Yes, I’m The Seminar Queen

I admit it. I absolutely love seminars.

Some people get why I love them. Some don’t. A lot of people make fun of me, think I’m weak or who knows what else they’re thinking.

Let me explain. I have a vision of who and what I want to be, but I’m not sure how to get there. Growing up, my parents didn’t give me the tools to cultivate my strengths and weaknesses. For better or worse, I didn’t know what they were, either. Thus, my love of seminars.

I love to learn, that much I know. I feel like with each class and seminar, I learn more and more about myself and who I am. Since I’m always growing and changing, I feel I can always gain something new from each class or training.

As I grow and change, I’m open to learning more and growing more. It’s a cycle that keeps going. If I ever stop growing and changing, then I guess I won’t need any more seminars. I hope that never happens.
With the constant bombardment of negativity from the outside world, it is easy to get unfocused, turned around and confused. The positive jolt from a good training or seminar keeps me on the path to the most important thing in my life, ME!

I’m trying to live my life to 100% of my potential, one seminar at a time!

Recession: Tough on Working Couples

The economy is making life more difficult for working couples, The Wall Street Journal reports, particularly when one person gets a job offer out of town.
The search for work is forcing more couples into long-distant relationships. A survey of 1,450 job seekers found 18% relocated in the second quarter, up from 11% last year.

Were You Happier A Decade Ago?

Back in the 60s an iconic cigarette ad for Virginia Slims proclaimed to women, “You’ve come a long way, baby.”
Yet despite all the advances that women have achieved since then, some people think it has been downhill ever since.
One of them is Arianna Huffington, the successful pundit/web entrepreneur who on the surface seems like a poster child for happiness.

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When the Boss is a Bully — and a Woman

When dealing with a workplace bully who is female, document, says Bret L. Simmons, a University of Nevada management professor. Confront the bully about her behavior as soon as it happens — don’t wait — and “stay focused on the purpose.” Have you been bullied at work by another woman? What has worked for you?

Suze Orman's stylish campaign to take Diane's seat!

Yesterday I hung out backstage with Suze Orman after each of us spoke at the Pennsylvania Governor’s Conference for Women to a packed house of 5,000 in Philly.

I had never met her, but in just a few minutes she felt like my BFF! (A girl can dream, right?)
Suze and KT, her manager/partner, told me they were driving back to New York to catch up with their pals from the Oprah show who are in the city for a huge live show in Central Park this afternoon.
But before they took off, we talked about money and morning shows.

She’s getting a big kick out of watching the results of a TVNewser poll that names her as the leading contender to replace Diane in January on Good Morning America. Suze took me for a walk outside to find just the right spot to tell me how she really feels about the possibility of sitting next to Robin.
I whipped out my Flipcam to capture her campaign excitement.

Minimizing My Success

For the past month I have been coming across the same theme of the how I tend to minimize my success.
Part of me wants to say it is because I always want more and maybe I’m ungrateful.
Another part of me thinks I just haven’t really done anything so great.
I have enjoyed many successes in my career and still I feel so unsuccessful. I feel lazy and unfocused, but if that was really true, would I have started a business two years ago that is now successful in the midst of a failing economy?

Not long ago, I couldn’t even take money out of the ATM machine because I had less than $20 to my name.
Some nice woman from Virginia gave me $9 so I could get my car out of the parking garage. I didn’t even have $9 to my name and five years later almost to the day, I am enjoying the two-year anniversary of my spa business.

No matter how much I have done, why don’t I feel like I’m successful? I don’t think it’s the syndrome of always wanting more.
Even when I accomplish a big task, I don’t congratulate myself. Instead I attribute my success to luck or some outside factors and I don’t even believe in luck!

Does everyone have a part of their brain that says, “If you were really successful, you would have x, y and z?” I find it hard to focus on the things I have accomplished as opposed to the things I have yet to accomplish.

Will there ever be a time when I feel successful? Will I ever run out of goals? What really is success and will I know when I have achieved it?