Is your blueprint for success or failure?
I search for quotes every week. There’s something about a well-worded phrase or sentence to kick me out of my comfortable sand box of responsibilities and assumptions. I found one this week from Napoleon Hill: “Cherish your visions and your…
Wednesday’s Challenge Booster: Food on the Table!
Are you SO tired??? Fatigue, overwhelm, just a general energy drain is a syndrome in our world. The average person transmits the equivalent of SIX newspapers each day and receives 174 newspapers of data. You are capturing your to-do’s and…
Monday’s Message: Are you a diamond in the making?
The lion’s share of success boils down to persistence with a vision in mind. The moments prior to gratification are filled with hard work and a health measure of faith. Are you ready to be a diamond? Sticking with…
The $17 Secret
So you finally want to change your life. Circumstances have progressed enough the fear of the unknown has been eclipsed by your unhappiness with the present. YES! I’m so glad. Sometimes we have to experience that dissatisfaction to get the…
What’s in your black box? It’s holding you back!
When I was a kid, all I wanted was to fit in. It was nearly impossible to blend in during the 70’s, an awkward, undiagnosed ADHD kid with chocolatey skin and the darkest hair. My parents, newly arrived immigrants, had…
What if you just stopped arguing with yourself and JUST DID IT!
I hate arguing. Really, I like to get along and really try to look for a compromise. But there is a running argument in my head going on all the time, asking me whether or not I am going to…
Four COLORLESS things I learned from Martin Luther King Jr.
The emotion in his voice. The honesty in his face. And the ability to take us to his vision with his words. Imagine what people could see when they were standing there listening to him. Their world was segregated. People…
What do Michael Phelps, Brad Pitt and YOU have in common?
I remember the first time I saw Michael Phelps, winner of 16, count ’em 16 Olympic medals swimming for the U.S., I thought, “what is up that goofy, awkward kid?” I had this strange desire to grab his person and…
What’s your problem? The difference between challenges and problems…
I got problems, man! I have problems. Lots of problems. My husband is fourteen years older than me. I have seven children and there are problems associated with each one. The oldest lives far away and I’m not sure how…
Bring Back French Kissing!
I discovered french kissing in sixth grade. My parents were building a house twenty minutes away and I was put in charge of watching my sister (which is whole other blog). I watched through the broad window in the front room…