One’s vulnerability enables startling events sparked by a lemon experience. Given this quagmire, the factual narratives personalized in this book purpose to 1) demystify factors hindering visibility to actualizing your best life; 2) inspire authentic personal improvement to establish and sustain a thriving livelihood; 3) rejuvenate pursuit of your wildest (yet doable) dream through holistic insight and systematic preparation, and 4) impart how I grew financial assets for undertaking bucket-list endeavors post-career-life. I also share my toughest life lessons from capacity-expanding ordeals. Applying a champion’s mindset with faith crushed my life’s lemon rock piles into pebbles of wisdom to inform my multifaceted roadmap to realize a higher quality of living while actualizing unimagined milestones.
We've all heard the adage: When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. But no one ever says how. Finally, with the inspiration of Plato and the help other great philosophers, Tom Morris has figured it out and here gives us a recipe we all can use. Along the way, he shows us how to move with wisdom from difficulty to delight in everything we do.
This book delves into questions ranging from 1) how to fulfill livelihood and lifestyle goals, milestones, objectives, plus “bucket list” desires from a Spirit-filled perspective; and 2) why it is critical to write a robust plan and design a roadmap for attaining each tangible livelihood, lifestyle, and aspirational aim that persists as wishful thinking or dormant in your mind, soul, or spirit. As you read this book, reflect on its context. Be an enthusiastic DOER of its exercises. You will learn the significance of shifting from entrenched skepticism to living in Faith’s Divine atmosphere and exercising the limitless power of prayer. These esteem-building actions changed both authors’ modus operandi toward reimagining their realistic expectations and preparing to bring their near-term attainable objectives to fruition. Applying this resource helps you actualize your GOD-inspired dreams through the boundless power of the Holy Ghost. As your virtual coach, this book details proven methods for 1) pivoting your posture, 2) reimagining your future, 3) activating your giftedness, and ultimately 4) realizing your best life sooner than otherwise would be possible. This book’s foundational content is the Holy Bible. Its framing resources are built on meaningful learnings from Darryl’s odyssey as a certified Program Management Professional (PgMP®) employed as a Competency Enrichment Instructor. The symphonic benefits of this resource are based on Jennifer’s authenticity, kindliness, charm, and people-engaging skills as an artistic, professional beautician, and entrepreneur. “But God.” Jennifer and Darryl understand the power of unity, the glue of this book. Jennifer and Darryl live 6,025 miles apart, branched by an ocean between two exceptional continents. Their countries of birth are as far apart in ideology and cultural norms as the “East is from the West.” Jennifer’s parents and grandparents are of nearly 100% African origin. She was born, nurtured, and educated in the West African nation of Ghana. Comparatively, according to his chromosomal data authenticated by specimen samples mailed to three independent DNA testing laboratories, Darryl’s genetic signature is about 58% originating in West and Southwest African nations and approximately 42% originating in Great Britain and Northwest European countries. The shared thread between the authors is their unwavering belief in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as elaborated in the New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. GOD chose both authors for this moment to put into common words the essence of “Unity of Faith” globally through an African citizen residing in a robust community of Ghana’s capital city and an African-American living in metropolitan New Orleans, U.S.A, ninety miles from the State of Louisiana’s capital city. Their piercing words aim to inspire you to uplift this crusade in prayer.
The underlying Alpha objective is to make available the soundest criteria based on the author’s experiences as a program management practitioner. Knowledge is imparted ranging from project engineering to program management and from a functional management role to, ultimately, director-level accountability for a mission-critical program as a valued employee of a Managing and Operating contractor for a one-of-its-kind, US taxpayer-owned crude oil storage venture involving underground caverns engineered into massive naturally occurring salt domes located near the border between southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas. The overarching Alpha aim is to seed this coursebook - which accentuates the innovativeness and pioneering spirit of the 2020 decade in progress - and make its actionable knowledge available to program practitioners globally to help them deliver better outcomes by applying intelligent approaches that I found most effective.
Natasha Lammers is a life-long learner who believes that beautiful divine messages of hope that promote healing and comfort to the heart, should be shared with the world. In a collection of mini-lessons, Natasha offers compelling insight into her unique spiritual practice and related teachings [to help one transform one’s view from “self” to “whole”] through the understanding of one’s inter-existence, in order to find the answers to such existential questions as “Who am I?” and “What is the reason for my existence?”; while, intertwining her personal experiences with wisdom from her spiritual teachers and guides, as well as her insightful practices and personal challenges. Natasha leads the readers on their own spiritual journey toward an enlightening path inward to discover that it is they who have the power to transform their ordinary life into an extraordinary one. My Lemonade Lessons offers valuable insight and self-transformational practices gathered from one woman’s spiritual journey of self-exploration to help others discover themselves.
The Lemonade Reader is an interdisciplinary collection that explores the nuances of Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album, Lemonade. The essays and editorials present fresh, cutting-edge scholarship fueled by contemporary thoughts on film, material culture, religion, and black feminism. Envisioned as an educational tool to support and guide discussions of the visual album at postgraduate and undergraduate levels, The Lemonade Reader critiques Lemonade’s multiple Afrodiasporic influences, visual aesthetics, narrative arc of grief and healing, and ethnomusicological reach. The essays, written by both scholars and popular bloggers, reflects a broad yet uniquely specific black feminist investigation into constructions of race, gender, spirituality, and southern identity. The Lemonade Reader gathers a newer generation of black feminist scholars to engage in intellectual discourse and confront the emotional labor around the Lemonade phenomena. It is the premiere source for examining Lemonade, a text that will continue to have a lasting impact on black women’s studies and popular culture.
As a young woman in Victorian England, Anna Champion knows all too well the social mores that value prettiness over sense, and etiquette over honesty. But when she stands up to the boorishness of dashing Christopher Davenport at a summertime ball, Anna unwittingly attracts his wrath--and becomes entangled in his malicious scheming. After a lifetime of harboring shame and resentment, Christopher, a ruthless con artist, wants revenge, and unfortunately for Anna, he's decided that she will be the perfect pawn in his terrible plot. With a fierceness of spirit uncommon in well-bred young ladies in the nineteenth century, Anna will have to use her intelligence and courage to protect her loved ones. But can she also save herself?
FEATURED IN: Essence • People • Bustle • PopSugar • Refinery 29 • HelloGiggles' • PureWow • Newsday The Ultimate Beyoncé Collectible "Beyoncé fans will eat it up." —People "You don't need to be in the Beyhive to appreciate Queen Bey...Voices including culture critic Luvvie Ajayi and actress and producer Lena Waithe give us a fresh take on Beyoncé, who's arguably the biggest pop star of our time." —Essence Beyoncé. Her name conjures more than music, it has come to be synonymous with beauty, glamour, power, creativity, love, and romance. Her performances are legendary, her album releases events. She is not even forty but she has already rewritten the Beyoncé playbook more than half a dozen times. She is consistently provocative, political and surprising. As a solo artist, she has sold more than 100 million records. She has won 22 Grammys and is the most-nominated woman artist in the history of Grammy awards. Her 2018 performance at Coachella wowed the world. The New York Times wrote: "There's not likely to be a more meaningful, absorbing, forceful and radical performance by an American musician this year or any year soon." Artist, business woman, mother, daughter, sister, wife, black feminist, Queen Bey is endlessly fascinating. Queen Bey features a diverse range of voices, from star academics to outspoken cultural critics to Hollywood and music stars. Essays include: "What Might a Black Girl Be in This World," an introduction by Veronica Chambers "Beychella is Proof That Beyoncé is the Greatest Performer Alive. I’m Not Arguing." by Luvvie Ajayi "On the Journey Together," by Lena Waithe "What Beyoncé Means to Everyone," by Meredith Broussard with visualizations by Andrew Harvard and Juan Carlos Mora "Jay-Z's Apology to Beyoncé Isn't Just Celebrity Gossip — It's a Political Act" by Brittney Cooper "All Her Single Ladies" by Kid Fury "The Elevator" by Ylonda Gault "The Art of Being Beyoncé" by Maria Brito "Getting, Giving and Leaving" by Melissa Harris Perry and Mankaprr Conteh "Beyoncé the Brave" by Reshma Saujani "Living into the Lemonade: Redefining Black Women’s Spirituality in the Age of Beyoncé" by Candice Benbow "Beyoncé’s Radical Ways" by Carmen Perez "Finding la Reina in Queen Bey" by Isabel Gonzalez Whitaker "Beyoncé, Influencer" by Elodie Maillet Storm "The King of Pop and the Queen of Everything" by Michael Eric Dyson "Style So Sacred" by Edward Enninful "The Beauty of Beyoncé" by Fatima Robinson "Because Beyoncé." by Ebro Darden "King Bey" by Treva B. Lindsey "Meridonial: Beyoncé’s Southern Roots and References" by Robin M. Boylorn "B & V: A Love Letter" by Caroline Clarke
After a downhill ski accident and six major surgeries, my leg is forever changed, but more importantly, my soul is forever changed. The lessons God has taught me along the way are life changing and offer light, hope, and healing for all. With 28 inspiring topics, this quick read is sure to offer peace and healing in any area of your life, covering topics like: finding joy within, the power of our minds, forgiveness, love, overcoming obstacles, strengthening marriage and families, and applying Christ's healing grace.
In his humorous memoir, Steven Locke chronicles the mishaps, adolescent hazing, general confusion, and breathtaking stupidity exhibited by himself and experienced by those unfortunate enough to be in close proximity. He presents a whimsical journey through his experiences as he matured from an adolescent focused on creating a revolt in the high school cafeteria into a young man ready to tackle a warped world. Recalling a lifetime of adventures and misadventures, Locke shares vignettes describing run-ins with high school principals, military policemen, irate hotel managers, firemen, university police officers, and Columbus cops. From rural Centertown, Ohio, to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and from Ohio State University to the classrooms of Ohios public schools, Locke takes a humorous romp through nearly fifty years of existence as he somehow manages to learn valuable life lessons while on fugitive manhunts, in emergency rooms, and atop snowy Alpine slopes. A Peck of Trouble offers an entertaining collection of stories that detail one mans coming-of-age journey on the Big Blue Orb as he evolves from youthful barbarian to enlightened adult.
