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Cut Out The Foolishness And Embrace Success

CUT OUT THE FOOLISHNESS AND EMBRACE SUCCESS

By N Oji Mzilikazi

Originally published in the Montreal Community Contact Volume 23, Number 14 July 11, 2013    

This past Carifiesta weekend made it abundantly and irrefutable clear that despite individual brilliance, personal achievements, this community to which I belong, we — as a people, are both scared of success and clueless as to what it takes to succeed, to win. If that wasn’t the case, leadership, our entrepreneurs, our dream merchants, our organizers, and hustlers would talk to one another, build productive alliances, collaborate, and not continue to engage in adversarial politics and sabotage…