I am delighted to welcome you to Episode #99 of SEASON 10 of 'Sharing Life Lessons'.  A podcast that brings you stories from around the world to have fun with and to learn from because stories inspire, stories teach, and stories heal! We are one spirit; one soul; one world; and together we are creating a library of stories and life lessons.

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The target audience for this episode is EVERYONE; especially those who want to successfully climb the corporate ladder.

Our guest for today is Pat David. Pat retired from her position as the Global Head of Diversity at J.P. Morgan Chase. Since then, she has authored a book called The 'Her'story of Davidism. This life lessons Pat shared in this episode, will help listeners at all ages and stages of their professional careers.

Websites: www.patricia-david.com (15% discount coupon code is spring15)

 Patricia David | LinkedIn

Here are my key takeaways from this discussion:

1. Time is precious – you can’t get time back so make your choices about how you use your time. Be intentional with what you are doing, where you are going, who you are keeping relationships with. Don’t get sucked into things you don’t wish to do. You are free to choose how you use the precious, limited and unpredictable time you have left on earth.

2. Maintain the relationship with your loved ones and if you are a parent, do it even moreso, so that you can role model that behavior to them.

3. Stop apologizing for yourself. Be as authentic as possible. Sometimes people spend too much time and energy to get other people to like them. 

4. Things will go wrong – they always do thus, always be ready – so we don’t have to get ready when the need arises. If not, we will be in a consistent reactionary mode. We won’t learn, we won’t grow, and we won’t be able to use the changes as opportunities because we will be busy reacting to changes.

5. Don’t let people pull you into their noise. Understand what their end game is because you may have something better to give them for their purpose than what they are asking from you.

6. Have a plan. Plan to work and then work the plan.

I will bring you the 100th episode of Sharing Life Lessons in two weeks.  Until then, 'be happy, be safe and be blessed'.

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