{"id":382,"date":"2004-04-07T21:15:29","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T21:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/salaamabdelr\/?p=382"},"modified":"2021-03-16T16:10:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:10:55","slug":"ttt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/salaamabdelr\/ttt\/","title":{"rendered":"TTT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child, my father (who now communicates with me from the Ancestral Realm) would always say to me : \u201cTTT son\u2026Things Take Time\u201d. As I grew older, this axiom would be measured and applied to every aspect of my being. In every genuine relationship I chose to pursue this was true. Whether personal, professional, spiritual, intellectual, physical or sexual, it would always take time to build something substantial\u2026 something with depth\u2026 something real.<\/p>\n<p>He would tell me that knowledge, wisdom and understanding were the building blocks of real intelligence and that intellect was its precursor. So be sure to develop the ability to apply what you know. Manifest it. \u00a0Be!<\/p>\n<p>In time, I realized that my impatience with others was actually my impatience with myself. My true work was first and foremost on and within me. And no matter how hard I tried to push the process, to get to the \u201cend\u201d faster, my accomplishments, my journey, my life was going to be one step at a time. My greatest challenge was allowing myself to have fun with the time it was taking; that arrival may be a false premise and that one of the great ahas of my life may be that in some way, I was always going be a work in progress. 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