“I can’t speak for anyone else but if there’s anything I know at all, it’s that my faith has never failed me. In the scorecard of life, I may have lost more than I’ve won in all the things that I’ve attempted. But I have always felt like a victor when challenges have come to pass. Because even when I…”Tagged: Faith, Why I Have Faith, Clear Thinking, God, Religion
“In the end, our paths are rarely straight and narrow, and they were never meant to be anyway. And if all we do in each one is learn a lesson, or meet a friend, or know ourselves better, or do something kind for someone, we have gained much more than we have lost. But first, first we must have the…”Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“Think about the last time you were scared, what happened? Chances are, you made it.”Tagged: Future, Fear, Survival, worry, Past
“The truth is most of us worry ourselves with things that are most likely never going to happen. Truth might be stranger than fiction, but fiction will scare us more than reality, most times.”Tagged: Future, Truth, fiction, Fear, worry
“Just because she’s a daddy’s girl, it does not mean that she is spoiled. It however might mean that she’s used to getting her way a lot. Sometimes just let her have her way.”Tagged: father, Daughter, Relationships
“Her standards are high. Yes, for how you treat her but also for how she treats you. The thing about having positive male role models is you learn how to handle the male brain and their expectations as well.”Tagged: Daddy's Girl, father, Daughter
“It is easy to feel pressure during this time of year. The pressure of getting gifts and going to parties and being around loved ones and strangers, who expect you to perform that most wonderful time of the year demeanor. But don’t get lost in the ‘stuff’ of this time of year. Instead, every time you…”Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Love, Materialism
“Remember that you are capable of giving this time of year new meaning and new memories.”Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Memories, fresh start
“If you work out regularly and stick to a schedule, you not only build good habits, you build discipline.”Tagged: Fitness, workouts, Discipline, healthy
“Negative stress is a sign that we are out of balance. Working out helps you to re-channel that negative stress. Moreover, scientifically when you exercise your brain actually treats it as stress, and engages in a fight or flight reaction. This explains how you feel better post-workout because it…”Tagged: Fitness, Stress, Negativity
“For whatever reason, working out helps you transfer the skill of focusing, and indeed it is a skill, to other areas of your life. You can’t run and bike simultaneously, and you can’t do a plank and a shoulder press at the same time. It teaches you that even when you multitask, you can only in…”Tagged: Fitness, multitask, skills, Focus
“It’s okay to go on tons of dates in the hope of finding someone to be in a relationship with. The truth is the more people you’re interacting with, the more likely you are to find out what you like and don’t like.”Tagged: Reminders, Dating, dates
“Cherish the time you have by yourself. Chances are, you won’t have this time for long; probably not the greater part of your life. Do the things you know would be a lot harder to do once you do meet someone you care about: travel, stay out till 5 a.m. three nights in a row, let you apartment get…”Tagged: Reminders, alone time, Single, Alone
“Keep away from people who make you feel bad for being single. Whether it’s your family, friends, co-workers, etc. There’s nothing worse than constantly being made to feel inadequate for your relationship status.”Tagged: Reminders, Single, inadequate
“Cherish when many of your friends are together in the same place.”Tagged: life advice, Friends, Friendship
“I have learned through writing about my interests and myself, that anyone who chooses to ignore any part of you, or hates any part of you, can never really know you.”Tagged: Race, Intersectionality, POC writers, Marginalized Communities, Marginalized Women
“My most salient marked identities are that I’m African, Black, Catholic, and a woman...this tends to complicate people’s perception of me; it makes relating to all parts of me, difficult, for them...many people don’t seem to know what to do when complexity of self is embraced rather than denied. And…”Tagged: Race, Intersectionality, POC writers, Marginalized Communities, Marginalized Women
“If the only time you have a public opinion on civil violence in this country is when police face harm or sadly, death, then you come across as disingenuous, your intentions, suspicious, and your perspective, riddled with bias and prejudice. Empathy is not a limited resource.”Tagged: Violence, Prejudice, America 2016