A Purpose-filled Life | Tyra Garlington

A Gift for Graduates

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“This morning I was reading a book at my favorite beach-side coffee shop when an 18-year-old kid sat down next to me and said, “That’s a great read, ain’t it?” So, we started chatting. He told me he was getting ready to graduate from high school in a couple of weeks and then immediately starting his college career in the fall. “But I have no clue what I want to do with my life,” he said. “Right now, I’m just going with the flow.” And then, with eager, honest eyes, he began asking me one question after the next: “What do you……
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Don’t you feel great when you are with her?

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“Live by choice, not by chance. Make changes, not excuses. Be motivated, not manipulated. Work to excel, not compete. Listen to your own inner voice, not the jumbled opinions of everyone else. This is the way to inspire people! This is how you can grow into the best version of YOU! Here are three more ideas to get you started with inspiring everyone around you: Be authentic and true to yourself.– In this crazy world that’s trying to make you like everyone else, find the courage to keep being your awesome self. Embrace that individual inside you that has ideas,……
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EARTH DAY! … April 22, 2018 … End Plastic Polution!

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

I’m Done! (With Disposable Plastic) “How do you make a lasting change in your behavior? How do you take a desire to be and do better and turn it into action? In the past months, you may have been exposed to powerful information and imagery, showing the drastic tolls that plastic pollution is having on our environment, our health, and the health of the other organisms that we share the planet with. You may have even gone to the effort of finding out ways you can stop contributing to the problem, by refusing plastic straws and shopping bags, or by……
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Women of Wonder with Erni Shepherd

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

With Erni Shepherd Podcast format of Tyra Garlington’s weekly radio show, Frankly Speaking with Tyra G. Broadcast on Radio Fairfax www.radiofairfax.com Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tyra-garlington/message…
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Are you ready to adjust your focus?

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“Ten years from now, it won’t really matter what shoes you wore today, how your hair looked, or what brand of clothes you wore. What will matter is how you lived, how you loved, and what you learned along the way. Deep down you know this already, right? Yet today, just like the majority of us, you are easily distracted and derailed by the insignificant. You give too much of your time to meaningless time-wasters. You step through days, skeptically, with inner resistance. You take your important relationships for granted. You get caught up in hurtful drama. You give in……
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Is your legacy your testimony?

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“Dear Family, I am sure this letter may be difficult to read. It is difficult to write. It is both painful and joyous. The reason I am writing is to thank you. How do you say thank you that means that because of you and your daughter, I am alive to speak any words at all? I am alive for fifty-one years to continue living. The importance and immense meaning of the gift you and your daughter have given me, truly cannot be expressed in words. I can try, though. I must try because I think you should know that this life……
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Legacy is for the living.

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“Legacy is about life and living. It’s about learning from the past, living in the present, and building for the future. 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……
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Do you do more than what is expexcted?

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“Do you go the extra mile? Do you do more than what is expected? Do you expect the best? These questions pertain not only to your relationship with the world but also how you treat yourself. Do you go the extra mile when it comes to you, or do you think that the least is enough for you? There are people who believe that struggle, servitude, and sacrifice are the best they can hope for in this life. They look for ways and reasons to be okay with the things they believe are not okay with your lives. Other people……
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What do you know about SCRIP HOP 101?

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

Did you Know? More than 80 million Millennials worldwide represent a collective $170 billion in purchase power. Millennials want to create a positive impact on their community and the world through their work. Millennials will make up roughly 50% of the US workforce in 2020 and 75% of the global workforce by 2030. Digging deeper And it may be too soon to tell. The legacy of Millennials, so new to this world and its conflicts, maybe how they influence the way the rest of the world engages with each other, including their cultural guidance to the generations that follow. Where……
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Trauma; not for women only?

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

We are looking at women’s health as dynamic and diverse and codependent on so many other factors. We are talking about multiple health perspectives to include: physical, emotional, spiritual, mental, and financial health. This week we are looking at Trauma. It can impact all of these areas. So, have you ever, or do you know someone who has experienced an unexpected heart attack, stroke, rape, domestic abuse, torture, genocide, war, mass killings, human trafficking? Horrible? YES! Traumatic? Definitely! Now, listen to the following: Darlene is a young woman in her early twenties who has never married and has three……
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