"to define me is to limit my ability and my possibilities are endless" - Elle

Illuminating Your Life: The Power of Believing

January 13th, 2012
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Have you ever given thought to how powerful your mind is? The mind is in fact one of the most powerful weapons we have. Understanding your mind can either help or hinder your progress in life. Many times we underestimate the power of believing in yourself, we allow the opinions of others to take precidence over how we [...]

Illuminating Your Life: Forgiveness

January 13th, 2012
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” Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different.” As we begin a new year, it’s evident that there may still be some things from 2011 that are haunting us. Maybe it was a fight with a friend, maybe there was a business associate that did you wrong. Perhaps you [...]

Illuminating Your Life: Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone

January 13th, 2012
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” One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. ”~Abraham Maslow~   From the time we are conceived we are nestled warm and cozy inside of our mothers womb. Even as we grow older we remain close at our parents [...]

Illuminating Your Life: Our Elders

January 3rd, 2012
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” Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. “ James A. Baldwin Like the quote above says I was never good at listening, especially when it came to listening to my parents. I was the type of child who would act first and then [...]

Morning Love: Be Thankful!

December 14th, 2011
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With the holiday season fast approaching it’s remarkably evident that Christmas in this day and age is like an evolved high tech movie compared to the Christmas’ of the past. Everyone is rushing around, parents are fighting over toys in stores and yet the one group who remains the most genuine at this time are [...]

Morning Love: What Is Your Foundation Built On?

December 4th, 2011
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If hollywood has taught us anything it’s that your foundation upon which you build your life must be solid in order for you to tolerate success. Too many times I have seen people attain some level of success and suddenly all thier morals and values have flown out the window. It reminds me of the [...]

Morning Love:Be Mentally Prepared

December 3rd, 2011
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I’m pretty sure that if this past week of my life were to be developed into a novel it would be a best seller. It seemingly had all of the juicy makings of a good story – death, accomplishments, romance and drama. You name it and I went through it. I’m glad though that last [...]

Morning Love: Are You In Tune With Your Universe?

December 2nd, 2011
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” Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson We’ve all experienced the moments where you get that nagging feeling that something just isn’t right. You have what some call whispers, as for me – I call it my little voice of God. The universe is constantly sending [...]

Morning Love: Become Your Biggest Fan

December 1st, 2011
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Good morning! It’s no secret that these days the meaning of modesty has been lost and replaced by supersized ego’s. So today I wanted to change that focus and talk about how to become your own biggest fan. I was once told that God dreams bigger dreams for us than we can even dream for [...]

Morning Love: The Value of Your Happiness

November 7th, 2011
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If you had to put a price on your happiness what would the value be? While I realize that your happiness should be priceless I can’t help but think that more people would take their happiness seriously if there was a monetary value to it. In a world where status is everything, why is it [...]