10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women's Lives

by Grace Cornish

Book Overview

"It's time to take back your power and your life--take it back from the bad relationships, bad careers, bad investments, bad company, and bad memories. It's time for you to live a fuller, happier, more productive, and wholesome life. This is your time to claim your blessings. God has given you a choice. Choose wisely, sis--choose to win, and enjoy every moment of it." With her national bestseller, 10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women's Lives, beloved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609605062
• ISBN13: 9780609605066
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Strive to be Empowered

Empowerment. That's something women should strive for. This book will help guide you in the right direction. This book is the follow up to 10 Bad Choices. Now that you have faced the bad choices you made, it's time to make 10 Good choices that will empower you, and make your life even better. Dr. Grace provides uplifting effective and spiritually full filling program that will give you a 1. sense of self - knowing who you are 2. a sense of value - knowing what you are worth 3. a sense of direction - knowing where you are going 4. a sense of humor - knowing when to laugh 5. a sense of belonging - knowing how to fit in 6. a sense of being - knowing why you are important. You will read this and you will feel self discovery, self renewal and self improvement. In this book you find the following chapters: 1. Embracing the skin you're in 2. Accepting "Better Love" not bitter love 3. Making money work for you 4. Turning stumbling blocks into stepping stones 5. Avoiding the only fly in the buttermilk thinking 6. Trusting your own intuition 7. Taking calculated chances not idle ones 8. Giving stress a perpetual rest 9. Rewriting your life's script 10. Using your praying energy for staying energy. This is an excellent follow up book that should be read. You will feel empowered!

Balance is the Key!

Most of the 10 items in Dr. Cornish's book, I have been applying to my life. I trust God and try to apply Biblical principles to my everyday life. However, it seemed hard to maintain a balance between the spiritual and everyday life (some of you church folks know what I mean). In reading "10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women's Lives," I have finally seized the balance that I've been seeking. The message in Good Choice #4 of God being the owner and I am the manager of my life, helped bring all that I have and am trying to accomplish into perspective. I bought the book over a year ago and have just recently read it -- right when I needed it the most! Thank you, Dr. Cornish, for your godly spirit (it exudes throughout the entire book), insightful life-changing message, and your love for the Black woman!!!

Cornish's Choices Are Sweet!

She's done it again-telling it like it is! As always, Dr. Cornish gives it to you straight, no chaser. In "10 Good Choices" she challenges black women to take back their power and their lives from the bad relationships, bad careers, bad investments, bad companies, and bad memories. It is clear that she has a personal interest in putting her fellow sisters (and keeping them) on the path to becoming their best selves, living their best lives-something we ALL were put on this planet to do.In life, we have choices to make, she explains, and Cornish's `good choices' are sweet, ones that will bring the reader joy and abundance-if she (or he, because, fellas, this nongender-specific, practical and timely advice is applicable to you too!) is willing to uncross the arms, open the mind and embrace life-change. From `Accepting Better Love' and `Making Money Work for You,' to `Giving Stress a Perpetual Rest' and `Rewriting Your Life's Script,' there is something to be gotten here by all--young or "seasoned."The author's consistent theme of self-love and -care (based on the foundation of empowering one to having a strong sense of self, value, direction, humor, belonging and being) is reminiscent of--at the risk of making comparisons--"Dr. Phil (as in "Tell-It-Like-It-Is" McGraw of "The Oprah Winfrey Show). "In many ways, life is like a lottery-you've got to play to win," she says. "But unlike the game of chance, YOU CAN control the draw." Some powerful stuff here, folks! The author pleads with the reader to choose to win, and enjoy every moment of life, because it's precious and should be valued.Through Dr. Grace's voice of both conviction and compassion, her words will inspire you to effect positive change in every area of your life. Thumbs up to a book written by the spirited life coach who wants nothing short of the best lives for her people!

What a bomb that just hit the black woman's world

This book is awesome! It gave me so much courage and inspiration to go for the things I had already been pondering to do with my life. I am a business owner and really needed this book at that time. I have referred it to as many black women as possible. Although, I thought it could be for every woman. I will be ordering this book to give to the women that are employed with my company at REHMA Janitorial Services here in Tacoma, Wa. It enpowered me in the area of feeling beautiful, going for what you want, never let anyone or anything seemed out of reach. Also, it inspired my already spiritual belief that "One Plus God is a Majority". Keep up the excellent work Dr. Cornish. We need lots of this type of work coming our way as black women and women in general. However, few books are written just for us. I appreciate you. I would love to have her do a retreat seminar for us in the upcoming future. I just order the book 10 things that Ruin Black Womens Lives. I just could not put this one down. I read it at 3:00am and early in the morning. Oh! I am so excited. If she ever comes to Washington State I want to meet her personally.

Very good

THis book as well as Dr.Grace's first book should be on just about every black woman's(and other women's)shelves. This book now entertains the things we can do to EMPOWER our lives.One of the things she suggested doing is a Beauty Contract with yourself where you define what beautiful means to you, and then write affirmations as to what part of you you feel is beautiful, and repeat it every day. Thereby, making you into a beautiful person. The last chapter on prayer and looking for guidance from the Almighty was very good. I am a bit surprised that no one has written a review of this book. I only hope that this will encourage you to purchase or borrow it from the library. Folks, do this for yourself and make 2001 your year.Peace.