Before I go any further, 2024 is a Kobe year if you add up the numbers 2024 you will get the number 8. And just so happen the last two numbers of 2000 is 24 (the two numbers Kobe wore) This is NOT a coincidence. Just like New Year’s Eve is 12 31 23 or 123123… Moving forward, I would like to express how much I empathize with individuals that are going through times where they feel inadequate, unsure of themselves, feel they’ll NEVER get through those challenging moments in life, or just feel like NO MATTER what they do they feel like better days ARE NOT coming. I went A WHOLE LOT of days NOT knowing why I even existed on this planet. I DID NOT feel accepted by MY family, my father wanted to be around me, but due to his drug habits that had control over him he wasn’t someone I wanted to be around. I grew up with my mom who did the best she could, but even she couldn’t teach me how to be a man. She would ALWAYS tell me that if I couldn’t get A’s and B’s in high school AT least get C’s and that’s EXACTLY how I went about life before I came into Knowledge of self. My mindset was set up to have a C average mindset, or just do enough to get by in life. So, I pretended to be someone I wasn’t (getting involved in these streets) drinking like crazy, smoking weed, popping hella ecstasy pills, associated myself with individuals who pretty much was about that life, being reckless about who I got in the bed with, just to be accepted by others and feel like I was a “somebody” NO 🧢. It took EVERYTHING I had to break that curse because MY life wasn’t going anywhere. It took me to be honest with myself, call myself out, and take a different path, otherwise I wouldn’t have made it out of Chicago alive. That said, I am NO different from anyone else I just so happen to get off my behind and ALLOW myself to fight back rather than making excuses for myself, because I got stories too. My ONLY question for individuals is what lengths are you WILLING to go in order to be FREE from what’s holding you back from your greatness?