**Long post alert!** Back to the “work” I was taking about yesterday. I want you, for a moment, to consider something you desire or a goal you want to accomplish. It can be short term or long term. Just grab hold of that idea in your mind. What will it take for you to reach that goal? Does the journey attached to the goal seem so far away you get anxious just thinking about the first step? Does it make you want to quit before you’ve even started? The work I mean? Does the tho

Never never never . . . Settle! The message on the back of my shirt truly resonates with me today. Never settle for less than you deserve. Never diminish your value so others can afford you. I remember early in my career, I was a people pleaser, trying to do everything right, so the people I worked with would value me. Worked late nights, weekends, joined every committee. I just wanted them to know that I was an asset to the organization, I deserved to be there, and at m

*Super long post alert, but the end! So rather than working toward my goals or what I desired, I was working to maintain the thing that made it look, made it feel like what I desired was already mine. In the long run, I ended doing more work, but it was the wrong work. So, what, then, was the right work? Remember that goal, desire I asked you to grab a hold of two days ago. Call that to mind again. Now, take a quick accounting of yourself. Are you prepared for that goal, f

People often ask where I get my drive. I could easily say the Army or my momma, and all that would be true, but it’s deeper than that. I believe every goal, desire, need attached to purpose was placed in us by the divine. If the goal/desire is within, then the tools to accomplish that goal are within as well. We just have to be willing to do the work. But not work in the way we normally define work. I know you’re asking, “What kind of work you talking ‘bout, Laurie?” Wel