Life Leadership: Old Flour by Sandra Beck.
January 24, 2012
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By Sandra Beck
Recently I found this great brownie recipe online – the good kind from scratch where you shave the chocolate into bits and mix the ingredients from their original source, not from a boxed package.
I was so excited and since I had a lot of wonderful chocolate left over from the holidays I made a massive batch filling up 6 pans thinking I would share them with neighbors, family and friends. I used this huge 5 pound bag of flour that I had removed from my mom’s house after she died. I didn’t check the date. The flour was years old but I didn’t know that because the packaging was unopened.
The brownies came out like bricks. So bad I had to soak the pans just to clean them. They never rose to the occasion and the flour was stale. I stood there in the kitchen so frustrated until I thought about the lesson here. Sure, use fresh ingredients got that. But for us as women it goes deeper than that.
How can we expect to rise to the occasion when we are the same old stale self? I realized with the brownie bricks that I was stuck in some of my old ways and if I expected my life to rise to the occasion I would need to use a fresh me and not the same old stale me. I never did make any more brownies because the fresh me doesn’t want to get fat…lol…but I do show up fresh everyday so I can rise to the occasion.
Empowerment, this is the through line through all of Sandra Beck’s work. Whether she is coaching a company owner to a million dollar commission goal, training a stay at home mom to perform SEO on web sites or speaking to a group of women who are in recovery, her message is about what is possible and how to create the circumstances of your choosing.
In a time when technology has the ability to transcend physical limitations, Sandra Beck teaches all of her clients how to maximize their lives by using the power of the internet coupled with the drive of their passions to create the lifestyle of their dreams. Her goal is to give all women the opportunity to reach their fullest potential with respect to their many different roles.
Sandra Beck is the president of Motherhood Incorporated. As an Author, Coach, Speaker, Radio Host, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, Sandra Beck is as successful as she is busy. The single mother of two young boys has created a virtual empire of successful companies entirely staffed, managed and implemented using a host of virtual assistants and on-line resources. She is also the author of a wildly successful blog (www.motherhoodvoice.com.)
Author of Motherhood Incorporated, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Working From Home with Just a Computer and an Internet Connection and Blogphoria – How To Reach Millions of People without Spending a Dime, Sandra Beck is a powerful voice in the Social Media Arena as a popular Internet Brand Strategist.
Sandra Beck is the host of two Radio Shows: Military Mom Talk Radio and Motherhood Talk Radio. An active contributor and participant in many charities, Sandra Beck strives to make the world a better place for today’s and our future’s children. Near to her heart are Toys for Tots, World of Children and Children Uniting Nations. Sandra Beck was born in a small town outside ofBuffalo,New York. She attendedNorthwesternUniversityand earned both her Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and her Master’s Degree in Advertising.
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Best Gift! Positivity in Color Bracelet from Lifetherapy by Sandra Beck of Motherhood Incorporated!
January 19, 2012
how cute is this?
By Sandra Beck
I have to tell you I buy a lot of things. A lot of girly things between makeup, jewelry clothes and stuff. Today in the mail I got a birthday gift that came from the company Lifetherapy.com. Now you know from time to time I am known to wax poetic over a shoe or a handbag or lip liner! Today it’s all about the Positivity in Color Bracelet.
First of all I took pictures of the packaging because it was almost too nice to open. I love also that the bracelet comes in this cute little box where I can store it and find it without it opening and dislodging the contents…yes it fell off my desk! Beyond the cute little bow and the cool hang tag with the product information, the bracelet itself rocked my world.
I was so thrilled when I opened it!!!
A bracelet? Yes, but I am going to go out on a limb and say this is more than just a bracelet. Because it’s a wrap, and because I am the McGuyver of Motherhood I immediately found a few more uses for this “bracelet.”
Like I toddler I immediately wrapped it around my neck. Instant cool jamming necklace! Then I wrapped it around my ankle. I was so excited because I wear a lot of black and turquoise would really pop and look good against my pale almost never tan leg when I wear my bathing suit and sarong. Its way to cute to swim in, but pool side party I am there. And just because I am me, I realized I could add two little hooks and give one to my girlfriend who wears this awful eyeglass holder one that is so not cool, so not Zen and so not…well its just not. And you know who you are…and when you read this think of your five seconds of fame in a blog post – and lose the dorky chain mama!
Either way I was overjoyed from beginning to end with this “bracelet” slash body ornament…and I even wrapped it in my hair with a braid and around a pony tail…I love the Positivity in Color Bracelet. I need one in every color too.
I Love it!!!!
And, no I wasn’t paid to write this!
Life Leadership: If you Poke a Pin in It by Sandra Beck
January 18, 2012
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By Sandra Beck
Recently I had acupuncture done for my headaches. I have a lot of them and you can pretty much set your watch by them on Mondays and Tuesdays. Those are my show days and high stress for me around my company, kids and social obligations.
Mitra my doctor said to me that she sticks needles into these energy channels and interrupts them so the make new pathways and free up the meridian or something like that. I didn’t really understand the physiology but I got the point- literally.
When we interrupt a pattern or a habit – either through change or sticking a needle in a meridian we force ourselves to do things a little bit differently.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results I needed to stick a pin in my life if I was every going to get out from under these headaches.
So this week I moved my schedule around and lightened my load on Monday and Tuesday. I still got a headache both days but they weren’t the debilitating ragers from the past. I am going to continue to stick more pins into my schedule and break up the channels that don’t serve me. It’s worth a try, because I was doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. No more insanity.
Empowerment, this is the through line through all of Sandra Beck’s work. Whether she is coaching a company owner to a million dollar commission goal, training a stay at home mom to perform SEO on web sites or speaking to a group of women who are in recovery, her message is about what is possible and how to create the circumstances of your choosing.
In a time when technology has the ability to transcend physical limitations, Sandra Beck teaches all of her clients how to maximize their lives by using the power of the internet coupled with the drive of their passions to create the lifestyle of their dreams. Her goal is to give all women the opportunity to reach their fullest potential with respect to their many different roles.
Sandra Beck is the president of Motherhood Incorporated. As an Author, Coach, Speaker, Radio Host, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, Sandra Beck is as successful as she is busy. The single mother of two young boys has created a virtual empire of successful companies entirely staffed, managed and implemented using a host of virtual assistants and on-line resources. She is also the author of a wildly successful blog (www.motherhoodvoice.com.)
Author of Motherhood Incorporated, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Working From Home with Just a Computer and an Internet Connection and Blogphoria – How To Reach Millions of People without Spending a Dime, Sandra Beck is a powerful voice in the Social Media Arena as a popular Internet Brand Strategist.
Sandra Beck is the host of two Radio Shows: Military Mom Talk Radio and Motherhood Talk Radio. An active contributor and participant in many charities, Sandra Beck strives to make the world a better place for today’s and our future’s children. Near to her heart are Toys for Tots, World of Children and Children Uniting Nations. Sandra Beck was born in a small town outside ofBuffalo,New York. She attendedNorthwesternUniversityand earned both her Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and her Master’s Degree in Advertising.
Check out all of Sandra’s sites at:
Sandra Beck Commander’s Award USMC
January 4, 2012
Sandra Beck Commander’s Award USMC
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