Personal Development Influencer. Creative Soul. Foreign Film Aficianado. Life-Long Learner. my story starts with ideas.
At some point in my adult life, I wrestled with making my brilliant ideas reality. Instead, I let them reside only in my head.
But when I was a young girl – a creative, playful, lovely, and imaginative little girl, they didn’t. I shared my ideas and what I was discovering about life freely with others.
Without hesitation, I took risks, created, giggled, and explored.
My imagination was relentless, and my ideas were inspired.
I started a music band at the age of 6 with my cousin. I was a fashion advisor at 8 and at 8 ½, I rode a unicycle. I started an all-girls’ club at 9 with my classmates. I wrote a poem about poverty in a Mexican border town when I was 10. I did all this with the help of my role models – Harriet the Spy, Shirley Chisolm, and Spiderman. I wasn’t afraid of trying just to see what would happen. I was happiest when I pushed my big ideas out of my head and into the world.
But as I grew up, I buried my ideas deep inside. I had no time or energy to make them happen because life had happened and of course, fear set in too.
At the ripe age of 45, in a heart-to-heart conversation with my daddy, it dawned on me that I was a middle-aged woman (a fact he politely confirmed.) I was in a state of shock, but even more shocked because of a morbid fact.
Considering the current life expectancy rate for women in the U.S., I realized that more than half of my life was over. I had these brilliant ideas that I hadn’t made a reality because I:
Contemplated their value.
Tip-toed around them with trepidation.
Over-analyzed how to make them happen.
Gave away my power.
Second-guessed me into believing that they were duds.
In 2012, I begged to differ with myself and stopped all of that nonsense.
I DECLARED THAT THE SECOND HALF OF MY LIFE WOULD BE DIFFERENT.
I wasn’t going to let my ideas haunt me anymore. The girl in me wanted to see what happened if I made them happen. In this process, what I discovered was that my life became more inspired and vibrant because I decided to breathe life into my ideas.
As I blogged about making my ideas happen, women were inspired to make their ideas happen too.
When I delivered my workshops, women became exactly who they were created to be – more creative, confident and reassured about themselves.
When I shared my dynamic, brainstorming nature, I injected life into the ideas of others.
I’M ON A MISSION TO SPARK YOU TO MAKE YOUR BRILLIANT IDEAS BLOSSOM!
On another note…
As a learning and development leader for more than 25 years, I’ve designed and facilitated engaging learning solutions for organizations in a range of industries. Years of constructing solutions from concepts and ideas of others have cultivated a natural bent toward ideation within me. I show others how to structure their ideas so that they can flow when putting details in place.
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Foreign Film Aficianado
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