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Reset Your Life Through Financial Freedom

Great Time With Great Hosts & Guess I was proud to be guest speaker a the Reset Your Life Through Financial Freedom seminar.  Cornelius and Timekia Brayboy were delightful and an inspiration to work with.  The audience was very much engaged and I certainly appreciated their warm welcome and participation. …

How Do People Benefit From Your Business

Your Business is Not About You Here is something for you to think about:  If the only person that is served by your business is YOU, then you shouldn’t be in business.  If the ONLY question you have is how you can benefit from your own business, then you probably …

Believe, Receive, Achieve

Believe and It’s a Done Deal I woke up this morning so excited about what is currently taking place in my life.  I woke up excited about what the future holds for me and excited about the lives that will be changed because of what is going on in my …

Get SMART With Your Goals

SMART Goals:  Closest Thing to Guaranteed Success It’s been said that there are no guarantees in life and I’m willing to go along with that.   But I believe that SMART goals, are the closest you’ll get to guaranteed success. So what are SMART Goals?  Let’s take it one step …

Crippling Fear of Failure

Don’t Let Fear of Failure Stop You Fear of failure may come from a variety of sources.  This fear can even be a learned behavior unknowingly passed down from one person to another.  It can stem from repeated attempts to achieve something and yet not reaching the desired effect. Failure …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Living Your Life Doing You

Do What You Wanna Do The Dramatics sing a song titled “Do What You Wanna Do” and it goes on to say “be what you are.  There ain’t no right or wrong way….”  That is “so” the path and attitude that we may want to adopt in our own lives.  …

Don’t Die Without First Having Lived

So Whatcha Doin’ Now? I’ve done a lot of things in my lifetime particularly when it came to supporting my family of 2.  By choice I have owned a hair salon, a desktop publishing business, started an investment group for women, attempted to start a hair style magazine (derailed by photographer’s poor …

Without Passion There is No Success

Without Passion There is No Success That’s what my pastor said on this past Sunday and it really resonated with me.  Personally I love it when passion takes over to the point where I can’t sleep for thinking about ways to bring that passion into reality.  Nearly every waking moment, …