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ARE YOU LISTENING?! Recording artist Radiant Amar’s song for Haiti, “I Send My Heart to Haiti”, was just released. As you may know, his brother Hasaun Muhammad has accompanied Wyclef Jean for several days at a time since earthquakes ravaged Haiti on January 12.

Jerry Wonder (The Fugees) praises Radiant Amar: “His sound is where hip-hop is heading.”

Radiant Amar has partnered with Knowlove and a group of powerful 1st graders from Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School to record “I Send My Heart to Haiti”.

Please support the tireless, heartfelt efforts of my friends in their efforts to support Wyclef Jean’s Yéle Haiti Foundation by downloading this song and donating a minimum of $1.

TI, Radiant Amar, and Hasaun Muhammad in Houston

Download “I Send My Heart to Haiti” here.

Radiant Amar is a friend and personal muse of mine: his unique brand of social entrepreneurship is backed by his smooth vocals. During his childhood, he saw the bad side of violence, drugs, and gangs – and chose to do something about it. Radiant founded the C.H.A.N.G.E. Initiative, and has partnered with Russell Simmons, T.I., Rev. Al Sharpton, and others to encourage people, regardless of their age, race, class or creed, to become agents of positive social change. Radiant isn’t just a musical talent but a giving soul who is focused on change as a way of life and thought pattern for future-focused young people. I have seen fellow social-cause oriented young leaders of our generation gravitate towards Radiant as a voice of inspiration, a visionary, and a catalyst – he is a true hero.

HeroEx, which promotes social entrepreneurship by giving part-time delivery opportunities to disadvantaged and unemployed members of the San Francisco community, is proud to support unique and talented social entrepreneurs like Radiant Amar.

Time is all we have. Wasting time damages your health and your quality of life. I’ve reorganized my life around being more efficient with my time, which includes these mantras:

1. YOU ARE A QUEEN, OR KING — OR HERO.

So assume the role. Delegate what you need to. Your job is to say, “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!” or “YOU’RE FIRED!” or “UP UP AND AWAY!”. How are you supposed to save the day otherwise?

2. IGNORE HATERS

Stalkers, Trolls, and people who don’t believe in you don’t deserve your attention. CUT them out, have your PR person manage them, CROWDSOURCE a team to shut them down, or PAY them to write more reviews of you. (All of these worked for me.)

3. MANAGE EXPECTATIONS

Avoid misunderstandings and complications – Set expectations for how you spend your time with people. Time-manage Mom and Dad by telling them to check your Twitter.

4. CRITICAL PATH

Choose your friends and eliminate the things that don’t matter.

5. GO DIAGONAL

I once learned in 7th grade geometry class that going on a diagonal path is faster than going 5 blocks up then 5 blocks across. So learn the shortcuts through the streets. Now that we have Google Maps, it’s even easier.

THIS:

NOT THIS:

6. ASK YOUR ASSISTANT

Hire an assistant. And get HeroEx to do your deliveries on the cheap

7. FIND THE REAL EXPERTS

Need an expert? If you want to find an expert on social media, for example, there are 15,740 of them on Twitter. Pick 1 or 2 people at the top of the food chain you need to talk to now, and go for the bullseye. Or if I wanted to talk to an expert on Ecommerce, I’d ask HeroEx advisor Jeff Holden, who ran the consumer side of Amazon.com for 9 years.

8. WATCH YOURSELF

“Shake ya ass, but watch yourself. Shake ya ass, show me what you workin with!” – Mystikal

Know yourself and the things you do that waste time. Now turn them off, shut them down, get rid of them. You know yourself best.

9. DAILY MEDITATION

I  meditate daily at SCLA – even for just 1 minute. 60 seconds of Ommmmm on a regular basis helps me focus on what’s important (and get to the critical path I mentioned above). I was inspired to do this by one of my best friends and Russell Simmons.

10. MONEY WINS

Can’t decide which one to pick, and all things are equal? Pick the one which brings in the cashflow for you, your boss, your company, your nonprofit, your family, your customers. We all work for the President – $ George Washington $.

BONUS

11. MINIMIZE INTERRUPTIONS IN YOUR DAY

Every time you get up to pick up groceries, to go out for lunch or dinner, to pick up office supplies, to grab Starbucks – you interrupt your normal workflow. It takes 20 minutes to readjust back to what you were doing before you got up. So plan your day to minimize this – or do it all at once.

"IMMA LET YOU FINISH, BUT BEYONCE HAS ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS OF ALL TIME!" - Kanye West

Need help getting more done, so you don’t interrupt your day? Ask us at HeroEx – we’ll come to the rescue and deliver almost anything you want in 1 hour