I Am!!!

Greetings Family!!  Happy New Year!!  I can’t believe this January is almost half way through.  That is the same way last year flew by.  Because time does go by so quickly, especially as we get older, it is so important to live in the moment.   Tomorrow is not promised and we miss so much family, worrying about tomorrow.  Let’s try to be present in the moment for 2013!  Most important let’s be positive in those moments.  That is not always easy to do.  Life brings us all challenges so we must decide how to react to them.  I keep in my mind a quote from one of the Pookalita favorites Joel Osteen.  He said “Whatever follows I am will come looking for you”!  Pooka Family….that blows my mind whenever I say that!  It is so true!!  Our words and thoughts over ourselves have so much power!!  We all fall into that negative I Am category.  I Am fat, I Am unattractive. I Am not worthy.  Pooka family you know what I AM talking about!  You can all fill in after the blank with your own negative I Am statement!  And we say them so easily all the time and don’t even realize that we are asking for the negative we are complaining about.  Let’s all change our I Am statements for 2013 family!!  Let’s say I Am full of joy and positivity!! Let’s say I Am blessed and highly favored!   Let’s say all of the positive I Am statements we can think of whenever we open our mouths!  I Am glad to have you all as part of my family!!

Peace

The best De-Clutter tip ever!!

Okay Pooka family! You are gonna love this!  We all know the crazy weather we've been having and a lot of people say that Global Warming is part of the problem!  Well trees help to fight against global warming by sucking up carbon emissions that we spit into the air.  So the more trees we cut down, the fewer we have to fight the cause which brings me to unwanted catalog mail!  My little mailbox is filled with stupid catalogs.  Fun fact: 19 billion catalogs produced per year and it takes 53 million trees to make them.  All so we can get the catalog, rip it up and put it in the garbage!  Lets start an effort to de-clutter our mailbox and save some trees!  The website is https://www.catalogchoice.org/ You go to the site, sign up and then find the catalogs that are coming to your mailbox and they will remove you from the list.  The site has every catalog imaginable.  I took myself off CB2, Express, Lord&Taylor.  I am so excited to see an empty coming to mailbox and to help the environment too!  Sign up today!!!!  I wonder If I can take myself off of the bill collectors lists.....

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Pooka Family!!!!  Continued blessings in 2013!!  As we reflect on our accomplishments and our losses, we continue to give God glory for bringing us into a new year, a new era, and a season of promotion!! Our struggles continue so build your physical and spiritual armor to attune to what’s in store for what we will face in 2013 but know that you will persevere with his grace!  So get ready for your promotion of 2013 of a new job, new family, new challenge, new home, new project, new finances, new body, renewed health, renewed relationship, renewed motivation, renewed purpose!!!  Keep in prayer for one another!!

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Dawn in January Essence Magazine!

Check out Dawn in the January Essence Magazine!

Reap what you Sow!

Well Pooka family, it’s definitely a time of reflection as we ready ourselves to close out 2012.   When I found out about the @blackenterprise cover early in the year I began claiming all year long that I was In my “season”.  I used my positive affirmations and stated every day that, “This is my season!” and I truly believe it was and still is.  I’ve always heard people say you reap what you sow.  I’ve always looked at the negative, meaning that If you do bad, you get bad.  But this year I thought of it from the positive side. 2 Corinthians 9:6 says, “The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.” 
After 12 years in business I’ve realized that we have been sowing seeds all through our journey.  By connecting with great people, exploring new opportunities, considering different viewpoints, acquiring knowledge, growing, changing, sharing and in many other ways, we’ve been sowing seeds of growth for Pooka.  Along the way we’ve also had many roadblocks, set backs and opportunities that didn’t produce what we hoped.  BUT I see now that we are reaping a lot of the rewards from things that we thought were deadends or failed opportunities.  I say all of this to say, SOW YOUR BUSINESS SEEDS.  Make connections and don’t worry If you feel nothing comes out of it, In due time you’ll reap benefits. Gather knowledge, even though you don’t see how it might be helpful now, in due season you’ll reap benefits.  Talk to people, listen, share and do what you can to help others and in due season you’ll reap the benefits. Do the hard work now and don’t give up and I believe in due season, YOUR season, you will see all the amazing results of the seeds you’ve sown!  I am going to stay inspired and positive, be faithful and keep sowing, 2013 is going to outdo 2012, my season continues!

Oh no he didn't!

Yesterday my kids and I were grocery shopping and of course they were playing around tagging each other and talking bad about each other ( what kids consider bad) when my youngest pointed to a gentleman who was overweight and said "Wow he's fat!" I of course told my son to " Be Quiet! You don't say things like that about people, it hurts their feelings!" I could hardly look at the guy when he passed by us, I was just hoping that he hadn't heard but by the look that he gave me, he could have shot me on the spot. My oldest then replied, "Well mom he is just telling the truth and you always say tell the truth!"( Yeah now you listen to me.) Then I had to explain again why you don't go around talking about peoples physical attributes, you want people to like you for who you are on the inside, not the outside. I explained to the kids that the man could be a great guy, great father, good friend we don't know. But what we do know is that we want people to like us for who we are not what we look like. My youngest then hugged me and said "But I love your fat tummy! Its so nice and soft and squishy, its one of the best parts of you!" Yes child you may feel that way but I don't, keep it to yourself!