Happy Mother’s Day Hillary, How Did You Spend YOUR Day?
Happy Mother’s Day, Hillary. You’re a grandmother, like me. And like me, you probably got a hug from your own granddaughter. Perhaps you got a chance to share some stories about your own mother, like I did. In a stopover at a local market, I was given a microphone and had the chance to tell a room full of people in the community dining room about my own mother. In India, there is a saying: “Your Mother is your first Boss.” She is also your first role-model because everything a child learns in their first five years is like a Xerox copy of the mother, their family, and their culture. Growing up, my children were always my heroes. I praised them, perhaps even overpraised them, and they grew up strong, strong-hearted, with an equally strong desire to live a life of meaning and purpose. For you, your role as mentor, and as a role-model on a world stage, extends far beyond your family. You are known by a single name, around the world: Hillary. And, like me and millions of other women – almost 4 billion – you are also known as “Mom.” We both know that being a mother is one of the most difficult job in the world. It is like we signed up for a bootcamp in compassion and empathy. We become deep listeners. We learn to intuit the unmet, unspoken needs of our children, and by extension, the needs of others. It put us on a fast-track for what we do in the world today. It reminds us, in every moment, why we do what we do. We...The ONLY Leadership Training in the World Based On The Female Brain
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Eleanor Roosevelt Gets MY Vote for the $20
Imagine if our money carried positive, uplifting messages such as: “Be Authentic!” “Go Lead Something!” I think Eleanor Roosevelt would welcome this. In fact, at 10 TRAITS Institute, we’ve already placed the image of Eleanor Roosevelt on our 10 TRAITS “virtual” money as part of a leadership training game. Rather than wait until 2030, the deadline suggested by U.S. Treasury’s Jack Lew for changing the face on the $20, let’s make it happen now. If America could send men to the moon in the 1960’s, we can certainly retool the U.S. Treasury to place the FACE of a woman on the $20, by 2020. Alexia Parks is a Virtual Mentor with the United Nations, award-winning entrepreneur, and Founder of 10 TRAITS Leadership Institute. Join us online, May 16th as we launch our for-credit and CEU leadership training programs. We offer the ONLY leadership training in the world based on the mindful, compassionate, diplomatic FEMALE brain. WEB:...
A SMILE Is Bio-Chemical, Not A Gender “Game”
How often, when, and WHY should women smile? Here’s one answer. I’ll tell you why it is time to bring the word “SMILE” back to its origins. While a smile can be twisted, faked, turned upside down, and turned around from a complement into an insult; while a smile can make a person feel victimized, or vindicated…, in the end it’s none of the above. When we separate the act of smiling from all of its labels, it is simply a bio-chemical reaction to a good feeling…., or the “learned” ability to create a good feeling in ourselves and others. I feel good. I smile. You see me smiling, and you smile back. With the power of a magnetic force, a smile draws people toward us. Turn a smile upside down and the reverse is true, people move away from us (literally or metaphorically). Before I began writing about it, and talking about it, I discovered its power quite by accident. I was having a “bad hair day.” I had left the house in a hurry to do some errands, and then decided to stop by my favorite cafe for a coffee. Walking inside the cafe, I caught the reflection of myself in the window, and I was horrified. My hair! Look at my hair! I forgot to comb my hair. Now, I’m of the generation that remembers the famous bathing suit ad: “Just wear a smile and a Jansen.” What the ad was reminding anxious young women was this: “Don’t worry about your weight, or your shape. Just wear a smile and a Jansen.” So I auto-smiled as I...
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