On the road to greatness!

Can you imagine being only 24 years old and having a billion dollar goal? Well, Labron James at the tender age of 24 wants to be the first billion dollar sports brand. Asked what you get when you buy into his brand...his answer simply was, "You get me!" Wow, how fascinating to be so confident in yourself and so young at the same time. Against all odds he fired his professional public relations people and hired his buddies. Why did he do that with the entire NBA world thinking that he was crazy? "Because I know and trust these guys", stated Labron. He describes his strongest asset as "the way I approach the game mentally....I think team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed. Because I'm always thinking about how can I help my teammates become better." Powerful words from a young man raised by a single teenage mom. She would have to send him to live with friends occasionally, because she didn't have any place for him to stay. He never got into trouble, because this young single mom, didn't give him the option of failure. Although, at times, she didn't have a home for this boy, she knew to instill in him standards of greatness. She also, with help from his basketball talent, kept him in private schools. So, if a women who is only 16 years older than her son can instill in him a sense of pride and expectations of excellence, why can't you? Why can't I? We must be doing something wrong. We must rethink our power in our children's lives and stay consistent. No one else should have more power over our children's lives then we should. Not society or the media or anyone. We must understand that our children get their inner strength from us. Our children do what we allow! Stop allowing failures to exist in your home, stop being a failure yourself. Don't be afraid to take risks and go against the crowd, just like this young man has done. I'll end this blog entry with Labron's own words. "You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed. You're not going to succeed all the time and I know that. You have to accept failure to get better!"