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Smart Women are Possibility Thinkers - Click To Read Article
This article is about how one can determine their outcome in many situations and in life depending on their attitude. When faced with any circumstance, do you live in possibilities or do you automatically go to the downward spiral? Attitude is the key to unlocking a life full of passion, purpose and meaning.
Smart Women Make Amazing Things Happen - Click To Read Article
This article is about making sure that you create the right environment in your home or office in order to bring out your most creative self. In order to realize our dreams and goals, we need to place ourselves in an environment where we can visualize our preferred future. We can make amazing things happen both personally and professionally when we create the right space. Think about where you create your best thinking. Where are you when you have those amazing ideas to move your life forward?
Smart Women Prefer the “Limited” Lifetime Warranty - Click To Read Article
This article is about our struggles in decision making. We all have such a difficult time making decisions . From the simple (where to eat dinner) to the complex (ending a long-term relationship). We want our decisions to be the “right” decisions forever. Why? Because we fear change and we fear making the ‘wrong” decisions. We want to have the opportunity to make everything last forever. This is not possible in life. We need to embrace the idea of a “limited lifetime” warranty when we make decisions so that as we change and grow, we can make new decisions that work for us moving forward.
Smart Women Know When to Let Go - Click To Read Article
This article is about realizing that in order for things to change in our life, we ourselves need to change. A wise mentor told me once, that “change does not always mean success but success always means change.” We need to let go of the things that no longer serve us and create the space for something new. New growth and learning, new relationships, new career. Whatever you want to manifest in your life, you will need to make changes along the way.
How Smart Women Tend Their Gardens - Click To Read Article
This article communicates what’s really involved in the process of women growing their preferred garden of life. What are you passionate about? What do you want your life to look like moving forward? Growing a beautiful garden of life full of passion and purpose takes proper planning and time. We must make the time to carefully plant, nurture and grow our garden of life. We must tend to it often if we want our lives to bloom beautifully. Too often we want everything to happen now---we don’t like to wait. However, planning and patience are necessary ingredients if we want to grow a garden of life that’s uniquely ours.
How Smart Women Stay Busy - Click To Read Article
I have the good fortune to spend meaningful time with a lot of smart women who keep me on track about what’s going on in women’s lives. One topic that resonates with many of these women (and with me) is the idea of busyness. It is vital that we as women take the time to explore what provides us with meaning, energy, and passion. Whether we are married or unmarried, with children or without, we all have the same number of hours in the day. We can spend those hours doing things that energize us.
Smart Women Take Risks in 2008 - Click To Read Article
Remember Risk? I wrote about taking risks recently and it really hit a nerve with many women. If you set a goal that’s achievable, it will create positive change in your life over the next 90 days, and you will be more fulfilled on your journey in 2008.
Smart Women Keep Their Inner Door Open - Click To Read Article
The article is about making sure that women are in touch with their intuitive selves. It’s important to create the space and time to make sure that we are living our own preferred lives rather than the lives of other people around us. Life is so busy today that if we are not careful it will slip away if we do not set aside that time to get clear and focused on moving our lives forward.
How Smart Women Stay Connected - Click To Read Article
Staying connected to those people in our lives is essential---both personally and professionally. Ask yourself this question: Are you truly connected to these people? Do you feel securely linked to those people in your life that make the most meaningful difference? I’m talking about the people who champion you, who think you have great ideas---people who make you laugh! It’s equally important to connect with yourself---yes YOU! Are you creating the space to connect and nurture your mind, body, relationships and your creativity?
Smart Women Get Back On the Pogo Stick - Click To Read Article
When we set out to accomplish a Big Idea or goal, there will be times that we will encounter some challenges or obstacles. It’s just natural. They key is to get back up and get re-focused on your goal and keep moving. It’s like learning to ride a Pogo Stick. At first, you may fall off when trying to learn but eventually you will master riding the Pogo Stick and you won’t fall off anymore. What we focus on becomes our reality.
Smart Women Are Nutritious - Click To Read Article
I read recently that we are “the average of the 5 people we hang out with.” This got me thinking about the “nutritious” people in my life. This article offers readers the opportunity to evaluate the relationships in their lives. Are these people positive in their thought and action? Are they negative? Do they complain about everyone and everything? If you want to live your life with energy, passion and purpose, it’s essential that you surround yourself with people who are positive thinkers and support you in your challenges and celebrations in life.
Smart Women Understand the BLT Factor - Click To Read Article
This article is about understanding that people will be more drawn to you both personally and professionally if they Believe you, Like you and Trust you. These attributes are just as important as the knowledge and expertise that you have about something. In order to have a successful life, you must be willing to create good, trusting and run relationships with the people around you and in your community. We all know it instantly when we meet someone that has the BLT Factor. When we leave this person, we feel great.
Smart Women are 40, 50, 60 and Beyond! - Click To Read Article
This article is about women realizing that it’s sometimes in our 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and Beyond when we realize some of our biggest life passions. Not so long ago, women felt that they had reached their prime after 50. Not so any longer! We’ve come a long way baby! Women today have Big Ideas, passion and energy. They are taking these ideas and turning them into big profits. Women beyond 40 begin to cultivate the wise wisdom they have learned in their 20’s and 30’s and use this to move their lives forward.
How Smart Women Pack for Their Journey - Click To Read Article
This article is about taking an inventory of our lives. Do you carry exactly what you need to live a life full of passion and purpose or do you have excess baggage of things in your life that no longer serve you on your new journey? It's important to take an inventory as we move into "the afternoon of life" to make sure that we need is all we have to live our preffered life.
Yes, Smart Women are Unique! - Click To Read Article
We are all unique. We each have our own distinct gifts, talents and preferences. There is only one you. Ladies, that’s powerful! Take some time to explore your unique gifts, where your energies lie, and bring it to the world. Everything is possible. Everything is waiting for you.
Smart Women Think Like 10 Year Olds! - Click To Read Article
This article is about reflecting on who you were as a 10 year old girl----before hormones and society began to manipulate your thinking. Are you still the authentic girl you were at 10? As women, we take on many roles between the ages of 16-35. Along the way, it can be a challenge to maintain our core, our authentic selves. It’s essential that we return to that place—our core so that we can live a full passionate and purposeful life.
Smart Women Answer Their Call - Click To Read Article
Most of us have a unique gift or talent that we can offer the world. Recognizing your unique gift is realizing your true passion and purpose in life. This is the key to living your best life and to leaving a legacy that you can be proud of. It’s important to create the space and time to explore what your talents and gifts are. Then it’s essential to make sure that you are taking those gifts, talents, calling out into the world. Are you waking each day to your calling? When your internal telephone rings, are you going to answer it or put it on silent mode?
Smart Women Rarely Hallucinate - Click To Read Article
Since the beginning of the New Year I’ve been writing about taking risks, realizing your dreams and goals, and taking inspired action on your big idea. I’ve been expressing the idea that you need to create the space in your life to explore and discover what’s next in your life’s journey.
Smart Women Have Dreams Too! - Click To Read Article
What fuels you? What’s your dream moving forward into 2008? When you land on where your energy and passions are, you feel this incredible sense of being alive with possibilities. Everything seems possible.
Smart Women Are Like Harry Potter - Click To Read Article
This article is about women in small to mid-size businesses and how they should reflect on their products and services periodically. When we begin our journey as entrepreneurs, we may start our business with just a few products or services. In the beginning, you create your core product or service---your brand. As the business grows, it’s essential that you begin to dewant tosign or create other products and services that compliment your brand and that your valued customers would benefit from. J.K. Rowling has done an amazing job at creating a series with her core brand (Harry Potter) and then adding more characters and storylines that readers every where want to follow. The same applies to any successful business.
Smart Women Are Great Gardeners - Click To Read Article
This article communicates the similarities between growing a garden and growing a new Big Idea dream or goal. They each take planning, patience and time to cultivate and grow. It’s important early on to give your Big Idea, dream or goal a lot of thought. Decide on all of the steps, make a plan to really make it happen—grow your Big Idea. Often times, we “Plant the seed” for our dreams and goals and then we become frustrated when they do not grow as we had hoped. We need to reflect on how we cared for our “new garden.” Did we nurture it? New ideas and plans take lots of care.
Smart Women Give Themselves Permission - Click To Read Article
This article is about supporting women to accomplish their dreams and Big Ideas. Women need to give themselves permission that it’s ok to go for it in life. To really dream big and then make a plan to make it happen. Women need to first decide what they want and then give themselves permission to ask for support wherever they need it in order to accomplish the goals.
Smart Women Create the Right Environment - Click To Read Article
This article is a reminder about how important it is to create the “right environment” both internally and externally is we are to live a meaningful life filled with passion and purpose. A cluttered environment creates a cluttered mind. We typically are not as creative as we might be if we have an open, reflective environment. This is also true of our internal environment---our self talk. Is your self-talk positive and full of possibility? Do you have relationships with nutritious people? The “right” Environment is key to living our dreams and reaching our goals.
Smart Women Create the Right Internal Environment - Click To Read Article
Creating the “right internal” environment is essential if we are to truly live a life on purpose. Your internal environment is your self-talk, the internal conversations you have with yourself. Stop and think for a moment about the conversations you have with yourself: Do you send positive messages or negative messages? Is your internal voice filled with possibility or doom and gloom? It’s really important to take some time to evaluate yourself in this area and change your thinking.
Smart Women Dare To Dream - Click To Read Article
This article is about how women need to focus on the dream that they really want in life. Not someone else’s dream but their very own passionate, purposeful dream. Many times, we think that a dream is just that: something that is not attainable. If you really want your dreams to come true, you must become intentional and focused on the dream. Visualize and see it happening. Take steps to put a plan into to action to achieve it.
Smart Women Know How to Make Music - Click To Read Article
This article invites women to create the space in their lives to find out what’s next for them. Women need to take time out of their busy lives to hear their own music. Our society thrives on 24/7 productivity and women experience this more than anyone else with all of the many “hats” they wear (wife, mom, entrepreneur, volunteer, etc.). We all have a unique song or piece of music within us that longs to be shared with the world. We must take the time to learn more about what it is so that we can take inspired action to make our song known to the world.
Smart Women Can Be Action Figures Too! - Click To Read Article
I find it fascinating when children place stickers of their favorite action hero on their bodies. They instantly become their idea of what that action figure represents to them. They truly believe that they are that person. This article is about developing a mindset that you, too, can become or accomplish any dream or goal that you envision. It’s about allowing your imagination to soar with ideas about what you want to accomplish in your life and how you want to show up authentically in the world.
Smart Women Are In Control of Their Ride - Click To Read Article
This article is about realizing that you are completely in control of your “ride”---your journey through life. Many times, we (without even realizing it) allow other people to make decisions that may not be a best fit for us. Sometimes we are unsure of our own decision making and can become “stuck.” It’s essential to take some time to decide what’s most important for you moving forward. Look at what makes you really happy and incorporate that into your life. Look at what’s holding you back and take the steps necessary to remove that challenge from you life. Then you, too, can enjoy a life filled with energy, passion and purpose.
Smart Women Have No Boundaries - Click To Read Article
This article is about the “imaginary boundaries” that we create around our lives that keep us from realizing our Big Ideas, Dreams and Goals. We grow up with lessons and values passed on to us by our family and early teachers. Sometimes these lessons contain messages that can keep us “stuck” mentally in a place where we cannot access what we need from ourselves to accomplish our goals. We are capable of so much but yet we can have limited thinking.
Smart Women Get It Off The Ground - Click To Read Article
This article is about making the right plans from the very beginning to get your Big Idea off the ground. Many times we can take some early steps to start a business and we become frustrated when it does not grow quickly. The beginning is such an important part of a new venture. It’s essential to realize that proper planning and gaining the support system you need is key to be successful.
Smart Women Develop a Mindset Ready Fire Aim - Click To Read Article
This article is about women developing the right mindset in order to launch or get their Big Ideas off the ground. Many times we want everything to be “perfect” before we launch a new idea or business into the world. The truth is, there will never be a “perfect” time for anything. Women need to develop the mindset, Ready, Fire, Aim! Of course, planning is essential. Once the plan is made, you need to set a deadline and make it happen. This mindset comes from having the desire to make it happen—make your dreams come true.
Smart Women Get Uncomfortable - Click To Read Article
This article is about getting uncomfortable and trying new things in life. When we have the opportunity to try new things, we have two choices: Say yes to something new, or say No and stay right where we are in our comfort zone. Sometimes in order to realize our passion and find our purpose in life, we have to get uncomfortable. We have to be willing to take a risk to live a life full of passion, purpose and meaning.
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