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2022 Blog, 8 robinsons, Mario Robinson - March 5, 2022

DAY 063 – Quitters Never Win

If quitting is always the result of incredibly challenging problems, how can anyone ever get the rewards of their effort. It seems unfair that reward lies so far on the other side of effort and yes, I’ve quit some things in my life. However, I was raised to never quit. I had asthma growing up and finished a whole little league football season because I didn’t want to quit. It meant I spent the majority of games sitting on the bench. If I couldn’t practice, I would still attend and help wherever I could on the field. A brotherhood that still exists was formed during those years.

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2022 Blog, 8 robinsons, Mario Robinson - March 3, 2022

DAY 062 – Make Good Choices

Artist Kahlil Gibran once stated that, “We choose our joy and sorrows long before we experience it.” I did not want to accept that as a truth, however the more that I thought about it, I begin to realize that my experiences were some side effects of a choice I had made. I’m guessing that the moral of the story is to make good choices. While prepping for a new documentary, we found a bin full of old mini DV tapes. In that bin was a tape labeled “Start Something” and I laughed before smiling at the thought of me and my brothers filming our conversations with the women in our lives.

DAY 061 – Learn to Love Kindness

Taking revenge even against someone often hurts you more. It takes an incredible amount of energy to think, plan and execute on revenge. You may think, “Oh I would never hurt anybody!” But revenge isn’t always about physically hurting another person. Something as simple as spreading a false rumor can have a butterfly effect that almost always comes back to you. I remember talking with my ex’s aunt and uncle and said somethings about my brother. In a matter of days I found myself three states away in a driveway at night having to explain myself to my brother! I’m thankful for that lesson. It taught me firsthand to learn to love kindness.

DAY 060 Find Something You Love and Fight for It

To fight for something is as human as our need to breathe. People fight for relationships, jobs, pets, and even their ideals (wrong or right). We even get caught up in the fights of others, sometimes before we even understand the reasons. I’ve been spending more and more time, fighting for the things “I” love. I’ve been putting in the work. Building key family brands and helping organizations tell their stories visually is my passion.

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2022 Blog, 8 robinsons, Mario Robinson - February 28, 2022

DAY 059 – Trapped

The quickest way to see further is to ask someone that has been there. I could read a book and get a deeper vision that you could imagine. Where I come from, it’s easy to feel limited as if life has nothing to offer. Over time people embraced the feeling and even named places “the trap”. Then years later “Trap” music is introduced. Imagine an entire culture born around the concept of staying in place and protecting that place so viciously that outsiders are scared to enter. Feeling trapped is a trap within itself. I know the sensation of not having options. It is an illusion of the mind. It is a projection painted by those around you in the same predicaments.

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