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  1. Someone recently recommended the following book to me that I plan to check out:

    The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results

  2. Hello ladies,
    I wanted to share a new book that I’m reading and it is one that challenges the mindset. The book is called The Ideal Made Real by Christian Larson. If you are looking for a new book, this is one to check out and of course we use discernment with anything that is outside of our faith and learn the lessons that we can.

    Enjoy

  3. I wanted to share my new video.
    Are there signs in your life that you need to make a SHIFT? God has called you into business but what does your life need to look like to be doing it well?
    This video gives you THREE ways to evaluate How you are doing by asking:
    1. What are you doing?
    2. What are you thinking?
    3. What are you feeling?
    Make sure to watch, like, comment, subscribe, and SHARE. 🙂

    • Great tips Deneen! Thanks for sharing.

  4. Hello Sisters,

    I am looking for book recommendations on great books on mindset.

    • The Travelers Gift by Andy Andrews
      The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

      Both books are game changers!

    • Thank you!

    • Anytime! Keep us posted if you find any other good books.

  5. Hey, my beautiful sisters! I’ve been reflecting a lot lately, and I’ve realized that I spent so much time dwelling in the past, or striving towards the next thing, that I haven’t taken a second to be present in the now – and celebrate what I’ve accomplished and where I am.

    This weekend I realized, I’m already wildly successful!

    Yes, there are levels of success. Yes, my current success looks different than I initially imagined. But over the weekend, God had me take inventory of my business wins, and I was left in awe.

    I’m successful. I’m really, really successful! And, instead of constantly burdening myself with how far left I have to go – I will move forward in celebration of how far I’ve already journeyed!

    Today, I want to encourage you all to make time this week to take an inventory of your business wins. Write a list of all you’ve accomplished! Do NOT mention one thing that went wrong, could have been better, or what you still need to do in the future. No! This list will be filled with all your wins and accomplishments. When you take this second to reflect, I bet you too will realize how far you’ve come!

    This will be all the encouragement you need to continue moving forward. Only now, you’ll move forward in freedom and excitement!!!…without the extra burdens of yesterday and pressures of tomorrow.

    • This is great Cassondra! Moving forward in freedom and excitement. Thank you for sharing

    • Amen!

    • That is awesome! God is great to us.

    • yes he is!

    • Cassandra, this is great advice, be intentional in taking inventory of your successes.

  6. OK ladies, I am not sure where to post this so here goes. I just updated my LinkedIn profile (will add cover photo or something later) AND I posted my first article EVER!!! whoo hoo. So here is the article I posted: (I even added a photo to the top of the article) I am SO coming along!!)

    There is a three part process on how to rewire your brain. When I was younger I taught myself to rewire my brain. Now I didn’t know that I was doing that at the time. But later, when I studied brain science I realized that I was actually utilizing brain science and deliberately changed the neuropathways in my brain.
    STORY: When I was 17 years old, I was such a negative person that I actually prayed for an out of the body experience so I could get away from myself for a little while. I thought I am never going to be able to live like this for the next 50-60 years. What am I going to do about this?
    I picked up Norman Vincent Peale’s book The Power of Positive Thinking. I treated it like a textbook. At the end of each chapter were tips or exercises to do. For example, I was to memorize the verse: Phillipians 4:8 Paraphrased it states Whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy think about these things. So I would occasionally, throughout the day, stop and think about what I am thinking about. This is the first step in the process is to bring what I was thinking to my awareness. And of course, it was almost always negative. If my thought did not match up with this scripture, I would sing a line from a song Stop in the name of love before you break my heart [and put my arms out in front of me than put my hands on my shoulders.] This never failed to make me chuckle. Silly, I know, but this did cause me to pause and to chuckle. That pause is known as a pattern interrupt. That chuckle was the change of emotion from a negative one to a positive emotion. Now keep in mind, you only have about five seconds to consciously decide what you are going to think instead. Your brain will not tolerate a void. If you do not replace that negative thought, your brain will revert back to its negative habit. So it is best to plan ahead what you will think instead whenever you catch yourself thinking negatively. This is the second step: Decision. Now here is the challenging part – the third step, the rewiring of the brain. This rewiring of the brain involves repetition and emotion. That is why the silly line and the movement of my arms worked so well. It caused a both pause (pattern interrupt) and a chuckle (the changing of my emotions) that I was experiencing in the moment from negative to positive. Rewiring the brain is the establishment of a new habit. You will need to keep repeating this pattern of a) Awareness, catching yourself whenever you are thinking negatively, utilizing that pattern interrupt and changing of your emotions; b) Deciding ahead of time what you will think instead of that negative thought and c) Rewiring the brain by repeating this process frequently enough and long enough with emotion that you literally will rewire the brain to form a new habit. There you have it: The three step process to establishing new habits, in this case becoming a more positive thinker.

    Let me know if you found this helpful. Anyone willing to try this out, let me know.

    • Peggy, thank you for being transparent and sharing your life experience. I found this very helpful.

  7. Honesty moment. I was starting to feel a bit of overwhelming the other day, in all honesty, it was a feeling bigger than a breadbox. When I sat with those feelings I realized that overwhelm comes when I’m in the wrong perspective.

    When I remember the promise of God in His word, He will never leave us nor forsake us, it brings me back to the center. Then I realized that the overwhelm was really a silent attack from the enemy to throw me off my game. When this happens it takes me longer to bounce back.

    My prayer has been and thanks you Lethia for helping me with this is to identify the attack faster and to speed up my rebound time by not focusing on how I fell for the attack but the grace that God gives to me so that I can move on.

    • LaDawn I love your honesty. I have felt like at times that I am just spinning my wheels going nowhere. I have had to do as God told Moses to not try to do things alone but to learn how to reach out and let other people help along the way. I have prayed for God to send godly, experienced, and wise women into my life to walk with me in my journey and He has done exactly that. It has been a blessing to have someone to encourage, guide, and help to be centered in what God says and that we are more than conquerors and to keep going.

    • Hello Carla,
      I love how the Father knows when we need Him even before we do and that He always shows us the way and also places others around us to help support our journey.

      I’m so glad that my story resonated with you and I’m praying for you in the journey. Just remember God created you for a purpose and a reason, He will provide all we need to bring it into manifestation.

    • LOVE grace to move on, thanks be to God.

  8. As we go through these challenging times I wanted to remind us all that faith is built when you are broken down and you feel you have nothing left.

    It becomes stronger only when you are willing to keep going after you experience failure.

    Faith, when tested, allows you to stretch to the edge of your greatest potential.

    The reality is that faith is a muscle that is only strengthened by life’s challenges, pitfalls, and toughest moments.

    It’s time to build your Faith Muscle!

    Blessings

    • A spot on message Suzan. It’s about building the faith muscle!

    • I agree that hard times can build faith. However, I also believe it is important to be on the offensive, even though you cannot prepare for every situation.

      Faith has the ability to be developed everyday whether or not there is a challenge. It’s this daily time in the Word that strengthens our armor, our fortitude and reserve. Building our faith daily allows us to hear the Holy Spirit more readily and helps our spirit man become more in tune with what He has to say. Having tools that equip you in preparation to deal with sin or challenges, is something to endeavor to achieve every day. Those who know something is coming are better prepared to face it than those who do not know.

      Therefore, I am a big fan of “Praemonitus praemunitus” or “Forewarned is forearmed.”

    • Suzan, I love that! Faith is definitely a muscle that we must daily exercise and strengthen. When those tough times come then we are so glad we did prepare for it.

  9. Wow, today was amazing! Strategy Day Think Big and Live Fearlessly with Rhonda Britten! I think of Dynamic and Rich. Go to https://www.facebook.com/MyAudaciousFaith/

    If you have not done so and share, tag and invite other #SuperFabulousGirlfriends. Our dear sister Rhonda is a power house. Watch and share your best take away, reflections and awe ha moments. You want to watch over and over and over. You will be glued to the screen. Caution don’t drive and listen to Rhonda…lol…You want to be in a safe place to do your hallelujah dance. More updates to come. You are loved, appreciated, celebrated, valued and most cherished.

    • Amen Roz! ALL of our Strategy Day was incredible and Rhonda Britten blew me away! You are right… that is one to watch over and over… and I plan to do just that! Hoping to invite more women into membership through what was done yesterday. Powerful stuff! Thanks to all who coordinated such excellent training for us!

  10. Hi Sisters! I thought I’d share the book that I am currently reading for this holiday season: The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek. This is a great book for those who lead teams and organizations or those on their way to! If you decide to read along, please share your thoughts with me.

  11. I have read Think and Grow Rich. It is a great book. Atomic Habits is the next book I will be reading. I have ordered it from Amazon. Can’t wait to read it.

    • Hi Peggy, I now have Atomic Habits and I can not wait to read and mark it up and start living by the principles in the book. I will get back to you when I read it and give my review.

  12. Hello,
    Any book recommendations around mindset mastery? (I.e., leadership, creating new mindset patterns)

    Thanks

    • Hello LaDawn,

      I am currently reading again Think and Grow Rich it is a classic. A lot of books use it as a foundation. John Maxwell books I read on general leadership.

    • There’s a great book called Atomic Habits – Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results – an Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear.

      He says that ultimately, your habits help you become the type of person you wish to be. The more you repeat a behavior, the more you reinforce the identity associated with that behavior. The word identity was originally derived from the Latin words, essentitas, which means being, and identidem, which means repeatedly. Your identity is literally your “repeated beingness.”

      Whatever your identity is right now, you only believe it because you have proof of it. If you go to church every Sunday for twenty years, you have evidence that you are religious. If you study biology for one hour every night, you have evidence that you are studious. If you go to the gym even when it’s snowing, you have evidence that you are committed to fitness. The more evidence you have for a belief, the more strongly you will believe it.

      So, rather than just mindset, it’s looking at your habits – the way you talk to yourself, the actions you take or don’t take. It’s a very thought provoking book that is easy to read and has lots of stories that prove the power in changing or developing better habits. All in tiny steps, not massive change. Hope that helps.

    • Hi LaDawn! The book that changed my life the most when it comes to mindset is The Seven Decisions: Understanding the Keys to Personal Success by Andy Andrews. It also includes great exercises for each of the chapters to help you implement the principles. What’s your favorite?

    • Hi LaDawn,

      I read a lot of books by John Maxwell. His “How Successful People Think” is a great little book. Presently, I’m reading his “Developing the Leader Within 2.0.” I learned a lot from the first edition back in 1995. You might also consider Brian Tracy’s “Believe It to Achieve It.”

    • Thank you all for the tips this is greatly appreciated!

    • Hello LaDawn,

      One of my favorite mindset mastery books is The Leader Who Had No Title by Robin Sharma. This book is excellent for anyone who is self-employed or stepping into leadership. I have used this book with my team and it had a big impact on their performance and their willingness to initiate action.