What is your Purpose?

The definition of Purpose, according to Webster’s Dictionary is: something set up as an end to be attained.

So what do you feel is your purpose?  The thing that makes you “tick”?  The thing you love to do?  The thing you love talking about?  The thing you do over and over again, most likely daily.  Something that even if no one paid you to do it, you would do it anyway? 

For me, it is all about being positive, and sharing that message, daily if possible.  I inherently believe we all need daily doses of positive reinforcement.  That I believe, is my purpose.  I get comments all the time about my “positive attitude”.

Let me be clear, I work at it.  Daily.  But I love what I do.  I love researching quotes, pictures, writing blogs, reading books/articles, anything I can find on personal development, positive reinforcement and being a better person.  It’s what drives me.  It is what makes me, me!

I found this quote recently, and I think it sums up perfectly how we should all feel about our purpose. Enjoy!

“Having a rough morning?

Place your hand over your heart.

Feel that? That’s called purpose

You’re alive for a reason.

Don’t give up”

Dream big people…

Patti

www.ninefrogs.com

Dress for Success/Part II

Since spring is right around the corner and it will be time to put away the winter clothes and bring out the spring/summer ones.  Take some time to really go through all your clothes and decide what’s a keeper and what’s not?  It’s better to have great outfits than ten outfits that are just ok.

This is a good time to go through all your clothes, keep clothes that are still in good shape, toss the ones that aren’t in good shape or can’t be fixed. And donate the ones that you either haven’t worn the past two seasons (this also goes for clothes you don’t fit into any more) or feel does nothing for you.

I think it’s also important to add a few new items every season.  It will freshen up your wardrobe and will make you feel so better wearing a new piece.  Even buying a few new shirts or a fabulous pair of sandals will do wonders for your attitude.

Here is something that I hear every year once the warm weather starts from a lot of women and I sincerely just don’t understand it.  Women who say they won’t wear sleeveless shirts or tank tops because they don’t like the tops of their arms.  Ridiculous! Do they think their arms look better in short sleeve shirts where it cuts them at their worst point?  My philosophy is, wear what makes you feel good!

I would much rather see a woman with a beautiful sun dress, gorgeous sandals, some jewelry and a little make-up and a huge smile, than to see a woman trying to hide under some hideous clothes just because she doesn’t want anyone to see the tops of her arms or show off her legs.  If you project to the world that you feel like a million bucks, then that is what people are going to get from you and will treat you as such.

Remember, it is your attitude that makes the outfit, not the clothes.  Just like my tag line says, where attitude is everything!

Dream big people…

Patti

www.ninefrogs.com

Where did you come up with that name?

Ever since I launched this little website of mine, I have been asked so many times, where did you come up with that name?  

So here, for your reading pleasure, is the answer:

When I was thinking about this new business venture of many months ago, I knew one thing from the start; it had to have a catchy name.  Think, Target, FaceBook, Walmart.  I had read enough business books and blogs to know that having a catchy name was paramount in launching a new business if I wanted people to remember me.  And, personally, I also knew I wanted a .com name.  Not too difficult a task I thought.  Boy was I wrong!

On the day I was ready to purchase my new domain name, I had three names ready to go.  Three name that I had given a lot of thought into.  As I entered the first name, imagine my surprise when I came up “taken”.  Ok, then I entered second one in, “taken”. Wow I thought, that’s crazy.  Third one has to be available, but no, third name I had was taken also.  I was shocked that all the names I had selected were taken already (obviously I hadn’t done my homework, otherwise I would have realized that there are like a bazillion websites out there in the internet world).  

Anyway, at this point, I literally walked around my house…looking at everything trying to come up with some clever names.  And every name I came up with was taken.

I was so frustrated I decided to shelve the idea for a while and go take a shower.  It was in the shower that I noticed a small green rubber frog that had been in there for years, one of the kid’s toys that somehow never left the bathroom. I looked at that frog and something just came to me and I thought, yup, has to have frog in the name.  I thought Pink Frog, Purple Frog, Blue Frog…all taken. Then I thought up numbers, and again, something just popped into my head. In Feng Shui, the numbers eight and nine are lucky (as are frogs).  And as I stood in the shower, saying it out loud, it just sounded perfect, NineFrogs.  And there you have it, the name of my business. Oddly enough, since I picked that name, the number nine has become more significant to me.  After picking the name, one of my girlfriends reminded me that there are nine of us in our group, I hadn’t even thought of that.  And when I go to a particular gym, they always give me locker #9.

I wish I could say everyone loves the name, most people do.  But have also encountered certain people who haven’t liked the name.  Some have gone so far as to say, “that is the best name you could come up with? I could have done better than that” (and if you are reading this, you know who you are). Lesson here, there are always going to be people who won’t like your shit, so don’t worry about it.

For me, I am very happy with the name and at the end of the day, that’s all that counts!

Till next time…

Patti

www.ninefrogs.com