Hi Goal Girls! Happy 2021! I know it's been awhile, but I feel it is time to share some things on my heart that may encourage you as you go after your goals and dreams.  Join me as we embark on a very exciting new year of 2022! Full of endless possibilities. My aim is that this blog would be a platform to share our goals, aspirations, dreams, setbacks and encourage one another as we succeed in every area of our lives. Let's get goaling! See you soon! Your go girl, [e]. 

Yesterday at work I broke something. I was searching around for something to fix it. I asked my co-worker did she have any super glue and she said no, but I do have a hot glue gun. Aha...a light-bulb went off inside my head. Why didn't I think of a hot glue gun sooner. There was some things in my house that needed to be fixed since last year. I kept putting it off to fix the items thinking I would need to go to a crafts store to get a stronger glue, but realized I had the solution to fix my broken objects at home the whole time. So this morning before work, I decided to fix the shower hooks, my earring and 2 little statues. One thing I noticed that everything didn't look perfect like it did before it was broken, but I was so excited to have the items back together again. I had another revelation in regards to my life. Sometimes we make stupid mistakes, say the wrongs things, make wrong decisions, hurt others, and/or hurt ourselves. This can cause us to end up separating ourselv...

Wow, Wow, Wow, is all I can say for this fantastic and spectacular year of 2014. I have had so many wonderful things going on I don't even know where to start. I have moved into my own place since March (something I have been wanting to do for many years), I have been on a local TV show, I have sang a duet on the stage at my church (huge honor and blessing), I have spoken at my local Chamber of Commerce and a local high school, I just won best speaker for my first speech at Toastmasters and God has healed my broken heart and made it whole again. I love my friends and family like never before. I am excited about the future and what the future is to bring. Thankful and grateful for all those that have stood by my side, loving me and encouraging me to keep moving forward. I don't know where I would be without them. I am in awe of God's loving kindness towards me and I look forward to helping others see His love. So many years I listened to the thoughts of defeat...."Nob...

I was visiting my mother a couple of Sunday's ago and she mentioned to me not to judge a person by the outside. I  recall looking over at a delicious cherry cream cheese pound cake my mom made and asked could I have a slice. She said sure, but that cake had fallen so it might not look the same as normal. My mom was initially concerned when she took the cake out that it wasn't cooked all the way through. But when she cut into it she was pleasantly surprised because the cake was fully cooked. I said it looked normal to me and it still looked like it would taste good. Even though it was a simple lesson on that Sunday afternoon it actually followed me throughout the day, which was don't judge a book by the cover. Earlier at church I was sitting next to a woman that I had never met. At first she seemed a little cold to me. I almost didn't want to introduce myself, but I did. She also introduced herself and that was pretty much it. Later that night at church she comes over ...

It's been awhile since I have posted anything, but I have accomplished several goals while I have been away. :) Right now, I am finally going to share with people my story. Keep on the look out for my website. It will be up in the next week or so. This has been something I have been wanting to do for over 8 years and I finally see it will be accomplished. Just because a dream delays doesn't mean it wasn't meant to happen for you. Sometimes you need to heal inside, sometimes its not the right time or you need to gain the wisdom and knowledge for your dream. I have had huge set backs even in most recent years, but I keep moving forward. I keep running, persevering, enduring no matter what it takes to become who I truly am inside. I encourage you ladies to step out of your comfort zone, step out of your past, step out and step into YOU! Who you already are. Love your "goal girl" [e].

It's the most wonderful time of the year and what better way to celebrate with family and friends than to make peppermint trays and bowls to put your favorite cookies or candy on. This is a so simple to create and takes very little time make. What you need is a bag of peppermints and parchment paper,  I purchased mine at the Dollar Store. One of the cheapest projects to create. You can use spearmints, peppermints, even the colored candies that are yellow, orange, purple....the possibilities are endless. I used the peppermints because that is all the Dollar Store had..haha. Anyway, turn on the oven to 350 degrees. Arrange the mints in the shape you want. Spacing them about a 1/2 inch apart. I made my candy tray in the shape of a circle.  I kept my mints in the oven for about 9 minutes. Make sure to take out the pan once the mints are melted together, because you do not want them to burn. I then picked up the parchment paper and placed it on the cooling rack for about 2 ...

Ladies....I really enjoy working out, but sometimes my favorite TV show is on when I am ready to workout. Since I wanted to kill two birds with one stone, I googled and found this fantastic workout called the "5-4-3-2-1 At-Home Circuit Workout found here: http://www.fitsugar.com/Easy-15-Minute-Workout-21588220 . This is a 15 minute workout, but don't let the small amount of time fool you that it will be easy. It kicked my butt! As many of you know I love challenges and I thought, hey this will be a breeze. It got my heart pounding and breathing heavy right in the beginning of the workout. Here is the workout...it is broken down into 5 minutes, 4 minutes, 3 minutes...etc. Again from www.fitsugar.com   ______________________________________________________ 5 minutes:  Cardio You can do anything: walk, run, jump rope, elliptical, If you’re at home 1 min high knees 1 min jumping jacks 1 min front kicks 1 min jumping jacks 1 min run in place 4 minutes: ...

Well it's been awhile since my last post. I have been still accomplishing many goals, which I will post in the days to come. My little 9 year old nephew passed away unexpectedly and that kind of threw off my goals for a bit, but I am back at them. It was about a month and a half ago today that my nephew passed away. I also needed to rethink why I even wrote this blog and wondered did anyone even care that I make goals and do them. That was until today. I had an opportunity to talk to a wonderful girl named Jessica. I started describing all the goals that I do, whether baking a cake for the first time, attempt to do 100 pushups (which I am still trying to do), or choosing a career path. By talking to her I was revived again as to why I write my blog. And she was inspired to start working out again. My blog is to share my goals which in turn will help and inspire other girls to accomplish their goals. You may think to yourself, I have tried and tried to do _________________ (fill in ...

I did Insanity for the first time on June 23, 2011. It was tough, but at the end, I am really happy I did it and how my endurance was out the roof. Now, what possessed me to do this again, I don't know. I needed another challenge and so I just pulled out the Insanity fit test yesterday and wrote down my results. Not bad after two years: Switch kicks: 39 (2 kicks =1) Power Jacks: 50 Power Knees: 116 Power Jumps: 26 Globe Jumps: 8 (still kicks my butt) Suicide Jumps: 18 Push-up Jacks: 15 Low Plank Oblique: 48 I did Plyometric Cardio Circuit today and it felt great. Still a challenge too! The cool thing about doing Insanity now is that my body remembers alot of the moves. I am not as fatigued either. Now, it is still a tough workout, but my endurance is still pretty good. Throughout the last two years I would pull out an Insanity video here and there and mix into my regular workout videos. But now, I am ready to do it for the full 63 program. I also want to do Insanity for...

My assignment...find a picture frame. Sounds simple,  right? But on the contrary. It was an all day adventure that the Lord ended up teaching me a lesson on how this applied to my life. So it all began one beautiful Saturday afternoon.  I went into Hobby Lobby to get a picture frame for a project I was working on. I go to the back of the store and there they were...the wall of frames. Now I had come a previous day and took pictures of the frames so I figured I should be in and out of the store. But no.......here I go. I go up and down the aisles as if something is going to be different from a couple of days before. I scrutinized every frame....down to the detail, paint, wood...you name it...I saw it. And if I found a framed a liked....I looked through every frame to make sure I had the best one out of the design. But nope, not good enough. A lady walks up after I stood there for at least 30 minutes at this point looking at one of the frames. She picks up two of the frames I w...

Alright....so it's been awhile that I have gone after my 100 push up goal challenge. Let me be honest, I got discouraged because it seemed like I may not obtain the goal. But a couple of my friends thought it would be a good idea to let people know that I had run into a brick wall with my goal. The idea of the push up challenge seemed like an impossible feat once I reached 42 push ups. It was so hard just to make it to that, I couldn't imagine trying to make it to 100. But I realized just because it gets difficult does not mean you give up. I revamped my strategy. I looked at a video of a girl that has accomplished 100 push ups. This chick is awesome: She actually boosted my vision to want to accomplish my goal and I went to a website that helps you accomplish the 100 push ups in seven weeks. Check it out: http://www.hundredpushups.com. The strategy on this site is have you do a fit test to see how many you can do initially, then they give you a plan in order to accomplish...

Ladies...I have been working towards my 100 consecutive man push-ups for several months now. I am still moving towards to it! I had been kind of discouraged, because I had only made it to 40 push-ups. My friends still said that was a great accomplishment. But then it happened last week. I made it to 42 push-ups!!! Woohoo!! :) Much closer to 100! I believe I broke the plateau because I stopped putting so much pressure on myself to break the 40 mark. So now, I am on to 45 push-ups. Hopefully, I will make it this week...but no pressure. :) Your "goal girl", [e].

As many of you know and those that don't my mother is a fantastic baker. I have been privileged to be able to eat so many great desserts all my life, especially cakes. You name it, my mom has probably made it....and most importantly I would have eaten it. :) I thought to myself a few months ago I have never made a cake........well the Lord must have heard that thought because that all changed for me one Sunday morning at church. My Pastor was speaking that day and asked the ladies , w ho has made a cake raise your hand. Then he asked those who have not, raise your hand. Well it was at that moment Pastor Robb stood directly in front of my parents in the front row and my sister Tina and I were two rows almost directly behind them and saw our hands raised saying we had never made a cake. I had a feeling this was about to get me into trouble...haha. Needless to say my Pastor gave my sister and I an assignment. In fact, these were his exact words...."I’m going to give you an ...

Hey, U Goal Girls! The last time we talked I had a few goals going on. My latest update was I wanted to get to 100 situps and 100 consecutive man push ups. Well....today I did 105 situps! Woohoo. I did 21 man pushups...took a break then came back and did another 20. My highest goal for consecutive man ups is 40. I am still going after the goal. :) I am excited about the direction "U Goal Girl" is taking. I will keep you informed about it in the weeks to come. I am so thankful for all of you that read this blog. It is being read all around the world. So I will continue to write and hopefully one day, you will share your goals and the steps you took to get there. Goal challenge: Have you written down any goals lately? Are you going towards any one, two, or three of them? If you haven't....don't wait....start today. Until tomorrow. Your "goal girl", [e].

Hey, Ladies. Okay....so I am back! I wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to read about Rakisha's fantastic accomplishment! So proud of you Rakisha. :) Since I have been attempting my crazy push up challenge I have had women tell me that they have been encouraged to try to do "one man push up". Other ladies told me that they have done ladies push ups and they continue to increase their reps. I am so proud of you ladies...keep up the good work. As for me...I am back in the swing of things. Working out three times a week. I got up to 38 push ups today, but still striving for the 100 push ups goal. :) Something I started last week was a sit up challenge. I wanted to do 100 situps three days a week. I got up to 65 today! So Monday, Wednesday and Friday I will be going towards my 100 push ups goal. And Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays I will do my 100 situps goal. I did clapping push ups today. I did a total of 4. They are pretty hard. I also did 10 staggered push ups. And...

I have known Rakisha for several years now. I wanted to feature her on today's blog. She is an incredible woman of perserverance and determination. A single parent that decicided to go to school to get her Doctorate. I wanted her to let me know what kept her going in order to complete her goal. See below.   What was my motivation to go back to school for my Doctorate? I always wanted to be a doctor.   Education was always a priority growing up.   So, going to school was never a question.   There are a few things that have inspired me along this journey of pursuing my doctorate.   Being a single mother my priority is making sure I am the best example to my daughter, spiritually, mentally, and physically.   I call the following my 4P’s 1. Pursue your dreams with all your heart.   Never give up what God has placed in your heart. 2. Passion determines my commitment to pursuing my dreams.   When you are passionate about something you ...

Okay....ladies. I had alot of goals for the month of February. 1. Write down everyday something I am thankful for. 2. Fast for the month of February. 3. Do 100 consecutive push ups. 4. Continue reading my bible plan to complete the bible in 1 year. 5. Right a post each day on my blog. So for the most part I was pretty consistent with all the above goals. I was distracted for a part of the month due to some new things happening in my life :) as well as dealing with some symptoms in my body. At times I did get off track, but kept moving forward. My push up challenge I got up to 40 total. But I am still going towards my goal of 100 consecutive push ups. I am proud of all my efforts this month and excited about what I will be doing in March. I will keep moving forward. Your "goal girl" [e].

I have always wanted to be in control of everything in my life. I think this is fairly common in women. If someone wanted to play a game with me I would need to know all the rules, all the details before we even start the game. Some of my leaders would just say why do you need to know everything, let's just start playing. I have had issues of trust, rejection, and abandonment. If I had plans with someone and they cancelled or wanted to change the plans, it brought me a huge level of discomfort and anxiety. But I noticed the more I was in control in my life, the less happy I was. For example, because I have been in some poor relationships in the past, me trying to be in control was I would make sure to protect my heart and put up alot of walls. But you know what? I couldn't experience the people in my present that loved me and supported me. You may think...when I am in control I can protect myself, but that's not true. God never asked you to protect yourself. He told you to ...

Everyday we get bombarded with a new set of challenges. We have a complete list of cares that will attempt to suck all the life out of our day and cause us to want to be worried and anxious. We think about the care of our aging parents, the bills that are due, and the mere fact you wake up one day older to ask "what am I doing with my life?" can bring anxiety. For me, sometimes I can wake up and feel so much pressure of the day that I just want to close my eyes and go back to sleep. But I have learned that I can't run away, but to cast away all my cares to God. The scripture that I have stood on regards to casting my cares is found in 1 Peter 5:7: Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you " (NLT) Yesterday, I learned just how far I have come in regards to casting my cares. I am a business owner and I was asked to quote on a project for a client. Normally my vendor is extremely competitve and I usually get the job. But this particular quote was a...

Remember ladies when I told you that my friend told me if things aren't working in your life.....to create your own breakthrough. Well I had a position that opened up for me at a job I am very interested in. :) From hearing those wonderful words to create my own breakthrough alot has changed in only a few short weeks. My career is going to change and I will be able to help young girls and women. So excited about this opportunity. I hope I get it! But whatever happens I am proud of my progress and I won't stop or give up. I will continue to more forward. Ask yourself: are you still going after your dreams in regards to your career, starting your own business, or have an invention that you know that the world would love. Resurrect you dreams and go after them, because you can have anything you say and believe in your heart. Your "goal girl" [e].