“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
~Ella Fitzgerald
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Jamie
The Great American Smokeout 2009
•November 19, 2009 • Leave a Comment
Today is the Great American Smokeout, an event held by the American Cancer Society. It’s reserved to help individuals quit smoking and using tobacco products for at least a day hoping they will stop completely. This occassion also helps raise awareness about the harm of smoking and the successful methods available to help one quit.
In 1971, Arthur Mullaney, a resident of Massachusettes, asked individuals to stop smoking for a day and contribute the money they would have used on tobacco to a local high school. The editor of the Monticello Times “led the charge to create Minnesota’s first D-Day (Don’t Smoke Day).” The initiative gained momentum and the California chapter of the American Cancer Society convinced about one million smokers to stop for a day on November 18, 1976. The ACS made it a nationwide envent in 1977.
Here are 12 Reasons to Really Quit Smoking
Source: preventionpartners.com
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My Quote of the Day- November 19
•November 19, 2009 • Leave a Comment“Figure out what your real passions are and who you want to be- and stay true to that always. Push yourself toward your best life every single day in every single area…”
~Amy Dubois Barnett
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Jamie
My Quote of the Day- November 18
•November 18, 2009 • Leave a Comment“Don’t complain about what you don’t have. Use what you’ve got. To be less than your best is a sin.”
~ Oprah Winfrey
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Jamie
Evaluate Those in your Life
•November 17, 2009 • 1 CommentThis is something a friend of mine wrote on Facebook. It is very true and relevant, so I asked her if it would be okay to post it.
Surround yourself with path makers, instead of circle creators. Path makers are those who continue to lead themselves and are determined to succeed by any means. They hit bumps and run into stormy weather — but that doesn’t stop their stride ; the stormy weather is the additional fuel that drives a Path maker to work even harder! If you ever check to notice, Path makers only associate with other Path makers because they realize the entity of positive company and enforcement. Through life, ALL Path Markers have friends that decided to be Circle creators. It is a Path makers decision to either inspire their Circle creator friend, or leave them behind. Me personally, I left mine…
Circle creators are the individuals that are in your life, whether they are friends, family or foes that are doing the same thing NOW that they were doing LAST year, rationalizing themselves each year.. too scared to create a path for themselves, so they remain content in the perimeter of the circle that they’re in. Too busy talking about the present instead of future which lies ahead. More worried about being a shooting star than the Sun. Circle creators are those who are too afraid to step out by themselves, so they seek others to join their ride. BAD MOVE. Everybody’s Destiny isnt the same as yours.
So live your life and work past your means of success early … while your young, and ahead of the game. Later in life, what little time we do waste (which goes for Path Makers & Circle Creators) you’re going to wish you could’ve went back and did something productive during that time period.
My circle creator friends are cool but… I feed’em with a long handled spoon! You know what you are!
EVERYDAY should be a small step up to an unlimited Destiny. Each year you should be ahead of what you were previously. Last but not least, NEVER measure your success on your material possessions — because material possessions come with a price, and as easy as it is to keep it — is as easy as it is to lose it — it takes years to be successful; create your success to be priceless and inevitable of ever being taken from you. Let’s not cheat ourselves.
Evaluate those PM’s and CC’s in your life… And once you define them, you decide whether their toxic energy in your life or inspiration to keep going.
-Brit
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Jamie
My Quote of the Day- November 17
•November 17, 2009 • Leave a Comment“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where [she] is had to begin where [she] was.”
~Richard L. Evans
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Question of the week: November 16
•November 16, 2009 • 5 CommentsIf you know me, you know that I think it’s important for a person to have a career she/he really enjoys.
So, the question: Is it important to you to have a career you love and enjoy? Why or why not?
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Jamie
My Quote of the Day- November 16
•November 16, 2009 • 1 Comment“Each of us have that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.”
~Maya Angelou
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Jamie
It’s Sadie Hawkins Day!
•November 15, 2009 • 1 Comment
Sadie Hawkins Day is an American Folk Event created in Al Capp’s Li’l Abner comic strip on November 15, 1937. According to the comic strip, Sadie Hawkins was “the homeliest gal in the hills,” and she was tired of waiting for guys to “come a courting.” Her father was concerned about her living at home the rest of her life, so he established the first annual Sadie Hawkins Day, a foot race in which single women pursued the town’s bachelor’s with matrimony as the result.
By the end of the 1930s, the event was very popular, and in 1939, Life magazine reported that 200+ colleges held Sadie Hawkins Day events. The basis of the day is that females ask the guy of their choice out on a date. Because of its popularity and the many fan letters Capp received, Sadie Hawkins Day became a yearly event in his strip in November.
Source: www.lil-abner.com
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Successful Sistas: Malaak Compton-Rock
•November 13, 2009 • 1 Comment
Malaak Compton-Rock’s career began in public relations and special events. She contributed to several movie and record release campaigns and projects for clients like HBO, Eddie Murphy and The Essence Awards.
She ultimately found her true calling and took a position at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF (The United Nations Children’s Fund). In her three years working with them, she fronted and oversaw Special Events and Celebrity Relations Department, a postion made for her when the agency realized the need to utilize celebs.
Upon observing the changes in welfare law, she combined that and her love of individual style to establish styleWORKS, an organization that gives complete grooming services (hair styling, skincare services, image consulting, etc.) to women going from welfare to work. Today, styleWORKS provides grooming seminars on a consultant basis and offers monthly mentoring and job rentention-based services.
Eventually, Compton-Rock wanted to encourage others to live a life of service, and in 2008, she founded the Angelrock Project, an umbrella project for the six primary causes she works on full-time. It’s an online e-village that encourages volunteerism, social responsibility and sustainable change. The Angelrock Project also has useful information on ways to volunteer, advice on making financial or in-kind donations, links to life-altering nonprofits, suggests fair trade companies whose products support third-world artisans and includes a discussion forum and blog; Angelrock Project features great philanthropic individuals, grassroots volunteers and organizations monthly.
Other accomplishments:
- Founded and coordinates Journey for Change: Empowering Youth Through Global Service
- Created and manages Champions for Children Committe
- Partnership with the South African NGO The Olive Leaf Foundation
- Partnership with The Food Garden
- Work with The Bushwick Salvation Army Community Center
- Wrote forthcoming book, If It Takes A Village, Build One: How I Found Meaning Through a Life of Service and 100+ Ways You Can, Too
- Sits on two board of directors, is a global ambassador for The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Global Promise Fund, a member of the New York Women in Communicationis, The Cause Marketing Forum and The Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Compton-Rock lives her life by her favorite quote: “Service is the rent we pay for living.”
For more information about The Angelrock Project, go to www.angelrockproject.com.
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