Where I Find Inspiration – 3 Everyday Women that Inspire Me and Why
Part I – Rosetta Thurman
Inspiration, being motivated to action. What inspires you? Do you look for inspiration or do you wait until it happens upon you? Every day I look for ways to be motivated, to stay focused on my goals and to know that God is in charge of all. It’s hard and some days are harder than most. There are three women in particular that I use as Inspiration For The Impossible. They’ve all left normal behind and are choosing to live life in the now, not the – I wish I could or I plan to.
Take Rosetta Thurman, she’s a professed minimalist. A minimalist is basically a person who lives on less for more. Rosetta lives nowhere and owns virtually nothing. Let me explain. She doesn’t own a house or a car or an apartment. No, she doesn’t live on the street. She lives where ever she wants. Right now, that’s Honolulu, HI or is it Argentina or Spain? She does own an Apple computer, a cell phone and clothes. All kept in the room she rents or the two carry-on bags she uses when she travels. She runs her business from her Apple computer and uses her cell phone to book speaking engagements. I stumbled across her blog, Happy Black Woman (happyblackwomen.com) back in 2012 when she posted “My First 3 Days in Rome and Why I Didn’t Like It”. I thought, what? Who doesn’t like Rome? Did she lose her luggage? Get lost? Was she robbed? I couldn’t imagine anything about Rome not to like. After that post I was hooked, sucked into her free-spirit and genuine happiness. I still read her blog posts today as a pick me up. Though I don’t want her lifestyle, her ability to pick up and follow her dreams inspires me to follow mine.
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A former school and community agency counselor and creator of the 7-Step Method, Anita’s helped guide people from the ages of eleven to fifty through their own life issues, personal transformations and professional endeavors. With an old soul and a comedic, honest voice. She uses many southern colloquialisms and colorful expressions to unwrap personal stories of surviving a homicidal alcoholic father, a mother in denial and four physically and emotionally abusive brothers and relates them to guiding principles and healing techniques.
Through her powerful and uplifting interviews at ThatAnitaLive.TV and The Emotional Happiness Podcast women get to see and hear real women with resourceful stories living relentless lives after life's most devastating events. Through her charismatic and compelling speaking, Anita helps women use the tools and resources they already have to reveal and release success blockers such as childhood trauma and family dysfunction so they can build self-confidence, boost their self-esteem and feel free to live true to their own personality, spirit and character.
In her newly released ebook, 7 Simple Steps to Beat Emotional Baggage, Anita shares actionable techniques that will walk women through letting go of the past and rising above the glass ceiling to reach higher levels of success and satisfaction in life.
From nine-to-five, Anita is a Senior Acquisition Support Specialist, possessing over nineteen years of performing and administering program management and cradle-to-grave commercial and federal contracting activities for acquisitions ranging from $500,000 to over $2 Billion. She has progressively worked her way up the federal acquisition lifecycle and commercial supply chain through various positions from pre-award and requirements definition to commodities buying to contract close-out. In her career, she has mastered the art of transitioning to level-up.
Anita is a graduate of Limestone College, Virginia State University, and Strayer University with a B.S. in Mathematics, an M.Ed. in Guidance & Counseling, and an M.B.A. in Contracts & Acquisitions. You can find Anita online at ThatAnitaLive.com, Twitter, Periscope, Instagram and Facebook. Her handle is That Anita Live on all four social media platforms.
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