Shortly after I moved to Los Angeles from my small hometown of Texarkana, at the age of 24, with less than $200 in my pocket, I met a man that owned a car wash named Mr. Brown.  Mr. Brown's car wash was on Crenshaw and 42nd, and had been the first car wash to win the Best Car Wash award for Steve Harvey's Hoodie Awards.  Mr. Brown, was a 69-year old vibrant man that still washed and assisted his workers with the vehicles that came through.  The first day I met him, he invited me back to his house to meet his wife and other family members that were there. Later, I found out that people don't do this in LA.  After meeting everyone, we talked for a while and then we left.  While heading to the driveway to get back in the truck, he told no me, "We're going to take my other car!"  So, we headed towards the garage and as he opened the garage, I saw his older model, but very beautiful and almost flawless Bentley!  That was a nice ride back to 132 & Crenshaw in Hawthorne. That trip and Mr. Brown definitely left an impression on me.

Mr. Brown gave me a picture that I will never forget. I sure hope you will remember it as well. 

ALTHOUGH THINGS MAY BE SO HEAVY THAT IT FEELS AS IF YOU CAN'T BREATH because one situation keeps happening right after another, and after another, HOLD ON JUST A LITTLE WHILE LONGER. 

If you look at the picture below, they are both gasping for air, but one is trying to eat, while the other one is trying to not get ate! lol  So, HOW BAD DO YOU NOT WANT TO GET EATEN UP & SWALLOWED BY THIS LIFE? HOPEFULLY AS BAD AS THE FROG BELOW! 

SO...HOLD ON JUST A LITTLE WHILE LONGER! PRAY ON JUST A LITTLE WHILE LONGER! BELIEVE JUST A LITTLE WHILE LONGER. EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT!

CLAIM THE INCREASE~ SEE YOU AT THE TOP!

Armani Valentino, BS, CEOE
972-781-8404
www.armanivalentino.com

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"There is no PROGRESS without CHANGE, but there can be CHANGE without PROGRESS! Pray you're not mistaking CHANGE for PROGRESS!"

Many times in our mundane and sometimes not-so exciting lives, we tend to want CHANGE. Even when we look at the campaign that was used by the now President, Barack Obama, we remember the slogan, "A Change We Can Believe In."
Again I say, change doesn't always mean progress.  As a matter of fact, in most cases it doesn't equal progress, it actually takes us into a state of regress, but we perceive not..

Many relationships that most individuals leave, are usually because they want change.  Then when they CHANGE relationships and/or partners what they realixe is that although there was change, there wasn't really any progress.  Or if there is progress it seems to only last for a brief period in the new relationship.

As opposed to changing relationships in most cases in order to achieve progress, I would advise changing yourself within the relationship and progress will follow.  Most of the time, we are wanting the other person to change or wanting to change the other person.  If this doesn't work, we want to change to...another person. Again, all of this is exterior change, which rarely produces progress. In our minds it may, but even that change is short lived.

So, after doing this for year after year, relationship after relationship, we realize or should I say some of us realize that we just may be the problem, the common denominator.  Those that don't realize this usually quit and give up on relationships or whatever goal or discipline it is that they aren't making progress in.

So, again,"There is no PROGRESS without CHANGE, but there can be CHANGE without PROGRESS! Pray you're not mistaking CHANGE for PROGRESS!"   If you want more progress, you have to change yourself and progress will follow.