I’ve been thinking about consequences, actions, values, procrastination, and deadlines all week. Tonight while I waited for my son to finish his last-minute homework, I realized I had put-off starting my post all weekend. Turns out . . . I am no different than my son. Boom — there it is: procrastination. The consequences of [...]
About Catherine Hughes, Editor & Chief
Catherine’s dream is to make 8 Women Dream the premier online publication for women looking to change their lives. She is a published author, known for her humorous speeches on finding your dream life and blogging for fun and profit. Catherine also writes about her life as a mom at the blog, A Week in the Life of A Redhead and several online marketing publications. She would also like to be invited to speak at TED about her observations on people chasing their big dreams. Catherine posts on Sunday evenings and fills in when needed. Join me on Google+ rapieress@aol.com
1st Responders to 9/11 Included Inspiring Women With Big Dreams
If you ask best-selling author Susan Hagen about why she wanted to write a book about the first responders to 9/11, she will tell you that it is because we too often fail to mention that of the many rescuers who showed up on that faithful day in September to save lives — many of [...]
64 Best Dream Inspiration Books To Help Achieve Impossible Dreams
Photo Credit: » Zitona « via Compfight When you feel like your dream is too big, impossible, or you are stuck, turning to inspirational dream books can help you move forward in your big dream. Whether your big dream is to travel Europe, lose one hundred pounds, or change your career, they are all within [...]
How The Magic of Believing Can Kill Your Dream
If your subconscious mind believes that you are not good enough (smart enough etc.) then you will self-sabotage your dream without even realizing it. Your actions will reflect your belief of not being “enough.” You will not move forward. Your dream is dead before you begin. Your core belief could be killing your dream. When [...]
Dream Success: The Law of Cause and Effect
Hope won’t get you what you want. Hope won’t make your dreams come true. Hope is … well … hope. You have to actually get up off your butt at some point and do something about your dream. If you won’t go out there and do something physical to make your dream come true, then [...]
8 Dream Lessons I Learned From The Movie The Help
Aibileen. Minnie. Skeeter. These are the women dreamers from Kathryn Stockett’s New York Times best-selling book and movie, The Help. While the story takes place in 1962, there are lessons to be learned about successful dreaming in this story about racial inequality in the south. In The Help, Aibileen, Skeeter and Minnie risk everything to [...]
Reflections on The Help by 8 Women Dream
This week 8 Women Dream will be sharing our reflections on The Help, the story of three brave women who come together for a book project. The author of The Help is Kathryn Stockett. She was was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi and went on to graduate from the University of Alabama with a [...]
Why Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell Are Important To Dreams
If you’ve ever sat through a session of America’s Got Talent or American Idol, then you are familiar with the judging personalities of Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell. If not . . . then I would describe their judging as something akin of an over-bearing Italian grandmother combined with the father in My Big Fat [...]
How To Climb Out of Despair and Change Your Life
Are you tired of me talking about how to have a top blog? Good. This week I’d like to share with you a story on how to achieve the thing you believe to be impossible: changing your life. The story I am about to tell you is important because it outlines what is needed when [...]
Top Blog Secrets: The 8 Hats a Top Blogger Must Wear
Until you can wear more than one blogging “skill hat” you won’t pull away from the hundred million blogs out there publishing regular updates. Your blog won’t stand out from the masses. You must be able to wear several skill “hats” to have a top blog and here are 8 of them …[...]
The 20 Most Irritating Mistakes New Bloggers Make Manifesto
After 6 years of blogging and working with business owners online I’ve compiled the most common mistakes I see over and over when people start a dream enterprise on the web. Call it my manifesto of sorts. The best way for me to to help new dreamers with big online dreams… [...]
The Best 20 Stories On Living Your Dream Life By 8 Women Dream
Sometimes, to be truly happy, you have to follow your dreams. But what do you do if you don’t know what your dream really is? Surprisingly enough, this is a common problem, and many people go through much of their life without discovering their passion, feeling unfulfilled and miserable — wishing they’d somehow become brave [...]
8 Women Dream Events
Test Drive Your Dreams
