Monthly Archives: October 2014
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Nina Guilbeau goes on her first book blog tour. Follow her insightful guest posts, giveaways and interviews with these WOW! Women On Writing tour dates:
My husband and I watched the movie “Cars” on DVD last Saturday night. I know I am a little behind the times, since this movie came out in 2006, but I am so glad we watched it! It was light-hearted, cute, and funny; it just left you with a happy feeling in your heart! I often take away life lessons from watching movies and there were many life lessons to be gleaned from the movie Cars, but the lesson that hit home the most, with me, was the need for us to not try and do it/ do life alone! At the beginning of the movie, that was the mindset of the “hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen,” but by the end of the movie he was a changed man/a changed car, as the result of some unexpected and unwanted life experiences, like that of spending time in “Radiator Springs”!
Last Saturday, I attended a half day conference and heard a speaker talk on Designing Your Life; it was amazing! I got so much out of it; I took seven-teen pages of notes as I listened to her speak and share words of wisdom, from her personal life experiences. Whenever I attend a gathering and have pages and pages of notes, I always try to condense it to one page of bullet points, with the main things that I want to focus on and apply to my life, at the time. After doing so on Saturday, this is some of what I had written down: My need: be free My desire: be happy My legacy: be myself I shared this with my lifecoach this week and she pointed out to me how great it was that they were all “to be” statements and they were not about “doing” anything. This is huge for me, for I am such a check things off my to-do list type of person. I realized, I really am becoming free (my word for this year)! It was very encouraging to me. How freeing it is to know that the legacy I will leave on
While being interviewed on a morning talk show, this week, the guest star (an actress of a weekly TV series) was asked, “Is it hard for you to not know the future of your show and what’s going to happen to your character in it?” Her reply resonated with me, so much so that I came home and wrote her words down! She responded to the question with such transparency saying, “Yes, it is hard for me because I have a ‘type A’ personality and am a ‘control freak.’” Then she went on to say (and this is the part that really struck me), “But, I have learned to be okay with it because I
Latest Book Release
God Doesn't Love Us All The Same, by Nina Guilbeau
Janine Harris never really thought about homeless people. She barely even notices them as she passes them by on her way to work in downtown Washington D.C. All Janine can focus on is the shambles of her own young life, afraid that she will never be able to get past the painful mistakes she has made. However, all of that changes on a snowy evening in December when Janine unexpectedly finds herself alone with Vera, an old, homeless woman who seems to need her help. Now Janie wants to know what could have possibly happened to Vera to leave her so broken and alone.
As Vera shares her life story with Janine, the two women form an unusual bond and begin a journey that changes both of their lives forever. Reluctantly, they each confront their own past and, in the process, discover the true meaning of sacrifice, family and love. Although to truly move forward in their lives, they must fast the most difficult challenge of all – forgiving themselves.
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