As part of a joint partnership with Monster Energy Drink and DUB magazine, Snoop is giving away his 1963 Coupe de Ville.

Snoop Dogg has added Monster Energy Drink to his ever-growing portfolio of endorsements, which has previously included T-Mobile, Pepsi, Adidas, St. Ides and Chrysler. The newly christened Snoop Lion will kick off the partnership by giving away one of his classic cars a 1963 Cadillac Coupe de Ville customized by DUB magazine with a Monster Energy paint job.

“Snoop Dogg came to us and said, ‘Hey, I’m partnering with DUB magazine and Monster Energy, how do we do something cool for somebody?’” explained Myles Kovacs, President and Co-founder of DUB. 

Snoop’s customizations include a matte black paint job, custom rims and Monster Energy insignia's throughout the ride. The Dub giveaway is part of Snoop’s ongoing partnership with Monster, which also includes a special surprise appearance from Snoop on the Monster Energy DUB Show Tour. 

How old you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

A time to be born and a time to die;
A time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill and a time to heal ...
A time to weep and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn and a time to dance ...
A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to lose and a time to seek;
A time to rend and a time to sew;
A time to keep silent and a time to speak;
A time to love and a time to hate;
A time for war and a time for peace.

So with this blog I would like to advise people to not give up when they only experience bad things in their lives, people must have faith of that good things will come because God good plans for all of us.

Of all of the forms of courage the ability to Laugh is the most

Creativity takes courage is one of my favorite quotes. It’s so true. Creativity really does take a lot of courage. When creative people express their emotions through their artwork, writing or music, and they present it to the world to see on the Internet, they in effect put themselves on the chopping block to be critiqued by everyone on the planet. It’s bold, it’s vulnerable, and it requires a certain level of self-esteem and courage.

I can’t even tell you how many times I've seen a post with someone’s fabulous creations, and the artist left a message to the visitors that reads something like, “Please be kind. I’m creative, so I’m fragile.” Even as recently as a few days ago, on a post I wrote that was very near and dear to my own heart, someone left a comment that said, . Whether intentional or not, Internet readers can be ruthless and seem heartless, there is no question about that.

However, if you are a creative person, I want to encourage you to strengthen your courage muscles and not let anyone else in your life, online or offline, steal your joy or make you question your sense of creativity. Be bold, keep smiling, and most importantly, keep doing what you are doing! Here are five ways you might find useful for building your courage. I wrote these with bloggers in mind, but I hope they will be useful for any creative person who is struggling with their own sensitivity and trying to learn the art of being courageous.

The statute of Limitations has expired on most of our Childhood trauma

To know something, to know anything at all, is to live. If we have and know that we have information we may rightfully conclude that we are living. We may also safely say that without information we would not be living. It continues from the beginning of our lives to the end of them. There are no breaks in between. It is one long continuous story that matches our lifetime. When we exist, not only do we and our minds exist but the information that we have also exists.

 The information is a record of all our experiences, joys, and sorrows.

 It is the key to our appreciation and knowledge of the world. All the input that comes to us via our senses and from our thinking is somehow immediately stored as data in our memory for later recollection, reflection, and comparison. Without this data, and without the ability of our minds to interpret and understand it, we would have no being. There would, for us individually at least, be no existence, no consciousness, and no reality. We would not exist.

Only Bad things happen quickly

When we think about things that alter our lives in a moment, nearly all of them are bad phone calls in the night, accidents, loss of jobs or loved ones, conversations with doctors bearing awful news. Virtually all happiness producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time.

Its true much of the worthwhile changes in our lives take a long time, and as such we may not even notice the changes. We are an impatient people, we want a quick fix, we can’t wait for months to see change. We need to learn patience, we need to learn perseverance, we need to stick with people when others fall away because they are tired of waiting. We must not give up!

Be Bold and Mighty forces will come to your aid

Have you been trying to come up with a work from home business idea but not sure what to try?

Are you looking for a way to begin your own home based internet business, but don’t have your own product or service to sell?

Does the idea of having your very own work at home internet business excite you, but you have little to no internet, marketing, or sales experience?

Are you tired of allowing others to control both your future and your financial destiny as well as dicate how much money you can earn?

Are you finally ready to do something about it?

Aside from the financial benefits, A few of the major conveniences of affiliate marketing over traditional type businesses is that you have no obligation to track orders, mess with shipping, or handle customer service. The company or companies that you affiliate with handle all of that. All that is necessary for you to do is generate qualified and targeted traffic to their website and you reap the monetary rewards.

In addition to earning income based on the products or services that you personally refer, most companies offer what is called a two tier affiliate program. A two tier program pays you not only for the products or services that happen as a result of your referral but also pay you a percentage of commissions based on other peoples referrals that you have a part in referring into the program.

IF NOT NOW, THEN WHEN?

If it seems that I am simplifying the process, I am.  Do you want to look in the mirror some day and see an old man or woman and say where did my life go?  When I look in the mirror, I see an old man, but I have done everything I ever wanted to do in my life!  So what have you been putting off?  Ask yourself what you need to do today to start to accomplish it.  About thirty three years ago, I realized I wanted to be financial independent!  I put together a plan to accomplish that goal by age forty.  I took my goal and broke it down to daily tasks.  I monitored my progress weekly, adjusted my efforts to meet my goals and I accomplished my financial independence at age 38!

You have to take responsibility for your life!  Stop making excuses and start now to go for what you want.  If you don’t have the skills, get them!  If you don’t have the training, get it!  Get whatever you need to meet the challenge.  What do you need to do to lose weight?  What do you need to be financially independent?  What do you need to do to get out of debt?  Remember success is the accomplishment of the goal.  Lay out your plan and execute it.  Your plan must work for you, so personalize it.  When I was trying to lose weight, the vending machines at work could undo my efforts so I never carried money.  That worked for me!

What are you doing to meet your goals?  What are you doing today to meet your goals?  What excuse is keeping you from your goal?  Successful people don’t make excuses, they take action.  The difference between an excuse and a reason is clear.  An excuse is an explanation of why something failed blaming someone or something.  A reason is an explanation where everyone takes accountability.  For example, I want to lose weight, but I do not have time to go to the gym.  Stop making excuses and start on your dreams.  Let’s start a trend, better yet a movement toward accomplishing your goals, dreams or fantasies!  What do you think?

...Watch this space...

Next year is my year of drama and prosperity, God willing, I intend to change the way I live and the way I do certain things. Just watch this space, I promise you my image will not be the same come January 2013. I plan to be extra fashionable in the way I address as the world is changing at a rather faster pace. Another alteration will be on the perception I have on men, I mean all men. I intend to be more flexible to allow men to also have a say on decisions I make, be it on a social or corporate level.

Besides, keep on watching this space because I am definitely getting what I want in the shortest possible time and of course it is something that I will cherish very much and therefore, I mean to share the joy of having it with the whole world, I mean with those who know me. As a woman of virtue, I hold the power to get what I want with on doubt or fear. I am not going to say it now for it is a huge surprise and if I did you will watch this space no more. So, hang in there and watch this space.

Why I have conversations

Sharing information makes my life seem easier and helps us to survive, and if someone agrees and can relate to what I am sharing I feel better it helps knowing that you are not the only one. In social media when we update our status we looking for attention, connectedness and information from others that are far from us.

Most of the time I find myself talking to someone when I value their conversation however when I am quiet around you it’s mainly because I don’t like you.  

From a public relations perspective I have conversations to ensure that I strategically manage the perceptions of others about me, well that is not exactly true. Below I have listed the conversations that I have on a regular basis.

Conversations:

1  I have real conversations with God, because this helps me to release anxiety and fears even though I sometimes feel like no-one is listening it helps to have faith and read scripture to find direction.

2  With my friends, because it helps to know their situations are often worst than mine, and if they have no news to entertain me with, we always willing to change the topic and make it about someone else with gossip and deep feelings.  

3   My mother ‘the preacher” as she is always pretending to be Doctor Phil trying to sort out everyone’s issues but her own.

4   With myself to suppress negative thoughts and be positive.

5  On social media channels with status updates and little random promotions about myself and new activities which can become annoying but it is just to starting a conversation. 

100 THINGS YOU DIE

1.     Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.

2.     Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.

3.     Swim with a dolphin.

4.     Skydive.

5.     Have your portrait painted.

6.     Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.

7.     Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.

8.     Watch the launch of the space shuttle.

9.     Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.

10. Be an extra in a film.

11. Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.

12. Make love on a forest floor.

13. Make love on a train.

14. Learn to rollerblade.

15. Own a room with a view.

16. Brew your own beer.

17. Learn how to take a compliment.

18. Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.

19. Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month.

20. Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.

21. Be a member of the audience in a TV show.

22. Put your name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.

23. Send a message in a bottle.

24. Ride a camel into the desert.

25. Get to know your neighbors.

26. Plant a tree.

27. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no.

28. Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine.

29. Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.

30. Learn to ballroom dance properly.

31. Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.

32. Be the boss.

33. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally.

34. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.

35. Sit on a jury.

36. Write the novel you know you have inside you.

37. Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.

38. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once).

39. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.

40. Be someone's mentor.

41. Shower in a waterfall.

42. Ask for a raise.

43. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.

44. Teach someone illiterate to read.

45. Be one of the first to take a flight on the new Airbus A380.

46. Spend a night in a haunted house -- by yourself.

47. Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time.

48. See a lunar eclipse.

49. Spend New Year's in an exotic location.

50. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.

51. Experience weightlessness.

52. Sing a great song in front of an audience.

53. Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date.

54. Drive across America from coast to coast.

55. Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.

56. Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.

57. Write your will.

58. Sleep under the stars.

59. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.

60. Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it!

61. Go wild in Rio during Carnival.

62. Spend a whole day reading a great novel.

63. Forgive your parents.

64. Learn to juggle with three balls.

65. Drive the Autobahn.

66. Find a job you love.

67. Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.

68. Overcome your fear of failure.

69. Raft through the Grand Canyon.

70. Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.

71. Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.

72. Grow a garden.

73. Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.

74. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.

75. Accept yourself for who you are.

76. Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.

77. Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

78. Go up in a hot-air balloon.

79. Attend one really huge rock concert.

80. Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date.

81. Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors.

82. Give to a charity anonymously.

83. Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas.

84. Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes.

85. Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab.

86. Fart in a crowded space.

87. Make love on the kitchen floor.

88. deep sea fishing and eat your catch.

89. Create your own web site.

90. Visit the Holy Land.

91. Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.

92. Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.

93. Create your Family Tree.

94. Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.

95. Make a hole-in-one.

96. Ski a double-black diamond run.

97. Learn to bartend.

98. Run a marathon.

99. Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile.

100Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.

My Big Fat Dream

I am chasing my big fat BIG dream, though; it’s not an easy chase.
Patience is a virtue in this quest.

The hunt for this enormous dream requires proper planning in order to have direction.
Of which direction results in being focused on what I want to achieve.
Oh, Yes! Determination, the courage and strength to go on is needed as this is a complicated road.

It’s a road full of many serious obstacles; ditches, bumps, people congestion, blockage of the mind and fear of risk taking and failure.

My chase of the big fat BIG dream, I can assure you has been the most devastating ever although, the most rewarding one as victory is evident.

This quest has now made me too deeply understand the Portuguese term (Aluta Continua-A Victoria E Certa), which Angola and Mozambique used during their liberation struggles.
In English the term means “The Battle Continues-As Victory is evident/certain”.

I believe every big fat BIG dream requires the craziest chase ever, the chase of a life time. Chase your dreams to the fullest.

Most amazingly, I am almost there.

Conventional is a good fallback position isn't it?

At least people know that once they go conventional no one will criticise them because they are conforming to accepted customs. However, once a person deviates from what is “formal”, confusion starts.

Although, not all customs are good for everybody and for this reason, somehow those who “stray” from them are unfairly treated.

Besides, I would say being conventional is being afraid of taking up risks. Though, this norm (conventional) is dangerous in today’s society, where people need to be creative and innovative to survive. This is because the modern generation is comprised of individualised persons who have capitalistic minds.Not afraid to take on new challenges to improve the standards of living. While this kind of thinking has developed globally, it is still regarded as a threat to tradition. People here see things totally different from the olden good days. Now it’s all about me, the other people don’t really matter, anyways; I will only need them when time comes. 

 In the past, people depended on each other for survival; the success of a member of a family was the whole family’s triumph. One would say that the reason for so many problems at present is due to man’s divergence from what is considered right.

The good logic is to have both and thus be conventional as well as an activist.

You cannot chase two rabbits at the same time

….or so they say.

I have experienced the nasty pain of this once before. I was chasing my dream of becoming a public relations professional, can’t wait for that dream to become a reality, and while chasing that dream it seemed that I lost so many aspects of my personal life along the way. My studies were blossoming and I was enjoying every moment of it, however I lost so many friends, friends that I thought would be a part of my life forever. It is sad to think about the difficult decisions which had to be made. Although, there are many days when I still feel sad, and I miss my friends terribly, I have to trust the Lord that I have made the right decisions and that it will all be worthy it in the end. 

So, however much I wanted to catch both rabbits, in my personal and professional life… I had make a decision.

When choosing which rabbit to chase, make sure that you think about it before you decide. Remember that the chances of ever catching the other rabbit are slim to none. 

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