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Mary Foley's Articles in General Self Help

  • Put Some Bounce In Your Spring
    Living bodaciously means making the most aware, informed choice and allowing yourself a "do over" if it's not going as you expected or like. Living bodaciously means we courageously renew ourselves.
  • Rescue Your Dreams!
    In our tumultuous world, it's easy to forget to dream and believe anything is possible, but, it truly is. And, it starts with allowing yourself to dream of what's possible for your career, business, and life.
  • Stepping Up To Your Big, Bodacious Moment
    Determining just exactly what it takes for you to be truly successful - as defined by you!
  • 7 Secrets to Work-Life Sanity
    As a woman you play multiple roles. You’re a daughter, grand daughter, sister, niece, girlfriend, wife, business woman, gal pal, volunteer….and sometimes community leader, politician, or in the ministry. And you’re exhausted! You want to do it all and do it all well. You don’t want to let anyone down, and yet you’re losing it...
  • Live Like Your Nail Color
    We've all heard that we should "Live Out Loud" or "Live Full Up" but this author thinks "Living Like Your Nail Color" sounds like the way to go. It's certainly Bodacious!
  • Empowerment Starts With “No”!
    Empowerment begins when we acknowledge that we alone can make the difference between getting what we want and accepting what we get. It's an easy concept but not a natural one for many of us.
  • How To Tell Within 10 Seconds If A Woman Is Bodacious
    We've all met women who exude self confidence, ones with charisma, ones who are magnetic, etc. But have you ever met a woman and known instantly that she was more than all that - was that Bodacious-ness? Here's how to tell.
  • Six Steps for Taking a Stand
    We've all been there. Whether in our career, business, or personal life, we've all encountered situations where someone is being, well, let's say, unpleasant. They are trying to push you to do something you don't want to do or they are questioning your work or they are dismissing your opinion or some other wonderful behavior.
  • The Best Piece of Advice I Learned from Katharine Hepburn
    Bodacious Women honor themselves as well as honor others. Explaining or complaining in deliberate measure honors you. Overdoing it doesn’t honor anyone and zaps your bodacious power.
  • Stop Taking it Personally and Start Living Bodaciously
    We can all remember a time when we took it personally, right? We spent all this time, energy, and emotion on processing how we felt when someone slighted us, what we wished we'd said, and what, if anything, we were going to do about it.
  • Feeling Secure in an Insecure World
    We all want security, but my life experience has forced me to come to a conclusion that I resisted for a long time: Security is an illusion. We’ve all heard that life doesn’t come with guarantees, but do we really want to believe it?
  • 10 Things You Want Your Reputation To Say About You
    When it comes to building your business or your career in a company, how people perceive you is often to the difference between more sales, promotions, and certainly your satisfaction. Here are ten things you want your reputation to say about you.
  • Don't Take it Personally
    "Don't take it personally" is my absolute number one favorite Bodacious Way because it comes in handy all the time. We can all remember a time when we took it personally, right?
  • Know How You Want to Be Treated
    Are you clear about how you want people to treat you? Have you experienced your boundaries being crossed or violated? One lesson women typically have a difficult time with is establishing boundaries.
  • We All Gotta Little Bodaciousness
    Do you want feel more bodacious and wonder how? It’s easier than you may have thought! My personal experience has convinced me that in the journey of becoming a Bodacious Woman, the place to start is on the inside.
  • 5 Steps To Take Charge Of Your Professional Growth
    Sometimes change in our professional lives comes at us expectedly and unwanted, sometimes we initiate it. Either way, how we respond to changes to our professional lives is what really counts. I like to think of it as "Change is inevitable, growth is optional. Choose to grow".