Brand identity. Brand message. Brand equity. Brand language. Brand logo. Brand this and brand that. I can’t be the only one who is just a tiny bit over the whole idea of branding. I mean I went to school for this stuff. I use to like learning about this. Then I had to actually do…
I like to think I am pretty organized. I’m not a super neat freak but I do like to have things in the right place the majority of the time. As many thing in life though, sometimes I notice that there are too many papers on my desk, too many book laying around, too many…
How many people have access to you? Your attention? Your time? Your voice? It’s important to take inventory on how much you not only consume but where you give your energy to. There are many areas you can take inventory on in your lie. I’ll highlight just 2 of them today. What you see: What…
“When goals are tied to insecurities, that’s when we lose.” Nousheen Rahman. Fact: We are all works in process. Question: How often do you get overwhelmed with your process? I remember taking my strengthsfinder test and one of my top 5 characteristics was ‘futuristic.’ “People with the strength of Futuristic have an incredible ability to see…
“Whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be shouted from the housetops for all to hear!” – Luke 12:3 NLT I’ve read and heard this verse many times in my life. What it used to mean to me was that…
I love planners. I decided to try the @cultivatewhatmatters planner for this year as I get back to writing my goals out on paper. What I like about it so far is that there is deep work into reflection and setting goals for the year not just based off metrics but based off intention and the areas…
I love technology. And specifically, I love social media. The ability to connect with people near and far, the chance to share pictures, get reactions…it’s exciting to me. Social helps me do what I do every day for my businesses and for my personal life. Even with my love of technology I realized one day…
Samy Tshimanga is an example of how online connections grow over time as your nurture them. We connected through a mutual friend for an interview a few years back and have kept in touch through the years. We have collaborated, bounced ideas off each other and simply talked about life. Samy is a music junkie…
“God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.” –Billy Mills When I ran track in high school I mostly ran the 400m dash. Man, did I hate that race! I didn’t want to run the race, because it seemed hard to run a full sprint around the whole…
There are a lot of people I look up to that feed into me different aspects of my life from personal to business. Today I am celebrating some people in my life. One of them probably doesn’t even know me, but she is still someone I look at to learn lessons from. It’s important to…
It was about 1 AM and I had a breakdown. That moment when it’s just tears and a yell that can barely get out in between wheezing. When the very last nerve got hit and everything came rolling out at once. Months of frustrations, staying busy, acting like I didn’t care, trying to just get…