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Keys To Having A Fulfilled Life
First, take yourself off the hook from needing to have someone else’s definition of happiness.
I don’t have it all, but I do have what I need. It’s easy to look at people and see a
snapshot of their life, but not know what they’re really going through. To the
woman who is looking and it seems like everyone is living and I’m just doing,
don’t believe the hype. The grass isn’t greener. The grass is green where it is
watered and fertilized. So work your land and give yourself permission to ask,
“What does my happiness look like?”
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The relationship is not the prize. You are the prize. My life changed when I
realized I was the prize. I treated myself better. I held myself as a prize vs. thinking
because someone is dating me or because I have this person, then I’m the prize
now that I’m in a relationship. Your relationship status does not validate your
humanity.
Give yourself permission to know that you’re worthy of the best. Don’t settle for
anything or anybody for the sake of. That’s probably why I stayed in relationship
longer than I should have—I liked the way it looked and felt. Being in a relation-
ship may check the box, but does it actually check the box of what you’re seeking
and desiring for yourself in partnership?
Be a boss —
BE STRATEGIC,
BE A DELEGATOR,
About
Charreah:
BE MINDFUL OF YOUR
RESOURCES
AND BE A BRIDE,
Charreah K. Jackson
is the Senior Editor for
ESSENCE, touching
the brand’s audience
of 13 million, and the
author of Boss Bride:
The Powerful Woman’s
Playbook for Love &
Success. She is a
featured expert on
CNN, NBC and Sirius
and her stories have
been featured on Time,
Fortune, Good Morning
America and The Today
Show.
BE A WOMAN ON HER
WEDDING DAY
LIVING IN HER MOMENT AND
CONNECTED TO THE PEOPLE
WHO MATTER THE MOST.”
- Charreah K. Jackson
Senior Editor for ESSENCE
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