WE'RE MOVING THE PARTY OVER HERE, Y'ALL!

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Same Concept, New Focus.

Join Mahlena and her quippy witticisms over here at WRITE YOUR FIRST BOOK with MAHLENA:

Facebook Page: Facebook.com/WriteYourFirstBookWithMahlena

website: Write Your First Book with Mahlena

email: WriteYourFirstBookWithMahlena@gmail.com

The 5 Best Ways to Start Writing. Now. #1: Who?

Hi Dreamers! 🙋🏾

It's my first Facebook Live series: The 5 Best Ways to Start Writing. Now.

Mompreneurs: How to Grow Your Business When You Don’t Have Time to Wash Your Hair!

Dreamers, we have our first guest post that is not written by me, Mahlena. 😀

Please welcome Sara Millis from My Indie Life Blog!

Below, Sara explains to us Mompreneurs, How to Grow Your Business When You Don’t Have Time to Wash Your Hair!

"No time!"

‘Time’

It’s the one truly elusive thing we always need more of.

Let’s face it some days no matter how hard you work you barely seem to have time to cover the basics; like washing your hair, let alone planning for world domination with your killer business idea!

What if I told you that business growth is possible even at your busiest?

Time for Me? Time for You!

image: Shield Sisters Initiative

More guest posts from me for you Dreamers to read. 😀

Ready to Find Time to actually Run Your Business?

Yes, I'm talking to you! 😯

For the month of September 2017, I'm offering a limited number of FREE...

Confessions of an Overachiever: I feel the fear, and I do it anyway.

"The ideal person for me to date would be blind, so that they wouldn't be scared away by the way I look." 

- Mahlena-Rae Johnson to herself for most of her life

I know what I want, and I go after it. Hard.

That often requires imagination, because I want a lot of big things and big ideas that don't get much representation in reality.

For instance, on my Dream Board, I created an image that says, "Billionaire Mum."

C'est moi!

Ou, ce sera moi.

There aren't that many mothers who are billionaires out there, and only one woman billionaire I know of who is black.

"It's meee!"

Where is your Safe Space?

"For black people, it has become very hard to find a place where you can just chill out... You need a place where you can come to to deal with it... Safe spaces give you the energy you need to deal with the world's bull(bleep)." - Amber Ruffin


Dreamers, where is your safe space?

Ready to Write Your First Book?

For the month of August 2017, I'm offering a limited number of FREE Write Your First Book 30-minute Laser Coaching calls. 😊

This is for you Lady Bosses and Mompreneurs struggling to make that jump from “wish-I-could-be-an-author” to actual Book Writer.📚

Maybe you've got an idea for a story, but you have spent way too many hours thinking about writing a book, hoping and praying for inspiration to strike, or for time to free up in your schedule.

Or maybe you know what you're meant to do, but you are struggling with how to turn that story into an actual book people are begging you to read.

Either way, you need some clarity, and fast.

If you're so ready to:

* Finally have a step-by-step action plan to get that story inside of you out to the world, instead of spending your time doing everything for everyone else in your life

* Get clarity on how to create a time to write in your schedule so quickly, the words start flying out of your head and onto the screen

* Be confident that you've GOT what it takes to become an author (and a good one at that!)

Then let's talk! 🙋🏾

Email me at iHaveADreamBoard@gmail.com.

Let's make some magic ✨ (aka writing your unique story) happen for you!

Offer ends August 31, 2017.

I wrote this. Over here. Look!

image: Totally Mommed It!

Kanani B., the Blogging Momtrepreneur and Work at Home Mastermind, featured me on her blog, Totally Mommed It!!

Click over and read "Write Your First Book in 3 Easy Steps" over here!

Keep swimming.

"If you say so, Dory."

“What’s a time things didn’t go your way, but you laughed and kept going forward anyway?”
 - Ramit Sethi

"Well..."

Earlier in 2017, I launched a online course called Write Your GRE Essay in 30 minutes or less on my Increase Your GRE Verbal Score website. It failed. No one purchased the course.

"It is not easy for any of us."

For the moms (and mompreneurs!) who are doing the best they can with what they have, despite the false lessons we have been taught. ✊🏾

Who I am, and What I do

It's a video of me!

Mostly it's stuff you Dreamers already know. But I'm doing a business challenge, and this is one of the tasks.

You wouldn't guess this, but I'm surprised when...

"Oh?"

... other people say I'm successful.

Yes. Really.

In Case You Missed It: Look y'all, I'm famous!

image: thisisHERmovement.com

(within a particular sphere of black women and black entrepreneurship)

Kyshira Moffett, creator of the lifestyle brand, #HERmovement, featured me on her blog.

Click over and read it here!

#TimeManagement: Make a Plan, and Do the Work.

"Oh, we're supposed to invest our extra income?

What did Mahlena say about how to make more money?"

In the words of a fallen member of the black community, "If you fail to plan, then you are planning to fail."

It's okay to deviate from your plan, but if you have no plan in the first place, where are you going?

Toonces does not know.

Let me tell you a story.

It was senior year of high school.

I got accepted to my first-choice university.

I also decided to attend this institution, because it was where I needed to be.

Soon after I made this decision, two of my classmates told me that they didn't get into this school because I applied.

Save Time and Save Money: The Top 5 Ways your Dream Board will help.

"What would you do if I gave you this Tubman, Girlfriend?"

Save Time.

Save Money.

First of all, I like to spend my time doing things I enjoy and invest my money in ways to enrich my life. Those are the images I put on my Dream Boards to inspire me to greatness

However, the phrases "save time" and "save money" rank higher in Google search terms.

So here we are.

These are the top 5 ways Dream Boards will help you Save Time and Save Money!

FIND TIME for ME: How to Write a Book edition

"I always wanted to write a book."

How do you write a book?

Start writing.

"And when you come to the end, stop."

For you Dreamers saying, "I have no time to do anything, much less write a book!", start over here for a Quick Fix.

"Off to get my Quick Fix!"

For the rest of you Dreamers who have some time, but don't know where to start, let me spin you a yarn about my book writing journey.

I will, Sir Idris Elba!

Selfish Mommy

"I did it all, including giving birth to Sondra at 21 and Denise at 25,

while graduating from Hillman College and going to law school, 

then becoming a successful attorney, raising three more children, 

dancing with Debbie Allen, and loving my husband 

who performs medical examinations in the basement."

Part of me wants to burn down all of the projects I'm working on and start a new one called Selfish Mommy, where I tell mothers via audio, video, blog, book, online, and in person that I give you permission to make time for yourself.

That's essentially what I'm doing here on I Have A Dream Board, but the message is for busy women in general, whether you have decided to raise children or not.

Women in general need to shut out all the noise and think about what is right for them.

Mothers in particular have crazy nonsense hurled at them all the time.

I thought it would stop by the time I became a mother. It is 2017, after all. But now it's worse.

The last straw on the camel's back came for me last week.

How to Be the Best: You need to Be Specific

"We're the best Laurie and Jackie doing stand-up comedy."

So you think you can Be the Best. (I see you, Aubrey/Drake.)

Let me tell you a tale.

You're Right. You Don't Have Time for everything. Here's a Quick Fix.

C'est tout.

You don't have to do it all.

How can you move forward?

How can you get more done?

"Well, I'll tell you, Nicki."