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Stewarding Excellence is Our Legacy
Black Beauty ~ How To Thrive In The Marketplace As The Beautiful Black Professional Woman that God H
Although this is the 4th post regarding the challenges that black professional women face in the marketplace, this is the MOST important. I pray that as you sit back with a cup of your ‘favorite,' that this particular post sparks a paradigm shift in your life. I pray that this shift inspires breakthroughs of success. How Do You Deal With Negative Thoughts??? Proverbs 23:7 tells us that, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” Your life as it is right now is the sum-total
Black Beauty ~ How To Thrive In The Marketplace As The Beautiful Black Professional Woman that God H
For today’s post, I’m covering 3 of the challenges, because I believe the solutions for these are all-encompassing. The three challenges are listed as follows: 1. The desire to be treated equally 2. The challenge of exceeding work performance expectations 3. The challenge of getting beyond the concrete ceiling of promotion In keeping with the themed solutions for each of these challenges, I cannot stress highly enough how you are treasured by the Lord God Almighty! “The Lord
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
How are your relationships going? "Intense love does not measure, it just gives" - Mother Teresa What is lust, what is love? There is a root difference between the two. Lust = External Lust is drawn to the appeal of something that ensures (or appears to ensure) some level of self-fulfillment-it takes and is self-serving. So when that something no longer fulfills what Lust signed up for, Lust will search for something else to fill its insatiable desire to remain comf
Black Beauty ~ How To Thrive In The Marketplace As The Beautiful Black Professional Woman that God H
In this series, I felt led to address two of the challenges that most black professional women face in the marketplace, in this single post. How To Be Confident and How to Deal with the “Imposter Syndrome” You know that you are meant to be in the professional arena. You know that you are meant to thrive in your professional calling, yet due to the hindrances and roadblocks of race and gender, you find that it is difficult to stand out and confidently be you. How do you walk
Change Your Life: Step One
Ready to Change Your Life? "Right living presupposes right thinking."— Dr. William Lane Craig Philosophy teaches several ways to think. Start with information (a proposition), then take that proposition to construct a statement. An example: "The sky is blue." In philosophy, this is called a premise, an informational statement that is either true or false. So, is it true? We could run scientific experiments, conduct surveys, pin it against the laws of logic, read history to
Black Beauty ~ How To Thrive In The Marketplace As The Beautiful Black Professional Woman that God H
Isaiah 5:13 – "Therefore My people go into exile because they lack knowledge [of GOD]; And their honorable men are famished, and their common people are parched with thirst." In continuation of this series, I believe that it is VITALLY important to establish a good, solid foundation. The knowledge of GOD and HIS heart toward you IS that foundation. The enemy has used a VERY deceptive phrase that has enslaved the minds of so many of God’s people. That phrase is “Ignorance is
Success
What is the key to success? "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society"- Theodore Roosevelt It is a cold November day as I struggle to find the venue. My mentor, Rock (His actual name), has been encouraging me to come to this for some time. Arriving at what appears to be the building, I am greeted by two smiling faces. "Welcome," is all they said. There are only about 30-40 other people in a room that could seat ten times that many. I sit i
Black Beauty ~ How To Thrive In The Marketplace As The Beautiful Black Professional Woman that God H
In writing this blog, I’ve thought a lot about what it means to be a beautiful black professional woman in the market place. With all the progress that’s taken place in the last 60 years...economically, technologically, socially, and professionally, there still exists challenges that black professional women face that seem to be insurmountable. And the question remains… How do we overcome these challenges and get to that place of simply thriving as professionals who are rec
Agree to Disagree...
Yes or No? Successful negotiation is not about getting to 'yes;' it's about mastering 'no' and understanding what the path to an agreement is. -Christopher Voss Christopher Voss and The Black Swan Group are known primarily for one thing: negotiation. Voss, a former FBI Hostage Negotiator, has experience navigating the human psyche on jolting, deep levels. His book, "Never Split the Difference," presents his expertise in the area of agreements. In his line of work there coul