Road Blocks

Rick Flair who the whole time. You know, it was right here in my backyard, right here in Inglewood, right at the so Far Statium, and it was electric and the people were electric and exciting, and people was in character. I had a one the full time. You know, I grew up watching wrestling and it's it's it's you know,

a lot of people say, oh, that's fake. Listen, it might be scripted, but one thing for sure, you're gonna have to be athletic to be a wrestler, and you're gonna have to endure a lot of impact on your body. The reality is that, you know, this sport was exciting and we had a wonderful time, and whoa, that's all we were doing out there and we were throwing up the ones for we are the ones, and we were just cheering, and so many people they was in constones, you know, and it was just a fun time. It

was a fun time, had a great time. When I saw this wrestler Mania was coming to La Hollywood, wrestler Mania goals, Holly Wood, I had to give my tickets and we had some good tickets and we had a good time at the Soul Out Soul Far Stadium. Who you know that came from Rick Flair. But now this episode is entitled road Block. I'm going back to the basics, book reviews, inspiration, community, back to the basic So enjoy episode sixty five Roadblocks. My motivation for this episode, it's

called roadblocks. Road blocks, roadblocks. I believe it's in everybody's life and their challenges. The question is what are you doing to overcome the road block? We all have them. Well, I'll tell you what I do. I've tried to find the fastest and most effective method of overcoming the road block, or going around the roadblock, or going underneath the roadblock, or going over the top of the road block. And

it always work. It don't always work, but at least I tried to come up with some strategy or tactic or just spontaneous because sometimes you got to get over a roadblock in an instant. Sometimes. Man, I was at a track meet and this young lady, these two young ladies,

they were balanced. It was like neck and neck, side by side, and they were on the outside lane and all of nowhere, I guess, they bumped each other and one of them fell on the ground and rolled into the lane just on the inside, and another runner who they were she was beating, was right behind her, and she had to make a course correction. She had to make a decision. This rod block just got in her way, this body and she running with these spikes on the

bottom over shoes. I mean, you ain't got but a split second to make a quick decision and go over and get through that robot. Go over that rodbot, go underneath that roadblock. Oh guess what she did. She hurtled over that rod block. She jumped over the girl and kept running and finished the race. They were running the two hundred meters and she finished the race. Now, I know that might have been frightening. I know that might have been you know, scary. Here you're running full speed

and out of nowhere. This girl just falls in her lane. And this young lady didn't want to stop. She didn't want to quit, so she hurled over her and finished the race. And that's what you got to do sometimes when roadblocks get in your way. You know she heard over hers. How are you gonna get over the roadblocks in your life? Because we all got them, we all need to, you know, overcome them. These are just obstacles

in your life. But the reality is that you got the power of the ability to force to get through any and all roadblocks in your life. Let me tell you about an incident. Um I remember I experienced years ago on the freeway and this could have this could have ended in depth though this roadblock now here. I'm driving along, were hiding out the Vegas and got my sons were hidding knowing out the Vegas. You know, we're traveling down the freeway. I'm in h the fast lane

the farthest to the left. I'm going about seventy right and out of know where this car, this is a full five lane highway out of nowhere. This car blew by me on my right side. Must have been going over one hundred and something miles an hour, and you could see smoke coming underneath the tide. That's how I mean. They went by me like I was standing still out of nowhere. Now, you know, it was a time when there would be a bigger lane on the left hand side,

the emergency lane on the left hand side. I guess you could say where if something had you can pull over on that side as well as the right side. But in this case, there was no there. It was it was limited. It was not that much room. I mean, it had a little space on the left side for emergency. But anyway, this car man blew by me and it was going, man, I don't know one hundred twenty thirty. I don't know because I'm going seventy and it went by me like I was standing still. So let me

tell you what happened. This car right in front of me went out of just blew by me. But then it went out of control. It turned, it turned left into the barrier separating you know, both sides of the highway. So it crashed into the barrier, the big CEMKE blocks and what have you on the on the left side, and boom, and I'm and I'm driving right there in the fast lane and this car is now in front of me, crashed into the barrier, sitting there with the

front end. You know, I guess it was then to the passions side because they that car like a slinky right and I have much room. I had to make a split decision, a split second decision. Oh my god, I can't stop. A matter of fact, I ain't even have time to look to the right. I ain't you know, if I stop, it wasn't enough time. I reacted because this roadblock was riding from it. I turned my wheel to the right so I can avoid hit on collection

right into that car, and I'm going seven. So you know, that jerk real quick made my cargo out of control. I'm going out of control and now I don't got them turn this wheel fast and try to get my car. It's leaning on some tires, a couple of tires, and it looked like it's about to rise up. You know.

It looked like I'm about the hydroplane and a couple of tires on the driver's side was you know, every time I would turn the wheel in that the direction of the swerve, then the other times it looked like they're about to elevate it. So anyway, I'm swerving, zigzagging on the streetway. I ain't even had time to see if anybody was on my right side when I pulled to the right, but I had to make the sales for decision. It was life and death, and I turned that wheel man to avoid getting that car and I

went out of control. And I'm just turning the cars trying to slow it down and get it under control. And I'm turning in the direction of the skirt of the swerving and then trying to just you know, keep it under control and slow it up man. And finally, you know, I was able to get it under control. Cars behind, you know, decelerated and we got under control. Where my nerves was shot. I made a split second decision.

I made a split second decision to avoid that role out there could have been fatal with me and my kids, and I was, you know, was blessed to avoid that collision. Saved my life my kids like or injury or what have you, and lived to speak about it and talk to you about these role blocks. Well anywhere, I had to pull off to the next exit because I got to get my nerves right. I had to get my nerves right because my nerves was shot, you know, I

or something like that. I'm like, wow, you know, it just unfolded in front of me, the implications that could have occurred as a result of this person who didn't value that life, let alone anybody else. Because why are you going that fast on the freeway? Who are you trying to impress? What are you doing? What's going on in your mind? I don't know, but I know one thing.

You're reckless and you put everybody in danger. You could have you you don't cared about your life, and you didn't care about nobody else's, and you out here going that fast and then your car get out of control, and then you crash into the barrier, and you know, and then it could have been a cascade of effect with every other car coming forth. So I give thanks to God. I made a split second decision to avoid the roadblock, hit on collision or avoided hit on collision

or avoid it crashed into that car. Yeah, I'm not gonna say hit on, but because his car was was hit, hit the barrier straight on and was sitting there, so I would have went through his driver side door because it looked like the engine was into the driver's side, so I would have went power applied. I would have plowed right through that part. Probably it would have caused me to probably go up in the air, who knows.

But anyway, I made a split sickness, a split second decision to avoid that collision, which was a roadblock, and I swerved to the right, not even knowing if a car is right beside me or anything, and then the car out of control and I finally got under control. Anyway, I made a split second decision to avoid the roadblock. And that's how life is. Sometimes you gotta make a split second decision to avoid a situation what could implicate

life or death. Sometimes you got more time to deal with a role block, but you know, but nevertheless, you gotta deal with it. You got personal role blocks in your life right now. You got personal roadblocks in your life health wise, relationship wise. You can't avoid it. You got to deal with it. Why are you waiting until something drastically happen when you have a chance to deal with the roadblock right now? Eat? You know you're eating the wrong foods. You know it's gonna be a cascadish effect.

You know, by eating all that sugar, you know you're gonna get diabetes. These are roll blocks. You got a chance to make a decision right now before it gets too late, before you get a heart attack from heart disease, you know, before you know you're in a relationship and you need to make it. You got a block. You got your roadblock there, you know, and it's disrupting your relationship.

You got issues on the job. It's disrupting you know, this roadblock is disrupting a healthy relationship on your job. You know you you you know it's right there in front of you. Are you refusing to do something about it? The course correct to make a change, to overcome the role block. Sometimes you want that promotion, You got some role. You got obstacles in front of the roadblock. How I'm gonna get that promotion? Do the work, find a way to get the job, to get that promotion. Role blocks,

we got them in our life. You gotta ambition. You know, you got kids, You got life, that's what that is. You got life, you got you gotta go. You got roadblocks. You got roadblocks you gotta overcome because you got obstacles. These are roadblocks. You got obstacles you gotta overcome. You gotta overcome them. It's part of life. And I know I got personal I got a lot of roadblocks in

different areas, but they got to be addressed. They're not you know, you know the definition of insanity, right, doing the same thing expecting a different results. Well, hey, that roadblock ain't going away, So you got to figure out how to overcome it, how to address it, how maneuver around it. Bottom line, you gotta deal with it. We all got them, we all got him. But recognize that you gotta do something. Bottom don't overcome obstacles. These are

roadblocks there in your life. They're there for a reason. Everything happens for a reason. They in your life with that car coming in and blowing by me and all collision or hey, I might not know what the reason it is, but there's always a reason. You know, there's always a reason, and we need to overcome these roadblocks.

And I like it. So anyway, that's my take, that's my you know message today on the podcast Milik's Bookshelf bringing a world together with books, culture and community Roadblocks Overcome my book reviewed for this episode. It's a book that was mailed to me at Milik Books as a gift. It was autographed, and it was a book with a little note by the author suggesting that he thought the book had value and that it would be a good read for me and if I didn't want to keep bit,

to gift it or sell it to someone. The name of the book is called The Wealthy Gardener lessons on Prosperity Between Father and Son, written by the author John so Fork. Now I get a ton of books. I mean a ton of books mailed to me every day every week for review, whether from the publisher of self published authors, independent authors, I get a ton. But for some reason, for some reason, this particular book by John

so Ford got my attention. I don't know whether it was depict you on the front, whether the father and the son, whether it was the title of The Wealthy Gardener, or I saw something lessons on prosperity. Nevertheless, less the book intrigued me and I decided that I would read this book. And boy, oh boy, this book was a

Jim The Wealthy Gardener. I'm still trying to dissect this book, and I'm going to continue to reread it because in the journey, as I read it's a book with fiction mixed with nonfiction because John support thought that his son could digest his book in the way without preaching to a son, and he would it would be more effective, more meaningful, and more enlightening instead with this approach, instead of just writing it completely nonfiction and coming across as

though he was preaching to it. So, but it's a book about the lessons of prosperity. The motivation, it's it's it's you know that John wanted to use the lessons he learned on prosperity and success as a as a real estate because he owned a real estate guru. He owned m a garden and he was nicknamed the wealthy gardener. And he found that his friends gave him that name why because he worked a lot. He worked, you know, he had a vineyard and he had a farm and

a restaurant. He had, you know, this business model that made him work a whole lot, and he was considered a work or harder. And he had these conversations all the time, or why do you work? So are what's good if you have all the money and can't enjoy? Oh, you know, it was just as he he didn't want to be normal, and he wanted to work to acquire financial freedom. That's what this book is about, lessons of

prosperity to become financial free. We're all all your money worries, all these problems that we get for a lack of money. He wanted to eliminate that by becoming financial free and being able to have enough money to change his life in a way than any obstacle that comes in his way, he had the money to address it. If he wanted to take a trip for a year, he had the money to be able to take a trip for a year. If he had a medical issue, he had money to

address that's the medical issue. If he was sued or what have you, he had insurance and money to have the insurance probably to deal with the situation. He just wanted enough money to have financial freedom and not have the problems that money had the lock of money produces in people's lives, and that was his driving force. And this book it's about three hundred and fifty pages, but boy, oh boy, is it powerful. Every chapter I found insightful

and relatable and very on point, easy to read. Powerful lessons I mean powerful. He takes you on a journey, I mean you start to see yourself, You start to see like He used this one parable in this book

about four people dying, each living a different life. Each their book of life was unfolded before Saint Peter's and each person to make something of their life, even if they was of average intelligence, even if they wasn't born with much, even if they had the car stocked against them, grew up in a house fatherless or motherless, or was an orphan, that there was an opportunity because you had time.

You had the same time, even though you might start in the back at the time twenty four hours a day, to make a change in your life. And these four people that he talked about, um, they opened their life up to Saint Peter's and so he could judge them. They all two of them was sent back to the earth as one as a cow, so be so he could just you know, eat grass his whole life, and

the other so he could work his whole life. Because they didn't take advantage of the opportunities that they were afforded in life despite their situation, and so Saint Peter's judged them in a way saying, you used to go back as a cow and see grass and the other your ox thats you was born of of of of talent and failed to use it. Then I'll just let you work hard and be mindless like an ox. Sent them back. See and just one lady, you know, to

two women. Um what one of the ladies was sent back, well, one of the ladies sent back there as a cow, and one of the men was sent back as the ox. But one of one of the men was sent back because he was a good person. Um, he helped other people. Um, he worked hard. He didn't have much, he wasn't born with a lot of talent, but he was afforded the opportunity to go back and just you know, live a

meaningful life and be helpful towards others. And then the female she excelled more sold than her talents and her abilities, and she was very helpful and she was engaged in the community. So he you know, he sent her back, you know, as an angel, because she was sold Um, always giving and always working hard to improve upon her

quality of life. So she was sent back his anger anyway. Um, it's just all these lessons in here, particularly the lesson in this book where Santos, who was his operations manager, he was going to afford him an opportunity, but he needed for him to offer his time to help improve a punt the farm that he brought next door, and he wanted him to cultivate the farm, make something of the farm, us his imagination, improve upon it. But he needed to do he needs need to run his Why

he went out of town for about a year. He wanted to Santos to make sure that he maintained his business, his vineyard, but also developed with his imagination and find a way, a creative way to make the farm next door turn that around into a thriving business. When he came back, you know, he found that Santos didn't do nothing with the farm next door because it didn't wasn't associated with any profits, any increased income, any increased moneys.

So basically, Santos say, I'm only motivated if you're gonna pay me so, But if I'm not, why would I give up my time to cultivate this farm and I'm not gonna benefit money wise from it. So, unfortunately, John had a gift that he wanted to give to Santos. If he had shown his place, he put in position of authority to run his place. And to develop a new business and so doing he would have. His intent was to simply if he could show profitability and then

develop the farm next door. He wanted to gift Santos the farm next door. I guess they were be in business together. He wanted to It was a long sir, It was I mean, he was one of his best and longest workers in his business and he wanted to elevate him. But he had to show that he was willing to make a sacrifice in his absence. So it was like a test. But at the same time Santos failed.

Sometimes we get gifts in our lives and opportunities of lives, and we don't take advantage of it soon because we're looking at to get something right down for it and the bigger pictures what we're gonna get later on down the line. If we would just accept the opportunity, the challenge you had to me. Instead of Santo saying this opportunity, maybe you know, I'll get promoted or maybe something of value will come out of this, he left me in

this position of authority. He put this extra weight on me, instead of me using that as an opportunity to elevate into advance. He saw it as a burden and he didn't do nothing. So hey, like I said, this book right here is relatable, is mind bunding, is thought provoking. The Wealthy Gardner Lessons of Prosperity between Father and Son by author John so far it. Now, I'm gonna have to order this book for the store, but you can

rest the show. Pick this book up at Beligue Books, and I'm gonna be coming back with you with someone some more of these lessons that I'm learning from this book. But this book right here is very, very enlightening. Thanks for listening to m Leek's bookshelf, where topics on the shelf are books, culture, and community. Be sure to subscribe and leave me a review. Check out my instagram at Beligue Books. See you next time.