The Sound of Silence: I Dare You to Give it a Try

Silence is the relative or total lack of audible sound. By analogy, the word silence may also refer to any absence of communication, even in media other than speech. Silence is also used as total communication, in reference to non verbal communication and spiritual connection. Okay so like many of you I saw the new [...]

Guest Post: An Important Distinction in Many Successful Relationships

Dialogue from Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown: Louis Gara (Robert DeNiro): You trust Melanie around your business? Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson): She’s trying to play you against me, huh? Louis: Yeah. Ordell: See, I knew it. You ain’t have to say nothing, I know that [woman]. Louis: I don’t understand why you keep someone around [...]

Things All Happy People Know

The Black Doctor has a great list of 10 things happy people know.  It’s worth a complete read.  Here, I note some of my favorites: #1. Share Your Happy Thoughts: Let your children know how great it feels to spend the day with them. Brag to your spouse about the unexpected compliment your boss paid [...]

August 2010 Happiness Project: Have FUN!

Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project encourages us all to focus on FUN for the month of August. With all that we have going on in our lives, the economy, and the recent jobless numbers, it is sometimes difficult to focus on fun. The drudgery of the daily grind and trying to “get by” make it difficult [...]

Why Do You Blog?

I get lots of questions like this from friends and strangers. They say, “you have a full time career, why are you blogging?” My responses vary depending on the audience. In my most honest and pure moments I admit that it’s cheaper than therapy. Life isn’t easy.  And it doesn’t come with an instruction manual.  My [...]

What If There Is Nothing Wrong With You?

Wow.  We spend so much time asking ourselves what is wrong with us (women especially) that we rarely think about the novel concept that nothing is wrong. Hilary Rubin posits this question over at The Huffington Post: I was sitting listening to a recording about practicing being in the moment from my coach Marie Foleo [...]

Book Recommendation: The Master Method

What: The Master Method by Marco Sies.  The Master Method combines the wisdom of the most powerful teachers and leaders in history. This knowledge has been passed around for thousands of years from teachers to students and can be found recorded in the pages of thousands of wonderful books. These writings of ancient masters as well [...]

Building More Happiness in Your Life

Happiness takes work.  Yeah, it doesn’t seem like it should.  Bliss is just supposed to be, not a goal you arrive at.  It requires effort, diligence, and sometimes a little selfishness. As you know we’ve embarked on a Happiness Project here at blackgirlgrown with the help of Gretchen Rubin, author of the New York Times [...]

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 [...]

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