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There are 29 days left in this year and some of us just need a little encouragement to finish the year strong! Do not tell yourself that 2020 is going to be your year if you plan to throw the rest of 2019 away. The future belongs to the disciplined and the decided! Get a plan! Construct some specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time bound goals and then develop a plan to do something everything to achieve them. Don’t worry about the other 11 months that have already passed, there isn’t anything you can do about them, but there is something that you can do this month that will set you up for the next decade! You got this, so get to it! 2020 we’re back like we never left!

In the season finale we discuss the power of our decisions! Everything begins and ends with a decision. So often we make decisions that are contrary to what we say we truly want and as a result we find our lives in chaos and disorder. But here's the Good News, no matter what has or hasn’t happened your decisions still have the power to shift the trajectory of your life. Are you decided yet?

I’m back, late again, but back nonetheless. In this week’s episode we are discussing the necessity of fighting for our future. Your destiny is not just going to fall in your lap, you’re going to have to fight for it. But the good news is that those of us who belong to Christ Jesus don’t fight for victory we fight FROM victory. The fight is fixed which means you win before the fight even begins. What trips most of us up is us! My question for you today is what are you willing to do to get what God has promised? It’s already yours, all you have to do is go get it!

Mismanaged priorities= A delay in destiny. You can’t effectively mind your business if you do not prioritize your business. Today we briefly discuss the power of prioritizing and tips to shift your focus and your energy so that you can begin to work towards the accomplishing that things that really matter. P.S. I made it on time today =)

As we continue our journey on self care, this week we discuss the art of making peace with what has happened and what hasn’t happened. For some of us our stagnation and complacency can be directly linked to our failure to make peace with the things we’ve done and/or the things that people have done to us. And then there are those of us who are having a hard time accepting where we are in our lives because it does not line up with the ideas we had about where we would be and what we would be doing at this stage in our lives. In this week’s episode we discuss the four steps that helped me to make peace during this season of self care. Listen, it’s not easy by any means but it is possible with Christ and my freedom was worth every tear, every hurt and every pain. It is only when we release the weight of what has happened or hasn’t happened that we have the freedom to go after what God still has for us. I believe that this is a Word that will shift your perspective and cause you to move in the direction of making peace! You don’t have to stay where you are, there is a whole and healthy life waiting for you! What are you going to do about it?

Minding your business is a lost art form that we must reintroduce again! It is also an integral and essential part of self care. In this episode we’re going to discuss the correlation between the benefits of minding your business and drinking your coffee! When we fail to mind our own business it creates opportunities for us to develop deficiencies in our emotional, psychological, physical, vocational, relational, financial and recreational health, and ain’t nobody got time for that, even though many of us unknowingly make time for it! May this episode help to reacquaint you with your focus so that you can be driven by purpose and not comparison. Today we discuss the benefits of minding our business, the power of setting boundaries and why disconnecting from anyone and anything that does not serve where you’re going is necessary for authentic self care. So, grab you a cup of coffee and let’s chat!

Season two is here and it’s all about self care! For the next five weeks we are going to journey through the different facets of what authentic self care is. Listen, it’s so much more than a vacation, massage or a hot bath with essential oils and candles. Though those may be part of self care it’s not its sum total. There is so much more that goes into truly caring for oneself. Care is defined as: the provision for what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance and protection of someone! When I asked myself what was necessary for me to operate at my most optimal level in my spiritual, mental, emotional, financial, vocational, relational, recreational and physical life, I was surprised to discover that I couldn’t answer this question for some of these areas of my life. And I knew that if I didn’t know what was necessary I certainly wouldn’t know what needed to be done to maintain and protect it. So, I did what I knew to do and that was to pray and ask the Holy Spirit to teach me what I need and show me the areas in my life that were causing me to be complacent and settle for less than God’s best for me. Now, these past few weeks have not been easy nor pretty, but it has been so necessary and so worth it! So much so that I felt led to share with you some of the things I have learned these past few weeks that literally blew my mind and it is my prayer that what He did for me He will do even more for you as we embark upon these next five weeks focusing on the gift of self care! Whose ready?

After a 10 month hiatus, I am back and better! I am so excited about this summer series and I believe that it is going to help us to get our whole lives together! So, get back to drinking your coffee and tell all your girlfriends to tune in because we are going to make self care our priority in this season! Listen, Tuesdays are just going to get a little sweeter! July 2 we’re back like we never left!

So…My ongoing frustration allowed me to waste time and energy I can’t get back. What I’ve been learning is that frustration and complaining are both distractions and deflectors from the things that God wants to do in us and through us. If we aren’t careful, our unwillingness to maintain focus on the process could cause us to write ourselves out of God’s story and no one has time for that. These past three weeks have exposed areas in my personality and my being that are still in need of a complete renovation and I almost missed what God wanted to do because I was too distracted with the now and not more focused on the not yet. My prayer is that you are encouraged this week to engage the process. Keep your focus on His perspectives, His purposes and His plans, knowing that if He’s in it, it will be glorious! In this final episode of the season I share my heart unscripted, real and very honest. My prayer is that you will be more than just inspired, but that you would encounter the Spirit of God in such a way that everything about you begins to change in the direction of your future! Thank you for trusting the God in me. This journey with you has been amazing! Humbled, Honored and Grateful are all that come to mind as we close this season. I’ll be back in a few weeks ready for more life change. Until then, make sure you do something everyday that your future self will thank you for! Love You!

This week I had some hiccups and as a result found myself just full of complaints. However, today at the dinner table as my son and I discussed our day, he released such revelation in response to my complaints that they suddenly dried up and I was left with a heart that was full of gratitude. May this week's episode re-shift your focus and cause you to become even more dependent on the Son who loves you with an everlasting love! May your trust in Him grow in such a way that your only response to His instruction is "yes"! Your "yes" will unlock the exceedingly and abundantly above all that you can ask or think! The Scriptures to meditate on this week are Proverbs 3:5-6, Matthew 6:33 and Ephesians 3:20