Plan Be!: Awesome Inspiration for Your Awesome Life
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In Plan Be!, Becca Anderson shares a treasure trove of wisdom from women she has known, encountered or admired from afar. Full of quips, quotes and stories, the ideas they express form a roadmap on your journey to fulfillment. Ranging from the spiritual to the practical, each entry offers a new perspective of piece of advice to carry with you through the day.
Practicing these daily affirmations can help you do the inner work of self-development, changing your life through a change in attitude. Plan Be! will bring you closer to your life’s true purpose—one day at a time.
Becca Anderson
Becca Anderson comes from a long line of preachers and teachers from Ohio and Kentucky. The teacher's side of her family led her to become a women's studies scholar and the author of The Book of Awesome Women. An avid collector of meditations, prayers and blessings, she helps run a “Gratitude and Grace Circle”' which meets at homes, churches and bookstores monthly in the San Francisco-Bay Area where she currently resides. Becca Anderson credits her spiritual practice with helping her recover from cancer and wants to share this with anyone who is facing difficulty in their life. Author of Think Happy to Stay Happy and Every Day Thankful, Becca Anderson shares her inspirational writings and suggested acts of kindness at https://thedailyinspoblog.wordpress.com/ She also blogs about Awesome Women, like those in her book Badass Affirmations, at https://theblogofawesomewomen.wordpress.com/
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Plan Be! - Becca Anderson
Contents
Foreword Wisdom, Thy Name is Woman
Introduction Plan Be! Secrets of Highly Successful Women
Chapter One Organization is the Key to Happiness
Chapter Two Self-Care: Love Yourself so You Can Love Your Life
Chapter Three Express Yourself Through Your Personal Style
Chapter Four With a Little Help from Your Friends, Family, and a Mentor or Two
Chapter Five Treat Yourself Well: Hard Work Deserves Reward
Chapter Six Living Your Best Life Every Day
Chapter Seven Daring Greatly: Making Sure Your Creativity and Ideas Count
Chapter Eight Women Make All the Difference at Work
Chapter Nine Never Hold Back: Shine Your Light Each and Every Day!
Conclusion Three Life-Changing Pieces of Advice I Am Passing On to You 1
About the Author
Foreword
Wisdom, Thy Name Is Woman
The volume you hold in your hands is a wonderful compilation of quips and quotes by inspiring women. They are mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts, grandmas, girlfriends, neighbors, classmates, and coworkers.
Some are famous—others not. But they all have uttered words that can teach, console, lift us up out of our doldrums, and share wisdom for our journey through life, and this is a book to turn to again and again for advice, support, encouragement, empathy, and understanding.
As you’ll see, wisdom isn’t limited to those of fame and fortune. Some of the wisest words I’ve ever heard came from the lips of ordinary women of extraordinary insight, like Suzanne Schultz, a researcher at the University of Delaware, who once said, The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of the interested listener.
Or my dear friend Karen, who likes to say, Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from what you can do.
My female friends and colleagues may come and go, but their wise words stay with me forever.
That’s not to say that famous women aren’t great sources of inspiration, too, because they are. For sure. And this book offers you the gift of their words as well.
Becca Anderson’s collection, Plan Be, is a veritable treasure chest of pearls of wisdom and wit from women. Words to live by—words to love by—words to laugh by. Words of wisdom from women who fan the flame of hope that each of us can design the kind of life we want to live—we don’t have to buy into anyone else’s definition of success, happiness, or fulfillment.
These are pearls of great worth. Try them on—see how they feel—choose the pearls that best suit you and the kind of life you aspire to. Keep them close to your heart. Every woman needs a good string of pearls…pearls of wisdom, that is.
Barbara Jean Hateley
Introduction
Plan Be!
Secrets of Highly Successful Women
Women inspire me. It’s as simple as that. All I have to do is look around. There are the women who run the restaurant on the corner—the place where everybody feels comfortable and taken care of. There are mothers pushing strollers, and mothers crunching numbers. There are women healing the sick. Gals cracking us up. Ladies penning the novels and singing the songs that change our lives. Chicks fixing the plumbing. Girls setting world records. Politicians challenging the status quo from within the system, and activists battering it from the outside. There are women at the pinnacle of their fields in every corner of the world, and women finding satisfaction in their own successes, small and large. What’s their secret? (Well, I’ll give you a hint…there’s more than one.)
What kind of success are you working toward?
Maybe you don’t know yet—or thought you did but aren’t sure. Or maybe you’re on the right track but need a kick in the pants.
In our own lives, success can feel elusive. We can get bogged down comparing ourselves to others or whining about what we lack. The women in this book have secrets to share, to shout to the rafters even. Their wise words will push your buttons, open your eyes, and rev up your engine.
This book is a reminder that you have what it takes to make it to the top. And the best part is, you get to decide where the top is, and you get to chart the path to reach it. This book is here for you—it’s full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Famous and infamous, wise and wisecracking, haughty and humble. Some are names you will know well, others are everyday gals like you and me with something important to add.
I read somewhere that we’re all descended from three ancestral mothers. How amazing is that? A woman brought each and every one of us into this world, and when we look in the mirror, we can see traces of our mothers, grandmothers, even great-grandmothers. And their gifts go way beyond skin-deep. Every woman in the world is a member of this family—and you can call on their words and their life stories to inspire you at every turn. So keep this book close to you as you get organized, vamp up your personal style, and figure out how to work smarter. Sit back and let this book help you remember the importance of relaxing and indulging yourself (with girlfriends whenever possible). And don’t ever forget to go after your dreams with every ounce of yourself, because after all—women can do anything!
The Art of Self-Affirmation
If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed and drained by the busyness of life with its many demands, you need to stop in your tracks and do an attitude adjustment, or more specifically, a gratitude adjustment.
Whenever you have gotten to this point, you have need of some me TLC
and a dose of radical self-care. Chances are, your very wonderfulness may have led you to give and give and give and give. Now, you need to give and give and give to yourself. You need to soak up the glory of your very being and remember that you are an amazing, awesome person and deserving of all good things!
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