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Wednesday, April 18, 2018
BoGo this Biz Together!
Now you have until April 21 to join with bestie and work this biz together!
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Natural Hair Transition
Ok so back in 2008 I decided to go au natural. On top of my head LOL. I stopped getting perms and decided to get braids to wait out the natural growth that was already started since it had been a while since my last perm. However between when my appointment was for the braids and my initial consultation I decided to take the leap and got the "Big Chop". Cutting off all of my damaged, permed hair and leaving me with a 1 inch Afro.
After that for the first time in my life I got braids. Man were they heavy. I have much respect for all my friends that wore them constantly. I lasted until the first 3 fell out. Even though they were at the back of my head I painstakingly took the time to pull all of them out. And just let my hair grow from there. I started a routine of washing it as needed, but doing a deep condition once a week, every week.
(Mid 2008) Shortly after I took out my braids and got general twists in my hair, my husband decided to take a leap into his Jamaican heritage and get dreadlocks. With his half Indian hair grade it wasn't easy, but the end result was cool. The first person I ever knew with dreads was my cousin Bryan. Why Bryan did it, only God knows, but that was my first dread lock encounter.
After I had my second daughter in 2009 my hair was down to my bra in the back and I was tired of trying to do something with it. I was Muslim by this time, but even wearing hijab daily I still had to take care of my hair at home, for my husband. I had a friend of the family start my locs. It was a journey. Until one day in June of 2012 I found that 2 of my locs had broken off. I was at a loss as to what happened and wasn't happy at the placement of the loss so I made an executive decision and cut my hair short again for the second time in my life. For a while it felt good without the weight on my head and having to retwist them every so often.
However here I am 2018 wondering what to do next. I see friends, cousins, etc starting or maintaining a loc journey. And I truely miss them. (SIDE NOTE: Hubs cut his first in 2011 for business) However I'm doing something I didn't do the first time and something I did before my first big chop. I'm doing the research. And with the era of YOUTUBE there is not only a lot of information, but I don't have to sit and read it all LOL it gets relayed to me verbally. So as of today I'm still in debate, but I feel I'll have an update soon.
After that for the first time in my life I got braids. Man were they heavy. I have much respect for all my friends that wore them constantly. I lasted until the first 3 fell out. Even though they were at the back of my head I painstakingly took the time to pull all of them out. And just let my hair grow from there. I started a routine of washing it as needed, but doing a deep condition once a week, every week.
(Mid 2008) Shortly after I took out my braids and got general twists in my hair, my husband decided to take a leap into his Jamaican heritage and get dreadlocks. With his half Indian hair grade it wasn't easy, but the end result was cool. The first person I ever knew with dreads was my cousin Bryan. Why Bryan did it, only God knows, but that was my first dread lock encounter.
After I had my second daughter in 2009 my hair was down to my bra in the back and I was tired of trying to do something with it. I was Muslim by this time, but even wearing hijab daily I still had to take care of my hair at home, for my husband. I had a friend of the family start my locs. It was a journey. Until one day in June of 2012 I found that 2 of my locs had broken off. I was at a loss as to what happened and wasn't happy at the placement of the loss so I made an executive decision and cut my hair short again for the second time in my life. For a while it felt good without the weight on my head and having to retwist them every so often.
However here I am 2018 wondering what to do next. I see friends, cousins, etc starting or maintaining a loc journey. And I truely miss them. (SIDE NOTE: Hubs cut his first in 2011 for business) However I'm doing something I didn't do the first time and something I did before my first big chop. I'm doing the research. And with the era of YOUTUBE there is not only a lot of information, but I don't have to sit and read it all LOL it gets relayed to me verbally. So as of today I'm still in debate, but I feel I'll have an update soon.
Friday, April 6, 2018
Current read list
Looking for improvement and or guidance. So here is my current reading list. One book through my husband brought and I stole it "temporarily" to read for myself. LOL
Actually already got half way through the above. Click the picture if you want to check it out at amazon.
Synopsis:
To get the best from your employees, you need to be more than a manager. You need to be a coach.
You're a leader because you possess expertise in your field. You have the training and experience. You understand your business - but can you fully motivate and engage your team?
Michael K. Simpson, a senior consultant to Franklin Covey, has spent more than twenty-five years training executives to become effective coaches, mentoring and guiding leaders and managers to encourage and develop the talent of their people - the most important asset in any organization. In this guide, you will acquire the skills to coach your personnel from the ground up, maximizing their potential on a personal level, as members of the team, and as contributors to the organization as a whole.
Transform your business relationships (and your business) with this comprehensive tool for optimizing productivity, profitability, loyalty, and customer focus. Don't just manage. Energize. Galvanize. Inspire. Be a coach.
©2014 Michael Simpson (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved
Here is the book I "borrowed" from my hubs:
Synopsis:
Do You Know What It Takes to Be a High Potential in Your Organization?
Being seen as a high-potential leader is essential to getting promoted and reaching your organization's upper echelons, but most companies keep their top-talent list a closely guarded secret. And the assessment process they use to decide who is and isn't a future leader is an even greater mystery.
The High Potential's Advantage takes you behind the scenes and shows how you can get on, and stay on, your company's fast track. Leadership development experts Jay Conger and Allan Church draw upon decades of research and experience--designing high-potential programs for hundreds of large well-known global organizations and assessing and coaching thousands of talented leaders--to answer the critical questions asked by ambitious individuals like you: What will it take for me to advance in this organization? What does my boss look for when deciding whether I’m a high potential? Once I'm on the list, then what? Can I fall off it and, if so, what do I do?
Revealing the key differentiators--five critical "X factors"--that set people apart across companies of all types, Conger and Church show what you need to do to achieve and maintain top-talent status. You’ll find detailed advice for cultivating and practicing each X factor, with numerous and rich examples from those on the verge of their first promotion to those only a step away from the C-suite. The High Potential's Advantage also shows you how to gain insight into and excel at the specific process your company uses to identify and develop high potentials--and how to determine which unique capabilities your company values the most. The High Potential's Advantage is the essential guide to becoming a leader in your organization.
Click the pictures if you want to check them out at amazon.
Actually already got half way through the above. Click the picture if you want to check it out at amazon.
Synopsis:
To get the best from your employees, you need to be more than a manager. You need to be a coach.
You're a leader because you possess expertise in your field. You have the training and experience. You understand your business - but can you fully motivate and engage your team?
Michael K. Simpson, a senior consultant to Franklin Covey, has spent more than twenty-five years training executives to become effective coaches, mentoring and guiding leaders and managers to encourage and develop the talent of their people - the most important asset in any organization. In this guide, you will acquire the skills to coach your personnel from the ground up, maximizing their potential on a personal level, as members of the team, and as contributors to the organization as a whole.
Transform your business relationships (and your business) with this comprehensive tool for optimizing productivity, profitability, loyalty, and customer focus. Don't just manage. Energize. Galvanize. Inspire. Be a coach.
©2014 Michael Simpson (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved
Here is the book I "borrowed" from my hubs:
Synopsis:
Do You Know What It Takes to Be a High Potential in Your Organization?
Being seen as a high-potential leader is essential to getting promoted and reaching your organization's upper echelons, but most companies keep their top-talent list a closely guarded secret. And the assessment process they use to decide who is and isn't a future leader is an even greater mystery.
The High Potential's Advantage takes you behind the scenes and shows how you can get on, and stay on, your company's fast track. Leadership development experts Jay Conger and Allan Church draw upon decades of research and experience--designing high-potential programs for hundreds of large well-known global organizations and assessing and coaching thousands of talented leaders--to answer the critical questions asked by ambitious individuals like you: What will it take for me to advance in this organization? What does my boss look for when deciding whether I’m a high potential? Once I'm on the list, then what? Can I fall off it and, if so, what do I do?
Revealing the key differentiators--five critical "X factors"--that set people apart across companies of all types, Conger and Church show what you need to do to achieve and maintain top-talent status. You’ll find detailed advice for cultivating and practicing each X factor, with numerous and rich examples from those on the verge of their first promotion to those only a step away from the C-suite. The High Potential's Advantage also shows you how to gain insight into and excel at the specific process your company uses to identify and develop high potentials--and how to determine which unique capabilities your company values the most. The High Potential's Advantage is the essential guide to becoming a leader in your organization.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Our new Friends
So since I've been a little off with my blogging I haven't told the world about our new friends/family that we adopted last year.
We the Qhamata family are now the proud owners of 2 (yes two) Ball Pythons. They were re-homed to us by our new friend Tegan that works at Pet Co.
The first was named Venom, but don't let the name fool you ball pythons are constrictors and don't actually have any venom. I have my middle child to thank for the name. This snake was our first and is a pet for the kids.
Isn't he cute! I've never been a snake person and balked at the idea from day one, but after researching the breed and visiting the pets store a couple of times myself after about 3-4 months I finally agreed to the insanity of it and that's when we met Tegan. We were looking for a rep to purchase the python in the observation tank and a cage when she informed us she had a bp that was about 3 y/o that needed a good home. Taking her word for it we brought the tank and arranged to pick up the snake in a week to make sure he was taking frozen rats.
Fast forward a couple of months we are shopping for snake food when we run into Tegan who again offers to re-home another snake to us being that we've been such good parents to Venom. Enter Goldie.
This not being his best picture but he's really shiny :) This one, this one is mine.
Of course now that everyone more or less has their snake my husband is on some BS looking to not add another ball python to our growing zoo, but an actual python or a Boa. SMH I opened the flood gates when I agreed to the first. LOL
So far he's entertained a red tailed boa, something similar to the white lipped python. He's easy as long as it's a baby and it will be bigger than our ball pythons because since 'he's a big man he needs a big snake'. ANYWAYS LOL!
So we currently are the owners to two ball pythons with the possibility of 3rd snake in the near future.
We the Qhamata family are now the proud owners of 2 (yes two) Ball Pythons. They were re-homed to us by our new friend Tegan that works at Pet Co.
The first was named Venom, but don't let the name fool you ball pythons are constrictors and don't actually have any venom. I have my middle child to thank for the name. This snake was our first and is a pet for the kids.
Fast forward a couple of months we are shopping for snake food when we run into Tegan who again offers to re-home another snake to us being that we've been such good parents to Venom. Enter Goldie.
Of course now that everyone more or less has their snake my husband is on some BS looking to not add another ball python to our growing zoo, but an actual python or a Boa. SMH I opened the flood gates when I agreed to the first. LOL
So far he's entertained a red tailed boa, something similar to the white lipped python. He's easy as long as it's a baby and it will be bigger than our ball pythons because since 'he's a big man he needs a big snake'. ANYWAYS LOL!
So we currently are the owners to two ball pythons with the possibility of 3rd snake in the near future.
Monday, March 19, 2018
Spring Fragrance
What better way to celebrate the first day of spring (tomorrow!) and National Fragrance Day (Wednesday!) than with your own fragrance, featuring It Works! Fractionated Coconut Oil and It Works! CHILL.
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Best Laid Plans
So best laid plans of the chronically ill. LOL so my New year new goals is still a work in progress. I do not forget what I'm asking of myself it's more so getting the motivation to move LOL. Hoping to kick myself into gear the rest of this month.
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
New Year, New Goals
Ok, So it was brought to my attention that I've been slacking on this blog. SMH I'm ashamed LOL. I hope to change that.
So New Year 2018, NEW GOALS!
So New Year 2018, NEW GOALS!
- More active blogging here and FAID, hopefully weekly
- Lose 40 lbs (IE get my A$$ back in the gym)
- Move up IT Works ladder
- Help babies be the best they can be
- Best Cheer Mom
- Manage health
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