New Hustle

As I said in yesterday’s post, I’ve finally figured out a way to efficiently post valuable nuggets of wisdom relevant to anyone seeking to enhance their quality of life by never ceasing to improve and learn. I’m through the first few chapters of The Game of Life and How To Play It and I’ve been surprised by the gift Florence Scovel Shinn has in depicting descriptive imagery and even scripture in an all in one straightforward message of positively limitless potential.

So my bright idea? I’m going to hopefully not plagiarize or violate any copyrights, but post excerpts from paragraphs within the book and translate that to our daily grind in the new millennium (the book was written in the 1920’s).

Chapter 1 pg. 10, The Game of Life and How To Play It, Florence Scovel Shinn

“In the following chapter I will deal with the different methods of impressing the subconscious mind. It is man’s faithful servant but one must be careful to give it the right orders. Man has ever a silent listener at his side – his subconscious mind.

Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail. It is like a singer making a record on the sensitive disc of the phonographic plate. Every note and tone of the singer’s voice is registered. If he coughs or hesitates, it is registered also. So let us break all the old bad records in the subconscious mind, the records of our lives which we do not wish to keep, and make new and beautiful ones.”

I read this and the imagery struck me. Most self-improvement teachers and books have similar messages all specifying about how to harness the power of our thoughts to create our world. Often in rose-colored glasses, without warning that maintaining this type of outlook upon life is truly a craft that takes time and focus to master.

The singer recording on the phonograph – the reality of our life and how our thoughts, whatever they may be, play the track of the life that we experience on a day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute basis. If you had the option of listening to your favorite song, or some depressing genre that you hate – who wouldn’t want to go for the better?

The message? Simple – our life is a recording of our thoughts, and we experience what we think, and we record what we experience. Hustling to your optimum ability, in whatever pursuit it may be, starts with a thought. That thought becomes the beginning of your track on your phonograph – where you take it and how it ends is in the action we must take to either make some dope music, or simply be content with a sub par track. Achieving goals requires consistent effort, consistent positive thoughts of achieving that goal, and never ceasing to quit trying until our subconscious mind breaks all our old bad records and makes new, beautiful ones.

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Fresh off the twitter press!  Hosted right here at New Hustle, download the latest Lil Wayne mixtape (all 17 tracks in high quality – 97.7 MB) – leaked four days early from the initial Halloween release date – and available exclusively in zip format here.

Love Weezy’s mix tapes – thought I’d provide my millennial hip hop fans a clean, concise, detailed .zip file containing each track name and even the album art – done by my fellow hustler and future millennial mogul @hustleGRL (as seen above).  He’s a phenomenon, and as mainstream as he has become (I prefer Atmosphere, Common, Mos Def, Fort Minor and the likes) he knows how to get the most out of every beat he’s spitting to in a cohesive, unique style.  He knows his craft, he expects the best out of himself and every song – and you can tell. Check out the MTV News exclusive video below.

He has another studio album that was supposed to be out in September, Rebirth, that has been pushed back and won’t be released “until it’s perfect” according to a spokeswoman.

That being said, this is presumably one of Weezy’s last mixtape albums before he heads to prison. In case you haven’t heard he entered a guilty plea to felony gun possession in an NYC courthouse this morning and received a one year sentencing – but a term of eight to ten months is expected.

Had he pleaded not guilty he could have been facing three years plus – think Plaxico Burress, who accidentally shot himself and still got two years prison time – crazy! The gun charges stemmed from a July 2007 incident in which police pulled over Wayne’s tour bus after a concert. They found a loaded .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol.

Here’s a quality review from this Rolling Stones online article:

Wayne is in full alien mode on No Ceilings, weaving together pop culture references from all over the map into his lyrics. He name checks three football players alone in his version of Jay-Z’s “D.O.A.” — Deion Sanders, Tim Tebow and former Saints QB Aaron Brooks — carves similes out of 300 and Nicole Kidman and conjures up lines that only a mad scientist like Tha Carter could concoct.

Jigga’s “D.O.A.” and “Run This Town,” The-Dream’s awesome “Fancy” and even the Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” get Carterized on No Ceilings. “Young Money baby, and the building grows. As we look up, where did the ceilings go,” Lil Wayne raps in “Wasted,” giving the mixtape its title. No Ceilings looks like it’s the first phase of what promises to be a prolific Weezy in the months before he’s sentenced to prison, with Rebirth reportedly due out December 15th and Tha Carter IV possibly on the horizon.

No Ceilings track list:

1. “Swag Surfin’”
2. “Ice Cream Paint Job”
3. “D.O.A.”
4. “Interlude”
5. “Wasted”
6. “Watch My Shoes”
7. “Break Up [ft. Short Dawg & Gudda Gudda]”
8. “Banned From TV”
9. “Throw It in the Bag (Remix)”
10. “I Think I Love Her [ft. Tyga & Shanell]”
11. “Interlude #2 [ft. Shanell]”
12. “Wetter”
13. “I’m Good [ft. T-Streets]”
14. “Poke Her Face [ft. Jae Millz]”
15. “Run This Town”
16. “I Gotta Feeling”
17. “Outro ”