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"Flowing with your Mindset MOJO is all about experiencing MOre JOy!

Welcome to the Mindset Mojo Movement! 

 

Hi, I'm Denise. Here, I've gathered my best articles, tips and insights to help you Discover, Maintain and Increase your Momentum and Motivated Mindset so you can be more, do more and have more of what you really want in your life.

Several years ago, after surviving breast cancer, I decided to fully embrace my calling and began helping women experience the kind of transformation that leads to a more meaningful life and career. 

I've helped  hundreds of women strengthen their Mindset Mojo to adopt a Don't Quit attitude and KICK fear to the curb resulting in more confidence, courage, self expression and self love for more meaningful relationships, starting a business, taking charge of their personal development and becoming more deliberate about creating the life they really want. 

Mindset Mojo is all about how we're responding to our life. What are we focusing our thoughts on despite what may be happening.  When people say "I've lost my mojo," they're really referring to a mindset that keeps them in the FLOW empowered by thoughts that make virtually anything feel possible. 

If you already know that you'd like a more hands on touch with private coaching please click here to check out my coaching philosophy and here to read about the greatest impact on my life.

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continued blessings,

Mindset Mojo - Indulge in Magical Thinking

Why Having a Dream Isn't Enough

I learned the hard way that when it comes to purchasing a home, you need a whole lot more than a dream.  The lessons I learned 10 years ago when I was positioned to purchase a home but didn't, are lessons that I've been able to apply to pretty much all of the goals I set going forward from there.

Ten years ago I was renting a home in one of Washington DC's up and coming neighborhoods, near the now uber trendy U street corridor in the northwest quadrant and within walking distance of Howard University where I was a professor.  I loved the neighborhood and the character and charm that comes with a large historic row house.  I relished living in the Ledroit Park community where, in the 30's, 40's and 50's, the negro intelligentsia and professors who preceded me lived and thrived.  

I had often dreamed of purchasing a home but I didn't really have anything besides a dream mindset.  What's a dream mindset you might ask? Well, a dream mindset is when we think about our goal and imagine our goal and admire others who have achieved the goal, but for some reason we don't move beyond that state of mind.  I had no idea how expensive my preoccupation with dreaming would be.

About six months into renting the home I started to receive notices that the home was going into foreclosure and letters came in droves from agents trying to reach me to become my agent.  I was so ignorant and had so much fear about the housing market and home purchase process that I became anxious and believed that somehow I could be held liable for the home being in foreclosure.  My solution, I decided to move out. 

However, before I could implement my hasty plan, the owner, a real estate investor, actually tried to help me purchase the home.  He put me in touch with a mortgage broker and decided that he would offer me the chance to purchase the home for a measly $128,000. Yes, you read that right, he offered me a purchase price that was pennies in comparison to the homes on the same block.  However, I didn't know that because I didn't know anything about purchasing a home. I didn't know that all I had to do was look up the tax records for the homes on my block and find out what they were worth.  I had no idea that all I had to do was look up the nearest homes for sale within a one mile radius and I would have known that homes in the same condition and same size as the one I was renting, were selling for more than $400,000, more than triple the  price he offered me. 

I was a highly educated woman, yet, from my reactionary behavior you sure couldn't tell.

It wasn't that I didn't make enough money to afford the home, it was the mindset I was bringing to the experience.  A mindset that had locked me into a perpetual state of dreaming of achieving. 

Mindset Mojo - Big Step Mantra

Lessons on Forgiveness

I forgive you because I have learned the true value of loving me more than hating someone else.  Forgiveness is an act of self love.  ~ Mindset Mojo

In the beginning he was the source of tremendous pain. Then he became the catalyst for my desire to awaken.  Now, he's become my greatest support and my best friend.

In the mid sixties, after my father returned from the Vietnam War, he would occasionally fight with my mother.  When I was six years old I remember seeing my father hit my mother in the head with a shoe, followed by a lot of shouting, shoving and running.  I remember feeling uncertain and experiencing a great deal of anxiety and wishing that my parents would just be nice to each other.  The arguments continued to spin out of control and by the time I was seven, my mother packed up me and my two siblings and moved us to the basement of my grandmother's house. Hence, the 35 year rocky relationship between my father and I had begun. 

At the tender age of seven, my father, whom I adored, was now off limits to me and it broke my seven year old heart. I held onto that hurting heart for many many years. However, once I got old enough to understand the reasons why my mother left my father, my heart turned cold.  I harbored deep resentment towards my father for not being able to control himself and do those things that would have kept our family together. 

As the years went by, it was obvious to me that he really was the cold uncaring man that he demonstrated to his children through his behavior, or at least I thought it was obvious and that I was right.  As I watched and was affected by my father's negligent behavior towards me and my siblings, I felt justified in disliking him, in hating him. 

Define Your Don't Quit Attitude Especially for Business Owners