Gayla's Magazine

Welcome!

Thank you for stopping by.  This blog is sure to bring a smile along with discoveries and  encouragement for your daily life.  The significance of  a meaningful life comes with focus and developed personal skills for overcoming challenges.  I hope you explore these many pages and enjoy life from my view..... today is full of unexpected opportunities for growth!

I have completed the ebook preps for my book and it will soon be out!

It hurts to see a child in need.... you can join me in helping to feed the helpless.

 

go to www.momsagainsthunger.org to be a part of the solution. 

How to handle too much on your plate.

Many responsibilities are on my shoulders each day, so many details and needs that I have trouble at times keeping up with all of them.  How to handle all of it?  Every morning I transfer them all to the the broad and powerful shoulders of Jesus.  He said 'cast your cares on me'... so I do. 

Literally I take each one out of my heart and head and place them into his most capable hands. 

Then I go about my day released.  It's all His issues now, not mine, this habit kills worry and anxiety each day. 

And the most amazing things happen along the daily pathway!  It's far better to trust Him with each heavy weight than try to manage that which is not made for me to carry anyway.

In my book Growing the Leader Within You, there are 20 leadership principals that have been birthed out of my firey problems.  I wouldn't trade my 'credentials' now for anything, although each experience I wrote about was very difficult to go through.  And writing about them after the fact and the knowledge I gained through them is now priceless! Still at the end of every danger and adventure lived through, I find that trusting my Father is still the foundation I live life by.

How to handle too much on your plate?  Quit trying to and give the plateful to God... He can do more with everything on it than you can ever imagine!!!    

West, Texas Explosion

Moms Against Hunger will be sending aid to help with the victims of the explosion in West, Texas near Waco.  Your help is needed.... please visit www.momsagainsthunger.org  to donate TODAY.    

An excerpt from my book

Here is an excerpt from my book called Growing the Leader Within You. This is taken from Chapter 6   'Redrawing Your Mind Map'.  

"African travel requires three things: a strong will to live, navigational skills and a creative imagination."  

The subtitles are Traveling Options, How to Walk Through a Jungle, Using the Mind Maps of Others, Bridge Builders, On a Wing and a Prayer, Mapping a Path for Others among others....

There are stories and adventures troubles and losses that all have been parts of my map that have shaped my life the way it is. 

 

 

 

 

 

Book Review: Growing the Leader Within You by Dr. Gayla Holley - Books - Blogcritics

Book Review: Growing the Leader Within You by Dr. Gayla Holley - Books - Blogcritics.

All proceeds go to Moms Against Hunger

This book is about becoming a leader through life's adventures, struggles and challenges.  Dr Gayla will uncover the many hints and sign posts along your life about who and what you are to become.  Please support by visiting the book site at www.growingtheleaderwithinyou.com and purchase your copy today.  YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUT THE BOOK DOWN.  All proceeds go to Moms Against Hunger for our work in feeding children.  From her early years as living in an african village in West Africa as a child, to going through a war and having a baby in Southern Africa, her adventures are riveting!! She is a strong leader today as a result of adrenaline pumping experiences.  

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Watch for my upcoming Book signing events....

 

 

 

 

A tiny bite of my coming book!

Growing the Leader Within You

The book that's been in my heart for 20 years has finally been written!  It wasn't hard to write since it's been completed internally for years. It's done and at the printing company now and I will have copies of it mid April.  The proceeds are for Moms Against Hunger and I trust it will be a encouragement to all who read it.

It's the adventures and dangers of my life while living in Africa and other places and how adversity can be leveraged into success in life, leadership, work and faith. Here is the cover..... and yes I am excited to show it to you!

There are 20 leadership principals in this book  to help develop leadership within the reader. And it's filled with stories and experiences on every principal and growth pattern.  

I am so thankful for Patrick Snow who has been my publishing coach.  He is amazing!!! And Kevin Allen, the President of Nucerity wrote the Foreward, is a leader in every sense of the word and I'm grateful to him!  Tyler and Fransesco and Shiloh who are all such creative people and their professionial expertise is so very appreciated!!!  Thank you each one.... because you all helped, thousands of children will receive aid in the future.