SISTARS

Happy Summer!

2008-08-04T15:14:00.001-07:00

Hope your summer is going splendidly. We are all enjoying the sun and warm weather and looking forward to meeting up again soon. Stay tuned, we hope to post dates for two upcoming events. We would like to meet in October sometime and play the "Cashflow Game". Tai Goodwin will be hosting. We are also looking to host our annual treasure mapping event sometime in January.

Congrats to Angelette V. King who has landed a great opportunity and is moving on up and out of the "Door"!!!!

Until next time. Don't forget to count your blessings.

See you soon.

Sistars

CASH FLOW - Saturday March 29, 2008 from 12:30 pm - 6:00 pm

2008-02-22T16:32:00.000-08:00

You are cordially invited to join us for an afternoon of fun and learning with "Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Game", on Saturday, March 29, 2008. Our goal is to have fun and learn how to, "master our money" and our, “cash flow”.

Our game will be facilitated by Tai Goodwin, life/career coach and author of Reclaiming Your Brilliance (June 2008). Learn more about Tai on her blog: Move Making Mommies. Tai will also be presenting us with a mini-workshop called: Transforming Your Life: Are You Ready to Go From Bright to Brilliant?

Come early for this insightful presentation. *Please note that we will be getting started at 12:30 pm and we expect the evening to end around 6:00 pm.

Event info & location:

Saturday March 29, 2008 12:30 pm-6:00 pm
Marymount Manhattan College
221 East 71st Street between Second and Third Ave
New York City 2nd Floor - Regina S. Peruggi Room also known as the Mezzanine
(The Security Guard will direct you once you come into the main entrance.)

Light snacks and refreshments will be served.

Rich Dad's CASHFLOW game is an educational program that teaches accounting, finance, and investing at the same time and makes learning fun. With the CASHFLOW game, you will learn how to get out of the rat race and onto the fast track where your money works for you instead of you working hard for your money. For more information on the game that uses at it's core the concepts from the book Rich Dad Poor Dad.

Read more about the game here:http://www.cashflowboardgame.com/

Transforming Your Life: Are You Ready to Go From Bright to Brilliant?

Are you frustrated with the current quality of your life, but have no idea how to break the negative patterns that are keeping you from the success and fulfillment you desire? You know you are bright. And deep down you know you are brilliant. Somewhere along the curves and twists of your life's path, you've lost your joy, passion, and drive - that brilliance that used to inspire you. For some of us, through no fault of our own, our brilliance was stripped away at a young age through unfortunate situations. And for some of us our lost brilliance is a result of bad choices and self-destructive behavior and thinking. For those who are open and willing, your current situation is ripe with opportunity: it is never too late to rediscover your brilliance and take action toward creating the life you want.

This mini-workshop is a first step towards reclaiming your brilliance and becoming the woman you are destined to be. This dynamic group session provides insight into:

The Impact of Eclipse Living
The Seven Differences Between Bright Living and Brilliant Living, and
Reclaiming Your Brilliance: Five Ways to Jumpstart Your Transformation

We look forward to seeing you.

Happy Holidays! Please Join us for our next event.

2007-12-26T17:16:00.000-08:00

Happy Holidays!

As the New Year approaches many of us will be reflecting on our resolutions, dreams and goals. Let's visualize the New Year together.

Please join us on Saturday, January 19, 2007 11:00 am - 6:00 pm, for our annual, "Treasure Mapping Brunch". We will be serving a light breakfast, so please come prepared to enjoy a modest feast and a few mimosas to celebrate the New Year. Feel free to bring something to share.

*Also, please bring any magazines you might have as well as any supplies you might like to use and share to create your vision map. Other Supplies needed: Crayons, Markers, Scissors, Rubber Cement Glue, Poster Boards, or Rolls of Brown Paper.

The New Years Brunch will be held
Saturday, January 19, 2007 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Marymount Manhattan College,
Main Building
The Mezzanine/The Regina S. Peruggi Room
221 East 71st between 3rd and 2nd Avenues.

For directions to Marymount Manhattan College - http://www.hopstop.com/

For additonal information we can be reached at sistarsnyc@hotmail.com

Peace and one love.

What is a Vision Board and or Treasure Map?

A vision board (also called a Treasure Map) a is typically a poster board on which you paste or collage images that you’ve remove or cut out from various magazines. It’s simple. The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live, or where you want to vacation, your life changes to match those images and those desires.Teasure Maps/Vision boards do the same thing as short term and long term goal planning. They add clarity to your desires, and feeling to your visions.

There are several methods you can use for creating your treasure map/vision board. You can choose which one works best for you, depending on where you find yourself on this path of creating your life.

Supplies you’ll need for creating a Treasure Map/Vision Board:

Poster board and or Brown Paper(Target/Staples sells a really nice matte finish board. We highly recommend it.)

A big stack of different magazines. (You can get them at libraries, hair salons, dentist offices or your personal collection and you asked your friends or family members). Make sure you find lots of different types.

Recommended magazines bring plenty of...Oprah, Real Simple, Natural Home, Yoga Journal, Dwell, Better Homes and Gardens, Architecture Digest, The Economist, Parenting, Money, Black Enterprise, Ebony, Essence, Business Week, etc.

- Glue. Not Elmers. (It makes the pages ripple.) We recommend Glue or Rubber cement. Glue sticks are our second choice because they don’t last.

Before you begin your vision board:A little ritual before you begin your vision board. Sit quietly and set the intent. With lots of kindness and openness, ask yourself what it is you want. Maybe one word will be the answer. Maybe images will come into your head. Just take a moment to be with that. This process makes it a deeper experience. It gives a chance for your ego to step aside just a little, so that you can more clearly create your vision.

Put on soft music. Our favorite music for activities like this is music that inspires your soul.

The Five Steps of Creating a Treasure Map/Vision Board:Step

1: Go through your magazines and cut or remove the images from them. No gluing yet! Just let yourself have lots of fun looking through magazines and pulling out pictures or words or headlines that inspire you. Have fun with it. Seperate the pictures images and phrases and words.

Step 2: Go through the images and begin to lay your favorites on the board. Eliminate any images that no longer feel right. This step is where your intuition comes in. As you lay the pictures on the board, you’ll get a sense how the board should be laid out. For instance, you might assign a theme to each corner of the board. Health, Job, Spirituality, Relationships, for instance. Or it may just be that the images want to go all over the place. Or you might want to fold the board into a book that tells a story.

Step 3: Glue everything onto the board. Add writing if you want. You can paint on it, or write words with markers.Step

4: (optional, but powerful) Leave space in the very center of the treasure map/vision board for a fantastic photo of yourself where you look radiant and happy. Paste yourself in the center of your board.

Step 5: Hang your vision board in a place where you will see it often.

Please email us at http://msn.com/if you have additional questions.

Decide that you want it, more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby

It takes a deep commitment to change & an even deeper commitment to grow.- Ralph Ellison

You are cordially invited...

2007-10-19T18:04:00.000-07:00

You are cordially invited to join us for an afternoon of fun and learning with "Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Game", on Saturday, November 10, 2007. Our goal is to have fun and learn how to, "master our money" and our, “cash flow”. Our Cash Flow Game Day will be hosted by Tai Goodwin, Career and Business Coach, author of Move Making Mommies blog. Since this is a very special event please RSVP and don’t forget to invite your family and friends.

There is a game fee of $15.00 which can be paid here - Link: Register Now! or at the door the day of the event.

Please don’t forget to RSVP @ mailto:Sistarsnyc@hotmail.com. There will be great door prizes and of course light snacks and refreshments will be served.

Please note that we will be getting started at 2:30 pm and we expect the evening to end around 6:00 pm. Please be prompt.

Event info & location:
Saturday November 10, 2007
2:30 pm-6:00 pm

Marymount Manhattan College
221 East 71st Street
between Second and Third Ave
New York City 2nd Floor
(The Security Guard will direct you once you come into the main entrance.)

Rich Dad's CASHFLOW game is an educational program that teaches accounting, finance, and investing at the same time and makes learning fun. With the CASHFLOW game, you will learn how to get out of the rat race and onto the fast track where your money works for you instead of you working hard for your money.

For more information on the game that uses at it's core the concepts from the book Rich Dad Poor Dad.

Read more about the game here:http://www.cashflowboardgame.com/

We are always looking for ways to empower women and we support programming that will move people forward. Please feel free to send any suggestions you might have for programming.
We look forward to getting your RSVP.

Sincerely,
Angelette Verdena King & Xiomara

2007-08-17T15:08:00.000-07:00

Time sure fly's when you are having fun. We hope that you all have found time in your busy schedules to enjoy the sun and all the activities the warm weather allows us to enjoy. Taking time to smell the flowers and enjoy the moment is a great way to re-charge and connect with our environment and others in a way that inspires.

In that same spirit we are looking forward to our collective and individual growth and happiness. Our meetings have that intention at the core. We hope that each of us will be renewed and inspired as we come together in support of one another.

We have three dates for the Fall/Winter Schedule

September 22, 2007 @ MaryMount 2:30 - 5:30 pm

November 10, 2007 @ MaryMount 2:30 - 5:30 pm

January 12 or 19th, 2008 @ MaryMount 2:30 - 5:30 pm (We will need to decide on one of those dates for January) - Let's celebrate the blessing of the New Year - we will have a treasure mapping brunch on this date.

Marymount Manhattan College
221 East 71st Street 2nd Floor,
New York, NY 10021 US

917-214-9918

We hope that you will join us. Be on the look out for the invitation to our upcoming September event coming your way soon. We look forward to seeing all of your beautiful faces and hearing about all the wonderful experiences you have had this summer.

May you and your families stay in God's Peace and Grace.

Peace and Blessings,

Sistars.

New Submissions from Patricia Bacarella

2007-04-29T18:49:00.000-07:00

I hope the stories inspire you...Patricia...

http://bodyforlife.com/challenge/champions.asp

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Get Organized Now! Newsletter
by Maria Gracia
http://www.getorganizednow.com

Issue: April 15-21, 2007

http://www.getorganizednow.com/art-7habits.html

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Life Saving Tests All Women Should Have

http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200703/tows_past_20070329_j.jhtml

Thank You!

2007-04-29T18:26:00.000-07:00

Two weeks ago we shared, we laughed and read powerful testimonies.
All the treasure map collages we created are evidence of what high visions we have for ourselves and what wonderful women we really are.

Everyone who completed a map did a beautiful job. Some of us could hardly break away from the great conversation to complete our maps. We shared our visions and talked about the next steps for the group. The evening was great and after our meeting a few of us went to BBQ's where we had a few more laughs and went home with the buzz of those frozen margaritas.

We would like to thank everyone who attended the event. You each contributed so much. We hope that those who were unable to attend will look out for our email in August when we will send out the fall schedule packed with relevant events and workshops that we hope will empower you and bring your closer to your dreams.

In the next couple of months we are looking to develop the programming for Sistars Fall Calendar.

Our goal is to create opportunities to develop our own self-sufficiency and community (i.e.: Investment club, Monthly Sistars Gathering, Workshops, Speaker Series, etc).

We hope that those of you who are interested will join us in shaping the group.

Our planning and development meetings will be held on the following dates:

May 5 @ MaryMount 2:30 - 5:30 pm

June 9 2:30 5:30 - Location TBD - (Please let us know if you are interested in hosting a planning session or have an idea @ where it could be held.)

June 23 @ MaryMount 2:30 - 5:30 pm

We will not have any meetings scheduled for July and Aug - but plan to launch our calendar of events in September.

Thanks again for all of your support - we look forward to seeing you soon.

Also, please email us @ sistarsnyc@hotmail.com if you have any questions.

****Investment Club Note****

For those of you that think they might be interested in participating in the investment club, please check out our suggested summer reading:

The Millionaires' Club: How to Start and Run Your Own Investment Club and Make Your Money Grow by Brown (Paperback - Mar 30, 2004)
Buy new: $24.95 Used & new from $14.99
How to Form an Investment Club for its role in increasing investor awareness and club membership. This type of interest led to this how-to book on the subject as part ..."

Sistars Gathering 4/14/07 - Treasure Mapping/Vision Boards

2007-04-17T15:06:00.000-07:00

30 Days to Greater Happiness

2007-04-06T06:22:00.000-07:00

Thank you Patricia - for sending this wonderful calendar.

http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/calendar_2007-04.pdf

Strong Bodies - Strong Minds - Strong Spirits

2007-03-30T08:28:00.001-07:00

Great site for keeping in shape. I've always believed that for a woman to succeed in all aspects of her life she needs to have a strong body both physically and emotionally. - Patricia Bacarella

What is a woman's worth?

2007-03-30T08:20:00.000-07:00

Check out this interesting article -
What is your resentment number?

http://www.seattlewomanmagazine.com/jan06-2.htm

How to Create a Treasure Map/Vision Board

2007-03-26T16:41:00.000-07:00

What is a Vision Board and or Treasure Map?

A vision board (also called a Treasure Map) a is typically a poster board on which you paste or collage images that you’ve remove or cut out from various magazines. It’s simple.

The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live, or where you want to vacation, your life changes to match those images and those desires.

Teasure Maps/Vision boards do the same thing as short term and long term goal planning. They add clarity to your desires, and feeling to your visions.

There are several methods you can use for creating your treasure map/vision board. You can choose which one works best for you, depending on where you find yourself on this path of creating your life.

Supplies you’ll need for creating a Treasure Map/Vision Board:

Poster board and or Brown Paper(Target/Staples sells a really nice matte finish board. We highly recommend it.)

- A big stack of different magazines. (You can get them at libraries, hair salons, dentist offices or your personal collection and you asked your friends or family members). Make sure you find lots of different types. If you limit your options, you’ll lose interest after a while. Recommended magazines bring plenty of...Oprah, Real Simple, Natural Home, Yoga Journal, Dwell, Better Homes and Gardens, Architecture Digest, The Economist, Parenting, Money, Black Enterprise, Ebony, Essence, Business Week, etc.

- Glue. Not Elmers. (It makes the pages ripple.) We recommend Glue or Rubber cement. Glue sticks are our second choice because they don’t last.

Before you begin your vision board:

A little ritual before you begin your vision board. Sit quietly and set the intent. With lots of kindness and openness, ask yourself what it is you want. Maybe one word will be the answer. Maybe images will come into your head. Just take a moment to be with that. This process makes it a deeper experience. It gives a chance for your ego to step aside just a little, so that you can more clearly create your vision.

Put on soft music. Our favorite music for activities like this is music that inspires your soul.

The Five Steps of Creating a Treasure Map/Vision Board:

Step 1: Go through your magazines and cut or remove the images from them. No gluing yet! Just let yourself have lots of fun looking through magazines and pulling out pictures or words or headlines that inspire you. Have fun with it. Seperate the pictures images and phrases and words.

Step 2: Go through the images and begin to lay your favorites on the board. Eliminate any images that no longer feel right. This step is where your intuition comes in. As you lay the pictures on the board, you’ll get a sense how the board should be laid out. For instance, you might assign a theme to each corner of the board. Health, Job, Spirituality, Relationships, for instance. Or it may just be that the images want to go all over the place. Or you might want to fold the board into a book that tells a story.

Step 3: Glue everything onto the board. Add writing if you want. You can paint on it, or write words with markers.

Step 4: (optional, but powerful) Leave space in the very center of the treasure map/vision board for a fantastic photo of yourself where you look radiant and happy. Paste yourself in the center of your board.

Step 5: Hang your vision board in a place where you will see it often.

Please email us at sistarsnyc@hotmail.com if you have additional questions.

Until, we meet again peace and one love.

Sistars,

Angelette Verdena King & Xiomara D. Cotton

Sistars Gathering April 14, 2007 Treasure Mapping

2007-03-26T15:16:00.000-07:00

As you know, the clearer the vision we have for ourselves - the clearer our message to the universe. Creating this clarity allows us to move through our limitations much quicker so we can experience more bliss as well as more of what we want to create for ourselves.
We would like to invite you to our next Sistars meeting.
On April 14, 2007 from 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm - We will be creating visual roadmaps of our goals aka Treasure Maps. Please join us for this workshop and dialog on Creating a Vision for Our Lives.

Light refreshments and food will be served. Please feel free to bring something to share. If you decide to bring something to share please select the items in the evite (In the reply menu).

*Also, please bring any magazines you might have as well as any supplies you might like to use and share to create your vision map.

Other Supplies needed: Crayons, Markers, Scissors, Rubber Cement Glue, Poster Boards, or Rolls of Brown Paper.

For directions to Marymount Manhattan College - www.hopstop.com

For additonal information we can be reached at sistarsnyc@hotmail.com

Peace and one love.

Sistars,

Angelette Verdena King and Xiomara D. Cotton

Thank you

2007-03-19T12:44:00.001-07:00

Peace and Grace,

We would like to thank everyone who came out to the first Sistars event of the year. The event was a huge success. Despite the snowy streets the day was beautiful and sunny and the atmosphere filled with light. Those that braved the weather watched "The Secret" and shared ideas about what Sistars could be about. We exchanged the things we were most thankful for and even got some great info on where to go to dance to burn some of the calories we put on after eating those most delicious buffalo wings. (Oh yeah, we plan to go dancing on a regular).
We were reminded that there are many benefits to having a strong network of friends and how being American and a part of this digital age often removes us from opportunities to communicate to each other about things that matter most. We hope to find ways we can work together to support one another in the attainment of our goals or just to enjoy a sunny Saturday at the shopping mall. It really is all about love ultimately and we hope that you will join us at our next Sistars circle gathering to share in some of that.

We will be sending an Evite with details for the next event, which will take place in about 15-30 days or so. Bring a friend, your mom, a sister or a daughter.
Until then,

Sistars

Angelette Verdena King & Xiomara D. Cotton

On the count down to our first gathering of the year!

2007-03-01T16:11:00.000-08:00

We will be hosting our first Sistars Gathering on Saturday, March 17, 2007 at 2:30 pm at Marymount Manhattan College located at 221 East 71st Street. Please RSVP if you are planning to attend the sistar gathering.

Peace and love,

Angelette Verdena King

Keys to Success

2007-02-12T17:05:00.001-08:00

When you show up for yourself you show up for your success

Be an original - Follow your own dreams

2007-02-12T16:35:00.000-08:00

It has taken many years to gain a certain level of mastery and understanding around the process that it takes to come into alignment with our true purpose and life goals. It took an understanding of how to develop a network of relationships with women who come together to align themselves - moving together individually and collectively. Today Sistars seeks to create this strong network of sister supporting eachother to create abundance, prosperity and a balanced approach to achieving success in all areas of our life.