Afraid to Speak?

What are your biggest fears? I have learned that most people say their number one fear is public speaking. They say they would rather die than speak in public! What is this about? I am an accidental public speaker! Sometimes life gives you a challenge that leads you to where you are meant to be in order to share your innate talents. If someone had told me I was meant to be speaking in public I would have told that person that I thought they were on another planet. That is exactly what happened! Many years ago, I was the…

Done with Darkle!

Done with Darkle Sometimes on Saturday morning, my significant other and  I get up early and go out for breakfast before heading to the local market. This past Saturday we did just that. I got up and started thinking about what I would wear and I decided wear my white turtle- neck, because we would attend the basketball game later in the day and I would just have to add my booster club shirt.  I grabbed a vest out of my closet and put it over the turtle- neck and off we went. My goal was to be warm. While…

Leap Year, Choose to Be Different!

Leap Year, 2016 Make it different! How does February 29th affect you? Just another day you say?  As I consider writing this blog, I started thinking about this extra day we have this year. What are you doing with your extra day? Are you just unconsciously going through your habits of day to day life or are you going to take some time to reflect? What if on this day, we set out our four-year goals?   Write them down. Visualize, or as Disney said: do some Imagineering.  Reflect on this. What does your life look like in four years on…

That Makes Me Crazy!

That Makes Me Crazy! “ No one can make you feel inferior without your permission!” Eleanor D. Roosevelt These words ring so true for me and I would take them a step further to say: no one can make you do or feel anything you do not want to do or feel! There is a very common language that is used everywhere from day to day conversation to radio, TV news, in all forms of media. It is called the language of “external control” One of the most common statements is this:  “ How did that make you feel?”  The…