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The what if and when I syndrome of 2020
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By FRANCO CIANFLONE 5 years ago in Motivation
WHO IS CYFFA LEYENDA?
A Legend before becoming one is something Cyffa Leyenda has accomplished for a decade now. CYFFA stands for Change Your Future For Achievement and LEYENDA means legend. At 3 years old the Virginia-Native was adopted into a wealthy strict household. Straight out of High School Cyffa Leyenda signed with Alisha "M'Jestie" Brooks (Song Writer of RIHANNA Pon De Replay & more. His parents invested $1,500 into his career and saw no money was coming in so started telling him get into the military but Cyffa wasn't really feeling that. After a year and half Cyffa was released off the label because M'Jestie felt he was going to be much bigger. A month later one of Cyffa's friends sends him a flyer for dancers in Michael Copon Studios for their artist music video Vickie Jade in Chesapeake, Virginia. Cyffa is the type to see an opportunity and take it so he went. He freestyle dance so when the beat played he was ready and choreographed in his mind what he was going to do and he did it. Michael was shocked better yet gave him his cell to link with him. After auditions Cyffa was one of the dancers choosen and the next day Michael had the shoot. On youtube if you type Michael Copon Studios Vickie Jade "Walls" you'll see Cyffa in red on the left side. After that day Cyffa linked with Michael one on one to see what Michael was getting into next. "We sat down and he was smiling said hey Cyf how doing man? (cool guy). In his studio he has classic posters on the wall of the movies he starred in like (Scorpion King 2, Bring it On: In It to Win It, Power Rangers Time Force, CSI: MIAMI "Walter Leeson Episode: Head Case" & more. I felt like I was in hollywood lol. But the main important thing i remember him saying before we never linked again was he said man your dope im not going to tell you what your going to become im going to let you figure it out. Still till this day i remember that and keep striving to find my purpose"- Cyffa. When Cyffa grew a little older his expectations did not go along side his parents in result he was kicked out at 18. In 2015 Cyffa opened up for Rah Digga at Shakas Live bringing an enormous amount of energy through-out the crowd. Later on that year Cyffa performed at S.O.B's "Where Legends Are Made" in Manhattan, New York City. During this time Cyffa was going house to house to survivie. This was paid trip, paid luxury hotel, food provided and Backstage access free from the founder of the LiveWire Ent. This was Cyffa's first time in NYC and lived it like a star. 2018 Cyffa had hit single ran 150k streams on soundcloud and not to mention opening up for Megan Thee Stallion. Cyffa drew 100k people on his Instagram the day of the show. Cyffa was able to meet Megan, took a pic and connected with her manager. 2019 Cyffa was a dancer in one of TEK's featured music video.YES TEK! from (Swiff N' Wessun). Today Cyffa has released his new single "Fineto" with Dela Wesst "Famous Tik Toker with 400k followers" (Prod. YoungFrenchy808 & Its64boy) Distributed by Empire which was reposted by FAT JOE on Instagram. In 2020 Cyffa has been featured in Respect Magazine, WFMK FOX34 NEWS, WBOC TV, & more. Next summer 2021 Cyffa plans on releasing a huge EP with mainstream artist tap in THIS IS HUGE!
By Cyffa Leyenda5 years ago in Motivation
10 Quotes To Help Us Draw On Our Resilience In Order To Succeed
We are all going to face adversity, challenges, trials, rejections, setbacks, and failures, in life, it's inevitable and unavoidable. That's just the way life operates. It seems to delight in throwing these tests at us, and regularly for that matter, but despite this, we completely fail to see that these such times are opportunities for us to learn, grow, develop, and strengthen ourselves mentally. We are too wrapped up in focusing in the negativity of the situation, that we complain, we feel sorry for ourselves, and we feel defeated, when we really should be aiming our focus on seeking out the opportunity of what the adversity is trying to teach us, and using the potential within us, to overcome the situation. Life wants us to act, it wants us to mature and grow, not become stagnant, or stuck in circumstances we don't belong. Perhaps what I just stated may sound silly, but you only need to think back to a time of hardship, adversity, trial, hurt, or failure, in your past, and reflect on how you managed to overcome that, and how you are now feeling mentally and emotionally stronger for the experience, despite how difficult that time was. You got through it, you're on the other side of that adversity now, and you feel stronger as a result. That's resilience! It's the ability to overcome adversities, challenges, trials, and failures, and continue with your journey. That journey may be life itself, or it may be a journey towards achieving your goals. Resilience isn't just about overcoming adversities, and the like, it's also about how we go about overcoming it. Are we proactive in finding a solution? Are we keeping a positive mind? Are we controlling our emotions effectively? Resilience is the ability to face adversity, accept it, and then work on overcoming it, whilst maintaining a positive mindset, a mature attitude, and a determined focus on the goals we wish to achieve in life. Resilience is a key trait to achieving success in life, because it provides us with the strength to progress forward, despite all that challenges, pain, and adversities, we are faced with. Here are 10 quotes to help inspire us to draw on our resilience, so we can find that strength to overcome adversity, and surge to success.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
The Number One Reason You Fail and Five Ways To Help You Avoid It
Let me be clear, I’m not going to tell you how to avoid failure, because 1. It’s unrealistic, and 2. Failure is necessary. Success is built upon numerous failures that led to success by way of knowing what NOT do next time.
By Taryn Watson5 years ago in Motivation
The Fast Life
Well hello you and how are we today? I say to myself in the mirror almost every single morning. She knows who I’m talking about that girl that is inside my brain. For most of my life I have called her stupid. I know it sounds positively insane to call the girl in my head stupid. However, we all know that is really just me trying to understand why I seem to pick the hardest hill to climb every single time.
By Katherine Lovell5 years ago in Motivation
An Ice-cream Life
Motivational speaker Jean Demetry was invited to speak at the graduating class of 2020, at the university that turned down his application twenty years ago. He agrees to do the speech for free if the school board allowed him to choose the location.
By Annelise Lords 5 years ago in Motivation
Success = Celebrating the Little Victories
If you're like me, you're hard on yourself about everything. You feel like the world depends on you, and that it's completely your fault if you make the smallest mistake. I have listened to countless podcasts on how to remain motivated, build and maintain healthy relationships, and how to allow yourself some failures. You name it, I've listened to it.
By Jordan Ziemba5 years ago in Motivation
One Quick Comfort Zone Hack You Will Ever Need
I was assigned to prepare and present a speech while I was in high school. At the time I was lacking faith and confidence in myself. I remember standing in front of my twenty classmates feeling out of my comfort zone completely.
By Vytas5 years ago in Motivation
