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My last year of college was extremely difficult. Although my future seemed bright - full time student, president of two several organizations at one time, intern, and part-time employment were all setting me up for bigger things - I was extremely depressed. The overwhelming feeling of responsibility and duty, managing broken friendships and relationships, and facing an uncertain future clouded my mind for the majority of the year. I was lost and I withdrew from everyone - family, friends, sorority sisters, group members, classmates, associates. I wanted to be alone. Up until this point, I had always been self sufficient. I grew up in a single parent household and learned from a very early age how to depend on myself. When you need to make your own after school snack or change your own clothes, that's fine. But what about when you get older? When you hit a financial set back? When you need help to start your own business? When you've ended up a bad relationship and it...

In business and in life sometimes we can get caught up in how everything affects us. On a day to day basis, we worry about our time, our resources, how this project will turn out, our goals and deadlines - alot of things that involve I, me, my, or mine. But what if we approached life with the idea that a majority of things that we go through and deal with have nothing to do with us? What if the purpose of everything you went through was to benefit the next person - how would that change your perspective? Recently I have encountered several losses and at first glance I was discouraged. How would these setbacks make me look as a business woman? Would I be embarrassed? Would people think less of me? How could I explain my shortcomings? I. Me. My. Mine. How easy it is to get caught up in the idea of self. But life is not about you. It's bigger than you. At second glance, I realized that these setbacks would only make me look strong because I overcame them and that str...

What's easier - saying something positive or wallowing in negativity? Surrounding yourself with encouraging people or going back to the same people who bring you down? Chasing your own passions and purposes or choosing to put everybody else before your own well being? As women, we tend to feel that the more weight we carry, the "stronger" and more "important" we may feel. But, what we don't often see is that the weight we've become accustomed to carrying is also dead weight. And while we like to think that we're simply helping or saving others, we're really losing ourselves. What are you honoring with your actions? Inside of each of us, is a power that lies dormant - ready to be activated by our faith, passions, purposes, and believes. Each time we don't answer to our calling or allow others to pull us away from who we are, we loose a piece of that power. We must each make the conscious decision that we will use our power to not onl...