In America, financial success is a choice.
Educational success is a choice.
Healthy eating is a choice.
Being informed is a choice.
Traveling is a choice.
What city you live in is a choice.
Your environment is your choice.
Exposure to art is a choice.
Meeting all kinds of people is a choice.
It is all a choice.
It might take a little hard work
Little perseverance
Little open mindedness
Little coachability
Little sourcefulness
But at the end, it is a choice.
Surveying “Muslims” is illegal
Asking citizens religious questions by federal employees is illegal
Identifying citizens based on religion is illegal
We will have a 1000 more Snowdens if you break the rules and try to hide it like cowards
And we have enough lawyers to sue you up to the next elections
And we have survived worse regimes to come to this country
And we will survive you.
Don’t threaten others, because people look pathetic and weak when they threaten.
Veles Macedonia : #1 village generating false news on facebook and online on the world. They do it as a business. More hits more money from Google Ads. Over 140 fake news sites. Mostly pro Trump.
Study shows saying “I don’t” is more powerful psychologically than saying “I can’t”.
For 2017, make a list of your “I don’ts”.
“Clothes are our chosen skin”
Ok … as an Arabic person, I can’t change these three things:
1. I need sugar in my black tea
2. I eat eggs with bread
3. I need rice to exist
Now tell me how am I going to do a diet 😕?
The only way is to increase my activity.
Is there any boot camps around other than the Michigan Militia?
Increase this year = 73%
Number of deaths= 33,091
That is the number of people who died out of prescription and synthetic opioids last year.
That is more than the American casualties of:
American Revolutionary War
War of 1812
Mexican–American War
Iraq/Afghanistan Wars
Philippine–American War
What’s wrong?
– greed of pharmaceutical companies and their lobbies
– culture of promoting stimulants and mode enhancers
– culture of over prescribing of medicine
– culture of family decay
– demoting of values and principles in society
If you drink a Redbull or a venti Starbucks, you are part of the problem really if you think deep about it.
New facts to be considered by start ups and HR departments:
Fact: 68% of Millennials prefer one‑on‑one advice for financial matters
Action: offer personal mentorship program among employees.
Fact: 57% of people place benefits and perks among their top considerations before accepting a job
Action: work on putting an employee perks package in addition to the benefits package.
Facts: 88% of Millennials want to work in a more social environment where their coworkers are their friends
Action: create a social environment and invest into social events and facilitate your space to accommodate working in teams in a friendly environment.
Any time you are applying force to something, you are damaging it somehow.
Wissam Charafeddine 