God's Purpose

During the course of my childhood, my parents have encouraged my siblings and I to participate in volunteer opportunities. As I have grown and gone through my career path, opportunities to give back to communities and various organizations have presented itself. If you know me really well, you will know that saying "No" for me is very hard to do. Feeling like superwoman can do that to you. But finding a opportunity that embraces my feistiness, extreme organization, and passion of numbers is not easy to do. So what do you to?

I prayed and asked God to lead me to my purpose. And God placed the right people on my path to lead me to a job that was designed just for me. In October of 2013 I began working as the Corporate Accountant for Olympus Foundation Management (OFM). This amazing company serves non-profit charitable organizations with their foundation set-up, growth and development, and fundraising event planning. Just months after obtaining my Masters in Non-Profit Management, this opportunity of a lifetime fell in my lap.

OFM works with professional athletes like:
Mike Peterson http://mikepetersonfoundation.com
Drayton Florence http://draytonflorencefoundation.com
Jason Dufner http://www.jasondufnergolf.com/foundation
Maurice Jones-Drewhttp://www.mauricedrew.com/ssp/foundation
Will Allen http://willallenfoundation.com

And organizations like:
The Vinny Lecavalier Foundation http://vinny40.org/philanthropist/
GodSpeed Sports Elite Services http://www.godspeedelitesports.com
Tenth Avenue North Classic http://www.tenthavegolf.com
Greg Jones' Lead Block Foundation http://leadblockfoundation.com


So what do you do when you have already accomplished your dream job before you turn 30??? Pray and Ask God for a new one and watch Him work to acheive that one too!!!!

***************Stay tuned for the blog on my trip Melbourne, Australia*****************

Purpose Driven B*B*J*B

Bold and Beautiful

It's important for me to talk about what its like Being BBJB (yeah I came up with this blog before Being Mary Jane came out on BET). Anyway, apart of Being BBJB are talking about some of the not so good things about me. There are two things I've always battled with and that's having short hair and biting my nails. Seems so minor when you write it down but boy have these things had a major impact on my self-confidence.

Having a mother with lovely long hair and a sister with thick voluminous hair, I wondered why I was born with short brittle hair. I would have loved to just have at least one good quality, why did I have to get stuck with hair 2 bad, hair that couldn't grow and then to lose the ones that did!! On top of that I have a terrible habit of biting my nails. Even down to the skin (yeah its a serious habit). For 28 years I have been trying to break this habit. At some points I actually did until I looked down and saw all my nails gone (not cute).  It got so bad that I didn't even know when or where I was doing it. I had gotten out of control.

This all had to stop!! I had to look for ways to believe that I am Bold and Beautiful just the way God made me. Regardless of what I had and the bad habits I had formed. So one by one I found ways to embrace my downfalls and control my own beauty. So how did I start? First I decided that if i was gonna be stuck with short hair that I would rock it out!!!

I got it cut and styled just like I've wanted to but have't had the guts to do. Since the cut a I have gotten nothing but compliments (which is an immediate boost of self-confidence.) This trickled into the way I dressed and developed into the confidence I thought I didn't have.

But I couldn't stop there, I had to come up with a plan for my nails. It certainly wouldn't be cute if you looked good  but had jacked up hands, would it? So I decided it was time to invest (which I never do). I invested in pampering my nails every two weeks. And if I make it two weeks without biting my nails I get to choose a nice color (red, pink, orange or aqua). For those of you that know me, I never have any nails to paint in the first place so this is truly a treat. Here's my progress:

It sometimes can be the simple things in life that can make a person feel Bold & Beautiful. These are just some of mines.

B&B

What's your temperament????

The older I get the more I am expose to people with different personalities. Friendly people, quiet people, aggressive people and then there are people just like me. The more personalities I come across the more I try to learn how to understand people.

Over the years I have attended many seminars, AY programs,  listened to countless sermons, attended various workshops and taken every quiz that exist to learn my personality trait. But now, as I work along side many different types of people, I need to focus on other individuals and their personality trait. When I can identify who someone is, I can then understand why they do what they do. Their temperament can easily help me to follow their decision making. 

So today I want all my followers to share their main temperament with me.  

   

                 

My goal is to help you understand others and to understand what it's like Being B*B*J*B!!!

Here is a short description of each type:

*Sanguine--joyful, optimistic, compassionate, storyteller, disorganized, restless, forgetful and easily distracted

*Choleric--leader, strong-willed, independent, confident, impatient, hot-tempered, cruel, quickly moves to action

*Melancholic--analytical, thinker, detailed, organized, pessimistic, moody, skeptical, and a perfectionist

*Phlegmatic--quiet, practical, efficient, dependable, dry sense of humor, stubborn, selfish, and indecisive

So let's see which one you are. Click on the link below to take the quiz and share with me which trait you are: The Temperament Test