At Last ....

Yesterday was one of the best days of my life.

LaDonna and I had a small wedding ceremony at Newman A.M.E. Church in Pontiac, MI at 7:00pm. It was a really intimate ceremony with some of our closest church family and relatives.

LaDonna and I had promised each other that years ago when we first started to study wealth creation and how to develop the lifestyle that we wanted, that we would first build businesses that would pay for our wedding, pay for our dream home, pay for our children's education and then get married.

We have been working extremely hard to develop our two businesses: Timbuktu Internet Cafe and Pure Joy Pediatrics.

More than that, we also built a couple of other businesses along the way, Third Eye Legacy, Third Eye Property, Third Eye Technology, Timbuktu University and even Green Life Services. We've been volunteering throughout the community, in the churches, at health fairs, and mentoring children and adults of all ages. We lived our lives with the utmost values and tried to set the best example for everyone we've come into contact with.

Over the past three years, we began to study self-development. In that study we learned how to set goals (principally from Brian Tracy and Zig Zigler), we learn how to create a vision of our best selves (principally from Tony Robbins), we've learned how to build businesses and Master Mind alliances that would make us wealth (principally from Robert Kiyosaki and Michael Gerber) and we've even learned how persevere in the face of adversity and obstacles (principally from Jim Rohn and Wayne Dyer).

We've gradually become life-long learners, 21st century learners, professional investors, informal mentors, parental figures, community leaders and much more.

But, what we've found more than anything else in this growth process is a deeper love and appreciation of each other for who we truly are.

LaDonna recently had to take a job with Children's Hospital because it was an excellent opportunity pay off some of her debts and invest that earned income to create more passive income.

Recently all kinds of opportunities have been developing for Timbuktu Internet Cafe as well. Some of the friendships and strategic partnerships that we have built over the past three years are almost amazing to me. We've developed our inner circle and expanded our outer circle. We've also learned a new appreciation for our environment, our community, our family and our own health. We've changed our diets, our exercise, our expressions, our topics of conversation and in some cases our circles of influence.

I'm soooo excited about the bright and wonderful future that lies ahead for us because of all of the incredible seeds that we have deliberately planted and some of the unconscious seeds that we also planted along the way.

I love this woman more than anything and I know that we will continue to grow, learn, expand our realities of what's possible and expand our lifestyles to live the most wonderful life together imaginable! I'm ecstatic and deeply in love. And the harmony of true love resonates deeply in me.

Unexpected Relationships

Two things happen to me today that made me really proud that I am the kind of person that I have become.

1. I was in the middle of an incredible business meeting in Timbuktu Cafe this morning concerning the development and expansion of Timbuktu University when a woman and child entered the cafe. I thought I recognized them, but I must admit that I could not remember them by name nor can I most of my customers in the store. However, they remembered me. I said, "hey!" like I normally do to the little girl who was about my nieces' age, 10.

She smiled - gleamed at me for a few moments - she held my gaze and I just looked at her as if to ask, "what's up, honey?" But, I saw something in her little eyes and I said, "Do you want a hug?" And she was like, "yes ...." in a soft little voice. Apparently, somewhere in our former meeting, this little young lady had formed an emotional bond with me. It was a beautiful moment for me and made me stop and think how precious each moment that you interact with another human being is - especially children - because you never know how it might affect them or you.

2. During the same meeting, the store phone ring and I answered it. A woman was on the other end and asked, "May I speak to Sean". I said, "This is he". She said that she met me at a recent Jack and Jill Career Day event that LaDonna and I participated in at Oakland Community College about 2 months ago. She said that her son was begging her to come to the cafe and that he wanted to bring his fellow students from his private middle school academy. I said, "ok" and she went on to tell me that they wanted to "interview me" and "take some pictures of the store and me" for the school's newsletter. Once again, I didn't really remember this woman when she arrived with her son and the other 8 children, but the respect and love that they had for me was really incredible and brought home the entire vision of Timbuktu for me.

I opened Timbuktu Cafe because I saw that there was a "Digital Divide" between the haves and the have nots. But for me, those haves and have nots are divided by technology and internet access. I sought to provide an innovative, family-oriented, safe, clean, wholesome and motivational atmosphere for children, families and friends could socialize and share knowledge and entertainment together. Timbuktu has grown to be much more than that I dare say that it is becoming more and more like its namesake. It's becoming a meeting place, an technological oasis and open exchange of friendship, love, ideas and possibilities.

I'm excited and proud all at once. ;-)

Son of a schoolteacher

My mother's name is Versa Coats. Used to be Versa Johnson when I was a child. LOL




For most people who haven't met my mother, she was the picture of education perfection. For example, she would correct our speech at the dinner table during ANY meal.



She was a very regimented person, but she had a knack for (1) occupying your time by making you think and (2) always being there for you when you needed it.



I always say that my mother gave my life structure and organization and my grandfather (e.g. Papa) is the one who taught me just about everything I know to survive.

My mother always wanted me to be "more". She saw things in me that I didn't/couldn't see in myself, BUT ... she didn't see what I saw.

That's where our conflict arose. From very young, I began to have visions of the future. She would support my interests, but begrudingly if they didn't fit her ultimate "plan" for my future. I don't blame her though, she was operating from her reality.

When I was 6 years old, for Christmas, I asked my mother for a computer. I mean ... this was in 1979 and I was 6 years old! Noone had a computer! This was when the Atari 400 computer came out onto the market. This was before the Blu-Ray, before the DVD, before the CD, before the hard floppy disk, before the black flexible floppy disk; this computer had a tape cassette player.

I opened it up Christmas morning and read the books that came along with it about how to program BASIC and started writing little programs. First, I would make it say, "Hello" on the screen. Now, to make it do this, I had to write the program, press the Record and Play buttons on the cassette player and then type "SAVE" on the keyboard.

Then, to run the program, I had to press the Play button and type "RUN". Looking back ... that was crazy! And ... a lot of work for a 6 year old! But, that's how I learned.

Anyways, my mother bought me that computer and that launched me into a whole new reality. For the next 30 years, I've programmed computers all over the world.

My mother also was very tight on giving compliments or affection, but when I came back from college and would go and visit her at her schools where she was the principal, all of the teachers and administrators knew me. Whenever I would come back in town from a foreign country that I was living in, they would be like, "Oh ... you're the one. You're the Morehouse Man. You're the genius! You're the one that speaks 3 languages."

Then ... I understood in the reflection of her peers how much my mother loved and supported me. It took a LONG time, but ... I finally understood.

I love you mom! I wish I would have told you more often. :-(