Create Your Own Adventure

Are you ready to spice up your life? There's only one sure-fire way. It's a secret.

How To Find Answers To All of Life's Questions

Do you want wisdom? There are 3 ways to find it.

Review: Vicky Christina Barcelona (2008)

Vicky Christina Barcelona weaves a tale of transformation of two besties who visit Barcelona for the summer unaware that the trip will challenge their current belief systems.

Survival Series: How To Survive A First Date

If you're ready to begin dating again, you'll need to know these mental strategies to make the most of it.

Where Is My Success?

Have you been toiling away for years and don't see any rewards?

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Reader Mail: I'm In This Life-Long Journey With You

Hello My Sister!

I know you've encountered so MANY people along your journeys, but if you recall I'm the young lady who reached out to you last week. I spoke to you for awhile over the phone before you went into work for the night. I'm the 27 year old young lady from New Jersey who recently had a BREAKDOWN over heartache, etc. I just wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU. I thank you my sister for working thru God to do all that you're doing. Sometimes, the wisdom of an "outsider" who's been there and done that is better than any other at the moment!

I have to honestly say that I have taken much of the advice you've given me over the phone into consideration and decided to keep on LIVING! By that, I don't mean I contemplated suicide or anything, but I decided not to let the perils, trials, and tribulations that life has been bringing allow me to lose touch of self! I decided to keep on pushing and have the success I desire in this lifetime. Since our conversation, I have followed many of your YouTube videos, website: mysavvysisters.com, Facebook, etc. to get to know you better! It's one thing to seek the advice of an outsider over the phone, but it's another to learn about their journey enough to understand how it is they were able to help YOU ("you" being MYSELF), and how it is that they've become who they are today.

I followed your videos from the Rebuilding Your Life Project and so on and so forth. Your journey has truly been inspirational and amazing to a young sister like me. I look forward to more of your wonderful work! Not only do I feel as if I've met an amazing mentor, but also as if I've made a new lifelong friend.

By the way, congratulations on the recent publishing of your book, It's Not a Sin to Be Single! Like you, I aspire to provide self-help to others along my journey as well. No longer will I let rejection, heartache, and long-suffering determine the outcome of my success! Thank you my Sister! God bless you! I'm in this life long journey with you!

P.S. I love Miami. I hope to relocate from New Jersey sooner than later! Who knows, maybe Miami will be a great relocation for me in the future!

Sincerely,

S. N. Guest

Friday, December 2, 2011

The Rebuild Your Life Project Documentary


During MySavvySisters.Com's very first massive empowerment outreach to women, its publisher, Te-Erika Patterson, became homeless on purpose to teach women how to overcome their fear of failure.

Her hope was that in showing what extreme failure looks like, no woman would ever have to fear it again and would be free to face life transitions with confidence that they could REBUILD THEIR LIVES.

Dur
ing her 4 months as a homeless woman, Te-Erika was able to:

1) Organize a job fair for homeless women and women in distress
2) Report on the pitfalls and benefits of homelessness
3) Raise money for a $650 Rental Assistance Grant For Women
4) Obtain a job as a waitress and move herself up out of homelessness


You can read a more detailed description of her journey into and out of homeless by visiting the Rebuild Your Life Tag on My Savvy Sisters or visiting The Rebuild Your Life Project page.

You can watch the inspirational video series she documented during her journey by visiting our youtube channel and clicking the Rebuild Your Life Project Documentary playlist.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Your World News Report - December 1, 2011


Iranian Diplomats Forced Out Of British Embassy

After a group of Iranian protestors attack the UK's embassy in Tehran, the British foreign minister expels all Iranian diplomats.

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Could a Lack of Leadership Lead to Civil Unrest in Afghanistan?

As tension builds between the Taliban-led insurgents and the Afghan National Security Forces, many Afghanistans are leaving town to avoid a civil meltdown.

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HIV More Manageable In the East, Yet Deadly In The West


Is access to anti-retroviral medication the key between life and death of HIV infected individuals?

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From The Publisher: State The Vision & Make It Plain

One of the key factors in achieving any goal is to have the end result in mind when you begin. The plan you deveop will NOT happen the way you envision it but in keeping the end result in mind, you will be able to adjust your plans quickly and with ease understanding that there is always more than one way to get what you want.

Sit down for a moment and decide what you want to be when you grow up. In other words, when your goal is accomplished what will you see around you that will let you know you have arrived at your destination?

I have decided to share my vision for MySavvySisters.Com.

  • MySavvySisters.Com is known world-wide as the leading destination for the empowerment of women.
  • The women who are honored as MySavvySisters are leaders in their respective fields and offer insight and inspiration for those who have similar visions.
  • MySavvySisters.Com offers a variety of ways to connect women with the resources they need to aid them in prospering holistically.
  • MySavvySisters.Com hosts conferences around the globe that connect women whose desire is to help each other succeed.
  • MySavvySisters.Com offers a variety of products that create income to sustain itself financially and affords us the opportunity to offer the financial assistance women need to survive during life's down times.
  • MySavvySisters.Com trains and supports the newest generation of female leaders, offering them the opportunity to join our speakers bureau and spread their unique offerings of inspiration.
  • MySavvySisters.Com proudly reinforces the path to enlightenment, offering the keys to self acceptance while negating the idea of "tolerance" for a more celebratory respect for all beliefs and expressions of faith.

All My Love,

Te-Erika

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

10 Acceptable Ideas That Are Simply Not True

By Lesa Evans

In a world where women were once taught that respectable young ladies must marry and stay home with the children, My Savvy Sisters break all the rules.

If that lifestyle is your choice, celebrate it with a happy dance, but please don't make your decisions simply because "they" told you to.

You know what else isn't true?


1. Bosses are better than employees
2. Men are smarter than women
3. Teens are dumb and entitled
4. Waiting until after college to get a job is smart
5. Foreign engineers take jobs away from Americans
6. Employees who quit are automatic enemies
7. Politicians work for the good of the people
8. You have to be off the couch to play Wii games
9. Yahoo! has a chance
10. Laughing a lot means you're not working


For My Savvy Sisters: Do you have thoughts on other "acceptable" ideas that aren't true?

Change Your Life In One Easy Step

Change Your Conversation, Change Your Life has started a movement destined to change the lives of participants for the rest of their lives. The creators of this program, Malinda Dowsett and Lani Barna, share their vision. “Our mission is to touch a million lives and to have that million turn around and touch a million more, so we are all creating a karmic wave of changing conversations together.” ~ Malinda and Lani

Malinda Dowsett, 38, and Lani Barna, 55, are longtime friends who hit rock bottom. Two women who turned to each other and empowered each other to become the strong, independent women they always knew they could be. Working together, they changed everything about their lives, one conversation at a time.

They overcame some of life's toughest hurdles -- divorce, suicide, near fatal experiences, single parenthood, devastating financial disaster and internal personal struggle – and it wasn’t easy. From failure to success they overcame years of self-defeating, habitual behavior by implementing the principles they put forward in their new book, “Change Your Conversation, Change Your Life” and into the real world around them.They began listening to, and changing, the stories they told about their lives.

Acclaimed authors and speakers Dowsett and Barna tell captive audiences that every question we ask, every conversation we have, is the Law of Attraction at work. The spark that sets everything else in motion. The first step towards the fulfillment and completion we all seek. And although sometimes the first step down a long path seems small in comparison to the journey, it is vital because without it there would be no journey at all.

Malinda and Lani demonstrate how to manage thought and move life beyond the physical senses to the inner peace and joy we all seek. “Our lives are like a movie,” they say, “At any moment we can re-write the script by letting go of junk we carry around for years, overcoming self-doubt and self-loathing and get on with the life we really want to live.”

The key is knowing that our true, inner self is the energy behind every thought we have. Deliberately changing our conversation – the way we talk about our life – changes the vibration we hold ourselves to and every experience we attract into our world. When you hold the vibration of how you want an experience to feel, you begin to enjoy your life because we are always going to choose well-being and joy. The only question we must ask ourselves is, how long can we hold a new thought?

Malinda's Story


“After being married for six years, separated for a year and then losing my husband to suicide in 2005, my life was in complete shambles. On the outside everybody thought I was doing pretty well until I decided to remarry a year later out of complete fear. At that point I had never been so scared in my life. I was raising two children on my own, running my own business and totally disconnected from myself. All my life I thought I was supposed to be married, work hard, be a good mom, a loving person and the rest would come out in the wash. When my husband died I wasn't sure what direction I was moving in. I felt lost and completely alone.

“My conversations with myself were ones of despair, guilt, depression, and anger. I didn't think I had it in me to stand on my own two feet – as a matter of fact I didn't want to stand on my own two feet. Deep down I didn't think I was capable of taking care of myself much less my children. I woke up every morning wanting someone to just take it all away. I didn't have the strength to deal with the enormous pain I was carrying around. I thought if I just kept going, all of it would eventually go away.

“Two years into my second marriage, I had totally isolated myself from my family and friends. I was emotionally and mentally at absolute rock bottom. My second marriage was incredibly unhealthy, every thought I had beat me up, tore me down and left me feeling angry, depressed, anxious, guilty, and with no self-worth. Through it all, I denied, ignored and dismissed the fundamental emotional patterns that were driving my life and everything my life reflected this pain back to me. I knew I was destined to repeat the same pattern if something didn't change. It was like waking up each day and rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic knowing that the end result would keep repeating itself as a complete disaster. Unless I wanted more of the same, I was going to have change from the inside out but where to begin? Then one day I received an e-mail from an old friend, Lani Barna.

“Lani and I had not spoken in two years since I had re-married and her e-mail was a wake-up call. We very quickly picked up right where we had left off and spent long hours on the phone talking about what had come our way and where we were in our respective lives. Our conversations had always been on a more spiritual side, and during the time that we had lost touch with each other, Lani had begun a personal journey of her own, studying the non-physical side of herself, her thoughts and how to control them. Through her studies and research she had become quite advanced in her thinking and in our conversations she began sharing her new-found knowledge with me.

“On a personal level she was coming to terms with her own life struggles: a near-death car accident, another divorce and a terminally ill mother. She abruptly ended a successful career in corporate America and left a well-paying job and the prestige of an important sounding title to move her mother into her home and care for her during her final days.

“Living quietly with her mother, Lani used that time to rediscover who she was and reconnect with the side of herself she had lost bit by bit over the years. When she wasn't caring for her Mother, she studied everything she could on being human and what this thing we call “reality” really is. She studied quantum physics, neurobiology and human consciousness. She searched the internet, subscribed to cutting edge newsletters and read books. Without the noise and distraction of a daily commute and endless meetings, Lani found – and began to feel – the energy side of her inner self again. She felt as if she was meeting herself again for the first time. She discovered that her shift in perspective provided her with an incredible opportunity to learn, grow, and finally take control of her life.

“As we talked, we discovered the need to stop asking the question, “Why is this happening to me?” and begin asking ourselves the question, “Why is this happening for me?” There is a cosmic difference in these two questions. The first one leads us down the path of victimhood, martyrdom, or feeling that there is something wrong with us. The second one takes us down a path towards deeper growth, spiritual awareness and healing.

“Our experiential knowing of this fundamental truth quickly changed our conversations from ones full of negativity and “what is” to the spiritual journey of personal growth we are all on. We began helping each other move past what we had created in our lives that no longer felt good by slowly letting go of false expectations -- of ourselves and others -- and coming to terms with the personal responsibility and accountability for all that we had, and continue, to create.

“As Lani and I peeled back the layers of our lives we discovered that there are four principles involved in the process of creating every human experience: thoughts, feelings, inner guidance and choice. We began to step back and look at every experience that no longer served us objectively, like it was the next door neighbor’s life. One by one we resolved these experiences through forgiveness and a deep sense of gratitude. Did we not choose them at one time? Did they not serve us? Do we now not know even more clearly what we want now? Now let them go.

“We began to stop pushing others to change their ways to make us happy. We began seeing every experience as a gift to more completely discover who we are and what we are made of. Are we courageous? Are we kind? We saw every difficult person as a way to more clearly express our core beliefs. Is this really what I believe a marriage should feel like? Is this really the relationship I want with my kids? We used every mistake to help us become even more clear about our purpose, our beliefs, and how the law-of-attraction works in our lives. Is this really who I think I am? Is this really what I want to be? We realized that every conversation we have with ourselves and others either builds us up or tears us down. We learned that when we get to the place where we become aware of how each thought makes us feel, we will always move towards choosing a better-feeling thought because all of us want to be happy and experience joy. We got quiet. And as we quietly nurtured a new relationship with ourselves, we began using contrast as a way to determine, once again, what we really want to feel.

“As soon as I began applying these four principles to the big things in my life I began seeing more and more opportunity to move my life in the direction I really wanted to go. I started to feel like I was gaining back control of my life. I started to feel a little more like me. Every day I began finding my strengths again. I began building myself back from the ground up again. My life began to turn around.

“I separated from my second husband shortly thereafter, and with new eyes and an open mind, am purposefully and intentionally creating the loving home I always wanted for me and my children. I have become incredibly quiet in my mind as a result of letting go of all the drama swirling around me that I did not create. I feel an expansive inner peace I would have never known if I had not courageously looked at and broken through all the major issues in my life. I have now feel enormous strength and gratitude from every life experience that once caused me pain. Releasing beliefs and ideas that no longer served me opened up a huge amount of space in my life for the things I truly love and believe in. I am no longer in limbo. I am living my dream.

“After a year of helping each other turn our lives around, we knew that we wanted to share this simple, amazing information with everyone around us. We wanted to help everyone know that our minds are meant to serve us, not control us. We want to demonstrate how easy life can be if we would but relax, get to know ourselves, and get out of our own way. Life is supposed to be abundant, fun, exciting, adventurous, expanding, and ever-evolving! This was knowledge worth sharing. This was information we knew would immediately help others understand that they do not have to suffer unnecessarily any more. Change Your Conversation was born.

“In January 2010 Lani and I took a leap of faith and began teaching others how to use life's everyday contrasts to create a better feeling life. We now speak in front of groups of people ranging from women of domestic abuse to corporate executives and show people in a very real way how to use a tool they already use every day – their conversation – to identify their core beliefs, become clear about what they want and move. In less than a year Change Your Conversation became an overnight success touching thousands of people with real stories and changing lives. Today more than 4,000 people in over 62 countries follow our daily inspirational thoughts and teachings on human potential and purpose. We call it “The Power of Conversation” and we are living proof it is real.

So take heart ... you are not alone. Join us on a journey of self-discovery. Do not be afraid to listen to your thoughts. Learn the science behind what it really means to be human. Understand that your thoughts are like a magnet and to think is to create.

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

We challenge you to start today. Take the first step towards creating the life you desire by entering into a powerful conversation with us that will change your life forever. Join us at: www.changeyourconversation.com.

How To Survive- A First Date

You must be so nervous right now. You're wondering if you've chosen the right outfit. You're agonizing over whether your shoes match your purse just right. You can't wait to see his face when he notices your new hairstyle.

Should you kiss him?

Will he try to kiss you?

Will this lead to marriage?

Is he your ONE?

I bet you're trying to get a grip on your emotions but your emotions are a clue that you're alive so don't fight them. This is a very exciting time for you. You are at the beginning of a new chapter in your life. You have decided to allow someone new into your personal space and there is so much room for possibilities.

While you hope things don't end up like the LAST relationship did, you're pretty sure you have a fair chance at success. Now it's time to get rid of those jitters to make THIS first date, a date you'll never forget.

Start by:

1. Choosing an outfit that fits your personality. Don't worry about impressing your date with cleavage, be comfortable. This way, you'll be more inclined to show your REAL self, the person your date needs to be exposed to.

2. Disregard his opinion. This date isn't about impressing your date, this date is about having fun with another person who lives on this planet. Who cares if he doesn't like your dress or your food choice? This isn't an audition, this is an opportunity to make a friend. If he expresses disdain over your personality or choices, he's not worth your time. If he doesn't like you, oh well, someone else will.

3. Take your own money and take pictures. If he's a gentleman he will pay but you might need a chance to run out of there if he does something weird like, invite you to a back alley. Cab fare is necessary and so are pictures of his license plate, his face and his ID. If he laughs at you, laugh right with him as you text this vital information to at least 3 friends.

4. Be open minded about this adventure. He doesn't have to agree with you on everything. As long as you can respectfully disagree, you'll be fine.

5. Decide that he may not be THE ONE. If you decide that there's a chance that he's not THE ONE up front, this will turn out to be a better evening overall. By understanding that there are a million different roles he could play in your life including teacher, friend, lover, your best friend's husband, you will open up your heart to receive more than just the fulfillment of your lifelong wedding fantasy.

Have fun! Laugh like no one's watching. Tease him like you would tease your brother. Spill something. Make a mistake. Stumble. Be imperfect.

Be you.

If he's worth it, he'll love every single moment.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Poll Results: How Different Was Your Life This Time Last Year?


MySavvySisters.Com posted a poll that asked its readers to answer the question: How Different Was Your Life This Time Last Year?

Of the women who responded:

10% answered - A few minor changes
40% answered - I see progress
30% answered - I am a new woman
20% answered - This year was a disaster


Analysis- What does this poll say about how My Savvy Sisters viewed their life's progress?
My Savvy Sisters are moving forward in life!
The 10% who reported that their lives had changed just a little are probably those who too few risks and remained stagnant in their pursuit of their dreams. These 10% of women polled played it safe, clinging to the familiarity of their lives satisfied by the way things are.

40% of women polled reported that they see progress. This means the majority of women polled noticed a significant change in their physical or spiritual circumstances and are proud that they have moved forward in life.

30% of women polled believe that their lives have changed so much that they are completely reknewed. They understand that CHANGE equals progress and they are not afraid of it.

20% answered 'this year was a disaster'. These 20% of women polled do not yet understand that all disasters lead to new beginnings. If you are one of the women who considered this year to be a disaster decide to appreciate a new perspective about it. If you've been praying for change be prepared to mourn because most significant change begins with a loss in order to make room for the new.

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