Friday Fact: Boris Kodjoe

   Today's Friday Fact is on someone most of us know from what we have seen on our screens, from the movies and the adverts he has starred in. Boris Kodjoe is a talented actor that has appeared in many different movies but we would mostly remember him from the 2000 movie titled "Love and Basketball". I'm sure most of you have seen that movie. A real classic and for some reason I can't even believe that it's as recent as 15 years ago.

What we didn't know was what he was doing before he got to acting and modelling.





You see before he got to be know for modelling, starring in tyler perry movies, Kevin Hart's "Real Husbands of Hollywood", addicted and many more roles he has played in movies and T.V series, Boris was one heck of a sportsman. Yeap...how do you think he got the edge on keeping that good looking body.
     This man right here was one of the best in his country in Tennis and it won him a scholarship to Virginia Commonwealth University. However everything came crashing down when he suffered a terrible injury to the back and was told by doctors that he couldn't carry on playing the game. He had to quit the game he loved and was so good at. Although he still plays it but not professionally and a little more lightly to avoid any further injuries. When the news that he couldn't play the game anymore came to him, he sank into depression for a while but evidently that didn't last forever.

Today he is a big name in Hollywood and is popular as a model and an actor. He didn't know his luck was coming when he went to visit his sister in New York. He first started with the modelling and furthered his career into acting when he appeared in the movie "Love and Basketball.

I think Boris's life is an inspiration and a message to all of us. A message to everyone hustling to make it out there to not worry. His life literally says "Be patient, everything will be okay". I have to say I totally agree with him. You see, things might not be working out the way you have planned them. Your life might not be steering you towards the direction you want but do not beat yourself up. Sometimes you just have to sit back, let life take the wheel, find out where it leads you then take the lead from there. When things are going the other way do not let that depression take over you. That mind state is dangerous and could lead you to dangerous decisions. Learn to wait it out.

That contract that you missed, that job you got fired from or any kind of disappointment that you are experiencing doesn't spell the end of the road for you. Instead look at it as an opportunity to explore another path. If you are working hard towards one direction and it's almost as if everything you are doing is pushing you away from that path then you might want to think of looking at another path. It doesn't mean giving up, it means taking correction and embracing your destiny. You never know, you might make it more in this new path than you would have ever made it in the one you planned for yourself. So learn to let go, try something new, panic less and most of all..."Be patient".


Train yourself to be patient enough to wait for your opportunity but observant enough to grab it before it passes you by...Success is yours!