March 2008 - Janelle's Blog

The Price of a Relationship

How much money would you be willing to walk away from to preserve a relationship?

$5 thousand? $50 thousand, $500 thousand? How about $1 million? Half a billion? To what lengths would you go to hold onto a relationship?

It may sound like an unrealistic question, but today I'm going to tell you about a person who did choose relationship over money.

Our "Winner" series has been fun this month. The term winner is used to describe people. We hear comments like, "She acts like a winner." Or, "A winner takes it all." There are a thousand ways to say it, but we all want to be that winner. Go back to the first of March and catch the entire series, There's a Winner in All of Us.

Wheels Up, Wheels Down, Wheels Off

Once again airport travel was an experience to remember. While walking through the Atlanta Airport, I was about to get over losing my neck pillow and the lens falling out of my new pair of glasses, when the airport delivered my ballistic nylon, indestructible roller bag with not only a missing wheel, but the entire wheel housing gone.

During March we have been talking about the qualities of a winner, but I confess that I was so self-focused with negative things happening to me, that I almost forgot I was a winner.

Position Yourself As a Winner

As we are talking about the qualities of a winner, be sure to go back to Part 1 and Part 2 of my blogs, There's a Winner in All of Us.  Part 1, What It Takes to Be a Winner, gives you an example of an ordinary person who made winning qualities work for her. Part 2, Having a Winning Attitude, gives a unique perspective of the power of persuasion. Today we are talking about how to position yourself as a winner.

What Does it Take to be a Winner?

Winners do not accidently stumble into a successful life. When good things happen, winners are already there, waiting in anticipation for the prize of a well-thought out, well-planned, and well-lived life.

Attitude Sparks Imagination

Have you ever heard of a woman named Imaging Spence? She is an architectural designer who has an educated eye for creating a home out of nothing but imagination. She had no formal training as a designer, yet she has been featured in Architectural Digest.