Tyra Garlington | Delivered into Destiny

The Job is Yours if You Want It

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Let me rephrase that. The job is yours whether you want it or not. “Little girls learn a lot from the women they grow up around, whether they are related or not. Older women are like midwives who assist in the birth of a young woman’s consciousness. It is not just what they do; it’s who they are, and how they demonstrate who they are, that provides young women with “womanhood training.” Young women and girls learn about themselves and what it means to be a woman by watching older women in their lives. They watch how and what, (and……
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Leadership Lessons from the 2017 film Beauty and the Beast

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Let’s say goodbye to Women’s History month from the meeting place of reality and make-believe. “Many say the character of Belle (Beauty) is a throwback from a sexist fairy tale and that her life as an animated Disney princess is shallow. Others say she may have been modernized as a powerful heroine in this iteration, a working woman played by a real-life feminist. In this latest version, Belle is an inventor, one who creates the washing machine so she can spend more time reading. She is a tech innovator, a start-up entrepreneur, a role model for women’s leadership. We acknowledge deeply that……
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Can you remember once upon a time?

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

It took me a while to accept the fact that once upon a time never comes again. And thus, remembering will have to do. Once upon a time, March 21st was the day Mother would awaken to breakfast in bed, a dozen red roses, lots of singing and hugs and presents from Daddy and me. We treated birthdays as both intimate and big moments. We saw one another as gifts that God had given to us and the world. Once upon a time, Mother was a single parent while Daddy was away at war and disabled in a Veterans Hospital.……
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Are you every woman?

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“Strength has no gender.” “Our history is our strength.” “Writing women back into history.” “Know your history, know your power.” A few reminders that March is Women’s History Month. I encourage you to celebrate today and everyday women everywhere for their strength and resilience and legacies. Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982, as “Women’s History Week.” In 1987 after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated……
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Do You Take Time to Rest Your Greatness?

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

DJ Khaled is one of this decade’s biggest names in rap and pop. The son of Palestinian immigrants, he’s become a larger-than-life presence in the music world as a DJ, producer and record executive. He’s already released nine albums of his own, and his latest, Major Key, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and is nominated for a Grammy. Resting your greatness is one of the life lessons DJ Khaled talks about in his new book, The Keys. In a recent interview with David Greene on NPR’s Morning Edition, DJ Khaled explains in fresh words the need for pillows……
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Where did you get polished?

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

This Black History Month, I want to recognize a lesser known African American educational legacy. I was inspired by the book called Certain People by Stephen Birmingham written in 1977. Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, the first president of Palmer Institute, watched as her students arrived by Pullman and chauffeur-driven limousines. She used to say, “That anybody who is anybody sends their children to Palmer. They come to us, and we polish off any rough edges”. Palmer Institute was, in other words, the first and only private black coeducational finishing school in America. Established in 1902 in Sedalia, North Carolina with……
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Resonate Anyone?

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

We all struggle. We all suffer on the inside. Every day: We worry. We procrastinate. We feel overwhelmed. We feel angry. We feel lonely. We don’t feel good enough. We wish we were thinner We wish we had more money. We wish our jobs were different. We wish our relationships were different. We think everything in life should be easier. And yet, every one of these struggles is self-created. They are real, but they are only real because we have created them in our minds. We have attached ourselves to certain ideals and fantasies about how life should be……
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Five Secrets To Jumpstart Your Year

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“If only…” These two words paired together create one of the saddest phrases in the English language. Here are five choices that ultimately lead to this phrase of regret, and how to elude them: 1. Wearing a mask to impress others. – If the face you always show the world is a mask, someday there will be nothing beneath it. Because when you spend too much time concentrating on everyone else’s perception of you, or who everyone else wants you to be, you eventually forget who you really are. So don’t fear the judgments of others; you know in your……
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Include This New Year’s Resolution

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Cheers to a new beginning and another chance for us to make the very best of it! Undoubtedly, the days, weeks and months ahead will be filled with incredible highs and stressful lows. But in any case, we can train our minds to make the best of the present moment as it unfolds. The mind is like a muscle, and just like every muscle in the human body, it needs to be exercised to gain strength. It needs to be trained daily to grow and develop gradually over time. If you haven’t pushed your mind in thousands of little, positive……
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Legacy is for life and living

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Did you know that: The best place to plant a young tree: is in a clearing in an old-growth forest and not an open field. Why Tyra, I’m glad you asked. Ecologists tell us that a young tree grows better when it’s planted in an area with older trees. Now, this is the good part. The reason, it seems, is that the roots of the young tree are able to follow the pathways created by former trees and implant themselves more deeply. Over time, the roots of many trees may actually graft themselves to one another, creating an intricate, interdependent……
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