SELF

3 questions to ask yourself after you’ve experienced a loss or a failure.

Your measure of achievement depends largely on your definition of success or your vision of ‘happily ever after’.

You wanna know my surefire trick for dealing with change? Here’s a hint: It involves using your imagination.

Some simple truths and profound mindset shifts on how you view work and interpersonal relationships.

Create your own personal manifesto, aka, Declaration of Self. A method for using popular personality tests to make a statement about who you are and why you’re here. Let the world know what your ‘big why is.

Before you can write your life story, you have to get to know your main character really, really well. Personality assessments provide a consistent, reliable way to get to know yourself before you make a major life change or take a big leap.

Goals motivate. But stories inspire and transform. So why are we not using stories instead of goals when it comes to New Year’s planning?

Your life story is being written every day. The habits and guiding principles you adopt will determine how well your story turns out. But. don’t worry, you can always work things out when it’s time to edit.

You’re almost ready to write your life story. An outline of your goals, desires, needs and dreams is the perfect map to take along with you on your journey. Learn how to create your own personalized Life Value Map that will motivate you and keep you excited about each new phase of your life’s journey.

Every hero has an origin story. When crafting your life story, you must understand what has brought your main character to this moment. What parts of your past must be identified and understood before you can create the future you desire?

Before you can begin crafting your life story, you must define your story’s main character. With the help of personality assessments, your birth chart and a fill-in-the-blank writing exercise, you will discover your inner values, natural talents and motivations and create your Declaration of Self.

Has your goal-setting approach failed you? Do you find yourself losing sight of your goals as life seems to have its own plans? You might want to try this story-based approach instead.

Feeling stuck? Ready to make a big leap? In preparation for this ‘season of shift’, I’ve compiled a short series of audio recordings to help set the tone and get myself (and you!) ready to make the most of this time.

If you aren’t intentionally placing yourself in uncomfortable, unfamiliar or undefined spaces in your real life, you probably aren’t developing the skills needed to deal with the uncomfortable, unfamiliar or undefined in your work life.

We all know what happens when you try to call the result too soon. A reminder to slow down and take a good, honest look at all that you’ve lost and won this year.

The beginning of my notes to self series - lessons for powerful black women of every age.

I remember saying to more than one person during the initial weeks of quarantine, “My life hasn’t really changed that much…”. But after multiple weeks of sheltering-in-place orders, there have been some pretty interesting developments.

The big tree in my front yard doesn’t give a fuck about me.

Each of the past year’s losses came with a gift inside. A jewel of learning and of becoming that calls for a different kind of celebrating.

One intentional design element I tried to incorporate was emptiness or negative space. My house is single-person sized and the main living space is open concept with lots of windows. I wanted to make sure that the space still felt light and uncluttered even with big furniture pieces - like a dining table, or chairs in front of the windows - in the main line of sight.

Here are some of the ways I worked in blank space to keep my main living area feeling light and airy, yet still substantial enough to be the center of my home’s daily activity.