As I’ve gotten older I’ve really tried to keep myself out of trouble and I’m doing pretty well, thank goodness! It’s not that I go looking for trouble but sometimes it just seemed to find me – usually because of something I said OR it was something someone said I said. So I have had… Read more »
Steve Jobs said, “When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very… Read more »
“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.” – Ellen Goodman I like the idea that… Read more »
Let me be one of the first to welcome you to the New Year 2014. I am excited because I fully believe this is going to be a good year – in spite of all the predictions, politics and pundits. I believe in the message that I shared last week about Write it on your… Read more »
As I thinking about what to give as a word of encouragement this week I wanted to share something that would be uplifting and not just educational or a training session so when I found the first part of this poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson I knew I had landed on my thought for this… Read more »
I choose to live by choice, not by chance~ Miranda Marrott To live by choice, not by chance; To make changes, not excuses; To be motived, not manipulated; To be useful, not used; To excel, not compete; I choose self-esteem, not self pity. I choose to listen to my inner voice, not the random opinion… Read more »
Be a lamp – a lifeboat – or a ladder I came across this saying a while back and it made me stop and think about who in our lives have been there as a lamp, a lifeboat or a ladder. I’m sure for most of us it would be easy to choose someone who… Read more »
I recently came across a phrase that made me smile when I thought about it… because the truth it holds can be life changing. May all your dreams come true…even the ones they laughed at. There is something about this phrase that captures me… maybe it’s because I’ve had 1000 dreams, thoughts and ideas that… Read more »
Recently a client called me about entering a competition – she was not sure she wanted to go through the hard work, early mornings and late nights and stress, pain and hassle of it all, so she called to asked me what I thought. Realizing that she would have a lot of work to do… Read more »
I am in the process of writing guidebook for parents of pageant girls. You might be surprised to know that I am one of the Southeast’s top pageant interview coaches for Miss America, Miss USA, Little Miss, the Rodeo queens, the Cow queens, Watermelon queens and the list goes on and on. And what I… Read more »