Inspirational Vitamin: Spring Cleaning

SPRING IS FINALLY HERE!!!  I cant begin to tell you how happy I am to feel the warmth of the sun especially after the snow storm this winter (yes Atlanta had a snowstorm).  This season is associated with spring cleaning – yes ladies it is time to shake out the rugs and clean your palace from top to bottom.  While your sleeves are rolled up and you are unpacking your fabulous spring attire don’t forget that spring cleaning isn’t limited to your home.  Spring is also the perfect time to press the reset button on life.  Take this time to dust your winter woes and cold weather calamities away and trade them in for your future spring successes.  I know that our past is permanent and we can’t turn back the hands of time or wish circumstances away with a mental reset button; however, our outlook on life can be reset.  2 Corinthians 5:17 boldly tells us “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.”

Cheers to a new season and a new you!

Inspirational Vitamin: Out of the Closet

Being a stylist and avid shopper, I find myself constantly picking up things for my personal wardrobe here and there so as you can imagine I have a well stocked closet.  But for some reason whenever I am invited to an event I find the need to buy something new.  The phenomenon happens in this order; I receive an invitation to a fabulous event, get super excited and run out and spend hours shopping for something new to wear.  I will leave my favorite store with the PERFECT dress and shoes but on the day of the event I end up wearing something that I already own – either something that I bought previously and never got around to wearing or something that has been in my closet for a while.  That “perfect” dress and shoes that I purchased specifically for the event goes right back to the store unworn and unwanted.  I waste valuable time and energy looking for something that I already had.

Then it hit me one day – my closet holds everything that I need to look fabulous at almost any type of event from a bowl-a-thon to the Grammys.  The same is true for our talents.  Oftentimes we are intimidated by our own goals, dreams and desires.  We find ourselves putting off pursuing our passion because we are waiting for the right connection/contact, more money, more time and the list goes on and on.  Well look no further!  You already have everything needed to fulfill the desire that God put inside of you.  There is no need to go out shopping for the “perfect” timing or conditions, it is sitting right in your closet.

Inspirational Vitamin

Inspirational Vitamin – Do you realize you have treasure on the inside of you?  When you get around true friends, people who really believe in you, they won’t be jealous of your gifts. They won’t constantly question who you are. They won’t try to talk you out of your dreams. It will be just the opposite. They’ll help you polish your pearls, develop your pearls, enhance your pearls, and grow your pearls. In other  words, they’ll give you ideas. They’ll connect you with people they know. They’ll  help push you further along. If you stay around people who don’t value your gifts nor appreciate what you have to offer, that’s casting your pearls among swine. Your  inner circle, those who are closest to you, should be people who celebrate who you  are; people who are happy when you succeed. Remember, it’s not the quantity of  friends that’s important, it’s the quality of friends. – Joel Osteen

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