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31 Day Reset: Day 9 - Do One Thing

As I'm sure you've figured out by now, I am once again doing Rosetta Thurman's 31 Day Reset. The first time I got sidetracked and ended up so far behind that I said "forget this" and scrapped the whole thing. This time I'm doing a little better; I haven't kept up with it daily like I'm supposed to, but I haven't let it go either. That's progress, right? Right. So here is today's challenge: Today, you will do one thing to move yourself closer to your ideal life... Today's exercise is not related to your everyday to-do list. You are being asked to [more]

31 Day Reset: My Values

This is actually from day 4 (today is day 8) but I still wanted to share them. The challenge was to list out what matters most to us. Then from that list, we were encouraged to pick out the top ten which would be our values. Then from that list, we looked at whether we were actually living our values (day 5) and created a personal mission statement (day 6). I won't go into the long list of things that I wrote out, but I will share my ten values. They are, in no particular order: Knowledge Creativity/Innovation Integrity Respect Passion Social Responsibility Balance/Peace of Mind Spirituality Love Financial Stability It took [more]

Beauty Is In the Eye of the... Experts?

The standard of beauty, according to some scientists Yesterday, over on OHN, I read a post about experts in Britain proclaiming that 18-year-old Florence Colgate might be the world's most beautiful woman. The article (posted originally on Gawker) mostly states that this is because of the "scientific ideal" of distance from her ears to eyes and between her eyes and mouth. And I have read before about how scientists and psychologists coming up with some kind of way to determine what "ideal" beauty is based on how people react to pictures (but whose ideal, what pictures were shown & who they were shown to, [more]

Morning Quickie: Gallon People & Pint People

Last night, while taking a much-needed break from working on my jewelry, I managed to catch the last little bit of Oprah's Lifeclass Tour. Deepak Chopra's segment had ended, and T. D. Jakes was on next. If you follow me on Twitter you know I was all over his lifeclass last week on living with purpose. This time around he was talking about forgiveness. I was in and out of the room so I missed a lot (got the DVR set for the rerun though!), but I heard one thing about expectation that hit a nerve. "When you expect someone to love on a gallon [more]

Four Tips From My Foray Into Entrepreneurship

One thing that I love (and sometimes loathe) about business is the fact that there is soooo much going on behind the scenes to make the process look easy. I have learned that in each of the areas I've dabbled in--real estate, freelance writing, and currently jewelry making. Don't judge me! While becoming an entrepreneur seems fun (and no lie, it is!) it is also more work than you may think. Here are four tips to help you out. 1. To be a successful entrepreneur, you need to know more than just your craft. For many who are just starting out, they have [more]

Quote of the Day

This morning I was having a text convo that is becoming fairly common with this particular individual. It got me to thinking how sometimes we just like a person because of their looks or personality (which is fine). But how often is there a level of admiration? How often do we find that the object of our affection does more than make us feel good, but instead motivates us to be great? Even though I'm not in a relationship with this person, I can say without hesitation that his influence and words make me a little more careful about what [more]

Justice for Trayvon

"What do you call a black man with a Ph.D.? Nigger." - Malcolm X What do you call a black boy with Skittles & tea? "Suspicious." If you don't know the story of Trayvon Martin, here is the quick and dirty: Trayvon was a 17-year-old boy who was walking back to his dad's house on Feb. 26 after going to the store. He was followed by George Zimmerman, self-appointed neighborhood watch leader for the Sanford, FL community, because he "looked suspicious." Although he was warned by the 911 dispatcher on the phone not to follow the boy, he did. He accosted him. [more]

Quote of the Day

  “Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.”    -Unknown I don't think about death much. After all, it's another part of life. But here I am, still feeling all sorts of ways about the passing of my grandfather this weekend. On one hand, it's terribly painful knowing that I won't get to see him again, hear some of his stories or be teased about getting fat. On [more]