Reinvent YoUniversity

This past weekend, I watched the movie Life ,featuring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. It's one of my favorites.  I have seen this movie at least twenty times.  It's a story about two men (Ray Gibson, played by Murphy and Claude Banks, played by Lawrence) who are wrongfully convicted for a murder and they're sent to prison for life.  Throughout the movie, they try to figure out ways to escape prison while coming to terms with the situation they've found themselves in. Although I've seen this movie many times, one scene really ministered to me.  There's a scene in the move in which Ray Gibson begins to share with his fellow prison mates his dream of owning his own nightclub.  He begins to speak about the club, "Ray's Boom Boom Room" as if it already exists.  The other's in the prison soon find out that the club only exists in Rays mind. Fast forward to another scene in the movie.  Ray, Claude, and all the other prisoners are about

Hey Everyone I hope you're doing well. The last time we talked, I mentioned that I had to reinvent myself due to a lay off.  You can read about that here:   How a Lay Off Forced Me to Reinvent Myself.  My first business was a home daycare business.  I operated that business for 3 years before returning to the workforce.  During that time, I learned some very important life and business lessons.   Here are 5 lessons that I'll share with you.  1.  When you move toward your purpose, the atmosphere has to obey!  - I confided in a co-worker that I wanted to start a daycare business.  She told me that she had previously ran a daycare business and that she had all of her equipment.  She was happy to pass it along to me to help get me started. It's my belief that what you need for your purpose is either in you or  right around you. 2. It's ok to be afraid. Embrace it instead of running from it.  .- I was scared, but I went anyway. I really didn't have a

Hey Everyone! Welcome to the blog!  Allow me to introduce myself. I'm LaDonna Bracy, CEO of Lake Park Consulting and President of Reinvent YoUniversity on Facebook. I help mature adults (I like to call them "grown folks") make impact on what they have been dreaming about.  That's my formal introduction.  Let me give you the informal one. I'm LaDonna.  A 40-something (fabulous) wife and mom of teenagers, minister, author, and entrepreneur.  I love, love, love helping people do something meaningful.  My purpose is to connect the people I serve to the people, places, things, and information that will help them live out their dreams. I've always wondered what it would be like to start my own business.  I've known that I had more to offer this world and that my life had to be more than punching a clock everyday. I started dreaming about starting a business, but I was too scared to leave my steady paycheck. I was working for a non-profit agency i