Men and Short Term Goals In Work, Career and Dating

Do you know where you're going to?  Do you like the things life is showing you?  Do you get what you're hoping for?  Where are you going to?  Do you know?

Do you recognize the Diana Ross refrain from the song Do You Know above?  More importantly, do you know?  Simply put Short Term Goals are your steps on the staircase to whatever you're trying to ascend to.  I would challenge that the negative impacts of not being heterosexual and being a person of color can devastate the goal setting process.  I would further submit that when MSM are looking for men to be with, beyond sexual partners some of the barriers and missing Good Men have to do with not a huge percentage, probably less than a third of MSM, making it over the hurdles of sexuality and race.  I would even stick my neck out even massively farther, having tested this out for years, facilitating groups and coordinating projects, that the HIV/STD rate has to do more with this than simply safe sex practices.

Yes, Short Term Goals determine the highway you drive your body/life onto and that highway (Long Term Goals) becomes your destiny.

Men, particularly men of color, particularly MSM, don't always get the tools, mentorship, networking and push that they need in order to navigate this task of advancement.  Let's break it down and maybe this will help you out, up, and if necessary, to get unstuck.

An Objective and A Goal are not the same thing.  An objective is a deliberate act to a deliberate outcome.  I'm going to the store to buy some milk for my cereal. A Goal is the overall outcome of the Objective: I'm going to have breakfast/cereal this morning.  Therefore a job is an Objective, a Career might be a Goal.  Separating the two allows you to put each in a good context.


Work: Job verses Career Definition

A job is to sustain, pay bills, get by, feed yourself.  A career is something that you're nurturing, building like a plant or a house.  Therefore a Short Term Goal around work might be I'm going to take this part time sales associate job at a department store to learn about retail.  Short Term Goals also include time frames---so you're retail job you might say I'm going to commit to doing this for 6 months to 1 year to learn about sales and retail at that level.  Now this doesn't mean you stay at the same store,  During high school I worked at Abraham & Strauss (a store similar to Macy's) here in NYC and then Lord and Taylor's a few years later in college.  In high school I'd also worked at Pathmark and Wendy's, all of them for more than 3 months so I have an understanding of the retail world at a floor service level.  Say we collapsed all of that into 2 years that I worked at all of those places, just for an example's sake---I learned about retail for 2 years.  Objective completed.  Now a Short Term Goal has been met.  If I wanted to manage or be a buyer or an executive in retail, that would be a Long Term Goal but my Objective and Short Term Goal would have served that aim.  Makes sense?




Dating/Relationships

Several years ago I had a Short Term Goal of learning how to date better, to make up for some of the gaps I saw in my high school time so I planned a year to a year and a half to simply going on dates.  I quantified a date as a meal and an activity that lasted a couple of hours but didn't include sex.  I dated about 100 men in that time.  Sounds like a lot, I know.
But I learned that if you reduce that number down to 10 men, 7 of them there will be no mutual chemistry/connection/deep interest in each other.

• Number 8 liked me, I didn't like him as much.  
• Number 9 I liked him, he didn't like me as much.  
• Number 10 though, the attraction was deeply mutual and several more dates and a relationship would potentially spring from that.

Now I have a great formula for dating: You're looking for 1 out of 10!  But you might have to go through 9 to meet Number 10.  Sometimes I met 10 after dating 3 or 5 or 7 but roughly it always was 1 out of 10.  This cleans up "finding" a Good Man, it's a numbers game.  When I'm doing relationship workshops, the first question I always ask is, how much are you dating?  If someone says they went on 1 date with 1 guy and they're done or pissed or hurt---I point out the formula---you haven't been in the pool enough to meet 9 more (and your picking system might be a little off.)

Short Term Goal in dating might be to date 10 men to realize my Long Term Goal of 1 Good Man for a relationship but I have to be ready to put in the work (and expense) to meet and date 9 others.

A Short Term Goal takes into account that's there's a level of experimentation occurring that you're trying something new out.  That this might not be the path you decide for life but it is something that could become something you carry over or feeds into your Long Term Goals.

(Now I know some of you might be balking at dating 10 men just to meet one Good Man but consider this: how many job interviews would you go on to get a job?  To get the right job for you? To improve your career?  To make more money?  Would you go on 10 interviews if you knew 1 of them would turn into gold?)


Short Term Bridging To Long Term Manifestation

One more example, in 2008 while teaching a 6 month certification/vocational class I was walking back with my students from a day trip to a job fair and one of them mentioned a friend on YouTube who was a singer and all the hits/viewers she was getting.  What struck me was that he mentioned that so many of the comments she got mentioned how much she was helping an inspiring others.  It occurred to me that while I was doing much the same as a teacher, I was at that program, reaching about 80 people.  I went to Best Buy and bought a webcam the next day and started taping myself at home talking about some of the stuff I taught.  A year or so before that two producers from a television show had taped some of my work at another non-profit and I really started thinking, hmmmmm, if I did online teaching videos, what would that look like?  (Short Term Goal).  Could I even broaden it to television? (Long Term Goal)  Along the way the blog and podcasts became natural additions to this very blog you're reading.

To recap:

1. Short Term Goals contain Objectives.
2. Short Term Goals are measurable in spans of time from 3 months to about 2 years.
3. Short Term Goals aren't always the finished product.
4. Short Term Goals are a level of experimentation as you figure out what works and what doesn't.
5. Short Term Goals give you valuable information as to how to construct a Long Term Goal.
6. Long Term Goals are built with the meeting and information from Short Term Goals.

Thank you,
Kyle Phoenix
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http://kylephoenixsite.com/
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How & Why To Write A Blog

 While I come by writing naturally, I didn't come by blogging naturally, it's been an evolution.  Recently I received an email a viewer of the Kyle Phoenix television show asking me why I hadn't written more on this blog (it's existed since 2008), that I could be using it to fill in some of the informational blanks that the show couldn't answer in a half an hour.  Then a friend and I were talking about a manuscript I have in editorial turnaround (that's when you've finished writing the story sent it to the editor/publisher (I'm one of the publisher's---Business Rule: Own Your Products) and they send it back with marketing edits and I do alterations and then I send it back and then they send it back with the editors new edits and then I send it back until we agree it's ready for publication---hence the term turnaround) and he suggested I post some of my old published articles and short stories as a way to invigorate this blog.  So I took the viewers and friends advice and really committed to writing more often but it is alot more work than simply writing.  A lot more.

What I've learned so far is to organize what I have to say---right now I have another 300 of these articles in Draft Form (on a range of subjects suggested by you the reader).  My process is I generally first add textual pieces and fun or sexy pictures to them.  I found that if I edit too much upfront it doesn't come off in the natural casual tone I'm generally aiming for in this.  I want it to be as close to how I speak if you were sitting right with me.  Also the Blogger composing screen only does so much spell checking and grammar alerting so I often have to return which a clean eye awhile later to do edits.  I start out simply saving essay ideas and headlines, then I drop in additive pieces (text, art, pics) then I try to clean up, and strengthen the essay.  The number I aim to post is about 10 a week, purposefully crafting them to coincide with the television show and YouTube videos.  I publish it, distribute it to a few close friends to get some feedback and then generally do some touch ups in the first week of a posting.

Distribution
I've recently learned how to include links to the www.kylephoenixsite.com, the television show simulcast on Thursdays at 12 midnight, the podcasts and then send it out by Twitter.  I've been experimenting with a deeper symmetry between all of these media types and trying to make sure that the information is useful and accessible in only 1 or 2 mouse clicks from every entrance point.  A lot of you readers have signed up for the e-newsletter through the website (Thank you!) so I'm working on how to send out information all while producing new segments.  It's a lot!  This month there were close to 10,000 people from all over the world signing up.  I've learned a deep sense of responsibility to not only produce useful information but also remain true to my own voice and thoughts.

I would say that's the two biggest things to blogging: maintaining your voice and sending it out to the world.  I use email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and YouTube for initial distribution of each blog.  My goal is to upload one piece of media and have it disassemble to multiple formats as well as to as many people/venues as possible.  As of now I'm up to close to 4 million people (!) throughout the planet from the tv show,blogs, YouTube (and other video sites), Facebook, and Twitter.  So I'm really working on how to codify that into one distribution method and I think I'll have that by January 2013 pretty much set up.

Content Is King

Content and amount of blogs to release a week are also the next big factors.  The television show and online videos give me a content warehouse of ideas plus the email responses and comments I get to both of those venues helps immeasurably on what to write.  I also have about 20 to 100 books and magazine articles on a lot of the topics---I try and distill it or include an Amazon link to the item in the blog itself so that the reader can check it out indepthly for themselves.  All of the layering controls how many blogs I produce in a timeframe, if you're doing this you really have to be conscious of your time and how long creation of content takes.

While I want the exposure to the work and the interconnection/interplay that happens I also don't want to saturate cyberspace with too much new content without giving it a chance to be digested.   But that means that sometimes though there are prime releases of articles and then a handful of reviews that are published but I don't immediately push it through all of the above channels at once.  I also limit the amount of text in reviews to only 1 or 2 paragraphs or about one to two minutes if read aloud/posted in a video.  Time, time, time.

You, The Reader Are My Editors
Thinking about the reaction from a blog has proven to be another factor.

The most important factor in all of the above planning, is you, the reader.  I'm always looking at online posts, bouncing ideas off of friends and colleagues, asking groups I facilitate for their input or thoughts so that I can craft the best item, essay, or show.  Having 20 years of writing experience and being published all over the country prior to this has given me some experience with submitting something to not only readers but more importantly an editor.  A good editor generally pushes a writer to consider clarity in their ideas so that you, the reader can not only understand me but on some level relate.

And finally I spend time considering how much of myself to put into the blogs, how much is genuinely interesting or useful, how to present my self, my interior self and experiences in a way that you can not simply relate to but also see as a human being.  I don't want to just be someone dispensing thoughts and advice and knowledge without there being a real person with strengths and flaws behind it. I originally created the television show and it's current subsidiaries to focus on men of color, particularly MSM.  Now that's expanded because of those initial viewers and readers wanting more information about education, finances, investments, entrepreneurial ventures, relationships, parenthood, race issues, motivation, politics, religion.  And that's where Kyle Phoenix and all the things I do is headed, focusing on your life success.

Thus far, at almost the end of 2012, four years since I started this---that's my process, what I've learned and why to do it.  I hope that you take advantage of the internet to share your thoughts and work and ideas and experiences in cyberspace, it's an amazing experience that has brought me friends, adventures and yes, even jobs from all around the world.

Enjoy!

Thank you,
Kyle Phoenix
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Who's Your Daddy? by Kyle Phoenix

The lack of support from the father is what is missing.  When I analyze the result of the behavior of most of the unstable males & females. The father is missing.....Quality time with the child...Educating the child. Guiding. Discipline. Inspirational support not only needs to come from the mother but the father as he plays an important role. It takes two to rule the child. Two is greater than one.

You can accomplish more together than apart. The strongest support...that creates a well all rounded child...this comes from the black man muscular image he brings into the family household....There are well organized and aware, open and active plans to destroy the masculine image of the black male but you can never destroy something that is destined to be great..REMEMBER...no weapon formed against us shall prosper....Rise up, my brother, be the great leader that you are; like the 1991 song by Ed O.G. and Da Bulldogs says - Be A Father To Your Child....Now that's Real Hip Hop that is missing when you listen to modern rap music.

This was such a fantastic post that came into my inbox that I wanted to not only share but really push it out into the world. I know I often write and teach about Black and Latino men and errors in life courses and in perceptions. I am struck by the price of how many men are growing up without father figures. I was lucky. Though my parents broke up soon after I was born, a decade later, they married (and then divorced again) but my mother was shrewd. Upon their break-up we worked with a Black therapist for several years about the divorce and my mother made sure that my three stepfathers, were real father figures. They had to make commitments into my life and the home life as husbands not transitory boyfriends. Though two of them have passed away I have fun memories of one, Terry, teaching me to cook (he was a professional chef---the steaks and lobsters he used to pack the freezer at home with was insane! And he one time showed me how to make Chinese fried rice from scratch when I was 9.) and Jesse, the other teaching me to drive and about sexuality. I often reflect that by the time that I moved out to go off to college at 21, I'd only not had a father figure in the house for maybe 3 or 4 of those years. Not thinking about that, I didn't notice the value, the work until I would be around other Black and Latino men and see their lack of father-parenting.

We all know that 70% to 80% of Black and Latino households are single parent, mainly mother run. We also know that a brown woman will tell you in insanity that she is both mother and father. Because what else can the abandoned claim but competence when the expert is absent? A single mother is not enough, there are lessons, strategies, ways of dealing with identity, sexuality, work, education that only a man, a man invested in you who maybe even looks a lot like you, can help young men navigate. I often see young males with the sagging pants, and while I've released my jury from verdict on that, I reflect that I never could have gotten away with that with my fathers present. Terry was a fashion hound. Gucci slippers, matching sable coats and hats for he and my mother, finely pressed Italian suits to change into before and after his shifts at country club restaurants. Jesse was much more of a social man who knew everyone in New Jersey and could teach you about people and communicating with anyone. My biological father, Robert was a master strategist from the Black Panthers, the Black Liberation Army and a prisoner's rights attorney who would checkmate me in four moves with the Queen's Gambit then refuse to play me again for twenty four hours unless I could figure how to undo it. (I eventually did....when I was 30.) My mother's husband now for the past 20 years, Michael has been a stalwart husband and supporter to my mother so that I was able to go freely into the world without having to stay close to home as I see other Black men do.

Don't get me wrong, there were legitimate reasons and dysfunctions why my mother and fathers broke up but my experiences of them, of their manhood lessons are mainly positive. And even the ones that are negative gave me examples and ideas of what not to do, of why not to let wounds fester, of how to deal with one's identity rather than submerge or hide it, of being a man of integrity and of his word, who purposefully has never harmed anyone weaker than me and been able to stand up to those stronger. Sometimes talking to male friends they start "quaking" at the concept of doing something and confronting someone and striking out on their own and I realize what it must be like to not have some Daddy Backbone in you. That Daddy Backbone has allowed me to travel to cities with nothing but the clothes on my back and work my way up from there; to go off to school; to get on airplanes and leave the country; to treat men,women and children well and lovingly; to start businesses since I was 7 years old; to confidently say to confrontational men "we can take this outside right now"; to endure racism and imprisonment and unfairness and injustice and just downright wrongness because I knew my name and how to hold my head up.



I look forward to sons. Not simply to instill but to more importantly greet new souls, new people into the world and offer some lessons for them to share forward to their children. No matter a man's sexuality, I believe he has a responsibility to a level of parenting and I'll throw out that the standard/requirement for MSM is often lowered because they don't meet and have to deal with many single fathers who want a stable male partner, like they would with women. Women and children demand and test the maturity of a man but father's prepare little boys. Because little boys, no matter their physical age, see men, women, children and animals as sources of gratification until they grow up. Then as men, they become givers, protectors and cherishers, and view other men (partners), women, children and animals and recipients of their loving bounty. When they grow up without fathers, who will teach them what a man is? What a man does? And if they grow up with dysfunctional abusive, philandering, lying, destructive men, then they grow up to either directly or passive aggressively seek to undermine and hurt men, women, children and animals. The only recourse then is therapy to undo and stay diligent to potentially destructive ways.

But a whole lot of time and money can be saved by good Daddies at birth or good Daddies who come along and step up to parenting boys. Now the question simply put is, who's your Daddy?

Thank you,

Kyle Phoenix

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Engagement Marketing by Gail F. Goodman, Book Review

The wonder of the internet is that we can not only communicate with the entire planet (this blog/podcast has subscribers in New York, France, South Africa and Russia!) but how do you actually transform this tool and it's ability into a business.  Or more personally, I've had to question how to continue contacting the viewers of my tv show , this blog, the podcasts, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter and the YouTube videos---it actually crosses.  Right now we're in beta testing for the E newsletter (feel free to sign up on kylephoenixsite.com) but how does one bring all of this off?  There are about a good dozen books and webinars that I've been using as my board for how to do this and Ms. Goodman's is not only a great one but I'm a fan of her service.

Ms. Goodman invented the Constant Contact web service which does mass mailing and social campaigns to  companies.  I even use it for the classes I teach in person and online to poll and get feedback from the students.  It is literally an amazing service that 8 years ago when I was managing a thriving Amazon and Ebay virtual store would've worked in nicely with marketing.  The key to marketing is not simply the initial contact, or the communication but maitaining that discussion/relationship.  In many ways the seminars/classes that I attended here in New York with Ms. Goodman's company taught me how to understand the internet.  If you're truly interested in understanding the internet and it's varied uses this is a fantastic book.  And just maybe you'll start talking to people like I do in Australia and Zimbabwe and Ireland and Germany and Brazil and Canada----amazing!  Simply amazing research and teaching tool!

Thank You,
Kyle Phoenix

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A Course In Miracles, Book Review by Kyle Phoenix

The thrill of my personal evolution has been finding materials in the world that not only resonate with me but allow me use them as tools for my own personal evolution.  I also believe in the adage that the teacher arrives when the student is ready.  When I was in my early twenties I was diligently working to help sup[port my family and pay the mortgage, a time where I had space between high school and eventually college, I wasn't lost but honestly I didn't know where I was going or how I would get there.  I was fortunate to have a sense of spirituality all of my life and my parents and grandparents kept me moving through religions---Protestant, Baptist, Islam---so I was able to formulate what I liked about "God" and what I didn't.

One evening, coming home from my $5 an hour job at the Antique Boutique, I caught Oprah interviewing Ivana Trump and discussing the latter's divorce.  Ivana mentioned how she'd needed something emotional to well her up form the transition and Oprah said she had a book for her that she'd been giving to all of her friends.  The book was a Return to Love by Marianne Williamson. I had $20 to my name until payday but like a lightning bolt something in that moment struck me and I went out and bought the book the very next day.  I read it from cover to cover in a couple of days and then re-read it again.  My thought was "Yes!  This makes sense!" but most importantly what seemed to be the sensible take on God and spirituality was the source book, A Course In Miracles that WIlliamson kept referencing and discussing as the origin of why she'd written this book which was examining the Course.  My mission then became to find the Course.

This is where it gets a little strange, a little serendipity filled, a little God filled.  It literally took me over a year to get a copy of ACIM.  Every Barnes and Noble was sold out here in New York, other bookstores had "just" sold out their copies, even used bookstores.  After a few months of this I thought---"hmmm,God is trying to tell me something"---so I continued to buy Williamson's work, lectures on ACIM and listened to those, preparing myself for one day the Course coming to me.  In fact, I remember deliberately thinking---the Course is not something I can go "get", I have to work on myself, my thoughts and it will come to me as it will.  I then went on to college upstate (no, no Course available at the campus bookstore and they couldn't order a copy) and returned with friends for a holiday break, wandered into a bookstore and there it was.  I immediately snapped it up and started the reading process.

The Course is a book focused on "psycho-spiritual" therapy.  It's written in language that contains lots of Christian--Jesus, God, Holy Spirit--language because the writer, Helen Schuchmann received it this way, channeled it.  Simply the story is, she was a professor, started hearing a wonderful voice telling her all this spiritual stuff, thought she was freaking out and ran to a psychologist friend.  He said to her is the voice telling you to harm yourself or others, if not, write down what it says and the first drafts of the Course was born.  The simple precept of the Course is that only Love exists, God is love but we also have the perceptions of the Ego and we must learn to identify and eradicate the Ego for those thoughts are generally fear based or unloving.  To this end there's a whole book on spirituality, then 365 lessons, and then a Manual for Teachers contained within the Course.

Of all the materials I've reviewed over the years in print and online, this is perhaps the most difficult because I think one's spirituality is ultimately so personal that I can't tell you what you'll "get" from the Course.  But I can tell you it has radically changed my life, how I see myself, the world, other people.  I live my life in joyous prayer and gratitude and more importantly, release/surrender about life.  I accept and have practiced this point I've been able to codify from the Course for over a decade---"If time, space, the body and death don't exist, then why am I so upset?"  The Course pushed me to examine my thoughts on all of those concepts and accept them as what they were not what I wanted them to be.

For several years of the television show I considered how to do episodes on the Course and recently I started taping and broadcasting on the television show and the YouTube online show the 365 lessons.  What I can offer is try it out, the Course in no way is a religion, nor does it seek to supplant one's religious beliefs, in fact I believe it enhances and deepens them.  Try the lessons, I vow to tape and post all 365 in video and podcast forms and simply see what it does for you.

Thank you,
Kyle Phoenix


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The Wretched of the Earth, Book Review

 To deal with the titanic Frantz Fanon we are forced to look at not only ourselves but the world that we may occupy, particularly as people of color.  Suddenly we are thrust onto the world stage as either pawns of colonialism or as puppets of capitalism.  This seminal work of Fanon's is a great jumping off point for people of any age to really look at their own identities in relationship to the world.  More importantly he challenges gender, race, sexuality on the grounds of not simply victims but as co-conspirators to their own oppression.  Our Americanized culture of bi-partisan to the point of gridlock and fiscal irresponsibility, perfect chiseled abs, consumeristic and constantly sexualized culture demands a reflective work like this one.  In fact I would offer that if someone starts talking to you about politics or race or the Presidential race or fiscal crisis you immediately ask not which but how many of Fanon's text have they read.  Try it.  It will really open the conversation or shut them down and illuminate how much of a co-conspirator they are to the forces they profess to oppose.

One of the most poignant points I found in this book was when it confronts the reader with identifying the difference between themselves and their oppressors. He posits that at a certain point, without conscious and deliberate thinking to become otherwise, we run the risk of becoming the puppets we rail against.  That in fact the creation of separate classes and mindsets, by race or poverty, pushes thosewho may be of the same race but not poor to take on the mindset of the oppressor.  That in fact most of the current oppression is done by minorities (gender,sexuality,race, cultural origin) against their own kin.  Kin may be as simple as another homosexual next to you or extend to Iraqis under siege but that maintaining our own BMW, IPhone and sexually seemingly liberated society may in fact be the greatest evidence of conversion to the hegemonic ideas we say are wrong.  Heavy stuff.

This is a serious read, worthy of patience but it will generate more self reflection than an episode of America's Got Talent or True Blood and might even answer why you watch those shows and how you use that context to oppress the person next to you.

Thank you,
Kyle Phoenix

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We Are All Africans, Book Review

The beauty of Professor Kwadwo Obeng's work is that he carefully and assiduously looks at the effects of Christianity, Judaism and Islam upon African descended people.  More expansive than simply an examination of racism, he directly works on how religion and the religious have imposed or decreed identity and social control over African people and their descendants.  The tracking and questioning of how historically the world's most powerful organizations---churches, have deliberately attacked, cajoled, controlled and blocked African people is startling.  What's more startling is the after effects and how they manifest themselves today all throughout the world.

I had the privilege of attending a lecture by Professor Obeng and talking a with him about his work as well as reading it and was blown away by the things I didn't know.  And I consider myself, having taught Black literature and history for years, conscious and aware of raciality on Earth.  You should add this to your library because it adds an international and psychologically international perspective to the understanding of race, religion and racism.  We generally don't consider what the major religions of the world have intentionally done in regards to racism because we want religion to alleviate our stresses and heighten and enlighten our spirits.  However we have a responsibility to illuminate ourselves as to how race and religion intersect and Prof. Obeng has done an excellent job in compiling an 800 page volume going exhaustively through history, sexuality, race, continents and identity to push it question how we balance our entrance into the 21st century and attempting to solve the mental illness of racism.  




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Kyle Phoenix
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