God is Love

It's the last week of March and most of us have made our plans for the summer, but we are now faced with a Winter Body, which means most of us are out of shape. Here are some tips to get bikini ready: 1. Shave those legs in the shower everyday and seal it moisture with olive oil before you towel dry. 2. DRINK WATER!! Drink 8 glasses every day and with a glass of hot water lemon with every meal. 3. Dilute all sugary drinks-- 1/8  cup of juice, then the rest is water. 4. Go for a bra fitting--Buy a Proper Bra and New shape wear. 5. Get a weekly pedicure and have a warm cream pedicure to lock in moisture. 6. Take a yoga and spin classes. 7. Ask the hairdresser the best color for your hair for highlights and a lighter hair color for the summer. Cheers to the 7 ways to getting bikini ready for the summer!!

Last weekend while, doing laundry I happened to watch Revenge of the Nerds, an old I think 80's movie, where the classic frat boys against the geeks and at end the Nerds become the biggest studs out. You might think okay, but that's not real life? Think again, I was taking a cab and the driver we'll call Mr. Lover was describing his antics with several of the women whom he sees at a time, the driver picked up a young man who was actually very good looking and again Mr. Lover began how to figure out his dates for the weekend. Mr. Lover told us that one woman had a face like a supermodel, but her body wasn't in shape and the other woman had a great shape and good job but her face wasn't too good, but he was still going out with them. The young guy looked at me and we both started to laugh. Why? Mr. Lover was serious and guess what he is a 5'2" 60 year old man, that I was praying he was sitting on a phone book, so he could see over the steering wheel. ...

Three years ago, my feet were killing me and I happened to be in a Whole Foods and I saw some cut but comfy shoes so I bought them with my lunch and left. However, I saved the tag and the company was all about the concept One for One, you buy one pair of these shoes and we will donate a pair to homeless children in Argentina. I felt good about my purchase and that I was supporting a good company. A couple of years ago I pick up the book Start Something that Matters by Blake Mycoskie  who is the founder of TOMS the shoe company that bought the shoes from two years earlier. Why I picked this book is he is a serial entrepreneur, whose candor was refreshing  about starting businesses failing at them, going on TV as an Amazing Race Contestant, then selling a business, but it was during a trip to Argentina that convinced him, without any retail or shoe experience to enter this world. His key tenents: 1. Start a business that provides meaningful product or services to peopl...

As an event planner I can remember being in awe when I saw Melissa Rivers Winter Wonderland Wedding. It was amazing the colors the theme was great, then when Oprah first launched O Magazine and showed the pictures of her launch party, another breath taking event. I had to find out who was the person who was behind such greatness, it was Preston Bailey. Preston Bailey still is the most sought after event planner in the world. He wrote a book Dear Preston, A Friendly Guide to Creating and Having Your Own Creative Services Business,  I immediately bought the book and found the contents of the book to be very eye opening. Preston Bailey talked about event planners know about this, you get a client who wants to meet with you then picks your brain for 30 min., then when you follow up with them, they "decided to go a different direction" only to find out that they themselves are implanting your ideas. Which he called and I agree is theft. But he said he use to get so angry whe...

Day Two in Our Book Report Series: By Invitation Only If anyone is thinking about going to e-commerce, this book is based on the founders of the shopping site Gilt. I know I am a loyal customer and I think the products that they offer are high quality. However, if you are wondering well anyone can do that, e- commerce is so simple, read this book and learn how being an early adapter into the a field, you can reap huge benefits not to mention profits. The major takeaway is to always do business with people whom you trust, when hiring people make certain you have the right people in the right position. Although GILT is a major success, there are huge hurdles that the team had to cover come such as VC's laughing at them when they were doing their presentations or pitch. Or a CEO who had to package and box the merchandise herself, not all glam. They did revolutionize the retail industry because even major department stores have adopted the flash sale concept into there busi...

We were in Barnes and Noble and of course I love going to the reduced section and I picked up a book, What to Do In Hard Times, it is a collection of various authors. This book was written in the Great Depression, when the U.S. Government had to ration out bread, but I found the contents of this book to be so excellent and relevant in today's time, 87 years later. Most of the greatest inventions came from that era, in extreme scarcity people are forced to think of creative ways to do things. Did this book say we must go out and create businesses and then back stab each other or sort people shares of the company. Nope, not at all, in fact the book said there are four impediments to reaching success: 1. Greed 2. Jealousy 3. Anger 4. Dishonesty Greed: One story they had was a woman who found out that the stock market had collapsed she went and bought 2 months worth of bread and stored it in here freezer, she knew times were going to be hard. However, whe...

We were on hiatus or my computer had to go back into the shop. This week as we embrace Spring and NEW Season, we want to give you the best of the best of NEW books that we have read. Some books are old classics, some are new books on how to get that get hair color none the less we want everyone to look great and have a great mentality going into this new season. So enjoy our first book report....