Big 5 Guide to Girl! Power

By Dawniel Patterson-Winningham

Tips and Motivational Tools to help women GROW their success NOW

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dawniel Patterson-Winningham
• Release date: Nov 14, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465895844

Dawniel Patterson-Winningham

Dawniel Patterson-Winningham is a successful corporate performance coach for a fortune 100 firm. In addition to this outstanding achievement she is a private life coach specializing in helping people achieve the dream of leaving their 9 - 5 and becoming entrepreneurs. She currently writes a Girl! Power monthly column for 2 online magazines. She is CEO of her own publishing company called Twin Power Publishing, in which she not only publishes her own books, but also coaches aspiring authors on completing their own self published titles. She provides pro-bono coaching to non-profit entities looking to expand the reach of the people they assist. She is the mother of 3 including twins and currently resides in Katy, Tx; a suburb of Houston.

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The Big 5 guide to Girl! Power

Tips and Motivational Tools to help women GROW their success NOW

Smashwords Edition October 2011

Dawniel Patterson-Winningham

DeedeeGIRL!© Dawniel Winningham, 2011. Except as provided by the Copyright Act [date, etc.] no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission of the author.

Girl! Power 2011

In this photo:

Left Angie Cathro – Author of I Know Why The Tattered, Torn, and Bruised are Beautiful, 2011 Available for purchase on amazon.com

Right (Afro)Tamika Booker – Banker/Model

Cover and Internal Design: HRD Design

Author Photo: Melissa Westbury/Shabby Chic Photography

Girl! Power Photo: Pat Whitty

For more information on increasing your Girl! Power or to share how girl power has changed your life, I would love for you to visit my web site at: www.yourgirlpower.com

Follow me: www.twitter.com/yourgirlpower

On Face book www.facebook.com/authordawnielpattersonwinningham

Dedication

To Troy, the most supportive man a chick could ask for. Thanks for showing me a different way, always being there to catch me when I slip, strong enough to pick me up when I fall and for always being willing to stop and pick up a notebook when my thoughts overwhelm me! This BIG 5 Guide is a testament to our history, and motivation for women everywhere to write it down and to live the dream!

Push through, Push through, Push through, that is my mantra for today. We all burn the candle at both ends, have times when we feel that we can't go on, but like my friend Latisha H. says, you can't sleep on women! We are all powerful, and multi-faceted! We are above all else determined and committed to being victorious! Push through ladies and get it BIG!

Dawniel Patterson-Winningham July, 2011

Contents

INTRODUCTION – WHY BIG 5?

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

GROWING IN FERTILE SOIL

10 TIPS TO G.R.O.W. FINANCES

10 RULES TO G.R.O.W. FINANCES

10 TIPS TO G.R.O.W. SELF ESTEEM

10 RULES TO G.R.O.W. SELF ESTEEM

10 TIPS TO G.R.O.W. HEALTH

10 RULES TO G.R.O.W. HEALTH

10 TIPS TO G.R.O.W. CAREER

10 RULES TO G.R.O.W. CAREER

10 TIPS TO G.R.O.W. RELATIONSHIPS

10 RULES TO G.R.O.W. RELATIONSHIPS

ACTIVITIES, VISUALIZATIONS AND MOTIVATIONS

WEED CONTROL

REWARDS AND REPERCUSSIONS

CLOSING THOUGHTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Foreword

Have you ever read a book that inspired and motivated you to change? Sure you have. We do change, even if briefly. Often it takes more than us reading words on paper to make changes. Making changes that will be long term require a change in our thought process. The BIG 5 Guide will help you tap into what motivates you and provides you with the tools and advice needed to make BIG changes and BIG decisions. More importantly it provides you with a process and the motivation to write your plan down in your own words, based on what is most important to you. Doing so will allow you to obtain BIG GOALS!

From a personal perspective, I know that in order to solidify your goals, you must write them down. Writing them down is a personal commitment to accomplish what you have set out to do. Written goals are often the missing link between the person who wants to accomplish things, and the person who actually makes it happen. In other words, if you want to keep it real with yourself, and you are for real about what you want to do, write it down!

Studies show that along with accountability and commitment, those who chart their path via pen are significantly more effective at completing their goals.

Because I am not the best me I would like to be, I am taking this journey with you. Next time you see me, ask for my workbook and see that I am committed to improving me!

Therefore, without further ado, get your favorite pen, and get ready to write the plan that will propel you to rock star status. If not rock star status, then at least you can be the happiest woman possible. After all Girl! You deserve it. We all do.

He knows my heart, He knows what I am capable, and He knows that I have faith... I ask that He continue to guide my steps, and bless my path so that I can in turn act in my calling to help women be better

Dawniel Patterson-Winningham October, 2011

Introduction – Why BIG 5?

How do you eat an elephant? The right answer is one bite at a time. Change is hard, and life is even more difficult. Often we attempt to change many things in our lives at once. Doing so spreads our focus into many different areas, and does not allow us the optimum ability to have the laser-like focus needed to make the change and keep the change going.

For instance, take New Years Resolutions. Most people have no less than three or four, (and for those ambitious people like me, sometimes five or more). Keep in mind these are things that we are doing that we want to stop doing or change the way we do them. They are habits. It takes more than just a notion or a wish to change a habit. It takes dedication and effort.

The BIG 5 is simply