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 Bestseller [...]

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 me [...]

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 girlfriend [...]

Why Precious is Important (Movie Review)

After I agreed to write a review for the movie Precious I began to wonder if I’m the right person to do so. I say this because I am by no means a big movie-goer. In fact Precious is only the third movie I’ve seen this year — He’s Just Not That Into You and [...]

The Importance of Character

Come Correct columnist Karen Grigsby Bates reminds us of the importance of character. What is character? What one does if he knew he would never be found out.
According to Bates:
What we do unobserved or when we don’t have to in some measure defines who we are. So to pick some pretty mundane (but not unimportant) [...]

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 that [...]

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 [...]

Balanced Life — 7 Tips If You’re Chronically Late

This is a great article for those that are time-challenged and I am hopeful that many take it to heart. Unfortunately, lateness has to be on my Top Ten list of pet peeves to the detriment of many friendships. Certainly, timeliness was something I learned more about in college and I try my best [...]

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 only control your response, which [...]

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 struggle [...]

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