I decided to make some small, yet major, changes in my life starting today.  The first change was to reintroduce myself to my love for reading good books.  I took my lunch break today and read a book entitled:  5: Where will you be in 5 years from today? by Dan Zadra.  I have read this book in the past but today it had a new meaning for me. I was very inspired by the messaging of the book.  Statements such as 'If you don't have a dream, how can you have a dream come true?' caused me to think about the dreams that I had buried deep inside me.  I decided to come up with my 'BAG' list (Big Audacious Goals).  I mean ... WHY NOT?  If the people in this book can achieve their goals, against many odds, then why can't I?  I have decided to stop wasting time and really move my life forward.  I want to leave a positive legacy behind for my son and his children.  I want my descendants to be proud of what I was able to accomplish!

So you may wonder, what is my BAG?  Well, actually, I have two:  1) To lose 100 more pounds in the next year; and 2) To enter and progress in the International Speech Contest for Toastmasters International (contests start in the Spring).  Oh ... and one more is that I want to finish a book I started writing a few years ago.  I read in this book where a man spent two hours each morning writing pieces of his book and was able to complete his book in small chunks.  Imagine that ... here I was trying to write an entire book in one weekend!  

Stay tuned for more as I make progress towards my BAGS.  What about you?  What are you going to do today to make your tomorrow better?  Get started now ... GO!

by Anitra D. Williams

Website design departments are growing at a rapid pace in today's corporations. Teams of project managers, ecommerce developers, marketing managers, creative and governance teams are created to effectively manage the design and maintenance of websites.  But who is at the helm when it comes to 'good web design' and is 'good web design' still a concern in today's marketplace?

by Anitra D. Williams

Like many of us do, I subscribe to a myriad of magazines, publications and LinkedIn Groups.  This makes me feel very special when I come in every day and there is a full days worth of emails awaiting my reaction!  Well, maybe that last statement is not necessarily true.

Well, today, I got an email that actually made me 'stop, blink, and look again' because I literally could not believe my eyes.  A picture of the email is shown above.  Yes the job says:  Only Female - in the description.  I had to remind myself that this was actually 2013 and how thankful I am to live in the United States where sometimes that is the thinking behind certain positions, however, it can never be clearly articulated as in the above example.

Am I being to critical of the job description that says for females only?