TokisoM Writes

Is that too much to ask for: to have a house with two bulls running the show. There is a thinking that women should know their place (be submissive) and men are taught to run the place (bread-winners).  But times have changed. Men and women have dreams, and everybody is fighting to make their dreams a reality. Because of my energy…I’d love a man with a similar kind of drive and most importantly respect and support for my hustle. I want a man who, when I bring work home, will make me that cup of coffee he knows I live on; a man who will read my work and give me constructive criticism, a man who will not only ask how my day was for the sake of it but genuinely care to know. I want a man who understands if I’m happy making my dreams come true, he too will be happy. He must have dreams and I want to offer him the same kind of support that I’ll be getting. The older I get I see my peers pack their dreams into a suitcase, forget about them and focus on motherhood and being wive...

Image : www.tower.com “So what’s your excuse?” – nagged my inner-voice as I read Zack O’Malley Greenburg’s Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office . It’s so easy to make excuses and procrastinate about dreams that are slowly gathering dust while you live every day from hour to hour without really increasing your worth or doing what you really know you should be doing.  That’s all I could think about while reading anecdote after anecdote detailing how Jay-Z went from being a teenager selling hard drugs to a wealthy business man – love him or hate him this man is successful. Greenburg is a staff writer at Forbes Magazine . His beats include business, music and sports. Jay-Z denied Greenburg a sit down for the book and therefore the author relied on  in-depth research and  interviews with people close to the hip hop mogul. He also used a lot of quotes from Jay-Z’s music.  I was a bit worried that without the...