Are you happy? Do you wake up in the morning excited to tackle your day? In my line of work, I come across many girlfriends that are searching for the secrets to finding happiness and success in their professional and personal life. From where I sit, there are a couple themes that keeping popping up in the lives of women that are struggling to achieve their “sass”.
You are waiting for others...
How do I know if it’s my inner critic talking, or if I’m just being realistic?
This is a really important question: how do I know if it’s just my inner critic telling me I can’t...
A while back, I was shopping in a women’s clothing store. While engrossed in the sales rack, I heard someone say, “What do you think?”. I looked up and realized that I was standing next to the sales clerk and a woman. She had just come out of the dressing room in a complete outfit. The woman asked me again, “What do you think— which pair of earrings...
Do you have an “inner critic” that gives you a hard time? Come on, we all have that ongoing dialogue that streams through our consciousness while we go about our daily life. It comments, independently from our active mind, on the minutia of the day. As we are getting dressed in the morning, we are maybe...
We women are taught to crave beauty from a very early age. I still have my childhood doll - a perfect china-faced beauty with rich blond curly hair, long lovely lashes, luscious red lips, manicured nails, and a flawless body. I grew up in the Marilyn Monroe era. Then, as now, actresses were icons of style, elegance and beauty and would never allow themselves to be...
In a University of Colorado college physics course, there was a persistent gender gap. The girls got worse test scores than the boys, and ended up with lower grades in the class. The teachers had tried various things to remedy the problem - extra tutorials, etc. – but none worked.
Until one surprising intervention made the difference. From Discover Magazine,
