Tools For Personal Growth

Do weekly introspection or as we like to call it, self-examination. Personal growth does not happen unless you examine your life and consider where you’ve been, where you’re going and what personal changes you need to make. Mildred Antenor



Tools For Career Growth

The successful person is willing to do what the unsuccessful person is not willing to do. Draw a profile of success in whatever you are choosing to improve. If you are willing to do what that profile demands, then you have a credible demand of success. If you are not willing to do that then it just will not be there for you. You can't have the one without the other. Hyrum Smith

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin Powell

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Colin Powell

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. Colin Powell

When you choose a career, choose something that you love, otherwise you will turn your life into a weekend. Jeffrey Weisenberg

As I have studied great men and women from the beginning of time, the common denominator of greatness has been the ability and willingness to sacrifice for whatever they were trying to achieve. When sacrifice has been there, great humans have emerged. Hyrum Smith

If opportunities are closed to you because of your gender, race or ethnicity be persistent. If the front door won’t open, go through the back door, if the back door is locked come through the side door, if the side door is jammed then go through the roof! Mildred Antenor

Have a mission statement for your life. It should have a 5, 10 and 15 year goal. Dennis Kimbro

While networking whether at a cocktail party or conference make it a point to be cordial with everyone at the networking event. The person whom you deem insignificant “today” you may end up needing a favor from “tomorrow”.
Mildred Antenor

Seeing ourselves as we want to be is a key to personal growth. To successfully bring about change in our lives we need to implement a system of change that is build upon three assumptions. First Assumption: We change our lives by changing the attitudes of our minds. Second Assumption: We become what we think about all day long. Third Assumption: Our mind is naturally goal seeking. Please remember these assumptions. Our mind is always trying to accomplish something. We have a powerful machine wanting to achieve goals. It will set the goals that we allow it to. Hyrum Smith

We generally never know of the power lunches going on behind closed doors, ambitious people rarely stay in modest positions for long. Be careful to treat everyone with respect. Mildred Antenor

Create allies in high places. Mildred Antenor

Procrastination is the enemy of success.
Dennis Kimbro

Have discipline, miracles happen when you embrace discipline.

Make a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly “to do” list and follow it because for most people, writing goals down makes them easier to follow and accomplish. Mildred Antenor

Do what’s important not what’s urgent.
Marlene Waldock

The opposite of success is conformity.
Dennis Kimbro


Tools For Spiritual Growth

People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.
David R. Hawkins

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. Stephen Covey

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. Albert Camus

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Allen

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments. Frederick Buechner

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will. Jiddu Krishnamurti

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one’s self. Aldous Huxley

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. Richard Bach

Find someone to mentor. Mildred Antenor

Don’t forget to serve others. God gave you two hands, one is to help yourself and the other is to help others. Mildred Antenor

Meditate regularly. It will help to still your mind and you will be surprised at how solutions to some problems come to you easily when you just take the time to reflect. Mildred Antenor

Do something to show you expect success to come. Active faith alone will impress the subconscious. Florence Scovel Shinn

A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be prisoners of their own concepts and ideas. They can be slaves to their own selves. Maharaji

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. Gandhi


Tools For Mental Well-Being

Appreciate and place a value on the advice of elders and mentors. Remember that they’ve already earned their stripes and the advice that they give you now can help you avoid a pothole in your life later. Mildred Antenor

Mentors can be any age and you are never too old to have a mentor and learn something new. Mildred Antenor

Your past does not have to dictate your future; a gloomy past does not guarantee a paltry future. Mildred Antenor

Find a good book to read on a monthly basis. Your body needs exercise but so does your mind. Mildred Antenor


Tools For Physical Attunement

Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. Edward Stanley

Get a professional to groom your brows at least once to determine their best shape.
Linda Wells and the editors of Allure

When your nail polish turns yellow or chips, admit defeat and remove it all.
Linda Wells and the editors of Allure

Find a walking buddy and do some power walking for an hour or more daily. Mildred Antenor

Big-barrel curling irons yield the most natural-looking waves.
Linda Wells and the editors of Allure

Exfoliate skin every week with a gentle scrub. Linda Wells and the editors of Allure

Get a yearly physical.

Get a yearly PAP smear.

If you are 40+ have a yearly mammogram.

If you are 50+ have a yearly colonoscopy.

Once your doctor has given you the approval to do so, find a gym and exercise at least 3 times per week. Mildred Antenor


Tools For Peace and Personal Satisfaction

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers. Whoopi Goldberg

There are people who have money and people who are rich. Coco Chanel

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery…we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness. Dalai Lama

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either. Wayne Dyer

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner. Cher

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. Wayne Dyer

Surround yourself with positive people.
Mildred Antenor

Take time to breathe. Janet O. Penn

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. Buddha

Be very selective of who your friends are. Surround yourself with people who have similar dreams and aspirations. Mildred Antenor

Make it an effort to smile more often and then observe how people smile back at you. Try it, it works! Mildred Antenor

Keep an open mind. The more you keep an open mind, the more you will learn. Don’t be afraid to find your own purpose in this life. The two most important days of your life are the day that you were born and the day that you figure out why you were put on this earth to begin with.
Dennis Kimbro and Napoleon Hill

Dedicate yourself to life long learning.
Dennis Kimbro


Tools For Self-Love

Don’t let anyone else give you the measure of your worth. Be proud of who you are. Be proud of your heritage and your culture. Mildred Antenor

Don’t let another person’s negative opinion of you discourage you from what is truly in your heart. Mildred Antenor

If you speak many languages celebrate that and be proud of it. Mildred Antenor

Love and respect yourself. No one outside of your immediate circle of friends will give you the love and respect that you deserve if you don’t already own it yourself. Mildred Antenor

Prioritize what you have to do on a daily basis, and if you are asked to do something that you really don’t have time for, don’t be afraid to say no. Mildred Antenor

There is a lot of love in the word “No”.
Dennis Kimbro

Get a facial.

Get a massage.

Get a manicure.

Get a pedicure.

Take time out to take care of yourself.

Go to the makeup counter at your local department store and get a makeover.
Mildred Antenor

Don’t be afraid to ask the sales associates at the better department stores if you can make an appointment to have a personal shopper. In most stores this service is free, it helps to save time and you will have a professional who will give you tips on what clothes fit, what don’t and what colors you should wear or steer away from. Mildred Antenor

Take care of your appearance. The woman next door with the new designer shoes has her share of problems as well, she just looks better that’s all. One thing’s for sure, problems don’t discriminate. Mildred Antenor


Tools For Wisdom

Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t be afraid to hand out compliments to someone who is unfamiliar to you at the grocery store or at the bus stop. We often don’t know what trials and tribulations people are going through in their personal lives, that compliment might just help them make it through their day. Mildred Antenor

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should not try to raise our children to have a sense of entitlement about life; you’re not doing them any favors. Mildred Antenor

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t live vicariously through our children. They were put on this earth for a purpose, which in most cases is completely different from yours. This puts a terrible strain on your children and doesn’t make matters easier for you when they leave the nest. Mildred Antenor

We should not try to raise our children to have a sense of entitlement about life; you’re not doing them any favors. Mildred Antenor

Talk about your affairs as little as possible, and then only to the ones who will give you encouragement, advice and inspiration. The world is full of “wet blankets”, people who will tell you that, “it can’t be done,” or that “you’re aiming too high.” Florence Scovel Shinn and Lucia Malette