Photo by Victrola Record Players on Unsplash Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. — Oprah Winfrey My mom and her friends were having a girls’ night at our apartment. Everyone was drinking and eating take …
Shameless Self Promotion Image by Дарья Яковлева from Pixabay “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”― Mae West My first two books have won 2019 Gold Awards from Reader Favorites. Publishing the first book was really hard, the second only slightly easier. Image by the Author I am surprised and grateful. While …
Image by Irina Logra from Pixabay The travel hacks will make your adventure less stressful by keeping the most dramatic problems away from you. Traveling is always an experience. It is easy to lose your cool when something unforetold happens. Taking the simple actions below will keep you sane. Knock on your room door. Twice, I have …
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Tainted Leadership Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay “You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotage from bosses who can’t perform.” ― Richie Norton I was having a good year until I wasn’t. I had established trust with my boss. My team was meeting or beating the group …
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I’m washing with both deodorant soap and body wash. Am I the only one doing this? I ask because I’m worried: I might be weird. When I take a shower, I double tap: deodorant soap and body wash, just to be sure. Standing in the shower this morning, I realized I was cleaning me twice. First, …
Differential Leadership “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” Franklin D. Roosevelt Image by Paul Sprengers from Pixabay If you are following the rules, written or unwritten, don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do what everyone else is doing. The bosses may …
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WTF Management Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay When your boss’s unhealthy actions are putting your team’s success in danger, you must address that behavior. WTF? I walked into my new office. I had taken a job as a Senior Director at a large aerospace company. The staff of eight business unit managers reported directly to …
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Rebellious Love Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” — Sophia Loren To guarantee total control, my boyfriend needed power over the only other human I loved as much as him: my …
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Stupid Love Image by Digital_Works from Pixabay “Love didn’t hurt you. Someone who doesn’t know how to love hurt you and you confused the two.” — Tony Gaskins, Jr. In my mind, my choices were to live a boring life of poverty or run off with a much older man who promised an expensive lifestyle. I ran off with …
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Love Me Image by Pixabay “I need someone who sees the fire in my eyes and wants to play with it.” — lovethispic.com I have a set of techniques that kept my lover coming back to me. Providing physical pleasure, other than sex, kept me in his thoughts. Don’t get me wrong, scream and holler sex works …
