She was abandoned at age 8. Now at age 42, she is an author, speaker, and business owner sharing her "recipe" for for living Life on Purpose with others.
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“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”- John Maxwell Are you complaining about your circumstances? Are you expecting things to change without doing anything? Or are you adjusting and taking charge of the sails and getting where you want to go.
Today is another day in your life. Is it going the way you want it too? Whether your answer is yes or no the fact is your life is exactly what you have created. If you want something different it’s up to you to make it happen. Creating the life you want won’t happen in a single […]
“When your heart decides your future, your mind and actions will create it.” You deserve it!
“We are what we imagine ourselves to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.(American Writer, b.1922)
“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”—Chinese Proverb Sometimes I have the all or nothing mentality. I have come to learn that even if I don’t feel like I can or want to go for the “whole enchilada” as they say, if I will still do little things I am still […]
“We are for the most part nouns living in a world screaming for verbs.”—author unknown I read this and thought how profound! There are several things I complain about that if I acted more like a verb would change. So today I think I wll start acting more like a verb and see what happens. I post new […]
“If at first you don’t succeed; you are running about average.”— M. H. Alderson Whatever it is we want to accomplish or change in our lives can happen if we do the extraordinary which is simply putting forth daily effort. Continued attempts, daily effort and actions are truly what set the average person apart from the […]
Two men are having lunch and one said to the other: “You are so lucky.” And the other man answers back: “Your right, I owe my success to luck! I am lucky that my alarm clock rings at 5:00 AM so I can work 12 hours a day. I ‘m lucky that my car has a stereo so […]
I love the story of the old Eskimo who used to pit his lead sled dogs against one another in weight-pulling contests. The Eskimo had one black dog and one white dog, and they seemed to out pull each other on a regular basis. Amazingly, the Eskimo always placed his bet on the winning dog. Long […]
The door bell rang, my daughter and I looked at are green faces covered with mineral clay. We were both dressed in our house robes and our heads were adorned with big pink rollers. “Mom, hide.” My fourteen year old daughter said panicked. “Maybe they’ll go away.” Not expecting any company, we had been hanging out doing […]