Choosing to do the impossible makes it possible. On the other hand, saying that something is impossible gives it an invincible strength and forces human creativity and industry to surrender. Once a person chooses to do what others claim is impossible, then the task is brought into his realm of control.

Once upon a time, it was impossible for man to see farther than his natural sight allowed, until Galileo chose to try to see farther, resulting in the discovery of moons and planets, galaxies and distant suns.

For a long time, flight was impossible, and now our skies are filled with birds of steel.

And even in the days of the Wright Brothers, flying in the sky became a feasible idea, but beyond the Earth?! Impossible!

And now, on the 60th Anniversary of our landing on the Moon, missions to our closest planet are being planned.

Look at all the things around you that where considered impossible 1000 years ago, 100 years ago, 10 years ago. Now apply this to yourself: “Its impossible for me to be rich”, Its impossible for this relationship to work, Its impossible for me to be, have, or achieve…”. Speak these words and they will become true. Your creativity will give up on it and you will accept the “fact” that its impossible. But say “I chose to be wealthy” “We will make this relationship work” and “It will come to pass that I shall be or have or achieve…”, then not only will you discover a way, you will make many unrelated but equally valuable discoveries.

You will do the impossible.

Note: This was originally written while I sat in a jail cell and is the result of others telling me that it would be impossible for me to recover. Had I believed them, this site, and my life as it is would not exist.

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So you have probably noticed some redecoration around this site. I am constantly in a state of change and improvement, so the appearance and layout of this site reflects my pursuit of perfection. One thing that will never change, however, is the main subject of this site is taking back control of your life from the forces around you (people, ideals, misconceptions) that try to prevent you from achieving the life and the success that you should have.

There are alot of sites out there that share this theme, but the difference here is that I teach from the perspective of the “urban hustler”. Since I began using that term, I have received negative reactions, since neither the words urban or hustler are usually used in the same sentence as the word business. But urban hustlers arent drug dealers, pimps, or pool sharks. So what is the real definition of an urban hustler?

19 Million Strong

If you are success oriented, seek to combine street smarts with business smarts, and upwardly mobile, then you are one of the 19 million of us that are identified as an urban hustler. Alloy Access, an urban and multicultural marketing group recently conducted a study where they specifically define the term Urban Hustler as “an emerging and powerful consumer market”, and “ethnically diverse with aspirations to succeed and a shared set of passions”. This study presents alot of interesting finds about our group, including:

• The “urban hustler” comprises just over one-fifth (21%) of consumers between the ages of 12-34 and is responsible for nearly one-third of spending across critical influencer categories including entertainment, technology, and fashion.
• Nearly six in ten (61 percent) live in urban areas and are Black, Asian, or Hispanic.
• They moreover believe in their own influence – almost three-quarters (73 percent) characterize themselves as someone their friends seek out for advice on the latest trends.
• Urban Hustlers are spending 45% more on clothing, accessories and shoes than non-urban consumers each month.They spend 2.5 times more each month on sneakers than non-urban consumers: close to $6 billion per year on the latest “kicks.”
• More than half (54%) own a laptop, higher than the overall market. In addition, Urban Hustlers are more likely than non-urban consumer to use cell phones frequently.
• Though personalities like Jennifer Lopez, Oprah Winfrey and Jay Z top their list as those they’d most want to be like, most (22%) aspire to be like Bill Gates, who easily beat out P Diddy (6%).

Who We Are

Members of this group usually arent born into lives of privilege, nor are they given an easy path to college. The result is that they gather knowledge from mentors, the examples of those who have succeeded with similar backgrounds, and trial and error on top of formal education.

The beauty in our school of hard knocks over traditional classrooms is that we have skills that cannot be taught in any classroom, and whatever holes exist in our business knowledge can quickly and easily be filled resulting in a ruggedness and  multidimensional skillset that the average college graduate does not have. Examples include Kwame Jackson, Dr Steve Perry, and Michael Lee-Chin, who leveraged their street smarts combined with higer education and business savvy to become some of the most successful people on the planet.

Not all of you that read and subscribe to this site fit this category, and thats ok! Even though my perspective is that of an urban hustler from Atlanta, the information here can help empower anyone from any walk of life in any country (side note: I just found out I have subscribers in India and Nigeria)!

World Domination is about producing the same information that the men mentioned above used to gain their positions in life. I am dedicated to making this more than a virtual community. In the future, World Domination will expand to become programs dedicated to leadership management and training, networking events, and multimedia products. Rather than being just an informational portal, World Domination will become an actual portal, opening doors to new heights

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I hear people talking about their goals day after day, and one of the things that I am starting to notice is a) how many people have the same goals and b) how few of them actually achieve these goals. I started looking into why exactly these goals, New Years Resolutions, and the things on to do lists go unfulfilled, and that led me to identifying the 4 keys that, if applied to goal setting, would make accomplishment almost guaranteed.  Here’s what you need to get em done…

Laser Like focus

If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.

If you walk around town with a little shovel, you’ll just end up digging thousands of little holes, not one big one.

Call on one person ten times and you might make the sale. Call on ten people once each and you will likely get ten rejections. – Seth Godin

Once you have figured out what it is that you want to succeed at, you must commit to that one and only action with laser like focus. How many of your goals remain unaccomplished after all these years? How many times have you committed to making the same New Years resolutions, year after year. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results, so if you have been juggling multiple goals year after year then its time to stop. Determine which one of your goals is the most important, spend all of your excess effort on the accomplishment of that one goal, and only after it is complete do you move on to the next goal.

This key should also be applied to your daily to do list as well. Most people go into work with as many as 15 items on their to-do lists, but the most effective managers identify only three top priorities each day. And their self-esteem is stroked repeatedly when they cross off all three tasks, day after day.

Time management

Finding the time to accomplish your goals has a lot to do with whether or not they actually get done. Oftentimes, we get so caught up in our day (rush hour, putting out fires at work, handling family issues, PTA meetings) that at the end of the workday the energy to start working on your goals just inst there. To prevent this from happening, you have got to make time specifically to work on your goal by writing them into your schedule. This may mean compressing less important but still necessary tasks (like filing, answering emails, returning phone calls, etc) into shorter time periods. As a recruiter, I would schedule what I called “power hours” where I would focus on and do nothing but hit the phones. It took me one hour to meet my daily objective when others would take all day to accomplish the same amount of work.

Tasks will fill the amount of time allotted to them so don’t let any task take up more time than it should! Example: In Marine Corps boot camp, we were able to get more done before the sun came up than most people did all day because we were given 30 seconds to get dressed and 2 minutes to get across base to the cafeteria.

I should mention that when it comes to taking on tasks and doing favors (i.e. one of your associates stops by and says “excuse me, could you do me a quick favor?”) the two-letter word no is the single most effective time management tool there is.

Entire books can be written on the subject of time management, and have been. The absolute best is Getting Things Done by David Allen. This book has created an entire subculture of productivity addicts, and if used properly, the seconds you save become minutes and minutes become hours – creating time that you thought you didn’t have before.

Tools and Resources

As soon as you have decided what you want to accomplish, you will need to assemble the right tools to get the job done. If your goal is to finish college in 2 years, you will need to get the tools necessary to complete assignments as quickly as possible, such as a laptop, study guides, and agendas. If you are trying to get out of debt, tools like The Total Money Makeover with Deluxe Executive Envelope System and financial software like Quicken Deluxe 2009 would help you reach your goal faster than trying to scramble around and pay your bills as notices come in the mail. You wouldn’t try to fix a car with your bare hands, don’t try to fix your life without the right tools. In an upcoming post I will give you a list of the best online and academic resources to help you accomplish some of the most common goals that go unachieved.

Discipline

In my earlier post I wrote discipline is a practice, it must be worked at and maintained despite your feelings. There will be mornings you dont want to go to the gym, there will be evenings when you would rather go out with friends than work on a goal that you have had for years but never accomplished. Having the discipline to ignore your internal whining and get it done will mean the difference between writing that book or having it as one of your 2015 New Years Resolutions. Without discipline, you may as well stop wasting your time. However, don’t get discouraged if you slip up while building up your discipline; discipline is a practice and takes time to build. Stick to your schedule as best you can, get a support group, keep your motivation level high, and you will make progress.

I have kept these points short intentionally, since each of these four keys have either already been written about here, or will be very soon. If you were to apply these traits independent of one another, you will experience success to some degree or another, but put them together and you are almost guaranteed to accomplish your goals.

As always, hustle hard!

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Most sites similar to this one give you advice on subjects from a perspective that you really cant apply to your life. This post will give you 15 concrete things that you can put on your to-do list that will bring you closer to conquering your world. Doing these 15 things can change everything

1. Get brand cards

I talked about these in my post on selling yourself. I wrote that just giving someone your number isnt good enough. Having a brand card acts as a reminder of a conversation or previous dealing that someone has had with you. If you supply a service or product, you should assume that everyone you meet is a potential customer, and give them your card. The fact that they have your card will stick in their memory, and you may be the first person they contact when they need your services.

2. Create a vision (book)

A vision book is a scrapbook of images taken from magazines like Robb Report, or from sites like Hustle Strategy. These images are like your goals in pictures. I flip through my vision book every morning to set the tone for my entire day. Images speak to your subconscious better than anything else, and we know from The Secret that our subconscious is a major factor in achieving your goals

3. Identify your USP

Your USP, or Unique Selling Proposition, are the qualities that set you apart from other people. What makes you different from the average tax preparer, server, computer programmer, barber, nurse, man or woman in general? Figure out ways to communicate this USP to everyone around you, and you will attract more people in your life that can take you to a whole new level. One of my USPs is the fact that I strive for perfection. Since everyone knows my character, my social circle is filled with like minded people, I rarely have problems with finding jobs, and my customers give better feedback for my services than those of my competitors. So start by listing 3 things that really set you apart from other people, and figure out how to communicate these traits.

4. Create parallel industries

A parallel industry is any trade that operates in the same business environment as another industry without competition. For instance, in The Millionaire Barbers I mentioned Sipp the Surgeon, who customized barber chairs. His trade operates within the Barbering industry without actually competing with barber shops. Other examples of this could include becoming a fashion consultant if you work in a clothing store, becoming an in-home personal trainer, or creating an “underground expert” website for your city

5. Buy and listen to audio books in your car instead of the radio

If you have a 45 minute round trip commute to work every day, you have time to listen to 2 whole books on CD per week. These CDs can cost as much as $40 at regular bookstores, so check out Amazon instead for the best selling titles at great prices.

6. Wake up earlier

Use the extra time to knock out some goals, read, or work out.

7. Create a networking hit list, and a plan to meet them

Dont put 50 Cent on your list, since he isnt necessarily accessible to you. Start with 10 local celebrities like radio DJs, owners of major local companies, the governor, etc. Have a 30 second intro ready and be able to intelligently talk about how you can form a mutually beneficial relationship

8. Identify the area that you wish to be great in and get to work

“you do not possess a natural gift for a certain job, because targeted natural gifts don’t exist. You are not a born CEO or investor or chess grandmaster. You will achieve greatness only through an enormous amount of hard work over many years. And not just any hard work, but work of a particular type that’s demanding and painful.” -What it Takes to Be Great

9. Join Toastmasters

People judge you first by your appearance and secondly by your words and tone of voice. Toastmasters is a public speaking club that has chapters in every major city and region. Improving your mastery over language will boost your confidence and open up doors for you. Nobody will take you seriously if you sound uneducated, even if in reality you are a genius

10. Join a gym

A healthy mind cannot thrive without a healthy body. Additionally, the better you look and feel, the more confidence you will radiate – and people will take notice

11. Go on a weekend binge for 1 weekend a month

Make a list of 30 things you need to get done but havent gotten around to. Then, instead of taking that one weekend off, you work without stopping for the entire weekend until everything on that list is done. No sleep, no drugs or alcohol, no distractions. Drop the kids off at their aunt’s house. Let your significant others know whats going on and tell them to hold all non-life threatening emergencies for Monday.

12. Clean your look up

If you look like money you will attract money. If you look successful you will attract success. If you look respectful, people will respect you. No T-shirts, no du-rags, no flip flops.

13. Visit your city chamber of commerce

Chambers of  Commerce are just that, the places where the city’s money makers and power brokers assemble and network. Immediately meet with their representatives and see what opportunities they can offer you by way of networking, support, or simply inspiration. San Diego’s Chamber of Commerce has an office with floor to ceiling windows that look out over the entire city. Standing there, overlooking the city at the head of a long meeting table inspired me to hustle harder and was a peek at what was to come.

14. Buy and read a book from the Required Reading list

15. Save $5 a week

Sounds like a small amount, but for most people, its more than you are saving now. Increase the amount over time as your discipline increases.

Only by making the best use of the time you have can you expect to really conquer your world. Even though these sound like simple things to do, accomplishing these small steps has the power to transform your life now and in the future. And as this site develops, so too will this list.

Hustle Hard!

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