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2015 Daily Dose of Gratitude

2015 Daily Dose of Gratitude

Wake Up With an Attitude of Gratitude How much or how often do you acknowledge the things for which you are grateful?  Surprisingly you may find that your answer is “not often enough.” Why is that?  Surely you realize how much you have to be grateful and that gratitude will greatly …

I Am a Woman of Vision

To Visionary Women Everywhere It is my best recollection that I have been a Woman of Vision since the early to mid-90’s.  Let me be clear, these visions are not of my own doing.  Oh no, far from it.  Anytime I get an idea in my head that comes along …

A Work in Progress

We’re a Work in Progress Much like the Renew Refresh Reset Your Life blog, people are a work In Progress.  It’s not always easy to come up with new content to post here and keep the creative juices flowing.  So is true with our own lives. We may find ourselves …

The Serial Entrepreneur

Everyone Knows a Serial Entrepreneur A serial entrepreneur, defined in the BusinessDictionary.com as an entrepreneur who continuously comes up with new ideas and starts new businesses.   I won’t go into the number of and the nature of the businesses that I’ve started, but I will tell you that there have …

A body at rest

A Body at Rest

A Body at Rest Several weeks ago, Author S.W. Cannon wrote “Don’t Let the Sand Cover Your Head.”  Over the past several weeks, I let the sand cover my head.  It seems I had taken on so much, that my mind and body grew weary to the point where my head could …

WordPress Birmingham

My First Ever WordCamp Birmingham

I’m Gonna Be One Bloggin’ Dynamo I thought I was going to miss WordCamp Birmingham.  Willesha Morris put out a call for panelist a few weeks ago and I think I was among the first to answer the call.  By the time it took her to get back with us (which …

Re-learning How To Be Me

How to Be Me by Guest Writer Aimee Lanier People often fall into the trap of letting a job, relationship or title define them. Worse yet, some people allow a tragedy to define them.  We are all meant to be more than what any single title or event can describe. Life …

Financial Wellness Is Not Happenstance

Creating Financial Flow by Guest Writer Jacqueline Whitehead As long as you’re living, life is going to happen.  People often use the phrase, “Go with the flow” and this gives them the validation to live their life haphazardly.  No great athlete has used this as their mantra; they have all …

Strengths: Seek Help to Identify Them

So You Can’t Figure Out Your Areas of Strengths This issue is more common than people may realize and yet many people stay stuck for one reason or another.  Some of the reasons may be because they: feel like they have an image to protect don’t want anyone to know that …

Consequences of Poor Decisions

Sharing Your Mental Space With Consequences I always say that the good thing about poor decisions is that you can always make a better decision to take its place.  I was engaged in a conversation the other day about some of the poor choices we made as teens and young adults.  Then …

Build on your strengths

Building on Your Strengths

Identify, Acknowledge, Access Your Strengths Each person in an organization, company, or group has strengths that add value to that unit.  Those considered leaders of the unit as well as those that go unnoticed will be well served if they learn to identify, acknowledge and access their strengths to best serve the …

Showing Great Promise

Change: Necessary and Inevitable

Adapting to Change Change can make it seem like your entire world is crashing.  Others just go with the flow and just adapt and move on.   This post is devoted to those that do not adapt to changing easily. After reading this post, I hope you’ll be able to make …

Keep Hope Alive

Hope Is Alive

Keep Hope Alive These words, Keep Hope Alive, were made popular by the Reverend Jessie Jackson, Jr.  Rev. Jackson’s presence and credibility may have diminished over the years, but thank goodness the phrase “Keep Hope Alive” has not. Every now and then, I run across someone that has apparently given …

I Believe In You

So What If I Don’t Know You? I know that I don’t know you, but I still believe in you.  I believe in people.  Where is this coming from you might ask?  I believe that it stems from a time when I did not believe in myself.  As gutsy as …

Is Indecisiveness Your Roadblock?

Clear the Roadblock for Success You grind and grind on a daily basis and you just do not seem to be making any tracks towards the success for which you have been aiming.  Have you stumbled upon a roadblock and cannot figure out what has happened? Is the roadblock called indecisiveness …