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Happiness is the real rich. Health is the real wealth. Kindness is real cool and peace of mind is the real bag.

  There was a time in my life where I got caught up in a lie. - I was constantly out there chasing the wrong things. - I thought I was a big shot. Millionaire, driving a dope car, blowing money on booze and bottles at the club on the weekends. - Then the economic crash of 08’ knocked me flat on my back. - I lost everything. My cars, my wife of the time, my home went into foreclosure and there I was alone, in a hotel room, wondering how I’d managed to lose everything. - It was in those moments I began to realize what was most important to me. - Things that I’d known all along but had ignored because I was enticed to look and feel a certain way. - I’d put my faith in things that were material, things that will rot and age. - It was in those moments I knew there truth. That happiness was what I was after. True, lasting happiness. - In those moments I felt the real stresses of losing my family, not being able to provide for my daughter with one on the way. - I would trade all of the mo...