What a laugh!

My sister just showed this to me and it's wonderfully random and hilarious! Enjoy! I loved it and I don't even like kittens!

Peace, Love & Chocolate!

Katrina Markoff just might be my new hero! Her goal is to bring peace to the world through chocolate - a noble cause if I've ever heard of one. She says and I quote "Bringing peace to the world through chocolate is a pretty big mantra, but it can do that by introducing different cultures and points of view." She is doing a pretty fantastic job of that with her exotic chocolates. My new favorite chocolate in all the world is her Goji Bar which I discovered today the back of the box of which put me on to Katrina and her fabulous empire.

One of my colleagues in their customary 'diet ruining moves' put this Goji bar on the communal table we use for lunch and for magazines no one wants. Anyway, I was intrigued by the bizarre but fabulous tasting combination of Tibetan goji berries, pink Himalayan salt and deep milk chocolate and had to try some. The ingredients might sound weird, but the taste was like nothing else I've ever tried! I also liked that on the box there were instructions given about how to savor the chocolate involving all the senses. Finally, people who realize that chocolate is serious business! Let's just say it had me at the smell. Check out my fave:

http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/product/goji_exotic_candy_bar/exotic_candy_bars

An environmentalist myself, I recently found out that producing chocolate is really hard on the environment. Bah humbug! What???! Why are there fun-killers everywhere you look??? Why does everything I enjoy have a high price??? Ok, I'll stop feeling sorry for myself and tell the story already... Anyway Katrina has greened her chocolate company - they use 100% renewable energy in producing their chocolates! Yay guilt-free chocs on so many levels. Also she's known for having events such as beer & chocolate, ice cream tasting and yoga & chocolate workshops! Next to Gwyneth Paltrow and all my real-life best friends, Rina (my nickname for her) is my newest very best friend in the whole world! Speaking of best friends, I got sad that one of my besties, Gracie, who would be able to truly appreciate all of this, is across the world in Cambodia :o( I must send her some of this uber cool deliciousness!

See how Katrina gains inspiration from cultures, religion, Bob Marley, yoga, etc., then weaves them into stories she tells through chocolate. Be inspired.



Peace, love & chocolate.
Me :o)

I spent the afternoon with this woman...

...and it was so inspiring! 

The woman in question is Dierdre Connelly, our new president! I'm a member of the Executive Communications group at my company and our main agenda is to support all the communications of and from our president.  Historically, the president of the US business in our company (and I believe Pharma companies of its size) have always been white males. Imagine our collective delight when we found out on the 30th of January that our new prez was not only female but Latina! 

I got to meet her today and spend some hours listening to her address groups within the company, and it was a great education.

Lessons learned:

As if that wasn't enough, I met up with some friends in Wayne PA tonight. My friend Tom is a life coach and he needed my friend Kim and I to act out some skits for a transition seminar he was leading in two weeks. Through this, I'll learn some job/life transitioning skills which in this economy, with pending layoffs at my job, are skills I'm gonna need!

Here are the things I learned in passing:

• We're ALWAYS in transition in life. The goal is to get to a place where our talents, skills - who we are - intersects with the real needs in the world.
  
• We get what we can handle.
• The three A's of handling transition are Awareness, Alignment & Accountability.