Author: My Journey to Me-The Discovery

Showing others how to become their best version. Award-winning author of the book, "The PLAN A Way To Success", a manual on personal development from God's point of view. Blogger, speaker, coach.
Guest Post

Be Write Here!

My Journey to Me-The Discovery

I love guest posts and interviews! They are a great way to share your point of view on a topic with a new or different audience. I’ve had the honor of doing guest posts on other people’s blogs and it was fun. It was also fun to put other people’s posts on this blog so you could benefit from them. I want to encourage more guest posts relating to personal development and/or individual re-invention, so I’ve made some revisions to this blog.

The top menu tab for guest posts has a new name. Instead of “Guest Blog/Interviews”, it is now “Guest Post & Criteria”.  Under Categories in the  right column, “Guest Blog/Interview” is now “Guest Post”.   When you click “Guest Post & Criteria” in the top menu, a page will open listing, ta-da, the criteria for a guest post to this blog.  You will still see a drop-down menu of past guest posts when you hover on “Guest Post & Criteria”.   Now you know how to get published here and share your views with the world!  So start writing! Go on…get a pen and share your views with the world.

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Getting Better, Leadership, Reading4Champions Book Club

Reading4Champions: The Traveler’s Gift

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Hello Champions!

We have read many books over the past year.  Each book has helped us to re-think the way we view ourselves and life so we can become better individuals.  I highly recommend that you re-read these books a year or two from now.  You will find you that pick up concepts you didn’t on your first read.  I know that is what I have experienced.  Now, to our book for the month of January.  I am giving you this book now because it might influence the New Year’s resolution you make.  It did for me.  Besides, the book is a great read for champions.  The name of the book is “The Traveler’s Gift” by Andy Andrews.  

This book really resonated with me.  Although it is a story, I found myself Continue reading “Reading4Champions: The Traveler’s Gift” →

Uncategorized

WELCOME!

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WELCOME to the new home for my blog!  It’s not completely finished yet, but you can move around without breaking anything.  Over the past weeks, I have been moving all the posts from the old place (http://myjourneytome-thediscovery.blogspot.com) to this place.  Of course, the posts are no longer in chronological order, but you will find the original post date at the bottom of each post.   I didn’t have time to move my trademark smilies, but I will be putting them on this blog.  Oh, and if you followed this blog at the old place, you will have to enter your email here at the right to keep getting email updates.

Here’s a quick tour of this new place:

  1. Name/Address: The name of the blog is new, myjourneytome-thediscovery, and so is its address: www.myjourneytome-thediscovery.com
  2. Photo: At the top, you see a  picture of an airplane taxing down the runway at the airport in St. Martin.  I took this picture on my cruise to St. Martin and since the plane was off on a journey to somewhere, I thought it matched perfectly with the name of the blog. 
  3. Guest Blog/Interview: You will find all the guest blogs and interviews together here.  Both my guest blogs for others and people who guest blogged for me are there.
  4. Reading4Champions Book Club: You will find all the old and new postings there.
  5. Categories: This new section will help you find a post faster. 
  6. Search:  This new section lets you instantly find posts by typing its name in the box.
  7. Blogroll: This new section has the links for the blogs I read.
  8. Featured Posts: Found at the bottom will be the featured posts for the month.

Of course, pics from Photographic Expressions are here.  The transfer to this new place is about 95% complete so let me know if you see something wrong so I can fix it.  And after the transfer is complete, there will be upgrades to enhance your reading of this blog.  I am excited about this new location and all the new things to come! 

Question for Comment:  What do like about this new home? What can be improved?

Guest Post, Inspiration

Guest Interview: Beverly R. Imes

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Welcome to my second guest blogger/interview. I first met Beverly Imes many years ago when we both attended Master Quest, a weekend course on personal development and effectiveness. Since then, Beverly has reinvented herself into a renowned personal development coach, has written a book, You Can Make A Difference and is currently editing a new e-book, Waiting with Expectancy. Without further ado, I present to you, Ms. Beverly Imes.

  

Miss Beverly Imes is a native of Harmony, North Carolina where she grew up always wanting to help others in need. Today she is doing just that directly and indirectly. Directly via classes, workshops, and one on ones with clients. Indirectly with friends and family… even in Sunday School class.

Miss Imes has a passion for helping people. She is committed to excellence and puts her all into her addresses and workshops. When you think of commitment, fire and results, you should think of this speaker. From start to finish Miss Imes has it all. She can truly enhance one’s quality of life when her awesome tools are applied. Her positive attitude makes her a joy to be around and listen to. What an inspiration she is to those who are willing to receive the gift she gives through her presentations.

She is the founder of Positive Impact is a leader in empowerment keynotes and workshops. Their mission is to assist individuals to become the ULTIMATE person they can be and to have a more prosperous lifestyle and relationships.

Methodology: through interactive learning experiences which focus on the individual first. Then learn more about those around them that they may appreciate what they have in common with others, respect the differences, and work together for a common goal in spite of it all.

Continuously enhancing the gifts God has given her in the public speaking and empowerment training arenas, Positive Impact was created with the vision of helping others discover the ultimate person they can be.

She is also the author of “You Can Make a Difference…because you ARE the difference.” This interactive publication takes an individual from where he or she is to where he or she wants to be accomplishing any goal set by way of inspiration and application.

Remember, “It’s not what you WANT. It’s what you DO.” It is time to take action.

Visit www.beverlyrimes.com for a life changing experience.

MJTM: The theme of my blog, My Journey to Me, is personal development and re-invention. I asked you to do this interview because you made a complete change, a re-invention, in your life. I want you to my readers with your experiences and perspective along the theme of my blog.

MJTM: Tell us about your formal education and professional career. Continue reading “Guest Interview: Beverly R. Imes” →

Reading4Champions Book Club

Reading4Champions Book Club

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It is a new month so I thought I would start something new on my blog and on Twitter.  I have written before about the value of reading, and listening to, self-improvement, motivational books and tapes.  That is why I have a list of books on personal development on this blog.   So to motivate you to read, once a month, beginning this month, I will highlight a book from my list and tell you why I recommend you read it.  Now, I am not a book critic so don’t expect to read about the pros and cons of the book.  This endeavor into reading will be called the Reading for Champions Book Club!

I know from my experience, as well as the experience of others, that consistently taking in positive information will help you develop into a better person.  But I also know it is easy to come up with excuses why you can’t read.  Let me address those excuses because there are bogus and are holding you back from greatness.

     1.  I don’t have time – Yes, you do.  30 minutes a day is sufficient; 15 in the morning and 15 in the evening.  Try reading during your lunch hour or your daily commute. Or be radical – get an audio book and put it on your Ipod.  You can download books at Audible.com. 

      2. I don’t have the money to buy books. – There is a place in this country where you can get books to read for free.  It’s called a public library.  Use it.

If you follow me on Twitter, http://twitter.com/SharmansJourney (or @SharmansJourney), you will see tweets with the hashtag #reading4champions when I reference the book for the month. (If you are not familiar with Twitter, a hashtag in front of a topic will put all the tweets with the hashtag into one file and make a topic popular among other Tweeters. For example, #followfriday and #quotes are popular Twitter topics). If the author has a Twitter account, I will give you his/her link so you can follow. I follow quite a few of the authors of the books on my personal development book list and they all share valuable information in 140 characters (like texting, Twitter has max characters).  My goal, in using the hashtag, is to create a book club via Twitter that extends well beyond the readers of my blog into the entire world. My goal is to create a world of champions through reading.

I hope you are excited about the Reading for Champions book club as I am!  Look for the post about the first book before this week is out and every first week of the month thereafter  By the way, I will still do a weekly post on my self-improvement.  In the meantime, I want to leave you with this thought:

      “The great ones have a world view that says happiness is learning, growing and becoming. School is never out for champions.” Steve Siebold, 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class.

Question for Comment: Since you graduated from high school, do you read books? How often and what kind of books do you read?

(originally posted September 2, 2010)

Anointed Women In Christ

Another Blog- Anointed Women In Christ

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I can’t believe I have been writing this blog for over a year! When I explained what I write about to an acquaintance, she broke it down like this: thoughts I have now that the noise of a workplace and of an employer are no longer in my head. Perfect! I want to thank you for reading my thoughts. I want to also thank you for your patience when I didn’t post every week as I had planned (had no thoughts to share!), for your feedback to posts, for joining the Reading4Champions Book Club started in November, for following @SharmansJourney on Twitter and for being a fan of My Journey to Me Facebook Page. Without you, my efforts would have been useless.

If you will remember, one of the reasons I started this blog was to put down my thoughts and experiences to add value to others. Well, since I started writing in May 2009, a dream I once had came back to my recollection. Once upon a time I wanted to write a book that inspired and encouraged women. And it seems that since I started this blog, I have moving down the path to do just that.

It is with great pleasure and honor that I inform you I was recently asked to blog and manage the social media for a website for women which I gladly accepted. Now, you can also read my thoughts on http://anointedwomeninchrist.wordpress.com.   Anointed Women in Christ (AWIC) ministries was founded by Ms. Chris Allen in 2010 with a goal of teaching women how much God loves and values them. My postings on AWIC will be messages designed for women based upon and citing scriptures from the Bible. If you like, you can subscribe to the blog and get updates via email. There are two messages posted already: A Cheerful Receiver and Are You Resource-full? You can follow AWIC on Twitter @awic4christ and become a fan of Anointed Women in Christ on Facebook.

Getting Better, Procrastination

Watch Your Mouth!

My Journey to Me-The Discovery

I am writing today about a pet peeve of mine.  Anyone who knows me will be vigorously nodding their heads because 9 times out of 10, I have already called them on it.  What am I talking about?  What you say out of your mouth.

From childhood, we know the saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” and we used it to steel ourselves against playground teasing.  Did it work? NO!  Why?  Because words can kill.  They can cut deep into our spirit, our psyche, and cause us deep psychological wounds that sometimes never heal.  In elementary school, I was teased for knowing the answers in class and being an A student.  In high school, I’ll never forget when my history teacher, after distributing a list of extra credit assignments that could be done, announced in front of the class that I was not allowed to do extra credit because my grade was already high.  Can we say embarrassed?   Continue reading “Watch Your Mouth!” →