“It’s OK to be cool, but not HOT”

Women, please stop referring to men as hottie”, this is a freaking T.V. term you picked up from frying your brain on too much, wait……..waaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy tooo much T.V. and pop culture gibberish.

Men are “good-looking, handsome, charming, even COOl,  but never a Hottie!

Hottie sounds..gay, girlish, feminine, or whatever word you like to  make you remember not to use it, when referring to a good-looking man.  ‘Hottie”  is in no way “manly”

My name is Mack Thomas and I approve of this message.

This message is brought to you by MEN.

Peace , Love, and Joy,

Mack T

No Peeking!

Are you  praying and hoping for a  miracle(s) in your life?,  so are millions of other lost souls, including yours truly from time to time.   These people are playing GOD, trying to figure out when and where this miracle is coming from and from who…STOP this NON-SENSE!!!, it will only drive you crazy.

Every time, I have caught myself doing this peeking(trying to predict where and when), I’m so wrong  all the time, that I finally stopped trying to figure it out, and just started living.

 

 

If you pray daily, walk calmly, wait patiently, you have done all you can do…GOD will do the rest.

…And remember, when this miracle appears “out-of nowhere” in your life, please, please, do not, I repeat, DO NOT  try to explain it, exclaim it, intellect it, or even dissect it…just accept it, and ENJOY!

Peace, Love, and Joy

Mack T

Change Is GOOD!

Selling Home Security Systems for a living is a blast, and sometimes break your heart, along with your confidence.   I’m much better than when I started selling them at taking the good with the” not-so good”.

What changed?….A close friend and confidant enlightened me to the fact that every 24 hours, the wind changes, meaning the exact opposite of what you experience now will be totally different within 24hours, be that good or bad.

I started thinking, and I encourage you to do the same, that every time something not in your favor happens, remember …something good, better, or greater is going to happen to you within 24 hours.      I know, you’re thinking what about all the bad things that have been happening to me lately, etc, etc…., I say whine, whine, whine, and you will keep them coming to you.     I’m sure there’s no one under thirty here, so I say to you change your thinking to focus on what you wish to happen to you, it will be…..not like magic,… a little patience is involved, but you must be FOCUSED on what you WANT!!!

Peace, Love, and Joy

Mack T

Successful Gasoline Marketing, or something like that.

Remember the summer of 2008 , regular unleaded gas…averaging $3.80 plus…everywhere in your town the price was pretty much the same, which threw up a red flag for me personally that this is pure bullshit…the pricing that is.

Fast-forward to spring 2009, prices started to tumble down a bit, then decline a bit more…then F##$%king memeorial day showed up, and you guessed it…prices went back up.

Mid-summer , the prices start to decline again, and decline, and decline, but not quite under two dollars,  for regular unleaded.

Here we are today, fall 2009 with gas prices back where we were in 2004 and before that.

Gas Prices have reverted back to BNGP and WNGP..HUH?

Let me explain,   I’m in sales, so I do alot of driving, I mean alot of driving(avg 150-160milesper day) all around Atlanta, in a plethora of different social-economic neighborhoods.

I started to notice back in 2002 that gas prices had color too!!!  When I’m in a white neighborhood..prices are much lower than they are in  their black counterparts’ neighborhoods on the other side of the “Wal-Mart” or starbucks, or whatever term you like.

For instance, just the other day (OCT. 15, 2009)..WNGP(white neighborhood gas price), regular unleaded  $2.11/gal,  BNGP(black neighborhood gas price)  regular unleaded $2.49/gal.  The pictures are what it feels like is actually happening with these prices.  The whites price on the right, the black price on the left.

Please understand, that  I realize the is capitalistic America, which I am all for making as much money as you can handle…and then some…to give away.   This is crazy, stupid,  in 2009!  The folks who need the most help are the ones who foot the the bill for the ones who need it the least.

Same chain of gas stations..same gas…different neighborhood..different price.. I see this on a regular daily basis.     NOW that according to the media sources..”Gas prices are falling”, yeah right..only in the white neighborhoods!!!!!!!!!!!you figure it out.  Enough said . I’m done.  What do you think?

Peace, Love, and Joy,

Mack T

Do blacks get what they deserve?

As I stood in the long post office line the other day, I notice a lot of grim faces, more than likely related to the long wait with only  1 clerk working.  I smiled at everyone that made eye-contact with me.       Somehow, for some reason, the man with the more salt than pepper hair with overalls and  raggedy boots  in front of me wouldn’t turn around for me to greet him, so I initiated…”I love this rain”(jokingly)(it had been raining for seven straight days, several times per day)…he turned around, ” then come and mop up the water in my basement”(we laughed).  I finally got a chance to greeted him with a smile.

We made small talk about the weather,recent local headlines, his pending retirement from the  United States post office(he was mailing the papers on this day), then he dropped a bombshell!

He names several post office locations where he had worked, then he started to compare the service in those areas(mostly white neighborhoods).  I informed him that I’m in sales and  run a small business.  I shared with him that I  frequent many post offices to mail invoices to my customers and  was very familiar with all the locations he had named, and my daily schedule takes me to a plethora of zip codes throughout  the metro Atlanta area.

He stated, ” in those areas, white people don’t stand for this crap!”, they would write their congressman, senator, T.V. Station, whoever could and would make this line shorter.”  I agreed…” why do you think that is ?” I Chimed in.   “We always complain about things, we are not willing to do anything about.”…”we can’t get off work”, we have a lot of single parent households, so after work we’re too tired to think at all.” he continued.     He whispered.   “It’s a shame, that we don’t care about anything but ourselves these days “   “The post office has the money with these ever-increasing postage prices, look  in the white areas  where they have very nice, and new facilities and no one in line”…maybe 1 or 2 people”, the minute that line appears to overwhelm the clerk(s), someone falls from the sky(from the back room)…”may I help you?”  “it’s sad.” he said.

I asked him does  he have any  internet intellect(know how to navigate the internet).

“Yes, a little”,  he stated.  I shared with him that on the internet you don’t have to be somebody powerful to make powerful changes.  You don’t have to take off work, you don’t have to….he interrupted, ” but how many black people you think are going to take the time to really, and truely improve their community, unless it has something to do with some celebrity, materialistic item, or whatnot(a  person, place, or thing AKA a NOUN)?”   I stared him straight in the eye for a few seconds, then replied….The key is to not worry about who will not do it, it starts with you, you can start a revolution in this neighborhood.”  ” I don’t live in this neighborhood, but I know somebody, who does, which is you..I care about you..so it’s time to go to work on getting a better post office in this neighborhood.”     ” Thank you, Mack, it was very nice to meet you..I will remember what you said.”  I replied. “are you gonna do anything about it?”   he nodded.  we waved goodbye to each other with a smile.

This is a small feat  in the grand scheme of things, that can be accomplished, with a positive attitude and determination. I know this task  may seem a bit scary for this gentleman, who is not very abreast on the internet, but it can be DONE!

I think of this as “Practice” for a bigger goal.

It’s better to sweat in practice, than to bleed on the battlefield.

You see, it does not take a new law, or an invention to change the world…just good people doing good things….MAKE THAT CHANGE!

Peace, Love and JOY!

Mack T

Teen-AGE

Most teens want to be different, yet fit in with the crowd…HUH?  It’s true, they don’t know what they want.

Note:   The story you about to read is true, no names will be  used to protect the identity of my friends and our friendship.

case in point:  My friend has a teen daughter, who wanted a nose ring(stud).  She asked her mom, mom said “ask your father.”     Father said, “what did your mother say?”

This teen, being the smart one, who” knows all, be all”…..lied to her mom!  My friend’s teen  daughter told her mom that Her father said it was OK to get the nose ring.

The Mom, being a good parent(she thought), decided to go ahead and get this nose ring without  ever confirming with her husband whether this was a unanimous decision.    When this smiling teen young lady arrived home that evening with her new nose ring, her father only asked ” what is this” pointing to the nose ring, then angrily walked away.   He was livid!

My friend the day before had  invited several of us guys to his house that evening for a cook-out, “bonding” session, if you will. Unbeknownst to us, this would be a cook-out to remember!

A small disagreement started later that evening  about little nothings, then, you guessed it…He tormented,  tongue-lashed, and air-whipped(hand motions resembling physical contact) his wife  about getting a nose ring on a 16 year-old without his consent or forethought.   This got very ugly, very fast.

My friend went own  with his tirade about how blacks have been tagged(nose-ring AKA shackles) since slavery .   Shaking his nervous finger at his teen daughter with adrenaline over-flowing..” why do you want to be tagged now?.. at this time?…to fit in? you thinks its cute?  ” you’re no animal!  animals are tagged!”  ” this is stupid!”  ” this is pure bullshit, and I’m tired of this bullshit!”   looking at his daughter in total disgust        ” other bad behaviors had slipped through the cracks, but not this time! ”   ” Your mother let you get away with “murder,  out of sympathy or guilt or both!, but I’m tired of this Shit!”

A few other friends and myself, stood there in disbelief for minutes, which seemed like hours, because we never saw this much emotion of any kind from our friend.     We finally had to interject to  take him outside for some fresh air and  calm down , because if the police are called… it’s common knowledge in my part of the city…wife wins..man goes to jail!

all this  over a small lie by a  TEEN!

Teens are tough to raise, I know, I use to be one.   I now raise one, along with her tween sister….it’s a daily challenge.

You probably already guessed, I’m not a  parenting expert, but my rule: check, re-check, triple-check, then CHECK AGAIN! all facts, when in doubt about any information given to you by your teen.

All the information your parents gave you about raising kids(which is pretty much obsolete), does not apply this Day and Age.

Teens rewrite the rules everyday about what is or is not acceptable, thanks to way too much media exposure(internet,  T.V., video games, TV cartoons(30 minute  commercials) Advertisements, even ads  on their cell phones, and  just  pop culture in general), which has severely warped their rational, independent thinking.

We must take our teens  Back! from the media.

I’m not advocating that you do not trust your teen on some level, this will only cause friction between you both.

A successfully raised teen needs a lot of  LOVE, TRUST, an OPEN-COMMUNICATION.

NOTE * This does not insure that they will not go astray for a little while during these formative years, but given enough(Goobly-gobs) information about correct, independent thinking, they will find their way to back to a good life.

Peace, Love, and Joy

Mack T

Speed VS. Need

Q: why do we speed up when we reach the street where we live?

A: We know where we are going.

Q’ why do we slow down on a busy street in unfamiliar territory?

A: We need to find our destination or whatever we are trying to locate.

Q: What are we looking for?

A: we don’t know.

Have you ever notice the cars in the “slow lane” on the freeway?  They are not sure where they are going, so they are ready for the nearest exit to get off the freeway if something frightens them or does not look familiar.

To the contrary, notice the cars in the “fast lane”, they know exactly where they are going, and doing it full speed ahead.  True, they may have an accident, but that’s life…fix it  and keep moving..This is living!

Go through life as if you know  where you are going and undoubtedly, you will find your home.

Go through life always trying to figure it out…you will always be lost, never progressing to any new level in life.

Life is for the living, not the dead on the road, trying to figure it all out.

Peace, love, and joy

Mack T

A Chameleon is still a lizard

When you really want to change your life, you will no longer be associated with Chameleons just because you are a lizard.

Make that change!  Go for it!  The world will thank you later.

Peace, love, and joy

Mack T

Give out, Don’t Give up!

If you give out of gas to visit your next customer in the next town, you can start back up, once you acquire the money to get more gas.

If you give out of day light  to talk to your prospects for whatever reason, you can start earlier tomorrow to ensure success.

If you give out physically, due to exhaustion..take a rest, then start again fresh and anew, or if you give out of time to complete a project, due  to time-sensitiveness, then do your very best , then prepare better for your next goal.

BUT, if  YOU give up, You will never ever know all the previous statements were possibilities, because you felt overwhelmed and conditioned to QUIT.

Don’t be part of that crowd!

"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to
which you can aspire to reach." - Laurens Van du Post

Peace, Love, and Joy
Mack T

I love my job, I am my own Boss

“I love my job, I am my own Boss”

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