Knowing when to Unplug

Prof. Drea 'Sisters being nice and kind' #fba #b1 #profdrea

Dear Sis! There is nothing wrong with being kind, graceful, loving! Kindness is contagious so work on being unkind and undo the nastiness and meanness… it's terrible for health. Literally, it is!

Daily Mantra for Thriving and Surviving

 

Unpacking Prof. Drea's Revolutionary Boundaries - BrownGirlTribe Let's T...

Audacity is at an all-time high because boundaries are at an all-time low. Remember to set and reinforce boundaries today! You must love and respect yourself enough to not let people use and abuse you. You have to set boundaries and keep them, tell people you won’t tolerate being treated, and let them know how you expect to be treated.

Get Well, Flyness: Saturday Self-Care Edition

We have to stop being our biggest critics while navigating critical and disempowered people on a daily basis. There's a difference between criticism and feedback. Negativity begets negativity

I want you to practice speaking, thinking, and treating yourself with care and love.

Take pride in your appearance, hygiene, and overall grooming. Sit down today and write down the last time you went to the doctor, dentist, or specialist. Don't like your body, write down what you are going to work on feeling good, looking good, and being good by working on your mind, body, and spirit.

If you want to make a change, you have to change your attitude and perspective on life and do the inner work. No shortcuts or tapping out during difficult times. It builds your character and resilience.

Small steps will help you to conquer the major steps. While you're conquering baby steps, I want you to unlearn and dismantle that inner critic within yourself. It's not going to be an overnight process, it might be a lifelong journey but it's worth it.

Think highly about yourself. Treat yourself with the utmost respect and be the blueprint of how others treat you and yourself. Speak to yourself in the most empowering and uplifting manner

 

Journal Prompts for Holistic Awakening

Journaling is a great way to tap into your inner healing and express yourself when you can't express yourself outwardly. I have developed these journal prompts to help anyone who is experiencing a paradigm shift or holistic (mind, body, and spirit) awakening. 

Please grab a notebook and pen designated for self-expressive therapy aka journaling and let's start the inner healing process. 

 

Journal Prompt: What's Your Life Purpose and Intentions?

Brown Girl Wisdom: What is your intention for today? Let me break down intention(ality): helps you understand the importance and purpose of your bigger vision and directs your mind and actions to help you achieve it.

Set one intention. My intention for today is self-determination. You have to be determined and audacious to achieve things that you achieve and more. There will be naysayers saying: Who does s/he think she is but you know who you are.

So, how are you going to manifest the vision by taking one small action step to achieve the big picture? How are you going to acknowledge the inner critic and shut it down to move forward in progressing, evolving, and elevating from basic to better?

 

Burnout and Radical Self-Care

 Let's talk about burnout; I've been there, done that, and will not accept an invitation back.

Burnout is when you are coexisting beyond exhaustion. It's when you said yes, maybe so, even when you want to say NO!

You do it anyway because you don't want to disappoint people, or maybe you are a people pleaser.

Burnout is when you used to be vibrant and a go-getter, and now you can't get out of bed.

It's time to place boundaries in your life and take care of yourself.

On the blog, there are plenty of resources on self-care!

What to say NO to:

Say no when you don't want to do or cannot do anything else.

Say no to those useless and frivolous events and meetings that don't require your presence.

Say no, and do not pick your phone up when that same person is calling you with the drama trauma story.

Say no to victim consciousness and codependent relationships.

Say no and protect yourself from energy vampires!

Say no when too much is on your plate.

Say no to constantly working late and becoming a workaholic.

Say no without explanation.

Flex Your Inner Success

 

Flex your inner success! Many times we like to flex our outer success but what about our inner success?

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” -Booker T. Washington

Monday Motivation: Be intentionally about your time! Don’t rush your progress!

NBP21: Professional and Personal Development with Andrea Imafidon

In today’s episode we talk about the “hustle & grind”, #GetPaidNotPlayed, three tips to manage your business tasks with ease instead of overwhelm, steps to maintaining a growth mindset, the story behind the business name, overcoming adversity, the importance of a strong support system and journaling to grow.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST EPISODE: The story behind Andrea’s business name and how it embodies Andrea’s business message. Andrea’s process to supporting her clients to grow via. “growth work” Overcoming adversity & negative energy with a strong support system, self love and long drives. Three ways to manage your business. Seeing the beauty in the every day and finding time for movement. ANDREA IMAFIDON SAID: “Seeing the greatness in people when they don't see it themselves.”

“Using your own voice and own power in situations.”

“We have been created to serve a purpose.”

“Hearing your own soul voice.”

“Having a voice is my WHY.”

HEAR MORE ABOUT ANDREA IMAFIDON: Andrea C. Imafidon, MSW is a certified Personal and Professional Development coach and image and brand consultant, who helps individuals, organizations, and small businesses become their best version of themselves on and offline through personal and professional image and branding and goal setting. She is also a speaker, mentor, digital storyteller and social media consultant. She is the digital storyteller and content creator at Brown Girl From Boston. She served as a guest blogger on “Blavity”, “Black and Married with Kids” and “xoNecole”. She also appeared on TLC’s Bling It On with Sondra Celli. Andrea is the author of three books, “Manifesting Your Greatness,” a goal setting book to help others to become goal getters, “Turning Your Passion Into A Paycheck: How to Monetize Your Passion, Strengths, and Gifts,” which is a guide to starting your startup and Self-Care For Brown Girls a healthy and holistic guide for Black and Brown women to truly and unapologetically take care of themselves. Andrea is a 2016 RISBJ Women to Watch Entrepreneurial Women to Watch nominee. Andrea served as a Social Media Roundtable Expert at the 2016 Massachusetts Conference for Women. She also served as an entrepreneurship mentor for South Coast Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll). She is the 2014 Practico Innovation Business Pitch Idea Winner for her StartSavvy app.

Andrea Imafidon is a professional coach with a certification in personal development coaching from The CaPP Institute. She earned an M.S. in Social Work from The University of Southern Mississippi and a B.S. in Social Work from Tuskegee University.

FAVOURITE QUOTE TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD Progress Over Perfection

ONE BOOK YOU SHOULD READ The Power of Broke by Daymond John


In today’s episode we talk about the “hustle & grind”, #GetPaidNotPlayed, three tips to manage your business tasks with ease instead of overwhelm, steps to maintaining a growth mindset, the story behind the business name, overcoming adversity, the importance of a strong support system and journaling to grow.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST EPISODE: The story behind Andrea’s business name and how it embodies Andrea’s business message. Andrea’s process to supporting her clients to grow via. “growth work” Overcoming adversity & negative energy with a strong support system, self love and long drives. Three ways to manage your business. Seeing the beauty in the every day and finding time for movement. ANDREA IMAFIDON SAID: “Seeing the greatness in people when they don't see it themselves.”

“Using your own voice and own power in situations.”

“We have been created to serve a purpose.”

“Hearing your own soul voice.”

“Having a voice is my WHY.”

HEAR MORE ABOUT ANDREA IMAFIDON: Andrea C. Imafidon, MSW is a certified Personal and Professional Development coach and image and brand consultant, who helps individuals, organizations, and small businesses become their best version of themselves on and offline through personal and professional image and branding and goal setting. She is also a speaker, mentor, digital storyteller and social media consultant. She is the digital storyteller and content creator at Brown Girl From Boston. She served as a guest blogger on “Blavity”, “Black and Married with Kids” and “xoNecole”. She also appeared on TLC’s Bling It On with Sondra Celli. Andrea is the author of three books, “Manifesting Your Greatness,” a goal setting book to help others to become goal getters, “Turning Your Passion Into A Paycheck: How to Monetize Your Passion, Strengths, and Gifts,” which is a guide to starting your startup and Self-Care For Brown Girls a healthy and holistic guide for Black and Brown women to truly and unapologetically take care of themselves. Andrea is a 2016 RISBJ Women to Watch Entrepreneurial Women to Watch nominee. Andrea served as a Social Media Roundtable Expert at the 2016 Massachusetts Conference for Women. She also served as an entrepreneurship mentor for South Coast Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll). She is the 2014 Practico Innovation Business Pitch Idea Winner for her StartSavvy app.

Andrea Imafidon is a professional coach with a certification in personal development coaching from The CaPP Institute. She earned an M.S. in Social Work from The University of Southern Mississippi and a B.S. in Social Work from Tuskegee University.

FAVOURITE QUOTE TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD Progress Over Perfection

ONE BOOK YOU SHOULD READ The Power of Broke by Daymond John

I Am A Phenomenal Woman!

 "Whenever an elder dies within the village, a piece of history also dies" -Andrea C. Imafidon

While leaving an amazing breakfast in honor of bridging the gap of women inequality and raising the pay wage, I heard of the sad news of the passing of the original phenomenal woman, Dr. Maya Angelou. I am sadden of this news because she was a fierce leader who shared wisdom and was in sync with her passion and vision God set before her.

I remember reading "I Knew Why The Caged Bird Sings" at an early age for summer reading. I also remember being a freshmen at Tuskegee University, going to pageants hosted by various fraternities and sororities on campus and hearing young ladies reciting "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou. After hearing the poem being recited so many times, I grew to loving the poem and also living the poem by being an example of a phenomenal woman.

I just wanted to write a small blog post to honor Dr. Maya Angelou because she was a spiritual mother to all, she lived out loud and she was courageous throughout her life. Besides my mother, I am encouraged by Dr. Maya Angelou's poised, calm and radical demeanor. I respect her work as being a writer, orator, dancer, teacher and philosopher. Dr. Maya Angelou left a legacy that will be continued by many.

As an African-American woman, I strive to be the best that I can be and provide positive energy and light whenever someone cross my path. I am far from perfect but I am a phenomenal woman in my way. Being a phenomenal woman is also recognizing the greatness you possess, the energy and light you possess, living boldly and loudly, serving others and being the best imperfect human being you can be.

Below, I have listed my top five Dr. Maya Angelou's quotes/wisdom that I live by:

1. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
2. "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
3. "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
4. "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
5. "You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."

Thanks for reading Brown Girl From Boston Blog!

Do you have a favorite Dr. Maya Angelou's quote? If so, share by commenting on this post. 

Much love,

Andrea

XOXO