really batten down the hatches and execute.
Perhaps you have some really critical milestones to achieve before a financing of some sort.
And then the goals are going to tend to be less aspirational and more focused on
how we must execute in the here and now.
That's one thought.
But the other larger view is, OKRs are not a silver bullet.
They don't substitute at any point in time for
a strong culture or stronger management.
I like to say that good business judgment trumps this system, but when those fundamentals
are in place when you have a strong culture and stronger management,
this kind of goal system can take a team to the mountaintop.
I've seen it time and time again.
Yeah, I'd like to stick on that point about not being a silver bullet.
Every time I've heard you talk about OKRs you've been super explicit about that point,
that they're a power tool, but not a silver bullet.
And their success depends on things like leadership and the culture.
As you think back about companies that have embraced OKRs and really harnessed their full
potential, what are the other complementary attributes or traits that allowed them to
make the most of the tool?
And/or on the other side, organizations that haven't kind of leveraged it to its full potential?
What maybe have they been lacking?
So here's why they most often fail.
And it's because the CEO or the leader of the function is not personally committed.
How do we measure that commitment?
Does the CEO write down her objectives and key results every quarter, the personal ones?
And are those different than the ones for the company overall?
And will she stand up in front of the entire organization—now, every quarter in an All
Hands meeting, and review their personal successes and failures?
Do they become part of the language, the rhythm of the operation?
Not just checked quarterly, but used in staff meetings, in one on one meetings.
Are they the basis on which the company communicates to the board?
Not just financial statements, but these all-important priorities.
Remember, OKRs are not the sum of all tasks.
They are the few things that we're trying to highlight and isolate because they deserve
special attention.
Does the leader of the organization, and for that matter, the organization itself, have
a system whereby they can cheer on the successes of colleagues and
nudge others forward, who are falling short?
These kinds of social signals you can find in modern scalable structured goal-setting
systems.
And they're super important.
When you really get the organization living and breathing it,
this doesn't become the soul of the team, but it's
the goalpost, it's the milestones.
It can be the game plan.
There's a twin sister, if you will, for OKRs that I described in the book called CFRs,
which stands for conversations, feedback, and recognition.
And so the goals clearly lay out what it is we want to have accomplished.
I think of those in the football analogy as the objective is the goalposts and the key
results are the -yard markers as we march our way down the field.
But equally important are the huddles and the plays that we're calling, and
feedback and course corrections along the way.
Those are what CFRs are.
Or in HR-speak, I think this is being referred to as "continuous performance management,"
as compared to doing annual performance reviews.
We're seeing more and more organizations, I think now something like % for the Fortune
, are just ditching the annual performance review altogether
in favor of more frequent feedback.
And this is especially important with millennial workers who want constant feedback.
They want to know how they fit in the big picture.
But they don't want to be micromanaged and so
CFRs, OKRs are powerful tools to both engage and make the most of their ambition.
These are terrific points, especially this notion of embedding the OKRs in ongoing conversations
around feedback, around review, and the importance of the transparency so
that they're not, as you rightly know, framed as kind of individual performance management,
an individual sport.
They're viewed as a team sport, that collectively we're going to execute and move down the hashtags
to the goalpost.
I wonder, another element that you mentioned, and I think it's just going to be so surprising
to folks, it would be terrific if you could dig in a bit more.
A lot of companies, a lot of leaders pride themselves on pay for performance.
So the notion is, we're going to— people are going to set their goals, they're
going to achieve % of their goals.
If they achieve % of their goals, they'll get a big juicy carrot, and if they don't,
they'll be hit with a big stick.
And that's a point of pride.
And it's deeply, deeply embedded and how a lot of managers think about motivation, about
execution, about getting things done.
You in the book argue very eloquently for an alternative approach.
If you could just expand a little bit on that, how that looks and feels in organizations;
what do you think the risks are of the traditional
approach, the benefits of the alternative approaches?
It'd be really helpful I think for folks to hear your point of view on that.
Sure, thanks for asking.
Just the simple decision to have all the goals in an organization be transparent
is radical for most of American or worldwide business.
Now, the notion that they be transparent and self-graded is a step further into uncomfortable
territory.
And then the idea that we wouldn't tie these to bonuses is almost heretical.
But the data is really very clear.
We know that organizations and teams, individuals, achieve much higher performance when they
have written and developed their own goals.
When they own those, when those are transparent.
And that intrinsic motivations— I have an objective to be healthy.
There's a big difference between my doctor telling me to run a marathon or me choosing
to run the marathon, and we know in business there's lots of right answers.
So this decoupling of the objective from the key results, the whats from the hows, and
having the individual contributors find their own right answer
is powerful.
It yields much better results.
Now, I'm often asked the question, John, how about sales?
We have quotas, we pay commissions.
Are you saying we shouldn't pay quotas and—no, I'm not.
No, indeed, a key result like revenues can live in an OKR system and also be the basis
for a simple set of bonuses.
But if you take the most important things in the company and you yoke those to bonus
payments, you'll find your organization grows risk-averse,
conservative, you don't get—for several reasons that I've just described.
Operating excellence.
Yeah, and just to underscore your point about intrinsic motivation, the most recent research
suggests for routine activities that people know how to do, about % of observed motivation
is extrinsic and % is intrinsic.
So it's almost / even for sales quota type things.
But if you go to activities that require creativity, it's about % intrinsic motivation.
And essentially for those kinds of activities— innovative activities learning activities—
extrinsic motivation is almost rounding error.
It's really not so critical.
So maybe we could dig in a little bit more to the relationship between OKRs and culture.
When you think about the organizations that have used OKRs really well, what would you
say were the cultural attributes or values that allowed them to embrace and
kind of harness the power of the tool?
So let's talk about culture.
First of all, I think about OKRs as transparent vessels
that are shaped from our ambitions.
What's really crucial are the values that we pour into those vessels.
OKRs answer the question, what it is I want to have accomplished, how I'm going to get
it done.
Values are expressed by the mission statement and the value statement.
And they answer the fundamental question why: why it is that we do the work that we do,
whether we're a for-profit or nonprofit organization.
Powerful organizations have a clear actionable, long-lived
mission and value statement.
I mean, look at some of them.
Let's just connect the whole world.
That's Facebook.
Or Google.
Organize all the world's information and make it readily available to anyone, anywhere,
anytime.
These mission statements, when
expressed by values statements—for example, the book has original value statements from
Intel: "We're going to be aggressive introverts.
We're going to confront problems, not people.
We're going to be system-oriented in our solutions.
We're going to check our egos at the door when we go to meetings so that the best ideas
win."
Those sorts of value statement are especially important now.
And I want to share with you a passage from the book from Dov Seidman, who said, in the
past, employees just needed to do the next thing right.
In other words, follow orders exactly to the letter.
And culture didn't matter so much.
But now we're living, we're competing in a world where we're asking people to do the
next right thing.
Not the next thing right, but the next right thing.
A rule book can tell you what you can or can't do, but it's culture that's going to tell
you what you should do.
Culture.
They say culture eats strategy for breakfast.
And so called culture is the way you the way we can streamline actually take off the table
for discussion.
Thousands of decisions which your culture will allow you to
make quickly and correctly.
Yeah, and I think it's so nice that you emphasize this point because really, both OKRs and culture
are mechanisms for providing guidance to people without micromanaging or, as you talked about
earlier, trying to dictate from the top or codify in rule books how you should do everything,
which is just impossible for large complex organizations.
One thing I'd like to do is offer some context for this movement, for this whole book, because
I think we are, in fact, at a really critical moment in time.
A point in time where our leaders in some of our great institutions
are failing us.
You ask the question why.
Well, in some cases, it's because they're bad or unethical.
But too often, it's because they've focused on the wrong objectives,
leading us to totally unacceptable outcomes.
Wells Fargo is an example of this, or Theranos.
And this has got to stop in every walk of our lives.
How are we going to fix this?
How are we going to get back on the right track?
In my work.
I've been able to see very talented teams choose the right objectives and the wrong
objectives, and to succeed and to fail.
And so what's really crucial is how and why we set meaningful, audacious goals.
How we set the right objectives for the right reasons.
And the choice of these matters a lot.
If you're Wells Fargo and you just set the goal as signing up new accounts without any
measure of quality, you'll get what they've got.
And so in every walk of our lives, I believe OKRs can go well beyond our businesses to
our nonprofits, our schools, even our governments, where accountability,
transparency—imagine if a city government used—
In the book you write about OKRs at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
I've over the past couple years worked with the Global Health bit of the Gates Foundation
on executing their strategy and one of the things that's really striking is
the audacity of their goals and their impatience for results.
So it'd be super if you could just talk a little bit about goal OKRs and how to use
them outside of the business context.
Sure.
Great question, and exciting territory for me in a place where I'm learning.
Learning a lot.
Bill Gates says in the Gates case study that too many nonprofits confuse their mission
with their objectives.
And therefore they never get the right objectives or crisp measures for key results.
And so I've been really pleasantly surprised by the interest from the nonprofit advocacy
sector, and this is not just charitable organizations but political
advocacy groups, causes writ large.
Banno has a warning in his case study that it's important to not over-institutionalize
a cause or an advocacy organization and it's a reflection, it's an echo I think of Jeff
Bezos's admonition that we must be careful to avoid the "institutional
no."
These are no more than a set of tools, but the satisfaction that you get, especially
for a mission-driven kind of cause, of having your whole team aligned is
powerful, and missing, I think, from too many nonprofits.
Yeah, no, I agree.
And the other thing I've seen with the Gates Foundation with their use of OKRs is, one,
by making the goals explicit and as you talk about in the book, verifiable, helps coordinate
an ecosystem of partners which cooperation is crucial for results.
The other thing is it helps to take, as their goal to eradicate malaria, take something
that's just kind of insanely ambitious and chunk it up
into the -yard lines that you talked about earlier.
But John, again, super conscious of your time and don't want to impose, but thank you so
much again for talking us through Measure What Matters, and beyond, of course; your
New York Times bestselling book about OKRs and how they can change the world.
Well, I've enjoyed this conversation immensely.
And I really think the paper that you've written that I have a draft of is a powerful
contribution to the field.
Well, thank you.
All right.
Take care.
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Adobe Think Tank: Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Develop Learning in Organizations - Duration: 10:25.
- Welcome to this edition of the Adobe Think Tank
from New York City.
Follow us on Twitter #AdobeTT.
With me today is Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics.
We're gonna talk about artificial intelligence
and the future of the enterprise.
Welcome Jana.
- Thank you.
- It's great to have you here.
So, I know you recently had a session on turning
enterprises into learning organizations for
the purpose of benefiting from A.I.
Could you talk to us a little bit more about that?
- I'm really excited about it, it's a new way
of looking at A.I.
as an enabler
and we have not done a
great job of turning ourselves into learning organizations.
Which really means, you know we've talked about being
agile and being able to transform ourselves.
That's been in our vernacular for a while but
one of the things we haven't done well is actually do it.
So, A.I.
really forces us into that because we're
not on a deterministic course anymore and you've
heard that a lot at the conference.
That A.I.
is not
about determinism it's about probabilities and options
and contact being very important.
I think that's what is going to force us into,
or enable us into becoming
learning organizations.
And there's two key aspects
to learning organizations, one is that you have people
that are willing and able to engage and learn
and the second side of that is, you have an organization
that can change.
And so when you look at things like,
I can't remember the exact numbers but the S&P 500
average age used to be six years.
And the companies on the
S&P 500 now, it's like 12.
And so you see these companies
are not staying around for as long.
So how do you stay
around for a long time?
You're more agile and you transform
yourself before somebody comes in and transforms
the industry that you're in.
- So I hear some great learnings here from the learning
organization.
Being agile, being nimble, being able to move
with changes as technology shifts happen.
What is it, could you us some examples of how you'd
actually put a learning organization in place?
What are some of the steps enterprises
could take to do that?
- So I think most important, is just getting
started an A.I.
project so I'm not gonna tell you to go
out and hire PhD's.
They're wonderful and great in
organizations but most organizations don't need that level
of A.I.
The tools are really democratized now.
You've seen here at the conference where there's kids
in high school building amazing systems.
You know,
detecting diabetes from retina scans and a kid in high
school did that, not a PhD.
So those tools are there.
So my encouragement for enterprises is just getting started.
Most enterprises have a good technical team, enable them
to go out and start doing it but they have to work with
the business people and they have to work with the people
who know the data the best.
Which may be data scientists
but sometimes that's the business people too.
So making sure that all three of those constituents
are working together and
that you define an A.I. project
and you can start small and start learning how you learn
but A.I.
isn't about developing one system and keeping
it like that, it's about continually regenerating.
- And learning as you go.
- [Jana] Right.
- So, how do you practically apply A.I.
to solve real
business problems?
It's one thing when you do it in the lab
but how do you kind of scale and say the problem of customer
experience, how do you use A.I.
to better enable that?
- It's a great question and I did a workshop at,
I can't remember which O'Rielly conference, A.I.
conference
it was but a couple back.
And one of the things that was
interesting is I asked, there were about 150 people there,
and I asked the audience,
"How many of you have a active A.I.
project?"
And more than a third of the room
raised their hand which surprised me.
I thought it would
actually be less and then I said, "Well, how many of you
have something in production?" And I had one and a half.
And so we're really having a large blocking rate,
it actually going into production and so I think that's
one of the bigger challenges that we have.
And so the
reason why I give that as an example is I think that
projects haven't shown those real business results.
So they've been more tasked and they didn't put the rigor
in place to say what are the business results that I'm
expecting to see.
And we see that with our customers
that's not unusual for that to happen.
They come to us
and they say we wanna start this project in A.I.
because it's important to organization to do A.I.
and
they don't have any metrics associated with it.
I mean, they may say I wanna do it in two months but
that's not a business metric.
And so it's more about
what's the business advantage?
What value are we going to
have to show in order for you, for us, I say,
in order for you to license my platform, what value am I
gonna have to show to you in this project?
And it's
amazing how many of them have no idea what that answer is.
And so we have a process that we go through with them
to say what's the problem you're trying to solve.
And then we pick one of the problems that has the most
business value associated with them.
- Very interesting.
So you actually help them
hone in on their KPI's, the benchmarks, all of the things
that they would need to determine if the project is
really solving the real business problem.
Okay, so you talked a lot about big data also.
And so one of the big questions is as we go into both
B2B and B2C workflows.
How do you actually turn big data
into real insights and what role can A.I.
play in that?
- That's where it gets a little bit hard for people
because people want the answers to be more deterministic.
So they wanna say how many people do I have in this category
and this category.
And the difference with A.I. is
there's a lot of category overlap so you can say that
but you're not doing it by marketing to segments anymore
you really can go to one-to-one so everyone is actually
a segment of one which is something we've been trying to get
to for years.
- Right.
- But the problem with that is that's not
how our systems are set up.
- True.
- And I think Starbucks has a great example of that
they in a year alone went from, if I'm remembering the
numbers right, something like, it took them two weeks to
get an email out.
They only had 30 groups and so everybody
went into one of 30 groups.
Within a year they were actually
delivering individual messages to something like
14 million people completely tailored to them.
And they could do it real time so if you bought something
that morning at Starbucks, your email that afternoon
could actually be responsive to what that was
if it made sense.
And so you can do things like that
you just have to, again, you have to get started.
And they didn't go from, two weeks to real time in one jump.
They actually did go through a phase where they went from
I think it was two weeks to a few days and then made
the leap to real time.
So I think that's a good thing
to do is get started, push yourself but then don't say
well it took a long time to get from two weeks to three days
so we're gonna take even longer to go from three days
to real time.
Say no, I just learned that, now three days
needs to happen in a week.
- Perfect so I hear some great advice for enterprises and
brands there and how to actually implement this.
Any other tips that you have for implementing
A.I. strategies like that?
- Yeah, I would say get started and that's
the problem.
People tell me they don't have enough data.
There is plenty of data in your organization.
You have enough data to get started.
They tell me they don't have the experts.
You really
don't need the experts.
There's so much training that's online
There's so much available that you can learn from
so don't let that stop you.
What you should stop at is
if this is just a research project in A.I.
don't do that.
Really, again, make sure that you're working on something
that's business value and make sure you're willing to learn
from what that is.
You don't have to be a Facebook or
a Google or an Amazon to do this.
There's plenty, I brought
up Starbucks, brick and mortar company.
We work with
Procter & Gamble, they're a 180 year old company.
There's a startup that actually took some of the work that
Microsoft did and it improved it, so they're improving on
something Microsoft did.
So there's examples everywhere of
amazing companies that have no experience in A.I.
that are really pushing A.I.
forward.
- So a learning mindset, an agile mindset and you can
actually implement the latest and greatest...
- Exactly.
- Technology coming up.
That's fantastic.
Well thank you very much for being with us in the set.
- Thank you for hosting us.
- So we're wrapping up this episode of the
Adobe Think Tank.
Do follow us #AdobeTT
Adobethinktank.com where you'll find lots of great
content on artificial intelligence
and the future of the enterprise.
Thanks again Jana.
- Thank you.
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So I guess today is the day when I decided I was going to actually do what
I said I was going to. I think a lot of times in life we make excuses on why we
can't do something, and I made a thousand & one excuses on why I couldn't and didn't
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bottom and I literally watched their channels grow. I just listened to their
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today was the day that I stop making excuses and that I actually did what I
felt as though I needed to do to at least get started. Starting is half
Once you start a habit its hard to break a habit. Its all about starting and
getting out there and putting it out there and just growing. So that's what I
had to learn that I need to get it out there and just grow from there. So you're
gonna be on the adventure with me. And you are going to watch this channel grow.
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progression of everything. For a while you may just hear my voice. You
may not see me. Just because of what I said earlier.
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resources. I don't have the proper camera to show quality. So it's like I'd much
rather present you with what I'm comfortable with presenting you, because
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The reason why I created Building Rome? Is because I was in a
position where I wanted to reinvent my my company. Which was Manuel Events which
IS Manuel Events (oops!). What I do, I do at Manuel Events? Is basically anything you
can think of that has to do a freelancing. So I design websites I design
graphics. I do freelance writing, promotional modeling. I create a lot of
things. And you know it could be written or visual content and I enjoy doing that.
And a lot of times I'll have people come to me....... and I feel
like I have a lot of information to offer, and a lot of ideas to get out and
give so I figured why can't I just help other people and a larger grand scheme
of things, and I don't have all the answers. I'm still learning I'm still
gathering information. I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things out and
being that right now I just solely want to focus on content creation that
necessarily doesn't pay the bills. So I'm going through different venues of
what I actually want to do, and what's actually going to help me live my life
and live a life that I want to live. Because you know you can live and be
alive in this world but not actually live. And just wake up every day and go
through motions. And I didn't want to necessarily do that. I don't want to
necessarily just go through the motions of life. I want to actually live, and
being that I recently, well actually it's been a couple years now, been sort of a
deep depression. I really want to get out of that funk and start living and doing
the things that I know that I'm capable of doing and just living my best life. I
guess that my best life is going to start today. It's going to be a process of getting
there, but you have to start somewhere. I just want to be a motivation
to someone else. I want to provide someone else with the support that you
know that they may need, because it could be lonely when you're doing something
that everyone else isn't doing. And it also could be lonely when you're working
from home, because you don't have maybe a co-worker with you, you may
be doing everything by yourself. You're your own self motivator and sometimes
it's easy to get discouraged. Especially when the money isn't coming in,
or you don't know where to go to about to get the money to follow your
dreams and sometimes you feel like you're just doing things and then you're
spinning wheels. So I decided to just throw out trying to do the being a
perfectionist. Sometimes you just have to get out there, and make those mistakes
and let people see you at your realest at your rawest. And just work upwards and I
think that people will appreciate knowing that you started from somewhere. You
didn't just get up on this elevated platform. And that you were just
there so I I'm starting to understand that a little bit more. Because I think I
was just so adamant about you know when I put something out there that I have to
be at the certain level that's because I know that certain people that watch me
they're looking for a certain quality of work from me. They have certain
expectations from me and I guess sometimes you just don't want to
disappoint people. You don't want to prove other people wrong, and you don't want
to prove other people right. So, At the end of the day , it's just doing what you're
comfortable with and just getting out there. You have
to, you know, show you a scars sometimes.You can't be concealed and covered all
the time. You have to go out there with your war scars and just rock those
scars the best you can and just live your life for you and not worry about
what everybody else is doing. As long as you have faith in what you're doing,
and it makes sense and you're not hurting anyone else you know I'm all about
positivity and just love and spreading that message suppose anything else. So I
think that I'm going to right track and I believe that as long as I am
consistent and persistent in what I am doing that, I know I can achieve a lot
and I will achieve a lot. So I think that just starting this is going to be a great
step, and I am going to be trying to actually get videos out to you. The
audience. On a weekly basis. Ideally if I can get four to five videos out to you
that's what I want to do. We'll be covering lifestyle news, business hacks,
business tips, resources, downloads. Just anything that I think
that's going to be beneficial for Work-Life-Play. So everything is going to be
basically directed for those who are in similar positions as I am. So those who
are trying to balance working at home and balancing a life. Right now I'm
solely in the house. I don't really have much of a life. I'm new to Georgia.
Actually I've been here for a little over a year, but I am "solo dolo" basically
other than my husband. But my husband you know, he goes to work. He works outside
of the home, and you know he has friends and family up here. But I'm pretty much just
solely reliant and dependent on my husband , and so I am usually in the
house. I'm not usually with him when he goes out just because I have became a
hermit and you know, I guess dealing with the depression, I don't, I'm not
feeling or I haven't really been my outgoing and adventurous self. So that's
something that you know, hopefully I will be able to overcome very soon. I know
its something that I you know I can move on from. But the goal is to achieve
those goals sooner than later. What else do I want you guys to know?
For now I'm just gonna be recording a lot of content on my phone and I'm
trying to have that content visualized to you guys within 24 hours. So you'll have a
24 maybe 48 hour turnaround time from the time that I record something to the
time that it gets either written, typed up for you guys, or is presented to you
in some type of visual type of way. So it's going to be different type of
forms that I'm going to be relaying the content to you. So
it may be that I may record something, then it may wind up being a part of a course.
Because I do want to do business courses. I might record something and it might be
a part of my vlog. I might record something and it might just be a part
of a blog. So it really depends on how I think I can use the information
that I'm creating for you. Also I believe in multi-purposing
things so I might create a video for something and then
two months later it turns into a blog. So if I could.. and this
is something great (tip) for you guys as well. Maybe this is your first
tip. Once you create something, you can re-purpose it so just because you
know make a GIF it doesn't mean that, that GIF
I'm saying G I F, that doesn't mean that GIF is going to stay a GIF.
It might then jump off to being a video, a video might jump off to being a GIF and
then that video might jump up to being a written blog entry or you know it might
then part of that article can then aspire another video. So it really does
depend and I actually have been writing blogs for you guys and just have not
created anything with it so that is going to be a big project for me this
week. Also I do have a few of my clients work that I need to do. Right now
I have about two clients that I'm working with. But yeah we need to
actually do more in these upcoming months and hustle a little bit harder because
they're not paying bills like they need to be, you know my what I'm working
on now , so that's what I'm really focused on. Trying to survive
at this point just like everyone else. "Survival of the fittest", but I don't
believe that my niche and my market is so slim that
you know the information that I have, that I give is going to be damaging. I believe
that its so much possibility for everyone out here that you know giving knowledge
is... I will be rewarded for giving the knowledge and I will be rewarded for
sharing what I know. I don't believe that giving knowledge
is going to be harmful. Because that was another thing that someone did express
to me. Like the knowledge that I have is worth a lot of money
and why would I just give out knowledge. I believe if you create a platform you
let people know that you actually do know what you're talking about, you will be rewarded.
people will pay you for what you know and you know, you have to
show your talent sometimes to get rewarded. I don't believe that sharing
your information, sharing your talent, sharing your gift and that's G I F T S,
Is gonna damage or hurt you. I believe that selfishness is what is
going to hurt you and damage you. I think that we have created a society in which
people are in it for themselves. They're chasing their own clouts.
They're wanting people to acknowledge them for what they have. The
materialistic opposed to what they have which is beneficial. The knowledge
that they possess. We listen to the wrong words sometimes we're not
listening to the words that's saying love, peace, harmony. We listen to the words
that have destruction, hate and violence in them and we're really soaking up those
words opposed to the love and I feel like we're starting to see a generation
of people that are battling with having Law Of Attraction opposed to
having ... actually we are actually dealing with a society where we are
seeing the Law Of Attraction at a great height, but at the same time were
seeing people attracting so much negativity that it's hard sometimes to
you know, just to bear it. And to watch that, they are really attracting this
negativity and they're okay with it and other people are just spreading the
negativity that they're seeking and that they have attracted and is
like why would you want that negativity with you. But I feel like we can change
that. It's not too late to change that. I feel like the "Secret" opened up, the
book the "Secret" opened up a lot, and if you haven't heard about Rhonda Byrne or
Byrne. And that's Rhonda, R h o n d a, Byrne, B y r n e
I believe that's the correct spelling. I'll include it in the video and the link to her work for those
who are not familiar with it but I feel like when she you know brought it to a
lot of people knowledge or brought it to a lot of people attention I should say. It
did bring a change a positive change and people started to talk about it more.
It's just by is the same as Gandhi. Like what Gandhi was saying about Karma. I
just believe that eventually that more light will be shined than darkness.
And I hope to play a part in that. I really do, I really hope to be a force of
positivity and appreciation. Because I do appreciate a lot of people and I
appreciate a lot of things that they've done. I respect a lot of people. I respect
a lot of things that they've done. But what I won't do I won't publicly
disrespect anyone. I will speak my mind however I'm not going to intentionally
disrespect someone based on something that A) they can't change. I
don't discriminate. I just really want to spread knowledge,
positive messages and I just want to be a positive Influencer, because I want to
influence some people. I want to be a positive influence. One thing I'm going
to say is I'm not perfect. I don't pronounce words perfectly. I
may not even execute perfectly at times.
But I do move with a purpose. I do strive to be a positive person and I try
to strive to be someone that can inspire other people and just because you are
someone that doesn't maybe make every move their best move. I am one of those
people that learn from every move, mistake and life decision that I have
made. I've learned from everything positive or negative. I am a very observant
person and I believe I have a lot to offer and I know that I have a lot to offer.
beginning of a lot of great things. As we begin to grow the channel and I
say we meaning you (my audience) because without a audience I'm just a girl
sitting in a room speaking to herself. So with your help I plan on
growing and having other people on my channel grow just as great as I want
to grow myself. So I will also help other YouTuber's & I'll feature people
who I believe are like minded. Who are trying to do things on my channel. So I
really do want to just be supportive for everyone that's out there that's trying
to do what I'm doing. On this channel you'll see resources
that's going to help you get over certain hurdles and these are not going to be
things that I'm just suggesting that I don't even do. And that was another thing
that took me awhile... because I want to actually live in my truth. I don't want
to just suggest things and say "oh you should do this" and I don't even do that. Or it's a
site that I went on once and I'm like "Oh well it looks legit"." Other people talked
about it." So we're not going to do that here. I've gone on other channels
and I'm soooo appreciative for the knowledge. We're just going to say that, but I felt
like once I got onto the to the site... and I don't believe I'm an
unintelligent person, so I went on and did the things that they would
suggest, and did things that I knew that had worked on other platforms, or
that should work or put in the work that I needed to do. Just to find out that, hey
it wasn't what it was hitting for or it wasn't hitting like they said that it was hitting for
important and it was a waste of a day or a waste of a week or however it may be.
So I've decided that I just want to present only what I know is really going
to help people. I might mention things and say "hey you know this, is
what it is". But I'm not going to say "you guys should sign up for this", because you
know it's great or its.... (DANCE BREAK QUEUE :)
I'm not going to refer you to something that I am not going to
do myself. I'm not gonna say "oh you should do that" because they given me a
dollar for telling you to go there. I don't
believe in that. So that's another reason why it's taking me a while.
In addition to that, I did years worth of research on things just to have
a computer crash and with that computer crashing, I learned a lot. I
learned about backing up things. I lost clients over depression, over
technical difficulties. So with all that
I had to learn. I had to you know gain knowledge for all those missteps. Because
nothing's a mistake when at the end you get what you need. Their missteps and
even a misstep can be a beautiful thing at the end. As long as
you're learning from something you can call it a hiccup. You can call it a
learning curve but it's not a mistake. Because we went through whatever we went
through for a purpose and a reason and that purpose and reason may not be seen or
felt at that precise moment but when you have your reflection time which we all
need. We all need at a time to reflect on things that we are having a hard time
dealing with. Or even a reflection time to think of where we've been.
And when you are having that reflection time you really should
be sitting down thinking okay "What is it that I did to get to where I am? If I'm
in a negative space or "How did this experience that I'm hiccuped on, that I
have a current hiccup on?" "Why is this in my life?" "How can I gain knowledge from
this experience?" "How can I learn from this experience?" "How can I be a better
person because at the end of the day it's about being a better person being a
better wife being a better sister being a better if you're a mother mother I'm
not a mother yet but being a better mother or pet owner whatever it is that
you're in life you got to be the best version of that they joke around and say
things like if you're gonna be old be the best ho you can be you know II mean
not about mam there wasn't but um you know if that is your purpose in life be
the best that you can be at it and at the end of the day be just be a good
human being being a good human being is just being respectful for the person
next to you we're not going to we like love or enjoy being around the
person that is right next to you but you have to respect them because it's just
it makes life so much harder to walk around with a frown on your face having
anger towards someone that will not matter two minutes from now but not
matter a year from now we get hooked up on people that will not matter in our
life directly you can make a comment on the Internet and people are up in arms
up in the air about people that do not matter in their life if if a celebrity
makes a comment and you don't agree with it what's the purpose of bashing them
online what is the purpose just ignore them I'll follow them if they if they
offend you so much don't buy the next record don't support the next project
just just live your life and so you're going to see um on this channel some
celebrity news but the difference with this channel when we feature when I'm
gonna feature celebrity news it I don't want to do the whole baby mama drama she
slept with this purse and her booties on the Internet
she's half naked here half naked there and don't get me wrong I love to read it
watch it I subscribe to it um I just don't want to spread it and there's
nothing wrong with that I don't want to have to do the word to make sure that
this is reliable because I don't want to be tossing off fake news out here so I
respect the people that do the research to make sure that they're not spreading
big news and I respect the people that decide they want to highlight those
certain things because it is entertainment it's just that this
channel is gonna be a little bit different and you know I like I said I
respect everyone that's doing it but I decided to do something different so
we'll have just positively if the segment's gonna be called
positivity famous and it's just gonna be positive work from our people that we
you know look up to it the entertainers out there
so whenever let's say it's announced that you know little Wayne I'm just
putting names out there a little cam or somebody like that does something that
is positive like little Kim just got a reward I want to focus on the word that
literally Kim received not on anything that people that were there that did
that might have deflected from her moment so I could I may choose to speak
about let's say that particular story but I'm not gonna mention all the
craziness that happen with with the other person that showed up because
there's not even there's not even need to mention his name because it wasn't
about him it's about a little camera and the beautiful thing that she received so
and I and I don't want to sit there and bash that person either we just want to
acknowledge them because what I don't want to do is I don't want to highlight
negativity I just want to focus on what's positive now if someone wants to
come in and they're like what this you forgot to mention that well I'm just
letting you guys know this is not about that it's about the beautiful thing that
happen not ugly so I mean and not to say it I I realized that we are in a world
that bad things happen and blah blah blah blah there's there are platforms
where you can go and get that information this is just going to be one
of those platforms where if you need a break from all that this is where you're
going to come to so that's this all I want to do is basically provide a safe
haven I guess on the internet if you want to look at it like that so that is
the goal of this channel is to provide information for freelancers creators
virtual assistants anyone that's working from home
is gonna be based on you're gonna see information basically it's going to help
you get employment set up your your home workspace balancing the - managing your
money when you're when you're working from home life hacks on how to save
money because you know because we are not working
a traditional 9:00 to 5:00 you know once a client leaves you you can't get an
appointment so you want to make sure you have you know a reliable continuous
stream of money coming in especially if you don't have a mate's of a line or
your mate doesn't make as much money to cover everything that you have going on
and you know everyone needs to work so if this is going I think that this is
going to be a great place where you can go and get that information that's
actually going to help you survive opposed to spending hours of doing stuff
it doesn't make you any money at the end because I've been there done that and
probably still going to be doing it and not to say that we're running your own
business there's gonna be times when you're going to be doing things it's not
gonna make you any money and that's part of being a boss being a boss is about
doing the grit in the crime and if you're not prepared to do the grit and
grime it's gonna be hard to be a boss so in and that's going to tell you maybe I
need to go and get a traditional nine-to-five and there's nothing wrong
with that because there's people everyone is different so there's nothing
wrong we having a traditional identifying you may need to try to learn
how to balance your traditional nine-to-five along with their at home
along with your family in order to get to the point where you're just working
your at home job and I've done that as well
so there's going to be different things that applies different people but I feel
like wherever at your end you'll be able to come here
and get what you need to be a successful person everyone be budgeting things like
I said it before because a girl gotta be what is it bad in Russia so and then
doing so you know I'm on a budget so a budget bad and bougie girl so um I also
believe that you know you can't work 24 hours a day so that's where the
entertainment is on the lion and then music reviews and all product reviews
because I've been basically around things the whole life trying out
products so I'm gonna actually start doing those reviews for you and get them
out there so you're not wasting money one obviously things that don't work I
am going to that I don't want to you know be on sites you know I don't want
to bash anyone review so you know if you're like well why didn't you review
that it maybe I might have reviewed it on a personal level and just didn't come
out with it publicly because I didn't have anything positive to say about it
um I just don't want to also you know go around bashing products
I just won't recommend them if I don't believe it they're going to be useful
for you guys and for myself so yeah so everything you see in this channel is
gonna be endorsed you know for future endorsements it's gonna be things that I
actually personally even use believe in and support so yeah so there's a lot of
great things coming up there's gonna be freebies on this website on I already do
freebies on the Builder wrong website so if you guys want to go to there and
that's WWE Rome okay so as Nava comm is a dot TK so it's building Rome and yes I
should know how to spell building Rome but if you don't and you can check it
out in the description below but it's bu il T ing the word roam
are ome and it's gonna be dot T like Thomas kale a kangaroo that CK um and
I'm trying to think is there anything else that you guys need to know I don't
believe some but they're like I said I'm gonna be pushing out four to five videos
this week alone so y'all have more of an insight about me what's going to be
coming up and story cuz I have an interview scheduled for next month and
we're gonna have any views every month if not more on a regular basis have a
radio station or actually yeah a radio show I should say that is gonna be
starting to be released on a monthly basis by Shane yeah on a monthly basis
starting in July and you'll have any views on there this YouTube channel is
gonna be more frequent and we're just gonna really be out there so you know
hopefully building Rome will be everywhere we're gonna have a
subscription box I'm excited about that so you'll be able to get resources
directly to you I'm gonna give the option of having a inbox so you can get
it directly emailed to you if you don't mind you know anything sent to your home
and then we'll also have great things for people who want to get on big
content and you know sense of them in the hub you know we're going to do
popcorn different popcorn a different mug a month for those who aren't
interested in that so there's a lot of great stuff that's coming up I've been
working hard on this to get some things that I know that's going to be
beneficial for everyone so it's not you know I woke up one day decide to do this
I actually have been planning and researching and and putting together a
lot of stuff a lot of great content within the last few years and today is
the day I said you know what I need to get out of my booty and do what I need
to do to get this some dream accomplished I know your
father wants to get this back but yeah that's part of it so you guys secure the
bags right and for those who don't know where it's a care the baby that means
gotta get that money you have to everything needs money so then in a day
that's the truth of it is is that we need to make money to survive so I want
to help you will make money to survive just like I need money to survive and
then the day I can give all the tips that I want to you guys at the end of
the day and I'm telling this to myself at the end of the day it's all about
actions you can't sit there look pretty unless your model but unless you know
you but even with the modeling you have to get up you're off your butt and go to
the audition you have to make sure you're there on time and make sure
you're taking care of yourself because you know if you're not putting insert a
certain type of work then no one's gonna want you so even when people said well
all you have to do is there's that there look pretty as I know I had to live a
certain lifestyle I had to be there I had to show up I had to apply so you
know whatever you do whatever profession it is you had to start you had to apply
you had to walk yet to get there so even in this fight the the easies of a job
for the hardest of the job you had to start it you had to put in the effort to
show up and just like YouTube you have to shit put in the effort to show up
even if you just sit there and record a video and talk your talk you had to at
least turn the video on sit in front of your computer so what I'm doing now is
take an initiative and I'm I'm starting to do something and it feels good
actually and I think once this becomes a habit it's going to be even greater so
that's all that's for you guys today so today is because I want I believe in
accountability and that's another thing that's gonna help you and help me stay
on track is a calendar so today is Sunday June the 24th 2018
and it is 250 1 p.m. so what I have going on today is I have to my husband's
at work it's um dodo solo for the next couple of hours I believe so about 8
o'clock I'll be probably sitting down to eat dinner so from let's say from here
it's about 7:00 um I have to you know get this video out there to you alright
work on this video so my goal is to have this video to you there tonight or about
tomorrow morning um and that's pretty much all I am gonna be focused on and
all I have to make a post on Facebook which will last me about a minute to do
that and I should you have some other stuff I need to do but my main focus is
going to be getting this videos to you that's that's number one there's going
to be something like a word from the creator or
you know a minute with the creator or something like that even though this
video already it's gonna be about 40 minutes long but um I just want to be
something that's continuous I do have a vlog reality type of show that I started
a part of me wanted to put that did this entry with that but I'm going to do this
just as a solo entry and there's something else you guys are going to be
able to be privileged to see is my when I do my vlogs and it's more or less a
lot of my blog is right in I started in April because of the camera situation I
didn't actually report anything but it is heavily documented and I have a you
know a dream for that as well so you'll see all
of this as it's being released and since I am speaking about it it will be in a
be you know produced and it will be actual factual since I am speaking about
it I want to bring into light which you know you guys will be a witness of that
whenever it is released because in my head I have a target time frame but I
know that you know it takes time and you know everything great sake son so with
that said I want to be ending this video and which is right now as I'm recording
but you will see it as a video and
expect the next video Monday June the 25th sometime and that video I am I
believe that video maybe the video that I started with starting off as a creator
so that may be the video that we will be releasing tomorrow but that video will
be definitely out this week and yes so then and then we'll have more videos
with you getting to know me so that might be part of the vlog series those
videos so yeah with that being said um thank you so much for listening to this
whole thing and I am I
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