Being Focused Can Save Your Life!

What is it that you really want to do? Where do you want to really spend your time? Although most of us spend a substantial amount of time working hard – really hard, it’s not where we want to spend all of our time. Most of us want to spend the majority of our time…

National Etiquette Week – #scarletetiquetteweek2015

Guess what week it is! It’s National Etiquette Week and Scarlet will not miss this opportunity to get in on the action! You can look out for fun opportunities to engage with Scarlet all week long. Monday: Kick off your week with positivity and thanks! Write 3 people a hand written thank you note thanking them…

How To Get the Competitive Edge

How do you separate yourself from other people? What makes what you have the advantage, the edge or the pizzazz that makes you the “one” – the one that people want to work with, hire, collaborate with endorse or vouch for? Ask yourself, “what makes me special”? Many of us are told, “you are special,…

Your 2015 Super Bowl Etiquette Guide

Did someone say party? OH YES! Hosting and attending a good shindig is right up my alley! This weekend is THE weekend of one of the most anticipated weekends for a good old-fashioned gathering in celebration of Super Bowl XLIX! If you’re hosting or accepting an invitation to a Super Bowl Party, please go, eat, drink,…

Empathy. Perspective. Patience. Kindness. Forgiveness. Love.

Today, as we formally observe the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Scarlet Says just one simple thing…spend just one day this week doing something selfless for someone else. The simple thing could be in the form of showing: Empathy – understanding and sharing the feelings of another Perspective – consider someone else’s viewpoint of…

Back Then, Didn’t Want Me…

Have you ever been dismissed, looked over, counted out, or not given the credit that you rightly deserved? You are not alone! The unfortunate part of being subjected to those things is that while you eventually get over that particular situation, you always remember that undesirable feeling and in future interactions your guard might be up.…

How “Doing You” Can Do You In

The holidays have surely been a fantastic time to get in touch and reconnect with friends. This past weekend, I had a fantastic time catching up with girlfriends in my home town of Detroit. During our girls time catch up, we always engage in a series of serious questions surrounding annual reflection and our outlook…

Just Go With The Flow

This weekend, I had the pleasure of reuniting with my best of friends. While I really enjoyed myself, I came to a very unpleasant reality. I mean, it really isn’t that unpleasant, but considering how most of us think that time spent with others requires a production with mapped out plans and details, it’s just…

Teamwork Changes Lives

Sometimes you sit and daydream about what you could do, wish to do or want to do someday. And then sometimes, you actually ask people to assist you and walaa, like magic, things just start to happen. For the past 5 years, I’ve been a pretty adamant supporter of the Adopt A Child for Christmas in…