We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can't give what you don't have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you're running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you.

For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you

Great communication begins with connection.

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

I know who I am, and the thing about power for me is that it's connected to a source that's obviously greater than myself. Any time you can connect to the source and understand that that's where all of your energy, your creativity, your joy and your triumph come from, I consider that to be authentic power.