Blog | Jackie Ann Adams

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Discover Your Potential

3 Tips to Discovering Your Authentic Leadership Voice Everyone has an authentic leadership voice. You may have just used it 5 minutes ago with your co-workers, your spouse or even your kids! Maybe you just encouraged your co-worker, or you had a tough conversation...

Notice Me!

I can recall an embarrassing time when my mind was so caught up in being noticed by someone in authority, that I forgot my friends name as I went to introduce her. Not only did I forget her name, but I gave her a name so as not to lose the moment of engagement with...

Being Brave

Being brave for me is conditional. It's conditional as I intellectualize whatever has my heart seeking to be brave and if I can't make it fit within the parameters of my control, most times I don't step forward. I wish it weren't this way. I wish I would always step...

The Reminder of Grace

"Mom, is it hard for you when you see her?" My daughter asked one day while we were checking out at the grocery store. We had run into someone who was hurt years ago by a childish prank executed by hormonal freshman girls. I responded to my daughter by saying "No, I'm...

100% at Fault

Got the letter from my insurance company and read the words "driver of policy vehicle is 100% at fault." And I was. It happened in a parking lot. I had gotten in my car after a doctor's appointment and wanted to finish the book I was reading before I drove off. When I...

Carrying Too Much

Five Secrets of a God Girl Here's my basket of rocks that illustrate how I have been trying to carry too much. Too many burdens I was not meant or asked to carry. They are big and small and not mine. Why do I keep piling on the burdens I was not meant to carry? What...