Jada Pinkett Smith Inspires Me Too!

Katie Holmes told PEOPLE "Jada is so strong...She is a rare woman – a phenomenal friend, mother, wife. She inspires me." Then adds Tom Cruise: "Jada tells it like it is. She creates art in her life ... She's effortless. She just has such class." Katie summed up not only Jada but also the woman that I continually strive to be everyday.

I am in the middle of my annual period of goals evaluation, goal setting for the upcoming year and examining who I am, where I am and where I want to be. This process lead me to do a brief study of various women who possessed traits and characteristics that I admire and the list began to form. The list includes so far Maya Angelou, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Lisa Ling and continues to grow everyday.

A new silver lining was revealed to me a few weeks ago in the form of the new addition of women that I admire. She is DiAnne Malone, the author of Who's That Lady?. I was so moved by the following passage in her very first blog post that I gasped!

As women of God, we should strive to posses that same glory and let it !bling! within us. People should see women of God and gasp in wonderment, “Oh my goodness! Who’s that lady?” Wouldn’t it be absolutely delicious for God’s glory to have such a profound effect on you and those around you? http://web.me.com/diannemalone/WhosThatLady/Blog/Entries/2008/10/13_In_the_beginning%2C_there_was_a_Who%E2%80%99s_That_Lady.html

I want to be a “Who’s That Lady”, do you?


To read more of DiAnne’s Blog, visit the Who’s That Lady blog http://web.me.com/diannemalone/WhosThatLady/Blog/Blog.html

Take Time for Your Life

Everyday is a better day - this is something that I have been telling myself lately just to make it through the day. I've been in this little funk lately; feeling overwhelmed and anxious about trying to do all of the stuff on my "Things to Do" list. It was literally driving me crazy - to the point that I just had to STOP and begin to refocus my life on what is really important. It is so easy to let others and issues take control over your life to the point that you are longer living for you but for everyone else.

Time is such a precious thing and we always seem to never have enough of it; so I have decided today to be extremely selfish with my time. I want to focus on what I am called to do and what I want to do and nothing else!

Have you had any "Me Time" lately? What are you focusing on today? Is it benefiting you and making you better? If not - just let it go! It is truly liberating!

Come on over to this side of the street - there are so many Silver Linings over here!

"Have you still got your space? Your soul, your own and necessary place where your own voices may speak to you, you alone, where you may dream. Oh, hold onto it, don't let it go."
—Doris Lessing