Spiritual Awakening: Turn The Beat Around!!!
The year was 1976 and Vickie Sue Robinson had just recorded this song. I was one of the kids who started doing all the break dance moves and even went as far as laying the cardboard our on the side walk with a box for people to put money in it. I donated a large majority of the monies to charities like The Muscular Dystrophy Association and March Of Dimes. It is hard to believe that it has been 39 years since the release of the song but each time it comes on I still feel like busting a move and shifting vibrations. I no longer spin on my head but have been know to do a cartwheel when the spirit moves me. As I reflected back on those days when I was 11 years old I came to realize that I was about service and value even back then as I ran my first charitable event, a backyard carnival for The Muscular Dystrophy Association. One could say that as young as 11 I was spiritually awake but didn’t realize how GOD was using me as a conduit to spread a message of peace, love, joy, and prosperity through charitable work. Through the years I have always believed tat helping others is important. Every year GOD kept giving me messages and putting me in places where I could be of service and value.
In 1978 I was introduced to the group, Kansas, whose song Dust In The Wind has become an anthem for me during the spiritual awakening process. 1978 was also the year of my Bar-Mitzvah and that year can be traced as the start of my devotion to GOD and beginning my spiritual journey of exploration. Since that time I have forged a spiritual connection with JESUS Christ. I have come to believe that everything is possible through Christ who strengthens me.
In 1983 I was graduating high school and I began to realize that with everything we do in our lives there is always something their to remind us of the ones we love. On the spiritual path these reminders may come in the form of butterflies, flowers, a special song, or a memory triggered by passing by a special place like the park where you shared a kiss, or a tennis court where you shared special moments, or that swimming pool where you set some records. There is always something there to remind you of the joys you had and sometimes the anguish. As the years go by the anguish lessens and the joy starts to fill you as you move forward in a positive direction of your dreams.
Imagine instead of using chips and playing for money that you would purchase Tokens of Appreciation for www.tofa.us and at the end the game everyone would agree to share the coins with others and regardless of the hands that were put together that night at the poker table everyone would benefit because there would be more of these tokens in the world. 
The other day I went to www.nike.com and through NIKEID designed this sneaker to wear at my Relay For Life. The right side says BEAT and the left side says CANCER. As I was discussing the sneaker and showing people the photo I got the idea to contact NIKE and suggest they make the sneaker available to the general public. Today I took action and called NIKE Customer Service and told the lady about my idea to have NIKE Produce and sell the sneakers and give a percentage of the proceeds to The American Cancer Society Relay For Life. She loved the idea and said she would buy a pair. She took the information and said she would forward it to the right people. She gave me the world headquarters number for NIKE and guess what I called it and was put through to The Community Impact Person. I left her a message. LIke Prince Charming has his quest and pursued it we must have our quest and pursue it with relentlessness as we can achieve our visions if we take action and eliminate that which is holding us back. People may have told me that I was crazy and NIKE will never go for this. My answer is you don’t know until you take action and ask. Look inside and ask yourself what is it that is stopping me from taking action. My mindset was what is the worst NIKE will say, we are not interested. You never know until you take action.