In case you’ve never heard of International Women’s Day (IWD), the video above can clue you in. Or you can just keep reading. In some areas, people celebrate IWD just like Mother’s Day with gifts or flowers. And the holiday has been around since the early 1900s.
There’s no one central theme, but groups choose their own focus from year to year. Some themes include:
• women and men united to end violence against women and girls
• women’s voices and influence
• achieving 50:50 in the boardroom by 2020
IWD is being celebrated with 254 events in the UK, 182 events in the US, …read more

The Book:
STOP SELF-SABOTAGE! Get Out of Your Own Way to Earn More Money, Improve Your Relationships, and Find the Success You Deserve by Pat Pearson, M.S.S.W. (McGraw-Hill, Dec. 08, 224 pages, $16.95)
The Author:
Pat Pearson is a psychotherapist and motivational speaker who has traveled internationally to share her methods for helping people achieve greater success in their businesses and personal lives.
What’s Inside:
Everyone practices self-sabotage. If you don’t believe that, read this book to see if you really don’t practice one of the methods of sabotage Pearson discusses:
• Resignation Sabotage (Giving up before you begin)
• Denial Sabotage (Unable to acknowledge …read more

January is the perfect time to get more organized.
I have extra motivation since I just moved. I got rid of a bunch of clothes before the move, but last night I got rid of Rubbermaid containers. I’ve started to hate them. They seem to be a necessary evil these days, but that doesn’t make them pretty.

If you’re a parent or mentor to a young girl, have you given some thought to the impact of low self-esteem?
Chances are you have. Young girls aren’t great at hiding their insecurities, but they also don’t always tell you what they’re thinking.
Key findings from Real Girls, Real Pressure: A National Report on the State of Self-Esteem are a bit disturbing. The report was commissioned by the Dove Self-Esteem Fund. Here’s what they found:
• Seven in ten girls believe they are not good enough or do not measure up in some way, including their looks, performance in school and relationships with …read more

This video is called Evolution. If you need a reminder of the crazy, unreal standard of beauty we sometimes judge ourselves by, this is it.

Video by The Dove Self-Esteem Fund. Visit Campaign for Real Beauty.