Tag: career

  • Celebrating The New Identity

    Follow Your Passion

    Last night after I came back from a networking meeting, I tweeted about following your passion. A friend on twitter, @mlanger (Maria Langer) replied that I have been listening to The Secret for too long and just go for it.

    I personally thought “The Secret” was kind of shallow. Yes, it got people’s mind flowing with creating vision boards and so on. I have done all  that. But it didn’t incorporate alot of the action – GO FOR IT! that my twitter friend, Maria said. I have always been a  good doer left brain trained type of person. I would have preferred to have had my sister, Maria(not same as twitter friend) partner with me as we had envisioned. But she didn’t go for it. So my plans got revised. And they got put on hold because of my need to create immediate income to pay my bills.

    My birthday is coming up this week. Birthdays are celebrated to remind you of that point in time when you took that leap into this world to embrace life. I celebrated a pre-birthday moment yesterday when I went to a meeting  with the Association for Women in Communications(AWCS). It was the first time I met anyone from this group. The topic was about social media, so there were a lot of local twitterers there, including men. (more…)

  • Open Letter to My Sister, Maria

    Poinciana Tree
    Poinciana Tree

    Dear Maria, we dreamed two years ago of many things we could do together. With your talent as a mental health therapist for almost 30 years and  my  wanting to inspire others to follow their dreams, much could have been done.  Yesterday my poinciana tree keeled over from its immense weight and now an electric cord is underneath it buried in the beautiful fuschia leaves.

    I called Florida Power and Light yesterday frantic that the electric power cord was going to snap especially since it was raining so hard. Luckily, as of today,it still has not snapped.

    There have been many times that my frazzled mind has felt like that electrical cord on the verge of snapping because of my career as a real estate broker turned upside down in the last two years. I never imagined the immense hardship I would have to face.  Even though I am blessed with the gift of my beautiful son,  family and friends who have supported me every step of the way, I didn’t expect it would be so difficult to get back on my feet again with my work. (more…)