CHOICES Magazine
Spring 2021 Encouragement Issue
Online Article Archive
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.
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.
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.
You Are More Than That
Have you ever tried to take out a bamboo grove? It’s just about impossible. Bamboo is the epitome of resilience – cut them down in one spot, and they show up in another. It reminds me of the human spirit. It can be resilient and thrive even when conditions seem to be against it.
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?
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 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.
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.
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 [...]
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.
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.
The Little Engine That Almost Couldn’t!
Most of us have read or at the very least have heard of the famous children’s story, “The Little Engine That Could,” written by Watty Piper, published in 1930, and is now considered an American folktale. Its message, filled with wisdom, is hard to repudiate by anyone who picks up the book and reads it.











