Motivation Mama!

Success Strategies for your life & your biz!

Hi there, I'm Denise, The Motivation Mama! & I'm so glad you stopped by.  I created this blog to provide the newbie business owner (Coaches, Mompreneurs, Solopreneurs & women transitoning careers) with real solutions, tips and insights to help you create success strategies and stay motivated for your life & your biz!  

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As always, encouraging you to: "Create - Transform & Thrive!"

It's All About Love

 This week I'm continuing the series of selections from Susan L. Taylor's wonderful book of essays called "All About Love."

"Our challenges show us the fences we must climb, the doors we must push open.  Insecurity drove me to college for the first time nearly two decades after high school, when I was already editor-in-chief of Essence. It was rational insecurity that drove me in the direction I needed to take, praise God.  Irrational insecurity is believing that we are insufficient or lacking in any way.  Life serves up our lessons in ways we will see and heed."

When I read this I was struck by the term "rational insecurity" since I've been giving a lot of thought to insecurity recently. This new term really stuck out of this passage for me.  Irrational insecurity is based on believing that we are insufficient and that we lack which immobilizes us and interferes with the positive forward motion of our lives.  So according to Ms. Taylor there is a way of looking at insecurity that has merit. The kind of rational examination of that which we are insecure about and using that honest assessment to 'fix' what ails us.  I encourage you to take a look at those things you may be insecure about and examine them rationally and know that you too can 'fix' whatever is  ailing you.

Remember, time is precious. Do your happy dance. Enjoy life!

Motivation Mojo Solution: Recharge Your Battery (Vlog)

Motivation Mojo Solution: Enjoy Life (Vlog)

Celebration Friday - Share Your Successes

     CELEBRATE!

Each Friday stop by and share your successes with the world.  Celebrating Success is the 6th of the 6 Essential Skills for maintaining your motivation mojo!

This week I'd like to share:

Success #1:a wonderful CCI performance put together by the staff at TCTW and performed by the 76 youth.

Success #2: completing the script for summer camp 2009!

Okay, enough about me. What successes would you like to share with the world? Do so in the comments section below.

Remember, time is precious. Do your happy dance. Enjoy life!

All Power is in the Choice

 This weeks quote comes from a wonderful book of essays by Susan L. Taylor, former editor of Essence Magazine, "All About Live" Favorite selections from her enormosely popular series In the Spirit. 

"Our power to choose is an awesome one, an authority we excercise each waking moment, but not always with conscious awareness.  We get accustomed to living in the prison of our past or in a fast-forward mode, worrying about the future, missing the brightness, lightness and newness of this holy moment."

This passage from one of the essays in "All About Love totally supports one of the most favorite Motivation tips that I've created: "The two most powerful words in the Universe are I Choose... what are you choosing today?". 

Staying mindful of our ability to choose keeps us in the active present moment engagement of life.  We stay in the drivers seat and are no longer relegated to passenger status. Personally, I think about this statement several times a day.  I ask myself, what am I choosing. Sometimes I surprise myself when I find that I haven't actively choosen anything and am simply going with any flow that comes along. I now chuckle to myself when this revelation happens and then get busy choosing exactly what I want for my life in a given moment. You too can choose what you want in your life and for your life. Afer you make your choices, than get busy with the positive action that makes life so worth living.

Remember, time is precious. Do your happy dance. Enjoy life!