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You Deserve...Health, Happiness, Success, Prosperity & Love - Chapter 1

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Introductory reading of chapter 1.

Don't Look Back!

Who is your Lot?

My Servant Job!

Pool of Bethesda

PLAN TO SUCCEED…SUCCEED BY PLANNING

Habakkuk 2:2 Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that reads it.

• Decide where and what you want to be. 
• Raise your personal standards.
• Commit yourself to continuous improvement. 
• Increase your skills and education.
• Commit to a fitness program to boost your energy.
• Commit to eating to live instead of living to eat. 
• Commit to your goals.
• Utilize SMART to maximize your potential: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-based.
• Stay focused, intentional, and on purpose. 
• When problems present themselves create viable solutions and proceed towards the goal.

Rest if you must, but don't you quit!

You Deserve...Health, Happiness, Success, Prosperity, & Love!

 

Mission Statement

 #Values: #Individual; #Organizations; #Intentions

Create a summary of your intentions indicating your purpose, goals, intentions while explaining your products and/or services. Include your geographical region of operation along with the value your products and/or services will leave to the world. 

• What do you do?
• How do you do it?
• Why do you do what you do?
• Who do you want to provide your product and/or service to?

Habakkuk 2:2 KJV Holy Bible

...Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it...

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January 02, 2021

 To rid yourself of an old habit that is no longer serving you replace it with a new and improved habit by:

• Reflecting on your daily duties/task at home, work, and leisure.
• Contemplate how you can improve what you do.
• For the next 29 days practice those improving actions.
• On day 30 pat yourself on the back for becoming a better you!

Believe it!

Behave it!

Become it!

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PROSPERITY

 3 JOHN 2 KJV

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health even as thy soul prospereth.

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Dannetta Townsend, 36, division chief, Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command - Fort Eustis | Top 40 Under 40

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At work: With a focus of meeting the Army’s mission requirements and supporting soldier readiness, I lead and provide oversight to a federal contracting division that procures complex services and essential supplies.

Home and family: I am married to my handsome husband, Jobarie, and am a mother to our adorable son.

Volunteer activities: I find enjoyment reaching back into the community by offering free consultation, resume and interview preparation services. I also am a member of the Lambda Gamma Omega Virginia Beach chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Virginia Beach Pearls Foundation, and Emmanuel True Holiness Church. I also enjoy helping the community to increase health and financial awareness, and participating in food drives.

Motivating factor: The capability to conquer accomplishments motivates me to take on new challenges and believe that NOTHING is impossible.

Advice for young people: Don’t be afraid to network for mentorship and new opportunities.

Professional goal in five years: I would like to a director of a federal contracting command while positively impacting the lives of others.

The one thing I’d change about Hampton Roads: I would like to see the cities of Hampton Roads work together to increase expand The Tide light rail, and to host an NFL or NBA team.

Region’s biggest asset: Diversity of our population and the immense amount of talented professionals in our area.

Downtime: I enjoy relaxing with my family and making new memories filled with laughter.

What really gets under my skin: Considering the magnitude of what we are facing with this COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve learned to take one day at time and don’t sweat the small things.

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Success

What if success is to see how well you do what you can do in life. Let's go to the ant as Proverbs 6:6-11 suggest that we do and observe how she demonstrates her resolve to be successful:

having no guide, overseer, or ruler the ant provides her meat in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. 

If you block an ant from going in one direction immediately the ant will turn and go in a different direction even if it means going over, around or under it doesn't matter the ant will persevere to accomplish her goal!

The ant demonstrates being successful means achieving your goals, plans, visions and seeking alternate routes when obstructions suddenly appear to be hindrances to your light at the end of the tunnel. Rest if you must, but don't quit!

Always remember you are unique and it is your birthright to determine what is important to you so define success according to what YOU are good at NOT what someone else is good at. Your gifts and desires are just that "YOURS" so enjoy what you can do without comparing it to what someone else can do. 

Ask yourself:

• What's truly important to me?
• What are my true passions in life?
• What lifestyle do I want to live?
• What would I like to have written on my epitaph?

You are the only one that will see these answers so be honest and detailed and take off the "rose tinted glasses", because this is all about YOU!

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Happiness

 In 1776 America's Founding Fathers declared that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are...the pursuit of happiness (The Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776).

244 years later happiness has become a science and psychologist are attempting to explain it and reason that it's necessary to experience a "good life". This sounds great but a "good life" to one individual maybe an adequate life to someone else. This simply means that seeking after happiness will vary from person to person allowing the highs and lows of the roller coaster of life to imprint various levels of contentment and pleasure on us for moments at a time. This tells us that happiness is not permanent which is why we have to pursue it. 

Questions:

1. What makes you happy?
2. How often do you pursue after what makes you happy?

Examples:

1. One woman finds happiness in running 10 miles everyday.
2. One woman says she is happiest when researching telomeres. 
3. One man lives with his dog, enjoys a high salary, dates often and is very happy. 
4. One man's happiness is a thriving business in three different locations with plans on opening a fourth location.

 

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Thoughts Become Things...

 

…YOU

ARE  WHAT  YOU  THINK  ABOUT ALL  DAY  LONG!

THE  GREATER  THOUGHTS  YOU  THINK 

THE  GREATER (WO)MAN  YOU  BECOME!

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6 0f 6 Dimensions of Wellness: Social Wellness

 

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You and all of your relationships along with how you react to those relationships are the sum total of your social well-being. The relationships can be positive, loving, kind and considerate offering support in both good and bad times. On the other hand, the relationships can be detrimental offering stress and constant emotions of unhappiness, despair, rejection, and misery. 

Also, be cognizant of the emotions that people draw out of you. Be conscious of the inner voice that shouts "DANGER" and activates your alert system or the warm and fuzzy feelings that whispers relax, sit a spell laugh and talk. 

The goal is to seek out optimal social relationships with people that understands and cooperates with the ideology of "give and receive" with support, compliments and encouragement. They are great communicators and they are respectful of themselves and of others offering a full understanding and acceptance of boundaries. They have a zest for life operating under the umbrella of honesty with the ability to accept you for you!

Social Wellness, truly is a beautiful thing and research has shown that people who have strong healthy relationships tend to have healthier endocrine systems, enhanced immune systems and cardiovascular systems. For these reasons, you are encouraged to nurture your relationships, because healthy social relationships have the power to possibly extend your life!

With this in mind, make commitments that you know you can keep, break the cycle of the blame game, stop criticizing others holding them to standards that you yourself aren't able to keep, stop trying to get the proverbial splinter out of the other person's eye when you yourself walk around with a humongous plank in your own eye. Therefore, since none of us are water walkers keep in mind the famous quote by French philosopher, Albert Camus, which says: 

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. 

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. 

Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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