A Plentiful Harvest Creating Balance and

She was president of one of the country's top publicity agencies, with a Who's Who in Entertainment client list that included Eddie Murphy, Miles Davis, and Janet Jackson. The bestselling author of The Personal Touch, she was a popular speaker for Fortune 500 companies and academia alike. Yet Terrie Williams felt more stressed out than successful, frantic instead of fulfilled. She felt there had to be something more than rushing to meet constant deadlines and to be in endless places, and she found it somewhere she never expected...

Terrie Williams is the president of The Terrie Williams Agency, and founder of The Stay Strong Foundation, a youth organization. She lives in New York City

Foreword by Susan L. Taylor

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Foreword by Iyanla Vanzant

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Introduction: My Basket Runneth Over

1

(6)

How to Use This Book

7

(4)

Living Virtue 1: Calling

11

(48)

WEEK 1: A Galling of Your Own

21

(8)

WEEK 2: Gifts, Talents, and Skills

29

(5)

WEEK 3: Make a Commitment

34

(4)

WEEK 4: Power in Your Passion

38

(4)

WEEK 5: Twists and Turns

42

(6)

WEEK 6: Calling, Service, and Kindred Spirits

48

(5)

WEEK 7: Calling Will Change Your Life

53

(6)

Living Virtue 2: Responsibility

59

(44)

WEEK 8: Responsibility to Ourselves: Tending Our Own Garden

66

(7)

WEEK 9: Responsibility for Our Actions: Making the Choice to Grow

73

(6)

WEEK 10: Because We Care: Taking Responsibility for Our Relationships

79

(5)

WEEK 11: Movin' on Up: Responsibility for Our Successes

84

(4)

WEEK 12: Closing the Generation Gap: Responsibility to Our Youth

88

(6)

WEEK 13: Civic Responsibility: Expanding Our Horizons

94

(5)

WEEK 14: The Big Picture: Responsibility Equals Liberty

99

(4)

Living Virtue 3: Thrift

103

(42)

WEEK 15: Dollars, Cents, and Yourself

111

(4)

WEEK 16: Understanding Needs, Wants, and Desires

115

(3)

WEEK 17: Get Out of Debt

118

(5)

WEEK 18: Buy Your Freedom

123

(5)

WEEK 19: Who Wants to Be a Hundred Thousandaire?

128

(5)

WEEK 20: Ujima and Ujama (or, The Art of Pooling Resources)

133

(4)

WEEK 21: When You Have Enough, Share (And You Have Enough)

137

(3)

WEEK 22: Enjoy Your Financial Freedom

140

(5)

Living Virtue 4: Love

145

(36)

WEEK 23: What Is Love?

149

(6)

WEEK 24: Getting to the Roots: Family Love

155

(4)

WEEK 25: Love Yourself

159

(5)

WEEK 26: Committed Love: Finding the Romance

164

(4)

WEEK 27: Let's Get Physical: Showing Your Love

168

(4)

WEEK 28: Taking the High Road: Love Your Enemies

172

(4)

WEEK 29: Completing the Circle: Learning to Accept Love in Your Life

176

(5)

Living Virtue 5: Community

181

(32)

WEEK 30: Origins

188

(4)

WEEK 31: Family Is Where You Find It

192

(3)

WEEK 32: Discovering Community (I Am Because We Are)

195

(3)

WEEK 33: Honoring Our Differences

198

(4)

WEEK 34: Take Back Your Community

202

(5)

WEEK 35: Own Your Community

207

(3)

WEEK 36: Celebrations and Traditions

210

(3)

Living Virtue 6: Spirituality

213

(40)

WEEK 37: Religion versus Spirituality: Looking Beyond the Rules

218

(6)

WEEK 38: Seek and Ye Shall Find: Defining Your Spirituality

224

(4)

WEEK 39: Contradictions in Faith: Tackling Tough Spiritual Questions

228

(4)

WEEK 40: Dealing with Everyday Life: Spirituality in the Material World

232

(4)

WEEK 41: The Power of the Practice: Prayer, Meditation, Ritual

236

(5)

WEEK 42: Testing Your Faith: Staying Real with God

241

(4)

WEEK 43: Spread the Love: Creating a Spiritual World

245

(4)

WEEK 44: Redefining Miracles: How Spirituality Can Change Our Lives

249

(4)

Living Virtue 7: Creativity

253

(38)

WEEK 45: Unblocking Your Creativity: Getting Over the Fear of Failure

259

(4)

WEEK 46: Finding Your Creative Outlet

263

(3)

WEEK 47: Creative Inspiration: Finding Your Muse

266

(3)

WEEK 48: Creativity at Work

269

(4)

WEEK 49: Creative Celebrations: Sharing Our Creativity

273

(5)

WEEK 50: Creative Healing

278

(4)

WEEK 51: Creatively Working the Virtues

282

(4)

WEEK 52: Reaping the Harvest

286

(5)

Books That Have Touched My Heart

291

(2)

Acknowledgments

293

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A Plentiful Harvest Creating Balance and Harmony Through the Seven Living Virtues

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