Good brands fulfill the dreams I have about myself and create harmony between the me I am and the me I desire to be.
Many people told me I had three strikes against me: I was black.
And that would be around my friends and my family, and certain places I go where I know people know me and I can just be me.
His song had the rather clumsy title of I am I...or I am Me... or Me am I - doesn't really work well in English, does it?
The most meaningful support I received early on as a CEO was from the dominant board member who told me I was doing great, but I would fail at some things and he would be there for me when I did.
One might tell me I was calm, while another advised me that I needed to cool down, so take their readings with a grain of salt if you choose to hop on board.
At thirty, I renounced that other me and I went back to being me.
He asked me where I was going, and when I told him, he asked me if I had a place to stay.
"I told her she would not be happy with me because I had been drinking and when she saw me the next day I would be hungover, " Mr Siree said.
When I was pitching media ad nauseum back in the day, I was fortunate enough to pitch a few reporters who not only appropriately reamed me when I did it wrong, but they also took the time to tell me how I could have better intrigued them.
The producer guy got back to me after I sent him the video and asked me if I was a comedian or an actor.
"I was patiently waiting for somebody to give me a nickname that I thought suited me, " he says.
It showed me that I could really do anything and it showed me that I was tougher than I thought I was.
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People laugh at me when I say that, but they laughed at me when I said I wanted to be singer, and I'm a singer now.
Sometimes I worry that will happen to me but I don't think about that too much, plus I have Mindy to help me.
"I think, for me, the only thing that I basked in was that I had an impact on people, that people turned to me for inspiration, and I think that was the only thing I focused on, " the Hawaii-born Mormon said.
One day I was working with him, and that familiar smell that greeted me as I opened the anaesthetic room door immediately transported me back to the fear I once knew.
"If you had asked me when I was at my heaviest how being heavy had impacted me, I would have said, 'not at all, '" Jackson says.
Mr. GORDON PARKS (Photographer, Life magazine): I remember my mother specifically telling me that she would not accept any excuses because I was black and that I failed this or failed that, or this was denied me or that was denied me because I was black.
And a small business might wonder, I don't know how the energy bill is going to affect me, I don't know how the health care reform bill is going to affect me -- I'd better hold off on hiring.
He encouraged me, put me through college, told me I could make it and convinced me that in spite of a tough upbringing, I could do what I dreamed of doing.
"I had people tell me I should have never had children, " she said.
The bonds forged then continue to this day and were about the only positive message I took with me as I left the town the day before Christmas.
"I just have to pay tribute to Alexander Dale Oen tonight, I know he has been with me this year, I think he helped me finish the race in such a strong manner, " van der Burgh said.
Meanwhile, I can use the free GPS on my smart phone, which tends to find me a few blocks away from where I really am, but it gives me a route that takes me where I need to go.
She says the Can I Just Tell You segment of TELL ME MORE I always a favorite part for me.
Don't get me wrong, I have an incredible support team around me for which I'm very grateful, but maybe I'm shortchanging myself by not making more of an effort with fellow moms.
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My mother asked me if I was going to hire someone to help me with childcare, I said that I was going to do it myself.
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But I think, for me, it was somewhat redemptive just because having left the show after eight years I felt in some way, not that it wasn't the right decision for me, but that I had left Chris and Gillian (Anderson) a way to carry on without an integral part of the show.
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Three times in a little over a week I received unsolicited PR pitches from people who told me I was part of their blogger outreach program and they wanted me to write a piece in Forbes about their content marketing programs.
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