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There are days that I don’t get much rest. It seems like for the last year or so I’ve been getting about 4 hours a sleep a night. I don’t complain because that is a small price to pay when you are trying to do something that is going to have an impact on the world.
As always I’ve got may hands on several projects at once. I am one of those people that I am not happy if I don’t have a full load to pull.
In doing that recently, Walter Sturdivant has agreed to run the day to day operations of Gdavisplays.com so that I can have more time to spend with my wifey and family and from a company perspective, the creative side of Gdavisplays.com.
Currently I have partnered with North Carolina A&T State University to bring awareness to Alzheimer’s in the African American Community. It makes my heart feel good knowing that a group of African Americans who are considered experienced professionals in their respective areas can work together to make a difference not just in our community but in the world.
This is a very big project that we are working on called “Forget Me Not” that will consist of a celebrity Gala, the presentation of the stage play “Forget Me Not” various workshops, clinics and other events and programs designed to bring awareness to the disease that effects 1-5 adults over the age of 65.
Scene from Forget Me Not
It has been said and rumored and I have experienced that when it comes to a group of African American working together who all have major credentials behind their name that regardless of the project and how much potential it has it will never work due to the fact that someone no one in the group is willing to put themselves less to make the group more.
As I have stated I have seen and been apart of my share of groups like this that has made me alienate myself from certain groups but I can honestly say it feel very good being apart of the team that has been assembled for the Forget Me Not Project.
The players in this project include Dr. Goldie Byrd one of the leading Biologist in the country who has dedicated her life to finding a cure for this disease. Walter Sturdivant who has over 28 years of broadcast experience, Carolyn Ross-Holmes who brings 20 years of experience in community outreach and activism, Hosea Productions 58 years of promoting some of the worlds largest entertainers. Milton Stewartwho has taken several of his artist who were struggling to make it in the cut throat industry of the music business all the way to the 2010 Grammy’s, and Carol “Monty” Davis, Assistant Superintendent of our school system.
With all of this so called power in one room one would think that it would be easy to spend a lot of time jocking for position.
Dr. Goldie Byrd
This is the furthest thing from the truth. There is one key denominator in all of this that I want those of you who are reading this to clearly digest The core of what this group is built on mutual respect and honesty for one another.
We have all made ourselves less in order that we might join forces together to make a difference in the lives of people all across America. That is why it is so important to be honest and do what is right as oppose to doing things that will lead to self gratification.
Carolyn Ross-Holmes
It is also important to put a team around you that you can trust with your life. The core group of our team has become close over the last few months. It has taken time for us to get to this point but the bond and the relationships that have been built over these few months is proving to be priceless.
I don’t know what the future holds or where we are headed with this group but I truly believe that God has his hands on the direction and is ordering our steps.
So much has happened since we started working on this project that was in the background of another project that we were working on that has not become our lead project.
Through this journey I have learned and still learning to trust God and to be still until his WILL is clear for me.
Over the last couple of months I thought things were so clear on Project Bynum that I could see and taste it, however, things have come to a slow pace and waiting mode that the human nature side feels disappointment but its in Gods timing. I have learned to really believe that if something is not for me I DON”T WANT IT AT ALL, but if it is I believe in HIS timing it will all come to pass.
Bynum & Gdavis
Getting back to the point, we as a people can work together and we can make a difference and it does not have to be a big drag down fight getting there to the end. If we continue to TRUST and RESPECT one another and not try to micro-manage everyone else, its amazing how far a group can go and what they are capable of doing.
I can always depend on Walter to say something profound. Today he stated, “the feeling you get when you are excited about a project that has great potential is the same feeling you have when you make progress on a project, you have to make sure that you are excited about the progress and not the potential.”
How do you do that? You stay level headed and make sure you cross every (t) and dot every (i) there will be plenty of time to celebrate once WE all reach the finish line and have achieved all the goals that we set out from the beginning.
So if you are involved or apart of a group that is working on a project make sure that it’s built on HONEST and RESPECT.If those 2 ingredients are not present, no matter how much potential the project has it will never reach its full potential or worse, it may never get off the ground and members will always refer to it as that projectthat could have made a difference in the community or even the world but because of somebody who was not a team player it never got off the ground.
Gdavis & Monty
Just think about how many lives could have been saved or changed but never will due the strong sense of self gratification that influenced the decision making versus what was best for the group.