Transformational Book Series – Our Picks | The Power of Positive Thinking

In January we kicked off a new MBB series to highlight transformational books for women called, Transformational Book Series – Our Picks. This month we’re excited to continue the series by sharing with you our next transformational book in the series – The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.

The Power of Positive Thinking - My Blooming Biz Book PickWe are not only featuring this book because it has helped all of us here at MBB – from CEO to management to staff improve our lives, but we are saluting the author – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and crediting his book because we have used its teaching to help hundreds of women around the globe empower themselves.

Dr.Peale’s vision for his book was to help individuals achieve fulfillment in their lives and live a happy, satisfying and worthwhile life, and he has achieved that – as many of us will attest. He demonstrates the power of faith in action with practical techniques that will energize and move you to take initiative in realizing your vision and ambition with hope.

This book will equip you with strategies to:

1) Believe in yourself

2) Develop the power to reach your goals

3) Improve your personal and professional relationships

4) Assume control over your circumstances

5) Be gentle and kind to yourself

6) Breakthrough with new power and determination

Like many of us here at MBB, this book will help you to breakthrough barriers using positive thinking which has the potential to attract what we ponder on into our lives. It is filled with anecdotal evidence and can prove very effective when practiced! Read it all the way through and highlight important parts or the portions that speak to you, then read at least one highlighted passage every day. It includes affirmations that you can speak out loud to help boost your morale, faith in yourself and channel you to consistent positive thinking.

We have utilized these strategies here at MBB, in addition to many others that we have harnessed over the years, and if you are a client of ours we have already passed them on to you through one or more of our many programs and workshops here. But for those of you who are reading this and it’s new to you, go ahead and get this book, read it, and implement these strategies in your life. We have just narrowly touched the surface of this book in this blog post, and there is so much more for you to experience and grasp from Dr. Peale himself in his book.

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale is insightful, and this book is refreshing. Get this book The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, read it, implement the strategies in your life, and expect to be improved – wholistically.

With love, gratitude, and empowered attitude,

My Blooming Biz International

20 Tony Robbins Quotes To Help You Manifest Your Greatness & Become The Empowered Woman You Were Truly Meant to Be

20 Tony Robbins Quotes to help You Manifest Your Greatness and Become the Empowered Woman You Were Born to Be

Tony Robbins, the highly sought after, deep thinking, thought-provoking motivational speaker has given us a lot of wise words we can meditate on and use to enhance our lives. His wisdom stems from his personal experiences as well as his view and observation of the people and world around him. He is doing amazing things in this world by impacting the lives of those of us who are passionate about self development.

My Blooming Biz has made it a priority for our entire team to attend at least one of his conferences, and being live has been an indescribable experience; one that for some reason has the potential to make one absorb more. However, if you haven’t had the chance to go see and experience him live, it is not too late. And if you really won’t be able to make it at all, no worries! He is everywhere speaking and his wisdom can be accessed via his books: 1) Awaken the Giant Within : How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!, 2) MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom, 3) Unlimited Power : The New Science Of Personal Achievement, his website, and across many influential media online.

Today we are sharing with you twenty of his quotes that are based on what we are passionate about here at My Blooming Biz, which is empowering you to manifest your greatness, and becoming the woman you were truly meant to be.

Twenty Tony Robbins Quotes to Empower You to Manifest YOUR Greatness and Become the Empowered Woman You Were Born to Be:

1. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

2. “Create a vision and never let the environment, other people’s beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions.”

3. “Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.”

4. “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

5. “Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.”

6. “We can change our lives. We can do, have and be exactly what we wish.”

7. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”

8. “The secret of success is learning to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.”

9. “Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”

10. “Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”

11. “Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.”

12. “One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

13. “Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or that can literally save their lives.”

14. “If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.”

15. “There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.”

16. “Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.”

17. “Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it and crush it!”

18. “Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.”

19. “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”

20. “I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”

So to wrap up in a nutshell:

1. You must set goals in order to make anything you wish become a reality. And remember what we constantly stress here, that your goals must be S.M.A.R.T.

2. After creating your vision for your life, get to working on it, and allow nothing and no one to get in the way of you realizing that vision. This is powerful because too many times we allow what people say to sway our view of ourselves and have us question our capability to see our visions through. Don’t allow anyone to project their limiting view of themselves onto you. Create your vision, align yourself, and pursue pursue pursue.

3. Be conscious and present with yourself always and ensure you do what you want to do, and feel the way you want to feel on a daily basis by aligning yourself with the right people, environs and choosing how you respond to internal as well as external stimuli.

4. Decision-making is a huge part of our everyday lives, and one that can affect us enormously in good or bad ways. Thus it is imperative to apply critical thinking and brainstorming opposing ends before making BIG decisions.

5. You will see the changes you desire, the moment you make decisions that are in alignment with accomplishing your goals, and remain committed.

6. Absolutely! If we first know what we want, brainstorm how to get it, then put a plan in place and take consistent steps towards it – with discipline, we can indeed be, do and have WHATEVER we desire.

7. As he says, you must take huge, determined action to get to where you want to be – successful at whatever you’re pursuing.

8. Use every experience – pleasant or unpleasant to propel you towards your goal. Deduct the lesson, and use it to advance you forward.

9. Learning to ask the right questions is key in helping us receive the right answers for our different situations.

10. Knowing what to do is not enough. You have to start implementing what you know in order to get results, for it to materialize, to come to fruition.

11. If we channel our energy into mastering one single area of our life, there is a bigger potential that we will master that area, and that will bring us success. Instead of trying to do multiple things at once – businesses, careers, etc. focus on one thing – the thing you love to do, are very good at, and has the potential to make you money.

12. Concentrating our power in one area is a surefire way for us to achieve what we truly desire. Dabbling will result in the total opposite.

13. We have the power to shift our mindset, and use our experiences to enhance our lives. For example our mistakes which we call missteps here at My Blooming Biz, you can view them as stepping stones, deduct the lessons from them and use those lessons as catalyst for your advancement.

14. We must set clear standards and guidelines for ourselves and ensure we adhere to them. Without these in place anything will go, and anything go lifestyle is detrimental.

15. Again, perspective makes the difference. Take time out to mourn what you view as your loss, but don’t dwell there. Examine the input and the results, and learn from it.

16. You must identify your problem or else you cannot solve it; however, once you have, do not spend your time focusing on the problem. Use your time and energy to find the solution to your problem. Some of us can talk about the problem for days, with little to no focus on a solution. The problem will take all the power and energy, leaving none to brainstorm a solution.

17. Yes! Same here again. Spend as little time as possible – just enough to figure out what the problem is, then use most of your time to craft and devise a solution to the problem. Being solution-oriented pays!

18. If you have not been giving, then you have not yet received the biggest fulfillment any human can experience. There is a deep fulfillment to be had from giving selflessly and sincerely.

19. By replenishing and becoming more than what we currently are and have, we can therefore give what has not yet been given.

20. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be, by knowing what you want, crafting a plan to get it, and moving consistently towards it – with discipline. As we say here at My Blooming Biz, Design and Live Your Dream Lifestyle.

So there you have it, Twenty Tony Robbins Quotes to Help You Manifest Your Greatness and Become The Empowered Woman You Were Truly Meant To Be.

Cheers to your empowerment 🍷

With love, gratitude, and empowered attitude,

My Blooming Biz International

Transformational Book Series – Our Picks | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Last month marked the start of a new MBB series to highlight transformational books for women called Transformational Book Series – Our Picks. This month we’re excited to continue the series by sharing with you our next transformational book in the series – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey.

Transformational Book Series - Our Picks | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People We have adopted his principle-centered, holistic approach to efficiency in our programs, and it is highly attributive to our culture and operations here at MBB.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People outlines seven habits everyone must have in order to navigate life effectively. We all know that there is an order to things in this life, but what the author has done in this book is to orchestrate the order and clarify its components. He has established timeless principles that have proven effective to millions of people around the world, and women have used them to transform their lives enormously.

So what are these 7 habits of highly effective people?

Habit.1) Be Proactive

Habit.2) Begin with the end in mind

Habit.3) Put first things first

Habit.4) Think win win

Habit.5) Seek first to understand, then to be understood

Habit.6) Synergize

Habit.7) Sharpen the Saw

Be Proactive

As we continue to emphasize in all our programs here at MBB, you must remain proactive in all your endeavors. People who are proactive accomplish more with less time, and are proven to be happier than people who are reactive – accomplishing less with more time. In reactive living one focuses on the things he or she cannot control and continuously complain about it – uselessly, while the proactive lifestyler focus on what he or she can control and influence, and using those things to improve their situation.

Begin With The End in Mind

This approach serves us well when applied to everything we set out to do. And that is why it is so deeply engraved in everything we do here at MBB. When you visualize your end goal, you end up having a strategic vision for yourself or your business. You will then set and implement SMART goals with each task aligning and moving you closer to that vision being accomplished. That vision of your end goal will keep you anchored, and the strategic steps you’ve laid out in your goal book will simplify the process encouraging you to keep going as you move forward and the end becomes closer and clearer in view. If you don’t know what you want, you will not know how to get it, and if you don’t know where you’re going, you will not know how to get there.

Put First Things First

In our modern day super busy lifestyle, if we’re not careful we can run ourselves into the ground “busy doing everything” but accomplishing very little in the process. And so this habit is designed to help us prioritize. Prioritizing how we use our most important resource – time, is paramount if we are to live efficiently – using less time to get more. This habit is divided into four quadrants where you will layout all your dealings or things to do in order of priority. They are: Quadrant 1 – important and urgent, Quadrant 2 – important but not urgent, Quadrant 3 – urgent but not important, and Quadrant 4 – not urgent and not important. This setup allows us to live our lives according to the values we choose for ourselves, and enable us to consciously use our time to focus on those things that are taking us closer to our goals in quadrant 1, with the rest of our time spent in quadrant 2 improving ourselves.

Think Win Win

For the most part, we all want to win when we compete. And for a lot of things such as sports competition, someone has to lose in order for the other to win. In many things however, such as in business, a person or company does not have to lose in order for another to win. We can entertain what Stephen Covey calls the Win Win approach – which means finding ways to build interdependent relationships and make business deals that are mutually beneficial to all involved. Thinking win win can only happen when parties involved are approaching the relationship from an abundance mentality rather than a scarcity mentality. The abundance mentality as the name suggests, is having the world view that that there is plenty of “success” out there for everyone to have, while the scarcity mentality will put you in a “zero-sum” mind-frame which says, “If you get it, I don’t.”

Seek First to Understand Then to Be Understood

This is huge! Your important relationships could benefit from this. Many times in relationships we end up escalating discourse that could have been simply resolved, into big “OOC” arguments that many times causes hurtful words to be introduced that are relationship-killing. We each so deftly want to be understood, that no effort is made to understand the other party. Imagine, if we listen to understand, instead of listening only to respond. This principle can also be applied to religion, race, countries. Can you imagine what would happen if we all seek first to understand, then to be understood?

Synergize

We love synergy here at MBB! What this habit means is to engage in teamwork so openly and so well that even disagreements and differences of opinion can somehow lead to finding new ways of approaching a problem or even solving them. When members in a team are thinking win win and seeking first to understand each other, it will have no alternative but to lead to synergy, aligning on the same side with the same goals, and finding creative solutions despite the earlier disagreement in managing the project. This habit if adopted by everyone, could change our world for the better. No more wars, killings, fightings – just synergizing and basically finding common ground.

Sharpen the Saw

Yes, we cannot become so complacent that we stop learning, improving, and growing. Sharpening our Saw means taking the time to ensure our minds, bodies, and spirits are ready to take on the challenge of constant improvement. However, this cannot happen unless we take a step back from our hectic, ever demanding schedules in order to rest, reflect, read and fill our spirits, and spend quality time with our loved ones doing the things we all enjoy doing – at regular intervals. To remain highly effective, we must constantly recharge and restore our body, mind and spirit.

We have adopted these principles here at MBB, in addition to many others that we have harnessed over the years, and if you are a client of ours we have already passed them on to you through one or more of our many programs and workshops here. But for those of youwho are reading this and it’s new to you, go ahead and get this book, read it, and apply these habits and principles to your life. We have just narrowly touched the surface of this book in this blog post, and there is so much more for you to experience and grasp from Stephen R Covey himself in his book.

Stephen R. Covey is a mastermind, and this book is a masterpiece. Get this book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People By Stephen R. Covey, read it, implement the strategies in your life, and we promise you – you will NEVER be the same again! In a good way!

With love, gratitude, and empowered attitude,

My Blooming Biz International

Audacity or Antipathy: Abortions Must Be Decided By Men; Women Are Just Hosts

Proposal: Women Must Get Written Consent From Husband/Boyfriend Before Seeking Abortion

House Rep. Justin Humphrey

Photo credits: The Lost Ogle

Whether you are yay or nay on abortion, shouldn’t the right to decide what you do with your body be your choice? Or is your body not your own solely while pregnant? Should men get to decide if the women they impregnate get to have an abortion or not – regardless of the circumstance surrounding the women becoming pregnant? And the BIG question: where does government control end and individual freedom begin?

Justin Humphrey, an elected representative of the Oklahoma state house is causing quite a stir with this new draconian bill HB 1441 he’s proposing. A bill that dictates to a woman that what she does with her body is not her sole decision to make, and as in abortion, she will need the written consent of her male counterpart to sign off on her having an abortion.  Not only that, he wants to impose this on all women, regardless of their individual circumstances.

Check out this excerpt of what Humphrey had to say:

“I understand that they feel like that is their body. I feel like it is a separate — what I call them is, is you’re a ‘host.’ And you know when you enter into a relationship you’re going to be that host and so, you know, if you pre-know that then take all precautions and don’t get pregnant…So that’s where I’m at. I’m like, hey, your body is your body and be responsible with it. But after you’re irresponsible then don’t claim, well, I can just go and do this with another body, when you’re the host and you invited that in.” The Intercept.

The tone is just downright disrespectful with not an ounce of regard for women! “I understand that they feel like that is their body”…WHOSE BODY IS IT??? 

Tone aside, there is some rationale to his point.  Men should be able to have a say (not the say) in whether or not the women they impregnate get to have an abortion.  And all of this is depending on a lot of circumstances such as are they married?  Is he financially, mentally, emotionally, physically prepared to father a child?  Does he love children?  What kind of person is he?  Why does he want the child?  How does he treat the woman?  How did she get pregnant?  Was she raped?  Is she physically able to carry the child fullterm without jeorpardizing her own health?

He was not making any exceptions, and “One size fits all” pedagogy does not work in this instance!

Now mind you, lawmakers like Humphrey get in office because the people put him there! But once there, the people cannot tell him what to do. For countries like the United States of America with “laws” and “democracy”, people choose leaders in the hope of having the country run smoothly in an orderly fashion with the chosen leaders always taking into consideration the welfare of the people. But it does not always pen out well, as history has shown.

Of course his proposal is unconstitutional! But unconstitutional or not, it is frightening to think that people we have put in power over us can even think this way.  Off the top of their head, based solely on their belief, without full consideration of the effects their enacted laws will have on people – all parties involved.

As we teach here in our empowerment programs, not everything that is given away can be easily reclaimed. This is one such thing that when given away cannot be easily reclaimed. Our power! We give lawmakers power over us! And they decide what to do with that power! As we have seen, it can work pretty well, go all the way right, or go all the way left.

Now we all must make the most of navigating what emerge from it.

This is why we always stress what we stress here at My Blooming Biz! And that is to take full advantage of all the things that we can control – as individuals (especially us women), because there are a lot of things that affect us that are outside of our control.

Do everything in your power to use the tools you can use, to create the kind of lifestyle you desire, and live the way you want to.

With love, gratitude, and empowered attitude,

My Blooming Biz International

Source: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/02/oklahoma-lawmaker-men-must-approve-abortion-women-hosts/

Design (& Live) Your Dream Lifestyle Los Angeles 2018

CEO of My Blooming Biz Eugénie Nugent presenting at MBB 's Design Your Dream Lifestyle LA

MBB DYDL LA Event 2018

MBB hosted our 3rd biannual Design Your Dream Lifestyle event on Saturday, this time in the beautiful aesthetically pleasing Los Angeles.  Over 100 women attended of whom 68 are active participants in our Design Your Dream Lifestyle Workshop, and 22 women signed up to start our Lifestyle Designing program.

We are happy to say that MBB DYDL participants are delighted with our program as they are seeing results and “feeling fantastic and optimistic” in the words of Jada McIntosh and Isabella Reid, about their new lifestyle and where they are headed – respectively. See more of what My Blooming Biz family are saying on our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages, and don’t forget to like, follow, and interact with us while you’re there.

We handed out over 100 bags of goodies that include mbb gift cards, discounts to our WERK Your Money Making Genie Workshop and our UPPPP Your Genius system of programs, and copies of our popular signature book written by our CEO Eugénie Nugent titled – Unleash: Activate Your Power, Manifest Your Greatness & Become The Empowered Woman You Were Born to Be. Lots of goodies! But if you were not at our event, do not despair! Sign up to our newsletter and get notified of our next event, and also of new launches and promotions.

In addition to being created because we understand the brilliance, beauty, and boldness of women and the role that being balanced and purpose-driven can play in improving women’s lives, My Blooming Biz International was created to help women harness their skills and talents and use them to propel a ton of money to flow in. In order to live life on our own terms we need money – and lots of it, and in recognition of that, our CEO and founder Eugénie Nugent – in collaboration with her team, have designed programs that are specific to building wealth and becoming financially independent such as our MASTER Your Finances workshop.

As she often says and strongly believes, “Having our finances in order is the highest form of self-love, a love that cannot help but to command respect.

Money is a subject many people are still hesitant to speak freely about, but money expands who we are, and what we are able to access. And so, as we teach here at My Blooming Biz; being open about money – changing the way we view, treat, and interact with money will be the difference in whether we snatch, snatch and let go, or snatch and hold on to it, as she wrote in her book, The Elusive Money: How to Snatch & Hold On To It.
  Bottom line: Money commands respect! And for those of us who were taught to hate money and negatively treat money, we need a new mindset in order to accept and act on this new reality.

Design Your Dream Lifestyle programs and events are designed to bring out the best in you and challenge you to empower yourself. In our CEO’s own words, “We are here to pull things out of you that you didn’t know were there, and assist you in making them work for you, to the enhancement and betterment of your overall life.” She has selectively created four (4) programs to help women become empowered and she is relentless in making “the empowered woman lifestyle” a reality for thousands of women.

Download your FREE copy of our Lifestyle Designing Workbook and complete the worksheets. It is packed with thought-provoking questions to get you thinking about your current life situation, where you would rather be, and how you can equip yourself (with our help) to get there.

Our next DYDL event will be in July, so sign up to our newsletter and be informed when our venue is solidified.

With love, gratitude, and empowered attitude,