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I Need Some Rest

Boy I've had a rough couple of days.  I had a great day on Saturday.  I got a lot of walking in and I ate pretty good, but on Sunday I tasted stuff all day.  See my husband loves to cook and he just set up his own cooking blog.  So on Sunday he was experimenting and I was tasting.  Then on Monday my mom had her surgery to remove the cancerous tumor from her breast, so I spent the whole day at the hospital.  I didn't eat bad, but I don't think I ate enough.  Today was good I at turkey bacon and lettuce on wheat for breakfast and two crab clusters for dinner.  I drank 16 oz of green tea and now about 16oz of water.  I am going to try to get in more water.

My day tomorrow will be long because I will be traveling to Georgia to attend my aunts funeral.  She was the oldest member of my family at 83.  Although I am always happy to see the rest of my family it would be nice if it wasn't for a funeral.

With so much going on I feel extremely tired.  I go to bed tired and I wake up tired.  I know that this is not good, so I have to find out how to relax once I go to sleep so that I don't wake up tired.  So if anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

Until Next Time

Make It A Great Day!

Audrey

My Day Interrupted

Good day!  Just checking in.  I think I missed yesterday, because my aunt passed away yesterday.  My family has been going through it over the last year.  Last year in July I lost one of my favorite uncles.  He suddenly became sick after I took him to the eye Dr. in March 2010.   By July of that same year he had died from lung cancer, which we didn't know that he had.  Then in May of this year I lost another uncle to lung cancer.  He lost his fight after 2 years with the disease.  Then about 3 weeks ago I learned about my mom has breast cancer, now my aunt who was the oldest person in my family 83 years old has passed away.  So my family and I will be heading to Georgia for the second time this year for the funeral next week. 

After receiving the news about my aunt yesterday morning, my whole day just stopped.  I had to comfort my mom because my aunt and my mom were really close.  They are exactly 20 years apart.  My mom was born on my aunts birthday.  So my mom was really shook up.  The Dr. told us that it is imperative that my mom stay happy and positive while she is fighting breast cancer, so I had to be there to make sure that she was OK.  Then once I realized she was OK I went into planning mode to plan our trip.  My mom has to have the cancerous lump removed on Monday, so I have to make sure that she will be able to travel.  Now I pretty much have the trip planned for next week. 

I didn't get a chance to do much on my business, because of this, so today I am trying to catch up and do some of the stuff I missed yesterday.  I didn't exercise either, but I didn't eat that much, because I didn't have an appetite.  I am going to get in some exercise today and so far I've eaten a yogurt and a sausage biscuit.  I know the biscuit was bad, but it was good.  I will balance that with a salad for dinner. 

My daughter is coming home from college for the weekend.  I always love when she comes home, because she is funny and she makes me laugh.  So I am looking forward to her arrival.

I spent about two hours talking to my friend Georgette who just launched her new site http://www.ablissfulwoman.com. I always love these conversations because we have a chance to make sure that each of us in going in the right direction with our business. 

Well that's all for now.  Thank you for dropping by.

Until Next Time

Make It A Great Day!

Becoming Me Episode 4 (My Body Magic Story)

So I had a great day yesterday.  I got in a little areobic exercise.  I also ate pretty good.  I had one cookie, a burger and some tuna.  Oh yeah and about an half ounce of chop bbq.  So I don't think that was too bad. So far I've lost 3 pounds. So as you may know my goal is to drop 100 pounds and my other goal is to build a Ms. Boss International into a million dollar media business.  So you see I have some very lofty goals.  So to meet my weight loss goals I decided to give my Body Magic another try.  Take a look at the video as I tell my Body Magic story.  This site is about becoming me, so in some of my videos you will see that I like having fun, don't hold it against me.  As a professional I take my business very serious, but I love to have fun too.  So check out the video and let me know your comments.

Until Next Time
Make It A Great Day!
Audrey

Yesterday Was A Great Day Episode 3

I had a great day yesterday.  Not only did I get up and exercise, I went to a health fair with a friend because she wanted to take a mamo and was afraid to go by herself.  Her mom passed away about 6 years ago from breast cancer and she was afraid.  I encouraged her to go ahead and take one because my mom was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, but because she and I go together every year for our annual mamo, the Dr.s  caught my moms in time and will start treatment after her surgery.  So at the health fair I got my blood sugar checked and my blood pressure and they both were good which surprised the people that were taking the readings.  So I walked around there for about 2 hours.  Then later that evening I went to see my nephew play football and the walk for the parking lot was a journey.  So I got in a lot of activity yesterday. I am up again today and ready to get started again.  I missed bowling last night because I wanted to see the opening game, so I might go today and that will be exercise for me.  I got to get it in where I can fit it in.

Until Next Time
Make It A Great Day!
Audrey

Exercise and My Hair

I don't know if you've ever heard this or not, but a lot of Black women hate to exercise because of their hair.  I am one of those.  Man just the thought of my hair becoming messed up because of exercise would always stop me dead in my tracks, well I am happy to say that I am overcoming that right now and I am about to go out on my deck and ride my bike.  I will no longer let my hair stand in the way of my health.  So I just ate half of a banana and about to go outside and get it popping.

Until Next Time
Make It A Great Day!
Audrey

Video Tapping My Journey

So I've decided to video tap this journey of becoming me.  My goal is to blog and video daily.  I know that one of my biggest flaws is being consistent, so this in itself will be a challenge for me because I have so much going on until I get side tracked and before I know it, it's already 11pm at night.  So right now I have four projects including this one.  I will be posting everyday to all of them.  Becoming me means that I have to overcome fears, fix the things that are wrong and just be honest with myself, so that's what you will be getting here as I evolve.

Until Next Time
Make It A Great Day!
Audrey

Eat Pray Love

Well what happened to prompt me to start this blog, was that I went to the movies to see Eat Pray Love.  This movie really hit home for me.  I realized that I was not living an authentic life.  I wasn't taking care of my health.  I need to drop 100 pounds and I was working too hard and not seeing very much progress.  My life is out of alignment.  I realized that in order to reach any of my goals, I had to change my life.  Hence this blog which is a starting point for me.  So I am going to start My Personal Life Plan.  This plan will include getting healthy, chasing dreams that seems impossible and making a lot of hard decisions that I am sure in the end will be better for me.  I will stop procrastinating and find my spiritual side. 

So sometimes you will see me in videos and sometimes you won't.  It just depends on the mood I am in for the day.  For the most part I will do everything in my power to blog daily so that you can come with me on this journey as I Become Me.

Thank you for stopping by and by all means do come again.

Until Next Time
Make It A Great Day!
Audrey

Business & Technology | Beijing billionaire sees no housing bubble | Seattle Times Newspaper

Business & Technology | Beijing billionaire sees no housing bubble | Seattle Times Newspaper

This is a very inspiring story.  Whenever I read stories like these it just re-invigorate me as I keep pushing towards my goals.  She is so young and already a billionaire.  The possibilities are out there you just have to keep believing, learning,  and working hard and you can make it happen.

Enjoy article.
Until Next Time
Make It A Great Day!
Audrey

My Story

Well I've been trying to figure out where I want to start.  So I am going to start with me starting my first business.  Back in 1999 when I was filling in for my friend who was out on maternity leave, I had this idea for a plus size fashion doll.  I called my friend Georgette and asked her were there any fat dolls on the market and she said she didn't think so.  Georgette liked the doll concept so we decided to become partners and started our company Big Beautiful Dolls, Inc.  We worked the business for five years and then the business stalled because of a few things.  My partner moved to Texas and the market for collectible dolls started to cool down as the economy changed for the worse. 

I was in love with being an entrepreneur by now and so I decided to start a publishing company.  Once again I jumped into an industry that new very little about and once I realized I didn't like the model I was creating I closed shop.  Then I started to publish my own newspaper called Women In Business Today.  I really liked publishing the magazine, but I had one problem.  I had to do all of the work myself.  After two years of publishing I got burned out and closed shop and moved with my husband and daughter to Spring Hope, NC where I lived in the country for two years.  I loved living there and the rest did me good and I wrote a book while there, but after two years I missed my family and the entrepreneurial life that I was use to and decided to move back home to NJ. 

Once I returned back to NJ I started working as a small business consultant with two local universities.  After the contract with both of these ended I started my own consulting company, Sister Inc.  I ran this company for three years before I decided to change my brand to Ms. Boss International.  I felt like Sister Inc. was not really saying what I wanted it to say and that a brand change would. 

Now I was feeling good about my new brand name and I was doing everything to get the name out there, but somewhere deep inside I still felt like something was missing.  I felt like I was still not living the life that I was born to live.  It was like a part of me was missing.  So something happen that changed my thinking and led me to start this blog.  To find out what that was you have to come back tomorrow, because I am sleepy right now.

Until Next Time

Make It A Great Day!

Audrey

Welcome Becoming Me TV

This video blog is all about me. I run a business blog right now and a business social network site for women. I am also launching a new venture which is a blog focusing on the lifestyle of Blacks and Hispanics. But this blog here is all about me and my journey to find out who I really am so that I can become the real me. So as I get started you will see me face my toughest challenge, which is my weight. I’ve always had a problem with my weight so I’ve set a goal to drop 100 pounds. The other thing that plagues me is that I am a serial entrepreneur, so I have a daily challenge of staying focused, because so many ideas come to me. They come to me in my sleep and they are all good ideas in my eyes and I want to do them all, so you will see me fight with myself to stay on course of running and growing the two or three businesses that I already have.