A. My pleasure and thank you! I am Anita Wilson. I am a proud Black Female Businesswoman who has been self-employed for over 10 years as a Recording Artist, Songwriter, Music Producer, and Independent Record Label President. I am also a 3x Grammy Nominated Recording Artist. But I am most proud of being a humble, strong, resilient woman with an amazing family. I am a loyal friend and lover of all people.
Q. Are you working on any projects for 2022?
A. We are discussing plans for a Christmas effort. We will see if it happens this year or not.
When I look at this title and think about procrastination, that is something that I do a lot that I am trying to get out of. Procrastinating means putting off doing something. We all do it. It can be something simple and we will be like I will do it tomorrow. Some of the steps of overcoming procrastination:
· Break Tasks into Manageable Steps
· Commit to a Tiny First Step
· Make it Easier to Decide
· Make Tasks More Enjoyable
· Just Do It
I learned to make an agenda and cross it off to make sure to complete everything on the list for that day. I must stay on task and overcome procrastinating so that my work will not be behind.
I want you to overcome procrastinating. So, whatever it is you need to do or want to do just do it. Today is the day to get up and do it. Take that Leap of faith. No more procrastinating and just plan and deliver.
This book was good. I ended up staying up to 5 am reading trying to finish this book. I was like one more chapter, one more chapter came to another until I was done. This book was about 4 female friends telling their story: you have a single friend, an engaged friend, a marriage friend and a divorce friend.
Serena– is the single friend, she is 40 years of age and looking for her soul mate. She is dating this guy but let him know that she is celibate and waiting for marriage. She and her friend decide to go celibate until marriage. They are trying something new. They have been going to church and now is the time to get right. The guy she had been dating was hoping that he pops the question or hope he will be the one she marries. When she finds out that he is not the one and gets hurt in the process. She knows she has to lower her standards so when she meets another guy, she can be more open-minded. She also holds on to her past with her sister that still hurts her to be close to her sister.
Michelle- Now Michelle is the engaged friend she is engaged to Dr. Christopher; she loves him and is happy. Let’s go back Michelle loved her high school sweetheart Steve. Now Steve was her soulmate, they always had a connection, they were supposed to be together forever, but her parents broke them up. When she was young her parent’s thought Steve wasn’t good enough for their daughter. They didn’t care about her being happy. They let her know if she marries him, they will cut her out of the will and disown her. So now she has a great guy and is about to get married until she sees Steve. It’s been years since they broke up and she runs into him in the grocery store. The spark was still there, and all her feelings were still there. She still loved this man. Ever since she ran until Steve, that’s all she could think about was him. She been celibate also like Serena until marriage but then she decided to break that, and things just get crazy from then. Michelle wants to be with Steve and now she is older she wants that happiness but does not want to hurt the guy she is about to marry and his family. What happens next you will have to read.
Kenya– She is married and happy with their two kids. The man she is married to was married before and has a child by his first wife. The first wife cheated, and he left her. He didn’t really love her, but he married her when she told him she was pregnant. She was a bitter ex wife; she didn’t want him to be around his son. Told the son bad things about them so he could think he didn’t want him. She was cruel. She wanted his child support money but didn’t want him to spend any time with his son. He took her to court for visitation rights. She still didn’t go by that. So finally, he gets fed up and is ready to take her for full custody. He wants a relationship with his son. He threatens her to let her know he will cut off the child support and go into full custody or she can start letting him talk to him and spend time. He also hires a private investigator. What happens next is a must read. It’s a twist and a turn. All I can say is women in the world can be cruel to people. The things these women do to men is just sad. To be bitter and have the kids involved is just crazy.
Lynette– The Divorce one. Now Lynette is smart. She went to school and had everything going until she met this man which at first, she thought was great. He got a promotion making great money, so he wanted to marry her and for her to be a stay at home mother and wife. She was a good wife. Her husband wasn’t. He was mean to her and cheated on her a lot. He barely spent time with his kids and did whatever he wanted to do. Things turned and he told his wife he was leaving for another woman and the other woman was pregnant. Lynette was hurt so she told him she wanted half of everything and for him to leave. He left and they got divorced. He ended up marrying the other lady and she had a set of twins. Lynette has a talk one day and meets her ex- husband to tell him he needs to spend more time with his kids. He looked sad and kept saying he loved her. She knew something wasn’t right but it’s never greener on the other side. She knew she was no fool and not going back to him. Well in between things she meets two men get their number, one she dates for a while until something happens that makes her finally decide to call the other one.
The things these women go through are a lot when they are just trying to be happy. I love that they have been friends forever and they meet up and talk to each other for support, advice and more. You never know what God has instored for you. I love when a group of women can become friends and it turns into sisterhood. I think all friends need that. Someone to vent too and to look for advice.
Check out this book and let me know what you think. I loved it. Make sure to Join Cece Book Club
How to plan and stay organized. Some of the ways I plan and stay organized is by
· Setting my goals
· Making an agenda every week
· Staying focus
· Putting everything on a calendar
· Crossing off as I complete
These are some of the ways I plan and stay organized so I will not forget what I have to do. If you follow some of these guidelines this will help you to stay more on task for business and personal. It has been working for me and now I have already got my 2023 calendar and Agenda book and have started planning.
Are you ready for 2023? Have you started planning?
Let me know some of the ways you stay organized. Also follow @cece.atl
Had to go back to the Super Bowl In Atlanta. I got a chance to do media the whole weekend with a lot of different celebrities coming out. Just enjoying Atlanta meeting all kinds of people doing interviews. It was Super Bowl LIII, the 53rd Super Bowl. The game was with the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams in Atlanta.
We partied the whole weekend. We were at the Super Atrium in downtown Atlanta. Big Tigger was the co-host on one of the nights. Some of the celebrities that were in the building at the weekend were Mike Vick, Lil Duval, T.I., Cedric the entertainer and more. It was nice and the event went smoothly.
Let me give you a little laughter, I was in V.I.P. We were walking with the celebrities. We had to go down some stairs. I was walking with Toya, Rasheeda, and Kirk. I turned around to speak and missed a step and fell. I got up so fast and moved quickly. I was going to make sure no one got me on camera. That was an embarrassing moment. I shook it off and stayed out of sight for a minute.
This Super Bowl was one for the books. I really enjoyed having to get out and meet people and do media for the area. I know the promoters made some good money that weekend. It was packed, it was nice. All I can say is that this was a weekend I will never forget.
One thing I love about Atlanta is that this is the city where we have a lot going on and a lot of entrepreneurs. It’s always something to do in Atlanta. You can find a hustle and you can grow.
The unfortunate truth of owning and running a business.**
Running a business is really hard.
What they don’t tell you is that it can cause severe stress and anxiety, and drains you mentally to the point of depression in even the most laid back people.
People will talk about you, compare you to others, use you, they will view you as a service and not a person anymore.
Friends and family will expect discounts and people will value you and your hard work less than a big chain store.
You have to worry about if you forget to email/message someone back, are they going to think it was on purpose? Did you disappoint them? Will they hold that against you? When in reality you just can’t get to everyone’s messages and emails.
Starting up and running a successful business puts incredible strain on personal lives and relationships, many of which fail because there is just often no work life balance. You need to be the director, the worker, the admin, the marketing team, the accountant, the cleaner….. All while being a parent, a husband or a wife, family support, friend… it’s one of the hardest things you will try and balance.
There’s a reason you don’t see many people succeed in small businesses after a few years. If they are successful they are overwhelmed. It takes a toll. It’s freaking exhausting. Especially the past couple of years when so much has been out of our control.
Here’s a small reminder that we are just normal people with hectic lives. Be kind, be patient, support small businesses…….and hopefully more of us will stick around!
