Take the pressure off yourself I always wanted to be a writer. In fact, it was one of my earliest dreams. As a child, I wrote stories for my own pleasure, and even unsuccessfully submitted a couple to magazines. Somewhere along the line I went astray. I got an MBA and spent the first part […]
Be true to yourself I am a helper. When I was younger, my phone always rang. Someone always wanted help with something. What made you decide to finally realize your lifelong dream? I lived a very high stressed life and I wasn’t really taking good care of myself, but felt there was little I would […]
Expect it to happen When I was about 24, I made a list of about 40 things I wanted to do before I died. A few years later I got a computer with windows 3.1, and made a rough poster. Over the years I checked my goals off one at a time. One of the largest […]
Have Passion… I Don’t Care What It Is I have been to more than 20 countries, and I’ve seen a lot of North America but not as much as I’d like. What made you decide to finally realize your lifelong dream? In 1991 I started the Cadillac Club of North Jersey. It grew from nothing […]
Step Out on Faith We were your typical home-schooling suburban family living in a 1,000 square foot ranch in Western Michigan. As Christians, we have personal values, so our children were always homeschooled. We weren’t caught up in the school system and its teaching and scheduling. I grew up taking long vacations. My Dad worked […]
Passion Makes Our Lives Special Ever since 6th grade, when I realized that the musical My Fair Lady had different writers for the original play, the music, the lyrics and the adapted version, I wanted to write a novel that had music associated with it. I wanted to do it all myself. In 2013 at […]
Follow What Fuels Your Heart I had always wanted to be a dress designer. My mother taught me to have a practical skill to support myself and my children so that I would never have to depend on anyone else. Like a dutiful daughter I attended graduate school and received a master’s in speech language […]
You have to do the work When I was about five or six, I used to watch the TV show Three’s Company. I used to think, ‘Where is this place where you can ride your bike along the beach?’ I lived in the Detroit area and I loved the show because I wanted to be […]
When your desire outweighs your fear… I went to art school in New York and one of our assignments was to create a visual story with no words. I sketched a star falling into the ocean and became a star fish. At that time my daughter was two. I wrote a story to go along […]
Don’t Look Back with Regrets For his store, my grandfather imported items from Mexico; clothing, jewelry, pottery, all different types of items packed in sawdust and wood shavings. I would go treasure hunting through the ‘Easter basket grass’ trying to find treasures and treats. In 1958, those items from Mexico were high-end compared with what […]
Too Much Thinking Can Kill Your Dreams I always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. When I was younger, I was bullied and picked on, so I started working out. I was 5’, 11’’ and 125 lbs. I started seeing results slowly but surely. At age 20, I competed in first competition […]
Just keep going until you achieve it When I was five years old I began to develop an unusual talent. Sick in bed with chicken pox, I missed an entire week of kindergarten from Monday, February 28 to Friday March 4. How do I remember what the dates were? Because that is the unusual talent. […]
Don’t Forget to Leap In 2009 I had 30 days to fire my employees, let go of my clients and shut down my business to get ready for an 11 hour surgery. It ended one life, the life everyone else wanted me to live, and opened a door to a new one. While recovering for […]
Act on your deepest desire My dream was to overcome my shyness, be famous and meet and be seen with celebrities. I’ve interviewed dozens of celebrities and lead Successful Thinkers of Indianapolis, a very popular networking organization. I was always very shy. When I was in first grade, the teacher asked my mother if I […]
Just be your dream I always wanted to write what I thought was just one novel. I started thinking about this at age 13, when the mother of my best friend put Taylor Caldwell’s A Pillar of Iron in my hand and told me I could write a book like this. I didn’t start writing […]
You Have to Decide 150 Percent In 1971 when I was in college, I received a post card from Western Airlines. They hired me as a stewardess. My parents were professionals. Dad was dentist and Mom was a psychologist, so a stewardess is the last thing they thought I would be. I stayed in the […]
If they can do it…I can do it Since the age of about 13 or 14, I wanted to live in Europe. I originally thought about France, but the idea was to live in a country where they did not speak English. I wanted to live among the locals as a local. This would not […]
When You Hear a No, You’ve Got Someone’s Attention I always wanted to write children’s books. As a child I read endlessly – the classics and books by Enid Blyton. I read The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries and Lord of the Rings. The Thornbirds I read at 10 years old. I also used […]
Trust the Process I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and had to make a clear change. At the time, I had a business management consulting firm. I was living out of a suitcase traveling to Fortune 1000 companies. Living with MS, I experienced all kinds of different episodes. In one episode, I lost the […]
You are always growing and evolving I have a modeling background. I have pictures and have been in magazines, but I never thought that I would be lecturing on entrepreneurship or in a newsroom giving my opinion. Although I always wanted to do it. Now I’m one of the experts sitting on the couch giving […]
