Balanced Life — Nine Things You Can Do Every Day — Even When You Can’t Do Anything Else

Simple, yes. But extremely important, not just in the action but in the habit. Growing up, I always considered making my bed a chore. Now I understand it is about how you start your day…with purpose. I’m happy to report I accomplish about seven of the nine simple things. I need to work on “jumping [...]

Quitting Offends All Who Fought For You

Imagine my surprise finding wonderful life advice and inspiration from a blog dedicated to the technical and marketing aspects of blogging.  I typically visit CopyBlogger for advice on how to improve blackgirlgrown, improve my writing, and expand the reach of my little address on the Internet.  A posting by Copyblogger associate editor Jon Morrow caught [...]

Not Feeling Quite Festive?

You’re not alone.  Holidays and birthdays are supposed to be joyous occasions.  But for some of us it is a stock-taking of the year gone by.  And we are never kind to ourselves in appreciating our progress despite the many shortcomings we recount over and over again. It reminded me of an email I sent a [...]

Guest Post: Sophia A. Nelson: An Open Love Letter to My Sisters

Fabulous, stunning, intelligent, warm, caring, devoted, successful, open, graceful, patient, kind, authentic, liberated, funny, multi-talented, entrepreneurial, powerful yet meek, strong yet feminine, nurturing, truthful, uncovered, seeking, spiritual, giving, loving and most of all triumphant. These are just a few of the words that come to mind when I think of the beautiful accomplished black women [...]

Look in the Mirror, Do You Love What You See?

It is rare to find a woman who doesn’t immediately look to her flaws while looking in the mirror. A cellulite dimple here, a scar there, an extra ten pounds everywhere. The list of negatives is endless. I always see a childhood scar, those extra ten pounds, and nettlesome bruises from always bumping into stuff [...]

Women Do Too Much: Learn How to Say No

Women are traditionally known for their nurturing ability “the mother complex.” Of course not all women will fall into this category. However, many psychologists agree that women are hard-wired into being nurturers, they bear children and they also protect and care for them. Children are demanding, husbands are demanding, and women step up to the [...]

Event + Response = Outcome

This has to be the most clarifying and life changing concepts I’ve ever known. Beautiful in its simplicity and powerful in its message. I remember learning about this concept while reading one of John Maxwell’s books on success several years back. Simply stated: event + response = outcome You cannot control the event. You can [...]

Superwoman Needs a Break

b. danielle encourages us to put away our capes on That Black Girl Site: On any given evening I’m running around the house cooking dinner, doing laundry, writing, checking emails and tweets, catching up on my favorite shows, and trying to keep my three-year-old from tearing up the house. Like many women, and moms, I [...]

Time is Money, Manage it Well

The Ohio State University Extension provides time management tips as a part of their small business series.  In a great tutorial outlining internal and external time wasters and how to effectively manage one’s time, Karen M. Williams provides the following Top Tips: Consolidate similar tasks-group similar jobs and do them concurrently. This eliminates a lot of sporadic [...]

Stop Cursing

With the disclaimer that I am certainly not the one to lecture on the subject, I don’t like cursing. Yes, occasionally some four-letter words fall out of my mouth. This is usually in the company of very close friends, not too flagrant, and never in public or around elders. Growing up, I remember cursing (or [...]

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