How do you choose to win? New App!

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In January 2016, I Choose To Win launched an app that allows women to customize a victory statement! Using the app, women are able to upload their photo, make a bold declaration of one thing they are ready to “do” in their journey to win in life. It allows them to share their personal statement of victory with others as a source of motivation, accountability and community. Let us know how you choose to win, visit ichoosetowin.com and use the hashtag #ichoosetowin when you post on social sites. Thank you in advance for choosing victory!

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Temple University’s Winning Workshop

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In January 2016, Temple Women’s Network invited and partnered with I Choose To Win for a Day of Mentoring. In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, together we served the young women in the community with an impactful self-reflective session. We posed the following Dr. King quote for deep inward reflection about each participant’s walk in their purpose and service. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” – Dr. King

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#ichoosetowin Magazine

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The newly created I Choose To Win magazine is a vehicle to highlight and feature everyday women who are winning in life. In addition to sharing personal stories as each woman defines winning for herself, we offer tips and tidbits for women to stay edified, empowered and equipped on their own journey. Primarily featuring millennials, from teenage years to early thirties, these women have had a revelation about the way God desires to use them in daily living. Not all women follow the typical path ministry, yet are equally effective for His kingdom by being God-honoring women in their line of work. As a result, they impact those in their sphere of influence. While some are pursuing passions placed within them, other women are enjoying the path of an unknown final destination – adventurous living in the Lord – just living life daily and responding in obedience to the call. The I Choose To Win magazine celebrates the diversity of stories and journeys our featured women candidly share. It’s a positive, quick read. Take a peek.

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Be Bold, Brave & Brilliant!

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BE BOLD Being bold is not being loud, bossy, rude, pushy or obnoxious. It’s not drawing attention to yourself to satisfy an insatiable need to have all eyes on you or every ear awaiting your thoughts. It’s bigger and better than that. It is being convinced, convicted and confident in whose you are and the purpose placed in you. It’s being okay with who you are by design and being unapologetic about being exactly who you are. Be bold and win! BE BRAVE Being brave is not being overly aggressive, in-your-face or bully-like. It’s releasing courage in the face of conflict, injustice and undeniable obstacles that appear greater than your known propensity to deal. It’s not knowing the outcome, but doing the “right” thing while you have a chance. It’s standing up for something you believe in, even if you are standing alone. It’s you in most environments when you are made to feel small, but you leave satisfied knowing you spoke up, stood up and did what you must. Be brave and win! BE BRILLIANT Being brilliant is not being a know-it-all, smarty-pants or rocket scientist. Not at all. Being brilliant is truly a command, because you cannot achieve brilliance on your own. It is the shining of your inner spirit that creates the glow, which illuminates from within and permeates your environment for others to bear witness. Brilliance brightens the world. It’s knowing and loving God. It’s loving yourself. It’s loving others. It’s light. It’s beautifully majestic. It’s attractive. It’s an irrefutable glow. Be brilliant and win! By design, you have been custom-built to achieve a purpose of significance, which you are on mission to discover and uncover throughout your lifetime. Until such time when your purpose has been fulfilled, every living moment becomes part of a bigger journey. And every journey leaves a trail of experiences that help to define the gifts, talents, skills and perspectives placed in you that will cause you to be effective in His purpose for your life. Once revealed, it’s up to you to unleash your gifts for God’s glory. Do not shrink back in fear. Do not diminish the significance of that gift. Do not play it down. Do not lack confidence. Do not be conformed. Be bold, brave and brilliant. In doing this, you will also find yourself confident, intentional and effective. Give 100% effort every time. Whether that is speaking, singing, teaching, serving, laboring, playing an instrument, leading or healing – do your absolute best as unto the Lord. The hidden treasures that await you include joy, excitement, internal satisfaction, greater meaning and inexplicable peace.

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The moment you say, “I’m Done!”

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The moment you realize that winning and losing is not only an outcome, but more importantly a choice, is the moment when you’re confronted with the decision to choose. Win or Lose? In life, let’s choose to win. Believe it or not, we choose everyday, several times per day how we will approach the day, the attitude we have during the day, the tasks we will complete within the day and how much we expect from ourselves before the close of the day. The will to win in any task begins first with a choice. It’s followed quickly by an attitude that anticipates the completion of the task. Then, it requires the actions of undertaking the task. Before you know it, upon the completion of each small task, you experience a life of winning. Over and over again. It’s as simple as these three steps: First, Choose. Next, Align your attitude. Last, Complete the actions required to experience the WIN! Winning is realizing the potential within you for greatness. With God being your creator, and understanding that He purposed each of us with a task for His Glory, then we each possess a bit of greatness within us, for God is grand, almighty and awesome. His victory is ours, if we believe – and live it out. When we believe this – and can honestly say, “I’m Done. I’m done living complacently; wanting more and accepting less. I’m done giving excuses, procrastinating and telling myself ‘I can’t.’ No More ignoring my inner voice and suppressing my passion. I will no longer wonder ‘what if?’ because I’m ready to find out. I’m all in, in life, I choose to win! If this is you, welcome. We are here for you! Join us.

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Let’s redefine winning!

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I Choose To Win challenges the idea of what it means to win in this life. Utilizing a compilation of introspective activities and employing creativity as a path toward self-exploration, the program comprises the following: Open-ended questioning, Journaling, Active Imagining, Public Announcement, Music Listening, Dancing, Photography and biblical scriptural engagement for each young woman to frame for herself what a winning life looks like. With no judgment cast, we help each woman carve the path she believes will get her to win in life. It begins with a choice, then an attitude and both come together to determine the appropriate actions for winning to ensue. I Choose To Win creates a pathway to channel the energy required to achieve the goal – winning. Program leaders and participants become a support system for those who choose in favor of winning.

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It’s all in LOVE: God, Self, Others

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Love God, Love Oneself, Love Others With an upward, inward and outward focus, I Choose To Win challenges women to love God completely, to love themselves correctly and love others compassionately. With a love-centered heart, our gifts are unleashed with power in every environment we are placed. Having a love-centered focus, we encourage women to see themselves, not as society does, but as God does: light, courage, salt and victorious. With this transition of mindset, we shift from being focused on our societal value of outward appearance, monetary gain, political affiliation and social status, to a spiritual value of eternal significance and impactful for God’s purpose. Also, by believing these, we put to death the sour fruit of self-consciousness, insecurities, self-image issues and jealousy. Women begin to see themselves as intentional, purposeful, bold, brave and brilliant. They become unapologetic about their existence – and become game changers as a result. These young women become future leaders, community mothers, decision makers, entrepreneurs, spiritual peacemakers, activists, advocates and such. These women are passionate, on fire for God and highly effective in their ministry (whether that’s art, music, family, leadership, serving, laboring, advocating, comforting, etc.).

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Why I Choose To Win Matters

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In life, it is important to understand who we are and what we were created to do. So many individuals yearn for the answer to the question, “what on Earth am I here for?” So much so, Rick Warren, the author of The Purpose Driven Life, sold millions of his best-selling book that answers that question from a biblical perspective. Today, with the nature of trending images, extensive social media platforms and the success of a few young celebrities, the media is doing a great job showcasing what many young women are striving to become and do with their lives. Too often, people are striving more and more to be like someone else, look like someone else, wear what someone else wears and live like someone else. It’s not what God intended. What’s happening is this millennial generation of women is choosing to either follow the trend or break the mold – and ours is a program designed for those who choose to break the mold – and win in life. With I Choose To Win, we would like to encourage a shift away from negativity, promiscuity and lackluster living. In their place, we encourage a hard push toward more positivity, humility and bold living by showcasing uniquely talented individuals on mission. With the speed of information delivery and accessibility of information, we are able to utilize the high visibility and repetitious displays of social media images to deliver positive images and messages of our winners. As an organization, we are promoting images and stories that uplift, edify and glorify God through the lives of the women. The I Choose To Win social campaign and program both highlight women doing positive things, their decisions to win and their actions to impact the world – one gift, one woman at a time. Naively, It is our hope that this energy will generate its own buzz – and cause other young women to be challenged by what they’re seeing and the life they’re choosing. I Choose To Win is comprised of individuals who said, “no more” to lukewarm living! Instead, we are bringing courage, salt and light to the environments and to the people within our sphere of influence (community, jobs, corporations, schools, etc.). As a collection of winners, we are bold, brave and brilliant women determined to live a passionate existence. And, until we meet our creator again, we receive the victory He imparted to us. We are women – decision makers – choosing in favor of an adventurous and meaningful life in Christ. Watch out, though. We will be unleashing our gifts, pursuing our passions, living boldly for all to impact the world around us. Watch. You’ll see. We choose to win!

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