April 11, 2023 • 28 mins
Malik is motivating us this week!
He discusses the road blocks we all face in life…and how to get THROUGH them, with a real story that happened to him!
And Malik reviews The Wealthy Gardener: Lessons on Prosperity Between Father and Son by John Soforic, a book he never expected to review or even read...but fate drew him to it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My League books has how the knowledge you want? My
League books has how the knowledge you need? My League books. Yeah,
they have all the books that the whole wild world
want to read, My League Books. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to
Maleek's Bookshelf, bringing a world together with books, culture and community. Hi,
(00:23):
my name is Malik, your host of Malik's Bookshelf, Eversol.
Sixty five. WHOA. You know, I was at the Wrestle
of Mania last week and you know, we was imitating
Rick Flair who the whole time. You know, it was
(00:46):
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
(01:08):
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
(01:32):
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
(01:53):
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,
(02:18):
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
(02:46):
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,
(03:09):
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
(03:30):
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
(03:51):
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
(04:16):
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
(04:37):
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
(04:59):
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
(05:22):
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
(05:43):
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
(06:05):
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
(06:27):
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.
(06:49):
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
(07:10):
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
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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,
(07:53):
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,
(08:18):
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
(08:39):
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
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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.
(09:22):
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
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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
(10:10):
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
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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
(10:52):
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
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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.
(11:38):
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
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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
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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.
(12:44):
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
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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?
(13:27):
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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
(16:24):
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
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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
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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
(17:32):
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
(17:54):
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
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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,
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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,
(19:01):
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,
(19:24):
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,
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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
(20:09):
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,
(20:33):
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,
(20:57):
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
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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.
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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
(22:16):
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
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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
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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,
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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
(23:44):
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,
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
(28:01):
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
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for listening to m Leek's bookshelf, where topics on the
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My League books has how the knowledge you want? My
League books has how the knowledge you need? My League books. Yeah,
they have all the books that the whole wild world
want to read, My League Books. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to
Maleek's Bookshelf, bringing a world together with books, culture and community. Hi,
(00:23):
my name is Malik, your host of Malik's Bookshelf, Eversol.
Sixty five. WHOA. You know, I was at the Wrestle
of Mania last week and you know, we was imitating
Rick Flair who the whole time. You know, it was
(00:46):
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
(01:08):
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
(01:32):
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
(01:53):
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,
(02:18):
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
(02:46):
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,
(03:09):
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
(03:30):
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
(03:51):
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
(04:16):
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
(04:37):
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
(04:59):
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
(05:22):
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
(05:43):
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
(06:05):
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
(06:27):
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.
(06:49):
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
(07:10):
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
(07:33):
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,
(07:53):
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,
(08:18):
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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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?
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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
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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,
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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