AMAZIN BRAKE

1. Stop fantasising: Those with too rosy a picture of the future tend to put less effort into reaching their goals. Instead, it’s better to be open to some things going wrong. It will help you see the obstacles - and think through beating them.

2. Visualise process NOT outcome: If you can think through all the steps you will forge a better plan … and it will also help reduce anxiety.

4. Beware of the “what-the-hell effect”: Too many just give up when they stumble or fall down. For example, think of all the dieters who binge at the first hurdle. It’s better to get up – and see a trip as very

5. Attack procrastination: It’s easy to procrastinate when getting going’s tough. Make a start, keep your head down, and set yourself some deadlines. Once you start you’ll feel much better and the road won’t seem so hard.

6. Switch out of robot mode: A lot of behaviour is robotic and habitual. We copy other people or we do “the same old, same old”. Take stock … and change those patterns … if they don’t lead to your goals.

3 young Sudanese men killed ‘execution-style’ in Indiana, but where is media coverage:

Police in the US state of Indiana say they are yet to identify a motive for the “execution-style” murders of three young Muslim-American men last week, in a case that has barely caused a ripple in mainstream media in the United States

The three men - 23-year-old Mohamedtaha Omar, 20-year-old Adam Mekki and 17-year-old Muhannad Tairab - were found dead in a house in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on Wednesday,

The men, who police said hailed from Africa’s eastern Sahel region, had all been shot multiple times. Police said the murders were not believed to be gang-related.

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com

 “Eidi Mohamed, 20, a student, remembers all three of the Sudanese boys in middle school as “really into sports, specifically soccer.” “There are a few news channels here covering but it really isn’t getting attention like the Chapel Hill shooting” he went on to say. Asked whether or not the area has a history of overt racism towards Blacks or Muslims Mohamed recalled, “I’ve always heard about racist things going on in Fort Wayne, parts of Fort Wayne have a lot of African Americans and African Immigrants.”  -http://muslimmatters.org/

Since the media won’t cover the story, we will. Sad to see that the few times the media covered this story, they tried to paint the victims as thugs, criminals, etc.  This story is just as important as any other story repeatedly talked about in the news. 

PLEASE REBLOG, SHARE THIS STORY ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA, ETC. LET THIS STORY BE HEARD. WE CAN’T BE QUIET!

HERE IS A LINK TO HELP:

https://www.launchgood.com/project/ourthreebrothers#

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These make-up companies have had years and years of production, and just like these lingerie companies, they’ve had years and years of complaints and requests to make products for women of darker skin.

Yet, only now that a few black owned companies have emerged, and are gaining steam, do these “Giants” decide darker tones are important.

Don’t be fooled. They’re not catering to you. They haven’t, finally seen the error of their ways. Their plan is simply to crush the competition so that they can continue bleeding your pockets.

Don’t ONLY support your own people until these giants decide you’re trendy. Support those who thought of you from the beginning, who’s inception was built on the notion that WE deserve better for ourselves.

pushing for more taxes on the rich

favors equal pay for women

wants higher minimum wage

pro-choice

advocates for protecting the reproductive rights of women

has voted multiple times against anti-abortion policies

co-sponsored bill to ensure access to and funding for contraception

pro-gay rights

voted against constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman 

voted against banning same-sex marriage

wants to improve criminal justice system

voted yes on funding alternative sentencing instead of more prisons

reduce recidivism by giving offenders a second chance

voted yes on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment 

voted to legalize medical marijuana 

wants better education system

voted yes on $84 million in grants for Black and Hispanic colleges

sponsored extending subsidized federal student loan rates until 2015

promotes conservation of the environment - prioritize green energy

loosening immigration 

make it easier to become citizens 

voted no on reporting illegal aliens who receive hospital treatment

voted no on more immigrant visas for skilled workers

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Publix, the fastest-growing grocery chain in America, isn’t a corporate giant that exploits workers, but an employee-owned company that’s more profitable than any of its competitors.

Unlike Walmart’s hourly workers, who just got a raise to $9 and $10 an hour, Publix workers get a piece of the company after putting in 1,000 hours and working for the company for over a year. Each employee-owner takes home an additional 8.5 percent of their take-home pay every year in stock options. According to Forbes, 58,000 of the company’s 159,000 workers are on track to become owners, and the company makes sure each potential owner gets a broad sense of the business by rotating them through its grocery sector, distribution network, and real estate division.

This year, Publix was ranked as one of FORTUNE’s top 100 companies to work based on an anonymous employee survey, which asks questions based on pay and benefits, working conditions, communication with management, and diversity. Publix is only one of 12 companies to be consistently listed by employees as a top place to work every year since the list’s inception in 1998. But Publix isn’t dominant in just the grocery industry — its pharmacies are also consistently outperforming top pharmacies. A 2013 Marketforce survey of customers at CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, and Publix rated Publix as providing the most satisfying customer experience.

That high rating by customers is the driving force behind Publix’s success. CEO Todd Jones — who was a Publix bagger in the late 1960s — told Forbes the company’s success depends on keeping customers happy. In 2007, Publix ranked first in the same American Consumer Satisfaction Index that ranked Walmart last.

“We believe that there are three ways to differentiate: service, quality and price,” Jones said. “You’ve got to be good at two of them, and the best at one. We make service our number one, then quality and then price.”

To take supply-side economists at their word, a company that puts so much time and money into customer service, and shares profits so recklessly with so many workers, would mean they’re going broke, right?

In comparison to the biggest grocery store chains, Publix is the most profitable, posting $27.5 billion in 2012 revenue, and profit margins of 5.6 percent that same year. When compared to Walmart’s 3.8 percent margins, along with Kroger, which only made margins of 1.6 percent, Publix is eating its competition for lunch. Even though Walmart pulls 16 times more in annual revenue, the employee-owned chain still has over $100 million more in cash and investments on its balance sheet ($6.8 billion) than Walmart ($6.7 billion).

And despite the company’s altruistic actions toward workers and customers, it still manages to provide lower prices than Walmart. This 2012 chart shows prices of essential items at Publix and Walmart, and shows how much Publix shoppers save by not spending their money at Walmart: