If you want something to change, the only real path forward is to focus on what you have control over.
You'll show up for yourself, take up space, and unapologetically be authentic to yourself in each and every moment.
Let’s dive into the top new year resolutions around health, lifestyle, culture, and personal growth for Black women.
As we're taking our first steps into the new year, it's important that we know what things we're going to prioritize moving forward, and what things we're leaving behind. Regardless of the hurdles we faced in 2020, we're getting our new priorities in gear so that we can face 2021 smarter, wiser, and happier.
It's hard to pursue big goals when you’re worried about your health, finances, civil unrest, a presidential transition…you name it.
A buddy can help make sticking to a resolution fun, but you can’t rely on your buddy to keep you motivated. If you’ll only stick with your resolution if she does, then what happens the second she feels unmotivated? So do you. What happens the day she wants to take a break? So do you. And you enable each other, handing each other excuses to quit, because you both want to. You rise together but you also die together just as quickly.
Like when someone cuts ahead of you in bumper-to-bumper traffic, because they just need to merge onto the freeway, or when the person in front of you at the pharmacy is asking too many questions and holding up the line. Keep your cool. Smile. The world needs less people rolling their eyes and shaking their fists at each other and more people sharing a smile.
You want to get aggressive about saving. You’d like to put a nice down payment on a home soon and retire by 60, comfortably. So you decide to be totally stingy, and only spend money on the essentials—gas, rent, health insurance, car insurance, and groceries.
The year 2015 was a particularly hard one on the Black community, but one thing we saw consistently were Black women stepping up and demanding justice for our brothas and for ourselves. We showed the world we matter and as we move into another year, we have to remember to show ourselves that same care. With […]
Now, I'm stressed out about finding a set of red underthings in my size and at my price point before Thursday.
The clock strikes midnight and we are set to set resolutions. As women, we focus on weight loss, diet and finding “the one.” On January 2, every one of your girlfriends hit the gym.