I am sitting here today feeling EXTREMELY BLESSED!!! I wanted to write this blog today because it is February 29, 2016, LEAP DAY!!! Why is this significant to me? Because it is making me think about the word, “LEAP” and what that means to me. In thinking about that, I can...
Read MoreNever Give up!!! Well we have come to the end of the book and the last chapter is all about NEVER GIVING UP. How many of us are guilty of giving up too soon. Many of us never fulfill our dreams because we give up on them, let them go,...
Read MoreNever Stop Learning. “They know enough who know how to learn”–Henry Adams. No matter what age or where you are in life you need to continue to learn. I am not saying that you need to go to back to school, but it is EXTREMELY important to keep our minds...
Read MoreGet Out of Your Comfort Zone. “We forfeit three-fourths of of ourselves to be like other people”–Arthur Schopenhauer. Yesterday we discussed working with our strengths. Using our strengths more often then our weaknesses to succeed at reaching our dreams. Now today we are talking about moving out of our comfort zone...
Read MoreStay With Your Strengths. John Maxwell’s Rule of Thumb for Successful Work: “Work where you’re strongest 80% of the time. Work where you’re learning 15% of the time. Work where your weakest 5% of the time.” “People working in an area of weakness resent that their best is untapped.”–John Maxwell. So...
Read MoreDevelop Great People Skills. “The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is knowing how to get along with people.” Theodore Roosevelt I just have to say that FINALLY today is a day that I can say, “This is a skill that I am GOOD...
Read MoreTAKE ACTION Today the chapter is about taking initiative and action to work towards our dream. The first quote starts out by saying, “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” WHAT?!?! I wish that this was not the case. I wish that I could be like Mary Poppins and just snap...
Read MoreTHINKING DIFFERENTLY that is what we are going to be discussing today. I Love the quote in the beginning that says, “Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.” I want to start by saying that this is NOT my strong suit. I am...
Read MoreAll right everyone, I hope that you have read the introduction and first chapter and wrote down your own personal Dreams. Today we are going over chapter 2 and it is about believing in yourself. So let’s jump in shall we. Confidence…..what does Webster’s Dictionary have to say...
Read MoreWell I want to start by saying WELCOME!!! I am excited to get this Book club started. I am wanting to read books about being successful and focus on books that will help all of us grow as individuals and as leaders. That is my goal and hopes...
Read MoreMy name is Emily Johnson, and I am a “TOTAL WONDER MOM”
I WONDER where my kids are,
I WONDER where I am suppose to be,
I WONDER what I am doing,
And some days I pull it all off and get everything done and I WONDER how the heck that just happened!
