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February 2014

Opportunity: Prepare For It

What Do You Do When Opportunity Knocks? It’s a funny thing about opportunity.  It’s just like God, it doesn’t always come when you want it. But no matter when it comes, the real question is will you be ready for it?  Some of us can think a situation to death. But when it comes …

How Do I Love Me?

How Do I Love Me?

Let Me Count the Ways That I Love Me This post is all about self love and loving the person that you are.  Although I don’t believe that you really need  reasons to love yourself.  You just should that’s all (just because). I know that there are people in the …

Deciding to Settle Instead of Pursuing

Settle or Pursue Here’s a thought for you:  The minute you stop trying to pursue your goals, is the minute you decide to settle.  Let me say it one more time:  The minute you stop trying to pursue your goals, is the minute you decide to settle.  Okay let that …

Crawl, Walk or Run

Getting to Where You’re Going We’ve all heard the saying “you’ve got to crawl before you walk.”  At some point, you have to decide to get up off of your knees and take that major first step.  It’s okay to think, dream and make plans to accomplish a goal or …

Put Your Vision on a Board

Vision Boards Help You See Your Future If you’ve never heard of a vision board, in short, it’s a board that contains pictures of things that you would like to have or accomplish in the future.  You could have a vision board in the form of list, but it would …

Brenda Mullen: Passion Over Paycheck

Renewing, Refreshing and Resetting My life as a Full Time San Antonio TX Realtor® So, what do you say when a good friend, Charita Cadenhead asks you to write a guest post to submit to her new-found ministry of Renew, Refresh and Reset your Life?  Well, you say yes of …

Childlike Curiosity: In the MInds of Babes

I Wanna Do, Be, Go and See Why is it that when some of us grow up, we lose our sense of curiosity and adventure? As kids, not only did we wanna do, be, go and see, we believed that there was nothing stopping us (besides Mom and Dad) from …

No Chance Meeting By Carole H. Sharp

You Just Never Know I was talking to my friend Carole Hines Sharp the other day and oddly enough what started out as a conversation about Girl Scout Cookies, ended up being a conversation about how we never know who, how, when or where God will place people in our …

Find Your Gift. Discover Your Purpose.

A Take Away From James Edwards I was watching a clip of James Edwards (The Most Valuable Motivator) being interviewed by Kenny Anderson.  I’ve known James for about a year and I’ve read his story as given to me by James in a manuscript.  But the manuscript was nothing like …

Fear Is An Anticipatory Emotion

Anticipatory Anxiety Fear is an anticipatory emotion that stems from less than desirable results that you believe may occur given a certain set of circumstances. Oftentimes failure or rejection is associated with fear. However inasmuch as you can anticipate failure or rejection, you can also anticipate success and acceptance? DISCLAIMER:  Let …

Your Life As a 100 Piece Puzzle

The Puzzle:  Putting It All Together You’ve spent your entire life putting together the pieces of your life’s puzzle.  Ninety-nine of the 100 pieces are all in place and then you discover that the final piece is missing.  You spend months and perhaps even years searching for that missing piece …

Entrepreneurs and the Entreprenuerial Spirit

Once You Get It, It Never Goes Away I once heard my friend Carole Sharp say “I can’t kill it and it won’t die.”  As I recall, she wasn’t referring to entrepreneurs, but I remember that the moment she said it, I immediately related it to my entrepreneurial spirit.  Over …

Rewriting Your Autobiography

Your Autobiography:  Still More Story to Tell I’ve heard it said that there is a book in all of us.  Each of us has our own (life) story to tell.  I don’t know about anybody else, but I could certainly write an autobiography about my life and I promise it would not be …

The Buck Doesn’t Stop Til You Stop It

The Buck Stops Wherever You Stop It We’ve all heard the catch phrase “The Buck Stops Here” made famous by Harry Truman.  In short the phrase indicates the finality of a decision.  I don’t know what made me think of it, but when I did, I immediately thought about how people stop …

Comfort Zones Can Stunt Your Growth

Don’t Miss an Opportunity for Growth Have you ever known someone who has been so buried in their comfort zones, that they have stop absorbing new information.  They seem to hang on to ideologies that are no longer applicable in today’s world.   They have become so detached from the …