Allow me to introduce you my “newest” guest blogger Patricia Gozlan – Patricia comes to us from Italy and I have been in contact with her via skype and her energy is contagious.  Patricia is now part of MakeGirlfriends.com - you can find more information on her on the homepage of this website.  I invite you to check her out and give her a warm welcome.  I am grateful that she will now be part of this community of inspirational writers.

A lonely woman decided life would be more fun with a pet friend. She went to the pet store and said she wanted an unusual sort of pet. After some discussion, she finally bought a centipede.

 That night she decided to take her new pet to the bar to have a drink. She asked the furry little creature, “Would you like to go to the bar with me and have a beer?”

 There was no answer from her new pet. This worried her a bit, so she waited a few minutes before asking again.

”How about going to the bar and having a drink with me?”

 Again, there was no answer from her new friend. She waited a few more minutes while assessing the situation.

 She decided to ask him one more time, shouting “Hey, in there! Would you like to go to the bar and have a drink with me?!”

 A little voice came out of the box, “I heard you the first time! I’m putting my darn shoes on!”– Source unknown

 How many of us are aware that when we want something, we let our egoistic voice command us, rather than just allowing the Number One Rule of Manifestation to get it for us?

It seems absurd – but the more unattached we are to our goals, the quicker they manifest.

When our inner voice keeps banging on to us with words or bad thoughts like:

 “You are not doing enough!”

“Look at other people, and then look at you – you are pathetic!”

“Are you stupid? You have worked on this project for X years and you’re still not getting good results!”

You actually build a resistance to manifest your goals with ease.

Have you ever noticed that when you least expect things to happen, they eventually do happen?

This is part of letting go and living the path of non-attachment.

Clinging on to what we want is letting our ego taking over.

This is us not taking responsibility of the life we are creating for ourselves. We expect the outside world to do everything for us. Well, can we control the external world? No, we can’t. So what can we do?

By monitoring our inner dialogue and letting go of the ego we create the reality we want.

 We have been taught that is selfish to live in peace where the rest of the world is suffering in bad economic times, of war, of uncertainty and/or catastrophe.

 What we were not taught is that we are the ones to create the outside world by the quality of our thoughts – when you multiply the crazy ego by billions and billions, especially when 80% of our thoughts are based on self-criticism… what do you think happens then?

 The world will not change and will surely not improve if you feel bad for others and yourself.

 Ho’oponopono with NLP and EFT all tools I combine and use with my clients to manifest what they desire easily. The energy-based sessions I offer teach you how to be free of your ego and the obsession of perfection or wanting things the way you want it. When you are there, manifestation becomes the most natural thing you have ever done. The biggest difference is that it is now done through awareness and not by default.

 Stress does not exist in the world. The only thing that exists is the stressful thoughts we create for ourselves. We “do” thoughts. We “do” stress. We “do” happiness, and we also “do” peace.

 By learning to practicing thoughts of non-resistance and patience, you’ll train yourself to see the good stuff for you in any circumstances. You have the choice, to become a tranquil and healthy person far from any kind of disease!

 Do you now realise that you are the creator of your reality – that you can now choose positive, prosperous experiences for yourself, and that the more you give to yourself to more you’ll be able to contribute to the good for all?

 Patience is just one of the ingredients of manifestation.

Why don’t you contact me by skype to discuss any challenges that you are facing with manifesting your dreams and goals?

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Nancy Patricia Gozlan, Uncategorized inspiration, Manifestation, motivation, positive thinking, Visualization

I think I must let go.  Must fear not, must be quiet so that my children can hear the sound of Creation and dance the dance that is in them…….  Russell Hoban

For many years now I have stated, I’m not into Hallmark holidays – Isn’t everday a Hallmark holiday?  Why do we take one day and celebrate it with a card, a gift and flowers – creating pressures on family members to hurry here or there in order to not disappoint. 

I see life as a celebration within itself –

So today I want to do something a little different – instead of my children honoring me, I want to honor my children.  They have bought me such JOY and LOVE into my life.  

I always wanted to be a mother and at the age of 22 I had my daughter Amanda.  Two years later I had my son Kevin.  You may say, “WOW – you were young” – and YES I was young.  I wouldn’t change it for the world.  I grew up with my children and now when I go out with my daughter, we often get the question, “are you friends.”  Of course, we are!  Then comes my son and when I got out with him, that’s funny – he gets asked, “Is she your girlfriend?”  That makes my day!!! (Thank you Kevin for putting up with the question asked by many).

They are such a blessing.  They have watched me go through difficulty, pain and on the flip side – they have watched me blossom into the woman that I am today.

They both have beautiful spirits – their energy is contagious.  They are very different and yet in their core very much alike; compassionate, loving, kind, intelligent with hearts of GOLD.

I am very proud of you both for your accomplishments.  I’ve learned so much from watching them grow up.  They have been my bright spot in many storms and have always been there to share laughs and encouragement.

Amanda and Kevin you are both my gifts and because of you I’ve had my greatest pleasure of being called MOM – YOUR MOM!

Remember, may the possibilities of today excite you!

Nancy JOY, gratitude, love gratitude, joy, love

Meet Alex Blackwell my guest here at MakeGirlfriends.com -  I am honored that Alex has asked me to share a chapter of his new book entitled, “Saying YES to Change: 10 Timeless Life Lessons for Creating Positive Change.  His website is www.thebridgemaker.com.  Alex writes from his heart.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.  — Helen Keller 

Getting to know your inner voice of wisdom will lead to a positive outlook on life that will allow you to see your own beauty – not just physical beauty, although this is certainly part of it, but the beauty and value of your existence as a human being. This might be the most important step on the path to positive change – for without the ability to see your own beauty, you won’t be able to see and live in the beauty of life itself.

You are beautiful.

On the days when you struggle with self-confidence or don’t see what the rest of us see, please know this: You really are beautiful.

When God created you, He made you beautiful. Before you were conceived, there was a plan designed just for you. Part of that plan was not only where you would be born or what circumstances you would face in life, but also what you would look like – the shape of your body, the size of your ears and the color of your skin. And all of these things contribute to your unique beauty.

Accepting Yourself

My self-image has been poor for most of my life. When I was a boy, I disliked my curly hair. I wished it was straight like the other boys’. I was also painfully aware of my speech impediment. My “Rs” were a source of shame. Words like “bird,” and “first” came out like “burd,” and “furst.”

I would think about each word before speaking, which caused me to stutter, further exacerbating my insecurities. Simply put, I was not comfortable with how God made me. I thought I was damaged and that I did something wrong to deserve these things. I wished God had made me better. I wished God had made me more beautiful.

My sense of self was fragile at best. I felt isolated, abandoned and hopeless. My anger gradually turned inward and, as a result, depression has draped over me like an oversized coat for most of my life. If you feel the same, know this: Freedom comes when we find the strength to remove the heavy coat and allow the world to see the beautiful colors underneath.

As a young adult I thought the key to removing the coat was to stay focused no matter the cost. My intent was to find personal beauty as defined by me. I cut my hair short, consumed myself with my career, and made certain everything was in its place at all times.

Turning away from the natural beauty has had its consequences. It has kept me from loving myself, and it has kept me from loving others with a free and open heart. This impediment has made me struggle to see their natural beauty, too.

I don’t want this coat to serve as a barrier any longer, hiding my beautiful colors from others and from myself. It’s clearer now how I can begin to remove it.

Beauty Doesn’t Equal Perfection

God picks the color of our eyes, and He decides on our parents, too. He makes all of these selections for a reason. When we look at our physical features and life experiences it can be difficult to always find the value in what He selected for us. For most of my life, I have been angry at God for what He has given me.

As a child, not only did I have to tolerate the embarrassment of how I talked, but layered on top of that was the pain of living with an alcoholic parent. My mother ignored her beauty and could never acknowledge it. She covered it with bourbon and rum.

From an early age I associated feeling beautiful with feeling perfect. If I made sure I did everything right, I would be more beautiful. And if I enhanced my beauty enough, then I might just be able to change my mother.

My mother never changed. But I am changing.

I am beginning to understand that she did things for her benefit, not mine. It’s time to stop allowing this to define my sense of beauty anymore. It’s time to continue finding the beautiful me. It’s time to watch her spirit leave my soul and allow God to occupy more of it.

My Vibrant Colors

My mother died in 2008. Her ashes are in an ordinary container somewhere in my father’s house. A few weeks after she died her clothes and personal items were packed in boxes and either given to charity or thrown away. It’s as though her memory has been wiped away – except for somewhere in my soul. She still lives there.

The cold weather in Kansas gives us no choice but to wrap up tight before heading outside. What we wear on the outside is sometimes a matter of necessity, but how we feel on the inside makes all the difference in how we view ourselves and others around us. Underneath the experiences we had as children, and the coats we wear to protect us from a seemingly cold and harsh world, is our natural beauty – a beauty carefully planned for each of us.

With the grip of my mother slowly fading, I have finally found the strength to remove the coat that has kept others from seeing my natural beauty. Anger is being replaced with hope, and I am beginning to see the vibrant colors God placed in me. I’m finding the courage to show my colors to the whole world. This is something I have neglected for most of my life, but will no longer.

Finding the beautiful you is not about finding perfection with how you look, but in accepting you are who you are for a reason. Perfection is not required, only joy in celebrating your special brand of compassion, talent and beauty.

You really are beautiful. And I am beautiful, too.

Take In the Beauty

On the days when you’re not feeling particularly beautiful and are struggling with poor self-esteem, these five habits might provide some relief and guidance:

1. Celebrate your flaws

My wide nose gives me a distinct look. My nose is part of what makes me uniquely Alex. Pick one attribute you don’t like and turn it in to something positive. Celebrate it and understand that what you may consider a flaw is really a gift that has been given to you for a reason.

2. Watch negative self-talk

Be kind and positive to yourself. Change the can’ts  to I haven’t yet learned how to. Pay more attention to what you are doing right, and the beauty you create, and less to what you don’t have, or think you should have.

3. Lift your head

You are not a mistake. What has happened to you has not been a mistake. Lift your head and understand, and really feel, that you are here for a special purpose.

4. Do one thing to feel beautiful everyday

For me, it’s my commitment to working out and staying in shape. I enjoy seeing myself as lean, vibrant, and to be honest, desirable.

5. Notice the beauty around you

When we take the time to see what’s beautiful in our lives we are in a better position to internalize that beauty and make it a part of us. Notice the beautiful color of the changing leaves or the expression on your children’s faces when they learn something new. God puts beautiful things in plain view every day; we just have to remember to open our eyes and take them in.

You can find Saying Yes to Change: 10 Timeless Life Lessons for Creating Positive Change on Amazon.

Nancy Alex Backwell Book Review, change, encouargement, inspiration, motivation, Self love

How many of us cling to things?

STUFF?   IDEAS?   MEMORIES?

This post is in conclusion to reading Gretchen Rubin’s book entitled, The Happiness Project, where she states, “as part of my happiness project I wanted to stop hoarding, to trust in abundance, so that I could use things up, give things away, throw things out.”

This chapter touched me because it was talking about what I was in my past.  I use to be a pack rat – keeping, hoarding, collecting.  A wonderful thing that came out of my divorce is that I let things go, when I buy something now it’s because I need it.  I remember I was living in California after I decided to remove myself from the situation that was happening in my marriage and my husband at the time had called me, I had lost 23 pounds during the ordeal (part of my letting go) and I remember telling him to get rid of everything in my closet.  That was the most liberating thing I did for myself besides getting the divorce.  It’s easier to have someone else there to get rid of things for you or have a friend help you out in your getting rid process.

Gretchen wrote in her book the time she took a bottle of ”My Sin” perfume from her grandmother’s bureau.  She remembers it sitting on her bureau forever in its original box.  When she opened it the bottle was full to the top.  She wondered, “what was she saving it for?”  She now keeps this bottle in her office to remind her to not keep but use.

For myself, I now use everything I own, the pretty stationery that was given to me and was too pretty to use.  I wear the clothes I buy.  How many of us have fine china? Do you use it?  What I did was start using my fine china years ago.  Why not make one meal a week a “fine china” meal.  Serve hot dogs on your fine china – why not?  This reminds me of the movie “Sideways” when at the end of the movie Paul Giamatti had saved his finest bottle of wine and the movie ends with him drinking his expensive bottle of wine that he had been keeping for so long with a McDonalds meal at a McDonalds.  How appropriate…… 

Everything I own has been in storage for over 2 years and I don’t miss anything – not a day has gone by that I say,  I miss…. These things did not create or make me happy.  I travel with the clothes that I own, my office, and a few kitchen gadgets.  I rent places that are fully furnished and my life has been simple and an adventure thus far.   I’m not saying sell everything you own but I do want you to think about the things you cling to?

We cling to things, we cling to people, we cling to ideas, we cling to memories.

The word is cling and it’s definition signifies; to hold onto – to hoard.

Does clinging give us a false sense of security?

At times we cling so tightly that we tend to control with our clinging.  We hang onto something because you never know, someday you may need it.  You haven’t used it this far so what gives you the impression that you may eventually use it?  Go inside your closet, I remember holding onto things that were 2  sizes smaller then what I was because you never know.  I may get my weight down someday.  Aren’t we so funny?! 

In my humble opinion I believe it’s the fear of letting go. 

Wouldn’t your life be freer with fewer things that clutter?

Why not use the things we have – even the things we consider “nice” things on a daily basis?  What are you holding on for?

Just like LOVE maybe the best policy is to HOLD things loosely!

“Relationships of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.”

Remember, may the possibilities of today excite you!

Nancy encouragement, inspiration, motivation, new beginnings awakening, change, encouargement, insight, inspiration, motivation, positive thinking

by Erin Williams

Spring is here, and we are all coming out of our wooly, winter cocoons and shopping for bright spring colors.  Maybe it is because we are shedding these big layers, that I have recently noticed I am having many more discussions about body image.  

These conversations have led to many sessions with women working on developing a positive relationship with their bodies and food.  This certainly is not some new, cutting edge topic, but I have recently developed new ways to think about it.

Most conversations start off with frustration and anger about how they have fallen off their dieting and or exercise regime.  “I am so pissed!!!  I was running 3 miles a day and feeling amazing and then I went on vacation, came back, and stopped running altogether.  Why has it been so difficult for me to get back on track!!!  Uggggh!!! 

My reply has been this:  I believe understanding why exact behavior plays into a normal and natural cycle will help women forgo all the abusive self-talk and go right to having a more compassionate and healthy relationship with themselves and consequently exercise and food.  First there are many layers to us to look at in understanding why this is normal and natural.  We are animals first (creatures of habit), then we are human beings (always adapting and changing), and lastly, we are women (goal oriented, task maskers, juggling a million things at once).  We want to have success with work, family, our personal appearance, our spiritual and emotional self, and also wanting to have a fun filled life. 

One of the struggles we come up against is not realizing that you cannot address all of these areas of your life every single day.  If we can come to some acceptance about this we will be sooooo much better off.   There is a natural cycle the ensues, where we focus for a while on caring for our physical bodies, and then our emotional selves, and then shift the focus to work for a while, our families and so on.   We do not cycle in a day.  Think about how many cycles we operate on that are natural…..our menstrual cycle, sleep cycle, seasons, the moon, and so forth. 

Our relationship with food and exercise is also a cycle, and there is nothing wrong or bad about that.  The cycle is what is constant and natural.  When I hear women coming in telling me that they went out this past weekend and ate a bunch of rich food and drank red wine, and although they had a great time, now feel terrible…..”and why can’t I just stop doing that altogether?”  I have begun to hear it as if they were asking me “why do I have to sleep at night?  I wish I could just go, go, go.  That way I would always be getting things done.” 

The reason why you can’t always be in super health food mode or super exercise mode is because of our natural cycles.  ACCEPT THIS!  It feels really good.  Next, after you come to some acceptance, set the intention that you want to be healthy and feel good.  This will mean that anything you are doing is going to coincide with these intentions for yourself.  For example, if you are forcing yourself to go for a run and you are hating every minute of it, you are not acting based on your intention for yourself.  Make a shift and choose to do something that will get you moving, but also be enjoyable….walking on a beautiful path, going for a hike on a beautiful trail…etc.  When you go out for wine with friends, skip the self loathing, and realize this is also part of your natural life cycle and part of your intention for yourself to feel good and be happy. 

If your body is signaling you that it’s time to go into super health food or exercise mode, you should listen to that too.  Your body will know when it is time to do that.  The part that you should skip is the self loathing and nasty self talk.  Just accept that it’s time to switch modes and do it with the intention of feeling good, inside and out!  You do not need to be fixed, so switch your perspective to see that. 

Happy Spring! 

You are beautiful and good things are happening!!!

Erin Williams, LMSW, BCD, CHt

www.healingplacecounseling.com   

Nancy Erin Williams, Uncategorized encouargement, Healthy living, insight, inspiration, motivation, positive thinking, Self love

Allow me to introduce you to Anne Lyken-Garner

The thing that struck me when we approached the lavender field was the fact that the ground was completely parched – so dry you could pick up the soil and crumple it into sand particles between your fingers. It made me wonder how such rich plants with such glorious scents could survive and indeed, thrive in such harsh and unwelcoming surroundings.    

I was later told the lavender plant loves dry soil. In fact, the very thing that makes them smell so sweet is the hardship they endure having to make it through without food and water. In other words, the harder they work to survive, the sweeter they smell. 

We’re like that sometimes, aren’t we? The harder we work at understanding life and building confidence to deal with difficulty, the better we become for it.

My kids don’t believe me, but I tell them often that they won’t learn patience unless they’re made to wait for things. The very thing that produces patience is that which induces the ‘hardship’. Likewise, the things that make us appreciate happiness in life are those which make us go through pain. For how can we truly understand happiness if we don’t know what not being happy feels like?

So, when you’re going through stumbling blocks in life don’t get stuck on wondering, ‘why me’. I know it’s difficult, but fully engage with the stumbling blocks by using them as stepping stones to climb to where you want to be. Why? Because those are the same blocks you’ll own later on, which you’ll use to build the foundation of a stronger you. Keep those stones well polished because you’ll also use them to create a more rigid confidence platform – a platform from which you can help your girlfriends cope when sanity is slipping from their grasps.

Embrace life’s little rocks with confidence because like diamonds, if they were soft and cushy they wouldn’t be precious – and they certainly wouldn’t be our best friends!

BIO

Anne Lyken-Garner is an author, freelance writer, blogger and editor. She writes for, and manages 4 blogs and edited The Writers Bureau online student magazine for 2 years. She specialises in relationship help and How to Build Confidence. Anne’s inspirational memoir, Sunday’s Child is due out later in Spring. It’s an inspiring story of a little girl struggling to rise above appalling living conditions, poverty, violence and abuse.

Nancy Anne Lyken-Garner, Uncategorized change, encouargement, insight, inspiration, motivation, Patience, positive thinking

A smile is a facial expression formed by flexing those muscles most notably near both ends of the mouth. The smile can also be found around the eyes. Among humans, it is customarily an expression denoting pleasure, happiness, or amusement. Cross-cultural studies have shown that smiling is used as a means of communicating emotions throughout the world. Happiness is most often the motivating cause of a smile.

A unexpected beautiful smile comes our way and we smile back. A simple gesture that can make us feel warm inside. You pass a stranger on the street – a smile can make their day and brighten their world for the moment. Think about the many times that you have felt sad, or something is going on in your life that you can’t seem to understand, and a stranger smiles at you and how that smile makes you feel?

When you meet a person it’s not what they do or say, it’s how they make you feel!

I like what Wikipedia states; “happiness is most often the motivating cause of a smile.”

So then, if we smiled more often can that be part of the formula to happiness within?

It does make sense…… The more we smile the more happiness we exude.

I say why not put it to a test? What do we have to lose? It’s only a smile!

Remember, may the possibilities of today excite us all!

Nancy Living in the moment, inspiration encouargement, friendships, gratitude, Happiness, inspiration, joy, positive thinking

by Patricia Gozlan

I always ask myself – what do successful and fulfilled people do to succeed, when others don’t in the same, shared environment?

This is important to know, so we model excellence, earn time and learn from other peoples’ mistakes, right?

The 5 principles I’m about to share with you are to be considered in your personal, business and spiritual life.

Once you have mastered these by reminding yourself of the opposite then you automatically connect with the field of infinite abundance, ready to create your specific desires, goals and dreams.

So what are these mistakes we always repeat like little robots? This inner dialogue we seem to repeat day and night… as if repeating these hypnotic, destructive mantras for years and years is not enough!!!

• I am what I do. If I’m successful in my business, I am ok. If I am not, I am not worth it.

No wonder we struggle as what we tell ourselves paralyses us physically and spiritually. With no energy how can we grow and succeed?

• I love myself if others love me.

This is my favorite one! What if others do not know or cannot feel the same way for you within their own reasons? Are you totally dependent of what they do or don’t? The truth is that you are loved in proportion to how much you love yourself. Yes, it’s the opposite!

• My value is defined by how much I have.

In a capitalistic society we are measured by our bank accounts. So what would you say about the people that have unethically robbed millions? How would you measure their value? If I am defined by my possessions, what happens when I am not here anymore? What is my value then, as a spiritual being?

• I am separate from what I do not have yet.

In various posts we have analysed the contradiction of this postulate. If I feel separate from everything and everyone, I do not see the divinity in me, or others. Therefore, my belief will always be reconfirmed by behaviour, which will reconfirm my belief (a self-fulfilling prophecy).

Only when we feel united and believe that what we have is already ours can we create and manifest what we want.

• ‘God’ does not love me. I am separate from ‘Him’

Call this infinite field God, Universe, Hara Krishna, Jesus or Buddha – it is not important. Knowing (which is more than believing) that you are part of this oneness gives you the possibility to ask for and access the infinite files of abundance.

The united vibration of this and inner peace will bring you to act as if what you want is already here and therefore manifest it.

These 5 are the lies your ego- (E)verything (g)ood is (o)utside of you- will keep on telling you, restructured in many ways from day to day because you were conditioned this way.

Whether you are religious or not, there is a proverb in the Bible that goes,

“Insincere talk that hides what you are really thinking is like a fine glaze on a cheap clay pot”

Start restructuring your thoughts and defining yourself from others – stop lying to yourself and turn yourself into a pot worth selling!

What other lies do you tell yourself and how can you change these lies to create a different reality?

BIO:

Patricia Gozlan is the Founder of The ProsperityZone Site  breaking the language barrier.  From Milan Italy to France, from Spain to United States her certified coaching provides worldwide achievements for elite savvy businesswomen.  She helps Successful Businesswomen get out of the trap of their success and savor life.  If you want to learn more download her FREE report by clicking this link :   The 7 Secrets SavvyBusiness Women Want To Know How To Live in Prosperity and Joy

Nancy Patricia Gozlan, Uncategorized encouargement, insight, inspiration, Manifestation, motivation, positive thinking

Virginia Woolf stated, “Arrange whatever pieces come your way, and make it work for you.”

I was talking to one of my girlfriends about emotions, feelings, and life in general. We all go through trials, challenges, joys, happiness, pain, and tears in the course of our lives. We mentioned how we all are broken pieces of tiles put together like a mosaic.

I thought as we talked about our spirits resembling broken pieces, and stated; the broken pieces are our life mosaic. We take all of the broken/wounded pieces, we put them together gently, and we make a beautiful mosaic. I love the way a mosaic looks, with every piece exactly where it belongs. We must not fall apart when challenges come our way, but instead we gather up our thoughts and emotions, glue them gently back together, and in so doing we create a beautiful tapestry that is forever evolving! One that is stronger and more vibrant. I call this OUR STORY…..

By changing our attitudes – the way we think and focus on the positive instead of the negative, we are on our way to changing our perspective and taking the broken pieces and making something incredibly beautiful! 

What I find is that we are prone to becoming victim to circumstance; the “poor me” syndrome. We encounter a hard time with a situation in life, we allow depression, anger and/or anxiety to set in, and like an evil monster it doesn’t leave. We so desperately want it to leave, but we live in darkness for so long that we forget the resources available to us, and don’t see the ray of light on the horizon. We spiral into the dark abyss and forget that there are other ways of thinking that are more functional, more positive. The darkness will subside if we connect with the positive things in our life, and remind ourselves daily that attitude is everything. It’s not what happens to you but how you react to what happens to you that matters.

Having an attitude of gratitude…….takes the blues away!

We make things so hard, but surely they don’t have to be that way. Remember what I said in the beginning of this post, we are intended to be beautiful mosaics. We must honor and respect ourselves in such a way that we truly BELIEVE we are! 

Remember, may the possibilities of today excite us all!

Nancy Uncategorized, encouragement, gratitude, inspiration, love awakening, encouargement, gratitude, inspiration, positive thinking, Self love

by Guest Blogger Nicoa Dunne

It was 2009, the middle of an economic downturn… I was at the top of my game, sitting at the table as an Executive Vice-President of Human Resources with Board of Director responsibilities making six figures, tons of equity and bonuses that were more than my first year’s salary – I had a stay at home husband and three beautiful daughters 12 and under – living the American Dream …. and… I … woke up one day … and … QUIT!

What was wrong with me? Crazy lady! Right?

That was three years ago and I have once again created a life – one that aligns holistically with what I want and what fuels me AND those in my life – emotionally AND financially. I am a professional coach/consultant AND an entrepreneur and business owner. I own my own hours. I exercise when I want. I wake up when my children wakeup and eat with them. I go out with my husband weekly. I figured out if I take ownership of what I truly want and open my heart and mind up wide enough, I KNOW how to create and design a life that is abundant.

Yes, you can have it all. But, only if you design it based on YOU – not what others think you should do, or based on how someone else did it. YOU have the power to create YOUR life by design.

I did.

Life by Design. I Love Mine.

BIO

Nicoa Dunne

Managing Partner, holland archer www.hollandarcher.com

President & Chief Relationship Rover, Roving Coach International www.rovingcoach.com

Nicoa Dunne brings almost two decades of experience in global corporate communications, strategic human resources and executive coaching. Nicoa’s background includes a career with General Electric (GE), where she graduated from the prestigious GE Human Resources Leadership Program (HRLP). After a successful career path with GE she was recruited to Thermo Fisher Scientific with responsibilities spanning twenty countries and over 10,000 employees in her client group. Nicoa returned to her home state of North Carolina to take on the challenge of Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Misys Healthcare and Allscripts, where she successfully provided key change and integration leadership. She chose to leave her executive role two and a half years ago to begin exploring her dream of being an entrepreneur as the Managing Partner and founder of holland archer, inc. www.hollandarcher.com a consulting and coaching firm. Shortly thereafter, her growing passion for individual coaching combined with her desire to design a new life and way of being, opened her up to a unique opportunity. She and two other dynamic women created a ground breaking business model resulting in a NEW kind of Employee Engagement Company. As a result, she added the role of President and Roving Coach for Roving Coach International (RCI) www.rovingcoach.com to her resume! Nicoa is a values based leader, a sought after executive coach for companies like Allergan, Starbucks, Dancik, Allscripts, Edward Jones, the US Government and others. She believes wholeheartedly that her efforts are aligned fully with her passion of helping leaders help themselves. She is certified in tools such as TILT 360, The Team Advantage and she is an Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner (ELIMP). Other foundational skills include her Six Sigma Greenbelt certification, her coaching certification from the ICF Accredited Newfield Network and numerous self-coaching and educational endeavors related to ontological and somatic coaching. Additionally, she is proud to share the mission of Roving Coach ~ to “Create World Peace in the Workplace™ … one employee at a time.” If anyone can do it, she can!

Nicoa lives with her husband, Mert, a stay at home dad and part-time realtor with Alan Tate Realtors, and their three daughters, Justice, Pippa and Campbell in Raleigh and Wilmington, NC.

Contact Nicoa 919.835.3522 o. 919.809.2004 c.

nicoa.dunne@hollandarcher.com

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