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Why you need positive people around you
If you aren’t spending time with positive people who uplift you and motivate you towards achieving your goals, you are doing yourself a big disservice. As a 15-year old, I was careful to make friends who have similar priorities to mine.
That…
5 Easy Ways to Make a Good Impression at Work
Make a good impression! Put your best foot forward, and be respectful.
That’s how I might summarize my life lessons on how to show up well at work. And my time volunteering at my mother’s job – the mental hospital, taught me those life…
How to show appreciation beyond thank you
Show appreciation for others, no matter what your job is.
My job as a volunteer at the mental hospital wasn't necessarily the most exciting. My work involved lots of filing, shredding papers or doing deliveries across the hospital campus.…
7 Simple Ways to Make a Difference at Work
Your work, no matter how small, can make a difference. At this point in the story from my memoir, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, I was volunteering at the mental hospital where my mother worked. I was…
3 Ways to Overcome Fear of the Unknown
Can you overcome fear of the unknown? Absolutely.
This lesson came alive for me while still volunteering at my mom’s job at the mental hospital where she was working. The campus, in my opinion, was huge with several buildings all over the…
One Often-ignored Key to Having a Healthy Mind and Body
When I was a teenager, I learned first-hand to appreciate having a healthy mind and body.
I was privileged to volunteer at my mother’s job. At the time she was working in a mental hospital. The hospital had a volunteer program for teenagers.…
Learn from the past. Don’t dwell on it.
“Learn from the past and don’t dwell on shortcomings” has been a major lesson for me throughout my life.
As I continue sharing the lessons learned that I wrote at the end of each chapter of my memoir, Life After Birth, I reflect on…
They Called Me Boy and Beaver: 3 Tips to Stop Bullying
When I decided it was time for me to share my story of how I became a teen mother yet beat the statistics, I began to reflect on my life. And how I got to a place where my self-esteem was so low that I felt that just because this boy told me…
Celebrating an Anniversary – 10 Years After Sharing My Secret Story
When you think about celebrating an anniversary, we usually think of happy occasions like marriage anniversaries or work anniversaries. We also think about anniversaries we don’t necessarily celebrate but do remember like the loss of loved…