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Inspirational Leaders

These posts describe how we could all be leaders and guide others in a positive way.

Low Power Mode

Wouldn’t it be great if our bodies came with the option for automatic “Low Power Mode” just like our iPhones?

This is the definition on Apple’s website:

“Use Low Power Mode to save battery life on your iPhone. Low Power Mode reduces the amount of power that your iPhone uses when the battery gets low.  When Low Power Mode is on, your iPhone will last longer before you need to charge it, but some features might take longer to update or complete.  Also, some tasks might not work until you turn off Low Power Mode, or until you charge your iPhone to 80% or higher.  When Low Power Mode is on, the battery in the status bar will be yellow.   After you charge your iPhone to 80% or higher, Low Power Mode automatically turns off. ”

How great would it be if our bodies had a setting for that?

Like before they forced us to …

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What’s your love language?

I’m quite possibly the world’s worst gift-giver.

“They say” that you show love in the way you feel loved.  The fact that I do not feel loved when you buy me a gift, is abundantly clear in my nearly non-existent gift-giving prowess.  I’m a Quality Time girl, which is why I will be chasing you down for your most valuable asset (your time) until the day I die.  It’s why creating the HeartStories Girls Night Out is all about being face-to-face.  It’s the secret sauce of all of life, at least to me.   But it’s also why it’s incredibly important for me to surround myself with a team of people who are passionate about all the other ways people feel loved, including giving beautiful, thoughtful, meaningful gifts.

We do that at GNO too! 

Have you ever heard of the 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman? He says they are:

l. Words of …

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This must be the place

Do you have a friend in your life who’s been down the road you’re traveling?  Do you know someone, even from a distance, who has crossed the ravine you’re standing at the edge of, looking down on today?

I do.

One of the biggest blessings of doing the work of HeartStories has been ALL of the incredible women I’ve become friends with over the years.  The nature of my work has required me to reach out to women I’ve never even met, to ask to work together.  One of the first things I look for is a woman who is ready to share her pain, not only her success.  She’s a woman I look to as a mentor.  She may be experiencing wild success, but she knows how she got there.

“Flowers do not bloom without rain.  Everything has a purpose, even pain.”

These women feel the pain, learn to understand why it’s there, …

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A Heart like a Wildflower

This is my beautiful friend Molly Stephenson.  She left town temporarily, to go work with some couple in Waco. (Chip & Jo?) Why would she do a thing like that? Leave us to go work on the team at Magnolia?  Who knows!?

All I know is that she’s back, and I’m thrilled!

She returned to the Dallas area to be near family.  And when she moved back, she decided she was only going to say “yes” to the things that bring her joy.  This means that learning to say “no”, has consistently freed her up to say “yes” to the other things that are life-giving to her soul.  Things like finding a job where she could combine her design skillset with hand-lettering, doing graphic design for a small paper goods company.  Things like saying yes to us!  (We get the joy of experiencing one of Molly’s Modern Calligraphy workshops during our Simmer …

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Still here, still smiling, 10 years later

Are you living proof that difficult roads often lead to the most beautiful destinations?  Have you learned the hard way that the very best things in life aren’t usually surprising, and they don’t come quickly, or easily?  If you’re anything like me, you’re echoing a resounding “YES!” in your mind as you read those words

The very best things often take the longest and require more of you than you think you have to give. 

It’s no surprise then, that it’s been more than a year that we’ve been working to bring Cindy Pedraza Puente, the co-founder of CocoAndre, up to Frisco from Dallas to be our Featured Guest for a HeartStories Girls Night Out, chocolate-making class!  I wanted so badly to have Cindy with us last year, but the timing and logistics simply didn’t work. At the time it was incredibly frustrating. 

But today, I can see so clearly the beautiful destination …

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The most fascinating you

If you’ve ever read any of my writing or heard me speak about taking the Fascination Advantage personality quiz by Sally Hogshead, you know that learning about her work set me free from any shame about showing up, as the “real” Crystal in my work with HeartStories.  It allowed me to stop trying to pretend to be “buttoned up, business Crystal” but instead to boldly let all my quirks show, and eventually shine.  (as hilariously pictured above)  The premise for Sally’s work is that:

“Different is better than better.”

This was transformative for me.  Growing up, I always knew I was “different”.  I knew I was a non-conformer.  I was wearing a sombrero, making ridiculous announcements about taking a world-wide siesta, with my best friend and a bull horn when other girls were perfecting their curls, wearing the latest trends and trying to fit in.  But it goes beyond the current trend …

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