You want money, you want cars, you want your family and friends to respect and love you, you want to stay out of jail, you want to live your best life and make it stick, or do you want to continue through the revolving door of the legal system? Get it right this time with 18 proven steps for the success of anyone inside the walls of prisons or newly released. What we do today is practice for tomorrow. Success begins today! If you can get over yourself, set aside your ego, and you want success, it is for you and whatever you want is in reach. This book will help you define what your goals are, how to decide if your goals are beneficial or will hurt you, and how to focus your energy into succeeding. You'll understand how a business plan works and is created, and you will be able to apply the same principles to your life. Imagine that, running your life like a business! You'll understand why people fail and you will be able to identify those reasons in your own life. Understanding simple life functions like budgeting, time management, responsibility, priorities, and work ethic. Use the greatest resume building templates available. Develop a spiritual mindset that is unstoppable. This no-nonsense guide will break it down in terms that only an inmate gets but will also explain in a way free people can understand. Each step is thoroughly explained and in an order that can be done as you go.
Learn about inmates that used their time locked up to better themselves, learn, write books, read, develop plans, take surveys, exercise, and study mistakes, outcomes/results and solutions to then create successful businesses. From being housed at TDCJ's Polunsky unit, death row building 12, to Calcasieu, to Catahoula, and Cameron Parish jails, to Best Selling Author, business owner, and contributor to inmate writing and success programs, and prison outreach ministries, RS "Popeye" Blackburn has spent years incarcerated. He made it a point to get it right this time. Author Jason Neal Barlow contributes a great insight and hard-core no-nonsense attitude that only a marine could possess. He is a true warrior of God and brings a fantastic counter weight to Blackburn's business-like approach. Blackburn and Barlow became good friends while locked up in one of America's most violent facilities. In spite of their surroundings the two became locked on a goal, an idea, God, and hope. They decided to become the best possible versions of themselves. They redefined their definitions of success and created solid, moral, ethical, and spiritual plans to continue growth beyond the walls of prison. They read every positive book that was available and studied countless other books in areas like business, religion, accounting, mathematics, geology, English, self help, history, law, and numerous other categories.
An inmate must change himself/herself and accept that they are not going to change the system or society. It's simple personal accountability, and deciding where to focus your energy. "We can push people to do better and learn from their mistakes; make the best out of terrible situations. What seems common sense for most is alien to many."
Reform, redemption, knowledge, forgiveness, spiritual healing, and the ability to contribute to society are the aims of this book. This book takes multiple perspectives: inmate, victim, the families, the prosecution, public defense, community, prison officials, and God. It seems each wants something different but that's not true. We find common ground!
Additional content: statistics, interviews with jailers, judges, lawyers and yes, Inmates. During his last stint, Blackburn interviewed over 100 inmates in 5 facilities about their ideas of success, plans, dreams, and their past. The results of these interviews were very telling of the minds of inmates. You will be surprised. You will be blown away at how smart, talented, creative, and interesting they are.
