2 Be or Not to Be, is still the same question, today, tomorrow and yesterday if you didn't answer it. Who am I? I am Theodore Lane Tedi Snyder 3rd. At one time I was a adolescent who was born into the gang culture within the ratio of Baldwin Hills Village also known as the Jungles. During such time, I grew into a lost gang psychosis that intact me to believe in criminality of all sorts, was how I'll get notoriety from my peers who was also lost in a beautiful misconstrued belief system. Oh, how I was wrong. 

Growing up with both parents in my life (separated), I was blessed to be spoiled and introduced to a lot of the beauty's of California and high end lifestyles of Los Angeles. Still, it was nothing like the pleasure and power the Jungles gave me. I did say, I was lost right?. 

Yet at 15 years old, I was shot in the head. 84 days later, I was arrested for 2 attempted murders and was sentenced to 32 years to life. This is horrible right, but yet it saved my life. Being incarcerated, it took me almost a decade and the death of my mother to do a 180° and educate myself where I could own the potential that everyone seen in me, except myself. 

This led me to start learning a lil bit of everything. I've even entered college, but to see that college students lived off edification instead of really experiencing the lifestyle in itself as I suffered from, gracefully. I must say. I focused on building myself, stepping up to ever facilitating position the groups that was powerful to me offered, I've question the celebrities eager to learn there intention on entering CDCR to help them reach there personal goals and more then all I learned that emotional education was what WE all suffered from unconsciously. So, capitalizing on such, within every group and every manner of interacting with everybody. I personally, implemented such within every group I had the privilege of instructing. 

No, I am not a professional writer and I do not believe I have it all figured out.

But I am sure, that all the chapters within this book, hold components that everybody could realize there decisions made is from the art of these traits highlighted within. Being self aware, is key of all we say, do and especially how we react in hostile situations and intense debates. 

I also analyze a lot of individuals psych evaluations that was held and denied due to being accountable for there actions that caused there crime to happen, was never owned. Which caused 3-5 years becoming the next parole board date to be available to attempt to get home was issued. Heartbreaking. Well to me, because 75% of these inmates was really ready to go home. But there tempers and authority issues, wasn't addressed and came to peace with as they never dug into the root of why/where there behavior came from. Paying attention to all, have led me to analyze and learn from the good, bad, disordered, elders and youth in toll. This was a amazing journey, as the many different personalities will teach you many different things about character and myself. I thank them all!!

Now I am, presenting this book as a guide for adults to understand themselves as well as be able to teach the teenagers growing up disoriented how to understand the silent pain that's within, that pride withhold them from speaking about. 

As my father told me at a young age, that the abbreviation for PRIDE is the Perfect-Reason-I-Die-Early. Just as EGO means Edging-God-Out and for the nonbelievers it stood for Edging-Guidance-Out. Powerful right? Due to its been many times out the day, knowing right from wrong that we let our Pride and Ego misguide the righteous values we know that's accurate to stand on. Brain boggling, I'm sure.

So everyday we have 2 choices, 1) is a choice we make to do what's needed to elevate us to tackle our daily victories and 2) is not making a choice (which is still a choice we make).Still when we focus on deciding, what tends to hinder us or choice wisely is all-

determined on our emotional intelligence and it comes from being emotionally educated on ourselves based on why we make the decisions to act and react in our lives. So hopefully, this book will catch a new sense of self and the exercises within will help you find balance within yourself to teach the next teenager you care for coping skills, that's easier done then said. 

So readers, thank you for this purchase and I pray that you come out of this book with a new insight of self in a intelligent manner. 

Thank You & Sincerely,

         Tedi Snyder

       -BE BRILLIANT-