On the first Sunday following the devastation in Japan, I received a phone call from a dear friend in my Noevir business. She had been watching “talking heads” all morning and spiraling deeper into gloom. With all the foreshadowing, she saw her business with our Japanese cosmetic giant being washed away in a tsunami of …
One afternoon in 1898, my grandmother disappeared behind the barn to call the cows. When she reappeared she had received a call from an unseen audible voice announcing, “Take off your shoes; this is holy ground.” Falling to her knees in the pasture this staunch German Lutheran met Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and …
When the cry of a baby was heard beneath the rubble, soldiers began digging. They found the four-month-old girl tucked under boards and debris safe in her pink pram. Flung from the arms of her parents as the tsunami wrestled their home from its foundation, she had been safely preserved until the waters subsided. Can …
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I glanced over the subscription email and thought “there has to be a mistake!” My name was mentioned! What? The author referenced an email I had sent him a few days earlier as one of the 11 highlights of his week. This blog was linked as was our website www.womensleadershipadvantage.com. Befuddled, I pointed it out …
Within the last three weeks two devastating earthquakes have focused all eyes on the ring of fire in the Pacific. The first in Christchurch, NZ devastated a city center; the second appears to have rocked the entire nation of Japan sending the promise of tsunami action toward fifty additional countries. It makes having confidence in …
Eighteen hundred invitations are in the mail for the upcoming nuptials between Prince William and Kate Middleton. Many notables are checking the post daily. Currently, an even more Magnificent Invitation is being issued. It is the invitation into Your Flourishing Life. Some call it Destiny. Others call it Convergence. It is, indeed, the call to …
Flourishing is reading two different blogs by two unique women and marveling at how the same gene pool created such diversity. The first blog I read is penned by the world traveler in our family, our younger daughter, Annemarie. Since she was a tot, I have had to keep my eye on her as she …
Between you and YOUR BIGGEST WIN lay eight steps. Eight is commonly considered the number representing new beginnings–or your biggest win ever! No big deal. Right? Wrong! Number 3 is not a ground-level stepping-stone, but a BOULDER called CONVERGENCE! Only 20% conquer the pity party convergence throws in your honor! So how will you recognize …
This week, Christchurch, NZ virtually came to a halt when supply lines were broken. My kiwi friend tells me that people are being asked to leave the city if they have somewhere to go. With 80% of the power off, the water and sewer mains broken, the banking system shut down, the network of roads …
Do you have a favorite word that excites you? I do. That word is flourish! I now know why since picking up Marcus Buckingham’s latest book, Find your Strong Life; what the happiest and most successful women do differently. Buckingham gained fame through the Strengths Finder Assessment. Now he has a new one strictly for …