Green Eyes? 5 Ways To Overcome Financial Envy—Ask Erykah

To be honest, ya’ll, I have been in a little funk lately.  l have become envious of the life that I want, instead of the live that I have. Intellectually, I know that things come in time. Cognitively I am aware that my envy comes from being unrealistic and unfair to myself. I am also

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7 Ways to Tell If You’re Living Your Best Life

A few weeks back, I wrote about not waiting until you’ve “found your purpose” to begin living your best life.  Some of us are too busy trying to find the meaning of life or  figuring out how to “find our purpose” to actually be engaged in living our best lives.  Don’t get me wrong, I do believe life should be lived with purpose. But I also believe

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Develop Your Power of Intuition: Part I

Before we begin a discussion on intuition, it is imperative that we define it. According to Merriam Webster’s online dictionary, intuition is, “quick and ready insight; immediate apprehension or cognition; knowledge or conviction gained by intuition; the power or faculty of attaining direct knowledge without evident rational thought or interference.” In every day language we

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Boost Your Self-Esteem In One Simple Step

I went to a workshop called the “Secrets to Self-esteem” over the weekend. The speaker of the workshop defined self-esteem as the ability to recognize all of the good things that you have inside of you and only focus on those qualities. The definition really blew me away. It was so succinct and easy-to-understand. As

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MeetDreamGirl Ginger Founder of Girls Just Wanna Have Funds

Ginger does not know this, but I have been cyber stalking her for about two years. 🙂 No, seriously, I subscribed to Girls Just Wanna Have Funds because I loved that her message about financial empowerment to women was fiery and timeless. I mustered up the courage to interview Ginger this month and I am

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It’s Never Too Early: 5 Tips to Conquer Holiday Shopping Like a Frugalista!

This week marked the official start of Fall – my favorite season! But just like dear old summer, you can bet your bottom dollar that autumn will be gone in a flash. Before you know it, the holiday shopping season will be upon us. And if your local retailers are anything like mine, you’ve had

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Finding the Sacred in Everything You Do

One of my favorite quotes is the one that goes, “Life is not measured by how many breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” Is it just me or do you hear the last part of that sentence, take a deep breath, think about how beautiful it would be to

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5 Money Mantras To Attract Financial Abundance into Your Life

  By definition, a mantra is a mystic syllable or lyrical poem that devotees chant, recite, and repeat in rapid succession as to create and instill single-minded concentration on a particular goal or destination. According to this philosophy, the mind serves as the bed of all thought, which subsequently lays the foundation of our feelings

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Kill The Clutter Bug: 5 Baby Steps to Regain Control Over Your Messy Home

A while back, I read a book about the spirituality of space clearing. The author’s major point is that we often buy and hoard, consume and hold, and keep and store things because we are stagnant and unhappy with our lives. We use things to distract us from doing the labor of reflection and inner cleansing.

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4 Fab and Frugal Ways to Celebrate the Good Times

We all know life is hard. So when something good happens to us, we want to celebrate. And we should! I fully believe that we should recognize and celebrate our successes. Hard work deserves to be acknowledged, and there is nothing more uplifting to the soul than to honor ourselves during joyous occasions and times of success. However, the

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