Celebrate the GRIND!!

Hello Loves and Happy WeWomenWednesday!!

Today I want to CELEBRATE!! 

Celebrate what you may ask?? Well everyday that I breathe another breath of life is a definite celebration, (sometimes I do jump up and dance to the bathroom for my shower lol..music is everything) but today I'm talkin about celebratin THE GRIND,THE HUSTLE, OR WHAT EVER YOU WANT TO LABEL IT AS! 

As I get older, I really come to understand the meaning of this eight letter phrase! There are sooo many goals and aspirations that I have in this life and its up to me to execute them to the best of MY abilities!

Its somethin that is so universal, yet can be so specific to each person who chooses to partake in the glorious act! 

You don't need directions on how to grind, you just DO IT and go after what you want in your life. Work hard and don't stop for ANYONE! 

1. Acknowledge the GRIND

2. Respect the GRIND 

3. Worry about your personal GRIND

4. Execute your GRIND

A few words..

As I look around my circle of love and friends, I see so many women I love GRINDIN and goin after what they want out of life! We're tryin NOT to stay complacent and stagnant in life...so thus--the grind ensues! 

 

This new adventure I'm on in life has really been teaching me that I can not allow any one else to determine my path!! Though procrastination is a mutha sometimes, I am on the path to GREATNESS!! 

Inspire yourself folks, we have to go out and get it!! 

For your musical pleasure LOL---

What are yall grindin towards??

WeWomenWednesdays #4 --Takin THE PLUNGE!

Greetings Happy People...

Wednesday is here again:)

Have a seat..this Wednesday is about yours truly and how I took the plunge...

The plunge into what you might ask? Keep reading...

So if you follow me on Instagram and/or Twitter, you saw that last Friday (May 31st, 2013) was my last day at my full time job that I had been at for the past EIGHT YEARS! You may be saying to yourself, "Eight years, good lawd that's a long time!" And you are absolutely right, I began at this program a the meager, tender young age of 21, lol it was my ONLY source of professional experience thus far. 

This past year and a half has been a very eye opening experience for me in many ways. As I get older, I have really started to think about how I want my life to be, and the more I think about it, I slowly began to question the idea of the 9-5 life and started to understand that it had started to be a very mundane and lifeless experience for me. Although a large part of the work that I did involved seeing the cheesing/silly little faces of children on a daily basis, somethin was missing.

I wanted a life where the knowledge beauty, fashion and creativity was excepted AND often times expected of me, a life where uncertainty in the daily regimen was welcomed.

So what did I do? I made a goal! A goal that was attainable for me. I made a vision board with the help of my tight knit circle of sista friends (Sista Visions in the Houussse) that allowed me to focus that goal and really understand what I wanted and what I needed to be the end result of this goal. I talked it into existence, I told myself I was GOING to do this! By saying these daily affirmations, I JUMPED..I PLUNGED into a world of uncertainty. I put in my letter of resignation on May 2nd, 2013, and my last day was May 31, 2013. 

And although it was a little nerve wrecking at times, I didn't waver. It was a definite test of faith, and its hard to put it into words, but I had a feelin this was how my life was going(destined) to be.

I say all that to say--when you have a vision of how YOU want YOUR life to be. Don't settle for anybody else's. Don't settle for bein mediocre, BE..just be whatever makes you happy! It may be so cliche' to say that "you only live once" or "life is to short", but its soooooooo true!!! We don't know what tomorrow brings, so I strive to live each day, with the help of God as if it were my last. 

I know what makes me happy at this moment, so I'm goin with that. Yes it may change in the next two years, but hey..thus is life! 

Take the plunge ladies...I'm not the expert in it, but I am for how it affected my life, and I'm so grateful for the lessons that this plunge has brought my way. 

Commit to greatness and only greatness will come your way. You can do this mentally and/or physically --Whatever suits your path!

 Plunge on,

Your Social Butterfly

WeWomenWednesdays #3

Good Afternoon Women (and men if I have male readers:) )

Its that time of the week again...

I so gladly introduce to you Ms. Najwa Ahmed...Wife, Mother of three, budding entrepreneur and overall SuperWoman with an "S" on her chest!! 

Yall ready for the words of this Positive Pole Dance Extraordinaire?? 

Well now this is exciting!! Great Greetings to You! What an honor to be guest writing on this awesome blog today! We Women have inspiring stories to tell… hopefully mine will be so J

What brought you to doing this skill in life?

Rewind one year…  I’m at an Atlanta pole dance studio for a friends bachelorette party. There's an awesome instructor, of similar stature as myself (tall, slender, muscular), about to demonstrate a pole dance. My Goodness!!! Whens she finished, I KNEW, with certainty, this was something I had to do. She danced so beautifully and was so strong and well, sexy!! Yea I said it!!! Seeing a woman shaped like myself make pole dance look sexy gave me hope that perhaps I could be sexy too…

Why does this bring you joy?

What I did not know is that Id become addicted to pole dance. Now don’t confuse this to what goes on in a banging strip club! Pole dance (or pole fitness) is being used as a form of exercise these days!! JOY is always rising when I’m pole dance. Let me be serious for a moment. Pole dance allowed to me to look at my physical self, accept it, appreciate it, then LOVE it. Yes indeed, I fell in LOVE with the body God gave me. I learned my strengths and what I like to call my super powers… I learned not to be ashamed of the stretch marks that my 3 babies gave me, because pole dance gave me killer abs beneath them… I learned that I actually have… amazing legs, crazy that I never KNEW that before… Most importantly I learned how to not criticize what I was given because it is different from some other lady…. I learned to love my body!!!

I get an absolute high, when I climb to the top of that pole and bust out a few tricks! I feel liberated when I’m able to completely fall into a song and make it come ALIVE with my dancing. Pole dance awakened my burning need to express myself through dance. It’s something that I NEED. And because I’m doing something that I love and need to do…I am much happier in life because of it.

Share on Sista….

How many of us wish some part of our bodies were a little different? How many of us would lament over our short legs, or small boobs, or big thighs or WHATEVER? Plenty of us right? Well heres the challenge…STOP. Here’s how: find a physical activity (of course I suggest checking out a pole dance class near you) that helps you to pinpoint YOUR body’s strenghths and brings you JOY. Back this up by daily positive affirmations and from there I honestly believe you’ll see a transformation take place in your self image and confidence. Believe me, my confidenc level shot through the roof…cant tell me nothin these days! Lol! But I digress, honestly, what good is self love if it isn’t complete? Love yourself inside AND out… Whole-Self-Love ladies…Whole-Self-Love…. Peace

For posts on positivity, life, and pole dance--follow Najwa on Instagram @gemini_ladyy and Twitter at @liberateyoself

And if you're in the Atlanta area and you are lookin for that bomb Pole Dance class, feel free to email Najwa at najwa.ahmed34@gmail.com

Thanks Social Butterfly for this privilege!! You are an amazing woman!!

Stay tuned for next week!! 

SB