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Get Focused
“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”
~ Helen Keller
Empowered Greetings. If you are going to start strong and do great things
in 2020, you must get focused. As it relates to your eyes, when your focus is out of alignment then you can’t see properly.
In other words, you become somewhat disabled because you have a sight impairment. Due to this disability you may experience some limitations and there will be some things you just can’t do.
Well, may I suggest to you, that the same is true when it comes to your personal life, your business or ministry.
When your focus is not di- rected toward your vision statement then you will have limited ability to achieve the level of success you desire. Get focused.
Just like the eyes need cor- rective lenses to get them back into focus, you need to take corrective measures to get you back in alignment with your vi- sion. Your vision is a vivid statement that paints a picture of your success at a designated point of time in your future. It will be your guiding light to making focus-oriented choices concerning your life, business or ministry accomplishments.
Here is an example of a business vision statement. “Five years from now, The Soul
Food Connection will be rated as a “five-star” restaurant in the Greater Tampa Bay area, consistently providing the combination of perfectly pre- pared food and outstanding service that creates an extraor- dinary dining experience.”
Now, here’s an example of a personal vision statement, “To touch the lives of 300 women this year, empowering them to achieve personal and profes- sional success.”
Use these vison statements as guidelines to develop your own.
Your future success is wait- ing on you so develop your vi- sion statement and get focused. If you need help developing your personal or business vi- sion statement, feel free to con- tact me for a free success strategy session.
Stay connected to Selphe- nia via social media. Follow her on: twitter @queenofsuc- cess1; IG: @selphenia; Face- book: Selphenia Nichols Success Coach To Women, or call (813) 603-0088.
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Dismantling Of A Democracy 101
t begins with the devaluing of truth, a May-Day mo-
ment for our Democracy. Donald Trump has learned his lesson . . . . that he can, as President of these United States, do anything his heart desires.
The world watches in disbelief while so-called Re- publicans pack their intestinal fortitude in the deep freeze. Who is to blame? Meanwhile, in a Teflon- Don/Boss Tweed fashion, our 45th fox is busily raid- ing the henhouse, chopping off the heads of all chickens who had the audacity to cluck against him while preparing to liberate out of the barnyard his fa- vorite rooster, who had been consigned to do nine years behind bars for telling Congress to “go to hell.”
Like leaping rats off a sinking ship, veteran bureau- crats are leaving the Justice Department, and thanks to Trump’s miraculous shell game, the FBI has been made to look like an orphan in a windstorm.
But the most bizarre development of all is the sav- aging of the Constitution and the Alice-in-Wonderland cross-examination of the President’s right to do what- ever he wills in the name of the public good.
In an horrific trickle-down fashion, such illogic threaten taint not only the division of Executive, Leg- islative, and Judiciary Powers of America in govern- ment, but promises to leak throughout American society from top to bottom.
So, imagine discipline in public schools where teachers and administrators find difficulty in dealing with unruly students, who based their behavior on the “public domain,” and imagine arguments at the dinner table that end with “Well, if the President can do it, so can I.”
It gets worse as the wonder of trust and truth grows ever more vacant. Such is the nightmare that awaits us if we don’t wake up and go back to school. For, Donald isn’t the only one to learn a lesson. American voters can learn lessons, too.
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