This post was taken from Daymond’s weekly column on www.urbanworldwireless.com

We are now part of one of the most important times in modern American history! As we say farewell to ’08 and welcome in ’09, change will surely come! Your finances, health, relationships and all other aspects of your life will change as well. This is the time to deeply reflect upon the areas in your life and address any changes that may be needed to make you a more POWERFUL individual. Ask yourself: “Am I rich or am I poor?” Money has nothing to do with this question. It is a state of mind, a true understanding of if you are fulfilled in your every day life. Anybody with TRUE POWER knows that “POOR IS A PERSON WHOSE PLEASURE DEPENDS ON THE PERMISSION OF OTHERS”. When reflecting this week, be honest with yourself and then try to make the changes needed to have more POWER in your life. Be safe and have a happy new year with the ones you love.

- Daymond John

NOTE: This post is taken from Daymond’s weekly column in www.urbanworldwireless.com

Choose Your Words Wisely…Never take what words are said to you lightly and more importantly, choose the words you say even more carefully. The English language has a quarter of a million words in it. Each one of us utilizes between 5 and 10 thousand words in our daily vocabulary. It’s the 10,000 words used that reflect the current mental state and direction you are and will go in life. If your words are negative ones like sick, broke, can’t, angry, lonely, and hate, then you are sure to surround yourself with just those things. But if you choose positive words like health, wealth, will, can, happy, and love, that’s the direction your mind and life will follow. So this week’s Display of Power Point is STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES, BUT MY WORDS CAN EMPOWER ME…Have a blessed week.

- Daymond John

Stay tuned for Daymond John’s second book in the Display of Power series named “DISPLAY OF POWER presents BRANDING YOU! YOUR BUSINESS! YOUR LIFE ” will be released in September 2009. The book will discuss the importance of branding in everyday life and in business. Daymond will take the readers through the history of how Team FUBU developed the brand from just a sportswear brand to an iconic and timeless fashion brand today. In addition, he’ll give advice on how everyone from corporate players to entrepreneurs to stay at home parents can create and maintain a successful brand. Join Daymond’s email list to be placed on the advanced copy list.

Note: This post was taken from a blog Daymond wrote for CNBC.com

Respect is something that takes a lifetime to gain. Not everybody will give it to you and not everybody deserves it. Usually it’s only in the final years of your existence that your peers and loved ones embrace the fact that you were worthy of their respect. More than likely, they won’t understand you fully until someone is reading the eulogy at your funeral. They will proclaim while pounding the pulpit that you were a person that deserved respect. If you are lucky enough to leave a large imprint in history than the normal person, then people will write about you for years and decades to come.

Respect is something that has to be acquired by every new individual you meet, every new area in business you enter, every new dream you share, every new mate, friend, child, and stranger. Before I was able to apply it to my brands, I had to apply it to myself! Respect is so hard to gain and can be often taken away by one bad decision, or just as simple as a rumor or a lie that’s not in your favor. Read more…

Daymond was featured on CNBC High Net Worth and talks about how he built a billon-dollar empire.