Ronald Kern's Personal Blog

BLESS YOURSELF BY BLESSING OTHERS FIRST I felt compelled to write this, hoping others can learn this “key to life” long before I did. The sooner you truly understand it, and most importantly implement it, the happier you will be. There was a time in my life when I felt the world — no, the universe —revolved around me, what I said, and what I did. Long before any social media, I had my own network of people that spread the news quickly, if I wanted. I did well in high school, was voted class vice president, excelled in tennis, and was “one of the guys.”  It was a time for me to do what I wanted, when I wanted, and people followed. It was the Ron Kern Show, I thought. My mother had raised me with this gem of advice: “Be kind to others, no matter who they are; you haven't walked in their shoes.” And in those glory days, there were glimmers of me remembering this wisdom; however, it wasn't consistent. As I continued into the business world, I did well with one ...

If you live in the United States, the word slavery probably takes you back to your history days in school, picturing a large plantation mansion, where African Americans, then called Negros, worked the cotton fields in the south so the owners of them didn't have to.  That portion of our history is horrific and slavery as we knew it then, has been desolated. However, there is a current form of slavery called human trafficking, which is as sickening and disgusting as the 1800's in early America.  Human trafficking doesn't receive a lot of media attention, although it's finally gaining some momentum now that celebrities and other well-known figures are speaking out on the topic.  This needs to happen more. What is human trafficking?  By definition, it's  the illegal movement of people, typically for the purposes of forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation.  In short, human beings are being forced into having sex with others, and working ...