HBCU It's not just a School 10 Lessons Attending a historical black college teaches you that you

One of the great things that I learned from going to an HBCU school is that there is power in numbers. I absolutely love waking up every day and getting ready to go to class and seeing 100’s off Brown faces just like mine focused and dedicated to learning and growing as people. It taught me that the more the world tried to divide you from other people of color the more important it is to know about everyone’s religion, culture, and paradigms. The better you can understand someone the more you see that at the core we as "people" we aren’t very different. That realization helps you to help more people on an interpersonal level. You build a stronger sense of community. Our magazine tagline is One land. One society. One as people. United as one. I learn to develop that philosophy unconsciously us from the essence of that environment. HBCU point of difference black college experience is mind altering, to say the least. With that, all said these are the Top 10 Things that I noticed was different about my education as a brown woman at an HBCU school versus the knowledge that a lot of my friends that attended traditional Non-HBCU walked away with:

1. Raise your Standard: Lasting change is greater than goals. Make it a must (human beings follow through on who they think/belief which they are). Identify yourself in a new way where it becomes your new standard then find a way to make that standard real. Changing your life is a modification of the inner game. Make it easier on yourself and model success.

2. Be Truly Fulfilled. Find your passion. Risk being yourself. Even if no one else gets you embrace who you are. Don’t feel limited by what society tells you to box yourself in. Believe you are awesome. What’s your gift?

· Talent: artist, style, impact, skill

· Manager/Leader

· Entrepreneur: take the risk

3. Ask yourself what fulfills you the most. That means work on yourself. Figure out where your power base is and to work on the alignment of your personality your gift that you have to give the real reason why you are here. Also, fill yourself up and keep your cup full.

4. Progress= Happiness: (You Don’t have to work on change its automatic but progress isn’t) You have to take control of the process and not just hope that it will work out. We are all seeking the same thing: we want to fulfill the highest, truest, expression of ourselves as a human being. That is the only way we can make the world a better place.

5. Be Resourceful: Whenever people fell to achieve their goals 99% of the time it’s because of a lack of resources ($, time, support) Real leaders maximize their resources and don’t believe in limited resources. Don’t be realistic believe you can do things no one else think are possible. Learn from people doing it right and pull those ideas/strategies into your life. Resourcefulness is the ultimate resource.

6. Pay attention to the little things: if you fail to make the call, check the books, say sorry, push your physical limits. (if you fail to do all the little things you will never have success when the big opportunities show up) You can’t seize your opportunity if you aren’t ready. When you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready! Luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. Everything that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment to come.

Also, give other people opportunities when you get to where you were going like the chances that people gave you. Let their light shine, never think you are so big that you can’t give people a chance.

7. Look for leverage: not delegation (when you delegate you to know everything that you want to do, and give it to someone else, and get pissed off when it’s not done.); but when you leverage something you choose to do it with someone and be a part of it. You make sure they understand the outcome, the purpose, the why, but you let them do there. You get everything long before you actually need it, so there are no surprises. That gives them time to let them change things if there are problems because it’s a partnership. That’s true LEVERAGE. Activities without high levels of purpose are the drain of your fortune. Leverage is the ultimate power. Help your friends be bold: see the greatest in them and help them to believe it and see it in themselves.

8. Don’t be afraid of losses: the most successful people learn from their mistakes. Take a chance. Decisions are always based out of love or fear. Ask the universe for things you need don’t’ be afraid. You can fail at what you don’t want so take a chance at doing what you love. The key is to understand the next right move. When you focus on that moment of failure won’t define you it will just help you to see the next good move and not to be overwhelmed by it because you know your life is bigger than that one moment. Always be competing -never get complacent win/lose/or draw just keep growing. Never stop working your butt off. Only work to work hard live by that in everything that you do. But remember to put you on your calendar if you don’t see you as an important, valuable no one else will. Balance work with Play. Don’t be afraid to honor yourself.

9. Change Your Mindset: Think big! You don’t get big things by accident always aim for the stars. Train yourself to believe something positive. Give your words intention. Whether it’s with incantations or prayer, don’t just speak it embody the phrase with all the intensity that you can and say it enough repetition its fixated in your head to the point the conversation is always the same. It gives you what you want. Use your body and your voice. Don’t hope! Demand in your speech. Don’t just speak it. Visualize your success. See it in your mind and believe it’s true.

10. Read, read, read: the more you know about the things you feel passionate about, the easier it is to speak your mind with positive intentions to the world fearlessly.

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