CHOICES Magazine
Spring 2021 Encouragement Issue
Online Article Archive
From the Editor
We know what it is to feel discouraged. My coaching clients, my art students, and my friends often tell me that they are battling with loneliness, despair, hopelessness, even suicidal tendencies. Mostly because they don’t feel like they are good enough.
Use a Vision Board to Help Achieve Your Goals
If you’ve ever thought about creating a vision board but didn’t. Or, if you think vision boards are stupid and a waste of time, you’re not alone. In general, most people simply don’t understand the use of a vision board. But if done properly, a vision board truly can help you achieve your goals.
The Top Five Ways Your Habits Can Make or Break You
How you act and what you choose to do in every situation has an immense influence on your overall happiness, well-being, and success in life. And when it comes to changing your life, the most effective way to do that is to focus on developing or eliminating habits that may be influencing your well-being.
Manage Today’s Uncertainty by Staying in the Present
We all face seasons of life filled with uncertainty. It’s a feeling of being unsure or having doubt regarding a specific situation or set of circumstances. It is important to find ways to manage uncertainty and a great way to go about that process is by making a conscious choice to stay in the present.
Invest in Yourself – Find a Mentor
Mentors can be an incredible means of investing in yourself. Mentors are typically experts in their sphere of influence, but, at the very least, they are people more knowledgeable and experienced than you in a particular area.
Eight Healthy Choices for Improving Your Health
It’s Spring 2021, a new season ---a new year—a new decade! I LOVE a fresh start, be it a new day or a new week; and spring of a new year is the ultimate fresh start! As a fitness and nutrition coach, it’s really important to help my clients understand that NOW is always a good time to start new. Nothing is permanent, we can change anything about our lives. How empowering is that?
How Emotional Intelligence Helps You Achieve Goals
Emotional intelligence, also known as EQ (emotional quotient) refers to one’s ability to understand, utilize, and manage one’s own emotions in healthy and positive ways as a means of effective communication, empathizing with others, alleviating stress, conquering challenges, and defusing conflict.
Temma Keatan Hammond
Temma Keatan Hammond A WOMAN OF ENDLESS ACCOMPLISHMENTS BY JUDI MOREO What would it be like to be born in Hollywood to [...]
A Final Note
Who told you life was going to be easy? There are lots of troubles, irritations, and pains in life. Things happen. Things go wrong. People don’t always do what we want them to. Don’t depend on other people for your happiness.
What the World Needs Now is You
Spring is here with determination and hope that it is time to move forward with as much safety and health as possible.
5 Tips to Maintaining Your Goals on a Daily Basis
Making goals is often extremely easy compared to keeping and achieving them over a long period of time. The best way to maintain goals is by checking in with them, and yourself, on a daily basis.
The Path of Least Resistance
What are your life intentions? Your goals? What motivates you toward achieving these ideas? Life presents steppingstones. Each of these sturdy pathways guide us toward realizing our life’s path.











