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"Ain’t No way Around It."

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Obstacles happen to EVERYONE!! You’re obstacle is unique because you’re unique but there is nothing in this world that’s hasn’t been done already. God has all the solutions because he forsee’s the storms in your life. He gives us all choices and those choices take us on our path. 


We can learn the hard way or we can heed the advice given to us by people that care about us, common sense and the good book. As the hip hop profit Future says “Ain’t No way Around It.” LOL… 


You are not alone sweetheart. Keep pushing past your obstacles the blessing at the end of the turbulent rainbow is well worth the fight.

Book of the Day!!! 


The Courage to be Rich – Suze Orman 
Talk about an audacious title! But Suze (pronounced “Suzie”) Orman means business in this anecdote-rich compendium of tips on 401(k)s, marriage, homes, and happiness. The PBS star/financial adviser has made plenty of the mistakes she warns against, like getting a 30-year mortgage instead of a cheaper 15-year, using Visa cards as magic carpets to calamity, and losing $20,000 in borrowed bucks to bum investment advice. Then she became a Merrill Lynch broker and an author capable of selling 10,000 books in 12 minutes on QVC.

Being professional even during your side hustle

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Here goes a brief rant.

Don’t you highly dislike when your beautician gossips telling all her business and the business of everyone she’s come in contact with in her whole life. Small conversation is one thing but these folks tell addresses and dates of incidents. That’s just too much for the work place. Yes, the beauty shop is a work place.

Why is it ok to push professionalism to the side during a hustle that you govern yourself? Professionalism should not only exist when a larger corporation is enforcing the standards, Right?

Your customers don’t care that you sell purses out the trunk of your car or Jewelry out your house. They deserve to be treated like they’re shopping at Nordstrom’s or on Rodeo Drive. They deserve top notch quality service. 

Your customers talk a lot believe me. When you make them feel good they’ll go tell it on the mountain.. That’s what you want. Word of mouth business is the best marketing for a small biz owner like yourself.

Do the right thang. Be a respectable adult that understand there is a time and place for everything. That includes gossip. Spreading people’s personal business is a No No, but if you do could you at least have the decency to do it behind closed doors with a limited number of people.

It’s already hard to build a customer base. Don’t sabotage your success by talking too much about the wrong thing.

Remember your hustle has the potential to become your bread and butter. It may even open you up to bigger and better opportunities. If you’re ratchet attitude and lack of professionalism is bolder than your products it could be grounds for failure.

“Professionalism: It’s NOT the job you DO, It’s HOW you DO the job.”




-Mommy Makin Moves

Get that depressed stuff out of here! You control your happiness

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The key to happiness cannot be found in your possessions. You won’t see it on a calendar of upcoming events. It can’t be given as a lavish gift or even discovered within the greatest dreams.

The key to happiness is found in the way you live each moment and how you choose to express your feelings. If you can lift your spirits high above circumstances; if you can see life’s sunny side; if you can count your blessings… then you have the key that will open special doors for you.
The key to happiness lies within you.
– Barbara J. Hall 

Experiencing the Best of Chicago – Chicagolicious, Groupon and Living Social

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Hey Now,

Style is starting to be my favorite network. Tia & Tamera and now Chicagolicious, I’m charged!!.

While I can see the drama brewing I can appreciate the drama in that setting. It’s a salon. Come on, all salon’s as far as I know have their fair share of gossip, pettiness and back stabbing. That’s the nature of the beast. It’s expected. What I didn’t expect was to be looking at my city through elite eye’s.

AJ Johnson & Staff

Chicagolicious brings the Chicago flare to TV. I admire the stylist that have come from small towns or rough neighborhoods to the big city to make a name for themselves. (Now if only the people that live here could be so successful.)

Chicagolicious is exposing us (Reality TV Junkies) to fresh events and people in Chicago. Like Groupon and Living Social that exposes many to activities that we’d never even known existed. Chicagolicious is putting the city on to a lifestyle that seems out of reach for so many.

I’m looking forward to the guest, hair styles, events and more. Let me see what those sew-in’s look like. You know we’re always looking for a mean weaveologist.

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People Change When They Feel Like It: Yes that includes your baby daddy/mama

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The best marriage advice I’ve received is the person you’re with NOW is the person you’re marrying FOREVER. Don’t expect them to magically change into whatever imaginary person you have in your head. This same advice is true when having children with someone. I keep having the same conversation with people thinking that after a baby enters the picture everything will get better. 
Children are a beautiful blessing but they add responsibility. The person you sleep with that doesn’t call you back after, gives you excuse after excuse, doesn’t work, doesn’t go to school and doesn’t buy you anything, doesn’t talk about future plans with YOU. That’s who you want to have a child with? Think about it. Parenthood is a lifetime commitment. 

As I always say “Don’t make your life harder than it has to be.”

No Nightclub Shoes in the Office – What Not to Wear to Work, Ladies Edition

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Back in the day when all the skirts were long it was much easier to navigate women’s attire. Oh boy, these days in a time where anything goes, young women are at a lost as to what to wear to church, work or to dinner. 


Shine has put together a cheat sheet to determine what’s a Go and What’s No No for the office. 

As dress codes loosen up and temperatures rise, we’ve noticed women pushing their work attire to the limit. We started wondering: are tank tops fair game? And how can you tell if a skirt is too short? Every office environment has its own set of fashion rules, so we checked in with Katherine Power and Hillary Kerr, the ladies behind the popular fashion site “Who What Wear” and the helpful new handbook, “What to Wear, Where” to get the scoop on general wardrobe guidelines for the work place. Here are their seven fashion don’ts for the office.

1. Nightclub shoes
“We always say not to wear anything to the office that you’d wear to a nightclub–that includes extreme platforms or overly edgy shoes. Keep it timeless with a modest heel in classic shapes like a peep toe, pointy toe, or even a wedge, which can be easier to walk in. If you want to play with trends and your office environment calls for a more creative style, go for color or print, but just keep the shape conservative.” 

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Is being independent all it’s cracked up to be

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We’ve heard the songs about “She got her own” “Independent lady”  “5 Star Chick”. All hyping us up to believe that providing 100% for yourself in every way possible is the new way to go.

Yep, we got played!!! Men are now using our words against us. They’re saying since you want to be the bread winner and flash how much you’re balling we don’t have to treat you like a lady. Dudes are now looking to their women for support. Now we have to be super freaks, pay the bills, have the kids, cook, clean and be sexy. Um that doesn’t sound like winning to me. That sounds like more work.

Every generation has its struggle but I’ll admit I’d much rather go back to the man making the larger chunk of the money and still treating me like a lady.

There are tons of single ladies looking for their BOSS and I’m a bit curious as to see if there is indeed a boss for every well paid woman.

In the midst of this independent movement there are single mothers that have labeled themselves independent. Not by direct choice but is this something we want to teach our children. Do we want our boys to believe a woman should do everything and man gets to pick and choose his responsibility. Do we want our daughters to pull all the weight in a relationship. Excuse my language but HELL NAW!

Chicago Comedian Kellye Howard made a great point in her blog. “So basically this rant was to say, you may pride yourself on being a SINGLE mother, but who is it really benefiting? I don’t think the child is getting the best possible deal when one parent is deleted from his/her life because the other parent wants to prove her independence.”


Read Kellye Howard’s Independently SELFISH Single mothers!

Let’s cut the crap and stop acting like paying bills by yourself or raising your kids alone is what you want. Don’t block the other parent from stepping up and Single ladies with no children stop screaming independent unless you want to keep paying all your bills yourself.

My point today is How independent do you really want to be?

Facebook Status of the Day

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You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to live a positive life. – William Hicks 
We all struggle with letting those friends and family go that seem to have more power over our decisions then we do. They usually have strong opinions and make what they’re saying sound like it was written in the Bible. 
For you to move up you have to expand your circle of friends. To grow you must talk with people that have progressed. You owe it to yourself to find positive people that will give you wisdom as to how to achieve your goals. 
Negative people are dead weight and they’ll make the journey longer than it has to be.
-MommyMakinMoves.com 
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