by Marianne Clyde “Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open,” Corrie Ten Boom famously asserted. After hiding Jews from the Nazis in her home in the Netherlands, Corrie and her family were arrested and sent to a series of prisons, finally ending up in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp. A woman of deep faith, she lived her life on purpose. She lived...
By Lorna Magill Have you ever read a book and encountered a major thought-provoking question? I recently completed "The Measure" by Nikki Erlick, and it really raises an intriguing question worth pondering. Imagine having access to a transformative piece of information that could alter the course of your life: The duration of your existence. In the book millions of people wake up to find a small...
by Marianne Clyde We were sitting at a gorgeous resort chatting about how productive she is being. It's amazing really. She trains women and coaches women in her field how to run their various projects a a business. She has several businesses going at the same time. Businesses with purpose. Businesses that make the world a better place in so many different ways. People admire her. She gets stuff...
By Marianne Clyde "Knowing your purpose strengthens your sense of self; it gives you a way to explain who you are both to other people and to yourself," according to Meg Selig, author of Changepower. There are so many ways that having a purposeful life, or living a life of intention can help you physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually and intellectually. Studies have shown that being...
by Marianne Clyde I've been so privileged to disrupt the status quo in so many ways and it's just because I started saying to myself, "Hey, I can do that!" And doing what you used to think you couldn't sends a feeling of complete freedom through your body! The excitement and pride of publishing 3 bestselling books, and counting. The proud moments receiving awards for accomplishments over the...
by Marianne Clyde Disruption is how we change the world. Doing what others can’t or won’t do. Disruption is not as difficult or offensive and you might think. It’s pretty much just following your truth, unapologetically. Why do we, as women, feel like we need to apologize for who we are, or what we like, or how we think? We’ve woven a tangled web of self-deceit over the years. And man, that has...
By Lorna Martinez Magill Have you ever had the experience of having a friend give you a nudge to get you to do something that is good for you that you might not have done if she wasn’t there to make you accountable? About a year ago, a friend encouraged me to make a crucial phone call that I so needed to make, and she helped me overcome a challenge I was experiencing faster than I would have...
by Marianne Clyde I was at a store the other day and as I was paying, the checkout guy said, “Cha-ching. It goes fast, doesn’t it?” I replied, “It’s just an investment and it comes back 100 times.” He just smiled. So for the last few days I’ve been thinking about spending money, using money, the role of money and the value of money. In a recent blog Are You Asking or Apologizing I touched on our...
By Lorna Martinez Magill Have you ever had someone ask you a question that made you pause because it hit you so much to the core that it made your eyes well up with tears? I recently had this experience. About a year ago, my doctor recommended that I go speak with a therapist to help me noodle through all the transitions I was going through. I had resigned from my job as a CFO, I was a...
I Do you ever read a quote and think, man I love that quote, it sure speaks to me? I have many of those quotes but this quote by Mark Twain has resonated with me in recent weeks: “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." Mark Twain Wow! That sentence is so powerful. According to motivational speaker, Simon Sinek, discovering your “why” is...
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