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Lifestyle Change: Day 45 of 70 – Maintain Your Vision Board

Last June I created my first vision board. The success from the board was felt immediately. I started to become more courageous in pursuing my goals that I had previously thought were unachievable. I went from talking about making films to in less than a year having received two film awards. If I didn’t I [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 44 of 70 – Getting What You Want

I don’t believe in perfect relationships. Actually, I don’t believe in perfect anything. But I believe I have stumbled upon what it is that makes some relationships work and others not work. I think I’ve discovered how to be happy in a relationship–whether its business, personal, intimate, plutonic, whatever. I think have found Pandora’s box… [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 43 of 70 – Saying No to Judgment

A couple of months ago, I wrote about Erykah Badu’s video in which she stripped down in downtown Dallas. I shared my disappointment with that choice of artistic expression in a music video and I named other artists that disappointed me as well for posing nude including Jody Watley. A day or so after I [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 42 of 70 – Meant to be solo???

About a year ago, I embarked on a journey to find similar thinking colleagues to build with, work with and develop mutually supportive relationships. A month after I started on the journey, I struck gold–or so I thought. I thought I had found someone to work with, but things didn’t exactly work out. Four months [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 41 of 70 – Why people hate…

Why are there so many people who hate your success, who hate that you enjoy your life, who hate that you have a relationship, who hate that your children are healthy, who hate that you are…???? Here’s my breakthrough of the day: People hate the people who remind them of what they haven’t become. People [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 40 of 70 – My new thing…

Shortly after I got up on June 5, I received news that one of my favorite aunts passed away. This news came two weeks after a close family friend passed way. I thought to myself, “Death is at it again.” Though nearly 70 years old, my aunt was so vibrant that her death was hard [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 39 of 70 – Friendships Come and Go…

I’ve had some really great friendships in my life. I’ve had friends who I’ve been able to have highly intellectual sociological conversations with and friends who I’ve been able to be very intellectual with about shopping… LOL. But what I’ve noticed most is that friends come in seasons. It seems that they are there until [...]

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Lifestyle Change: 38 of 70 – Inconsistency makes me crazy

I don’t like inconsistency in any form. Inconsistent people? Nope, can’t stand ‘em. Inconsistent rules? Nope, feels fake. Inconsistent effort? Nope, a waste of time and energy. I struggle with people and things that I encounter that are inconsistent for whatever the reason. I understand that life changes and because of that I must always [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 37 of 70 – Delete Old Emails and…

You know what I did today? I deleted old emails of people who I never talk to and I unsubscribed to a bunch of newsletters that I don’t ever read. And you know what? I feel liberated. Hallelujah for me! Why am I allowing my computer to be filled up with a bunch of old [...]

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Screening in Alexandria, VA: Can She Be Saved? Comes to Old Towne

Hey there. As a part of the opening night ceremony for Female Shorts: Film & Video Showcase, my film, Can She Be Saved? will be screened. The screening will take place on Thursday, June 3rd at the Torpedo Factory, 105 N. Union St, Alexandria, VA. The reception starts at 6pm. I will be in the [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 36 of 70 – Tie Up Loose Ends

Wednesdays and Fridays are usually my two days that I handle the housekeeping aspect of my businesses. Whenever I’m tying up loose ends, I feel like I’m accomplishing something. I feel as if I’m able to move forward with the next phase of whatever that I’m working on. I’m a creative so I spend a [...]