You hold the power to shape, mold and create an empowered future. Your most consistent choices, decisions and day-to-day attitudes are either creating or hindering your power to succeed and thrive. Are you using your personal power wisely?

As women we often forget to take the time to acknowledge our successes. Honestly, when was the last time you marveled at your well-earned accomplishments? Have you ever made the time to seat back and appreciate all you’ve done with your life? Today is the day, we’re writing our “about me” pages!

Writing your personal and professional mission statement is invaluable to setting and achieving goals. A well thought out mission statement can provide clarity, focus and direction to your life. When you truly have an understanding of what is important in life, life takes on more importance.

A step-by-step well thought out plan is a vital step in achieving your goals. Just as you wouldn’t leave home to drive across country without a map, you shouldn’t begin heading toward your goals without a workable and viable plan. Here are five steps for developing a powerful plan of action.

Successful people know how to work smarter, not harder in both their personal and professional lives. Working smart is about knowing how to keep the most important things, important. Smart time management begins by wisely using and valuing your time and energy.

A Vision Board is a powerful and effective way to formulate, articulate and clarify your goals. Vision Boards help to picture the who, what, where, why and how of setting and achieving your goals. There’s an unstoppable power of purpose that comes from clearly visualizing the future.

Have you ever had a movie recommended and watched it just to see what all the fuss was about? That’s how I came to watch “What The Bleep Do We Know.” If you are interested in the power of the human mind and how it affects self-development, it’s my turn to recommend this DVD to you.

Are you watching America’s Got Talent? We are at our house! Every Tuesday and Wednesday my husband and I watch the hopeful contestants attempt to turn their dreams into a million dollars. Let me ask you this, what is your one million dollar talent?

A mastermind is a group of two or more like-minded people who come together for a specific purpose. Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, is credited with creating the popularity of the mastermind although the concept is centuries old. Used correctly, a mastermind is a powerful success tool.

Focusing on the positive has the power to change your life for the happier. It sounds simple enough but for many, it takes desire, practice and a certain amount of discipline. What Happy Women Know by Dan Baker and Cathy Greenberg, shares the why’s and how’s for focusing on a happier life.