3C's

Choices Atlanta: Women Balancing Life

Three C’s

Community – Corporate – Charity

Do you ever get caught up in the momentum of doing and forget to take the time to think?  Many times, our problems stem from acting before thinking.  We confuse activity with productivity.  But progress and productivity always require thought!  Choices Atlanta encourages women to pause and reflect on the choices they make in all areas of their lives, especially the three C’s: community, corporate, and charity.  

Community:  Community can be a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, or a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and being distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists.  For Choices Atlanta, community is a fellowship in which we welcome women to join together for the betterment of those around them, wherever it may be, to form an environment of positive influence, integration, and fulfillment of needs, as well as a shared emotional connection. 

True community: Possessing a deep respect for and truly listening to the needs of the other people in community. This definition reflects a deep yearning in every human soul for the compassionate understanding from one's fellows.

Choices Atlanta provide speakers in Atlanta communities including high schools, college groups, church groups, hospitals, non-profit organizations, moms clubs, etc.  We host coffees and workshops for:

• Moms of young children – A mother’s work is priceless and provides invaluable benefits to all.  As Ann Crittenden wrote in 2001, “The very definition of a mother is selfless service to another.”  There is no perfect mother.  Every mother has different challenges and different skills and abilities to deal with their unique family, and so a mother’s choices are different and unique.  Through our Choices Atlanta gatherings, we give mothers an understanding of how they are valued and that they are the first transmitters of values to their children. "One of the key messages that we try to transmit is that the joys of motherhood come from living in the moment."  We encourage women to achieve balance in their lives according to their ideals and how to live their priorities by making good decisions that shape the direction in their lives.

•  Education – Academic intelligence is an important exploit for a university student.  However, just as important is personal development.  To aid in this achievement, Choices Atlanta presents educational workshops for university sororities.  We recognize the importance of forming leaders with strong character and discipline skills that they will use their entire life. The key note speaker for these workshops is a recent college graduate who understands the importance and consequences of one’s choices.

• Non-Profit Organizations – Choices Atlanta organizes luncheons and coffees for other non-profits to share their missions and goals with each other.  These gatherings give non-profit leaders an opportunity to meet founders or volunteers of non-profits who share their journey to make a difference.  The many exceptional non-profits continue to inspire and to work hard to become a very important influence in the lives of women across America.

Corporate:  A corporation is a group of persons united in an industry or profession.  The most effective way to foster trust in corporations is through leadership and a commitment to the highest standards of ethics and integrity.  “To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.” - Joe Namath

• Businesses – Choices Atlanta provides well-executed activities, discussions, and programs that educate working women to discover solutions to the vast array of issues that they face.  We help them to identify what’s really important in their lives. Through our educational workshops, women recognize their value as an employee and their contribution to society.  They also gain a better understanding of their employer and co-workers.   

Charity:  Charity is a generous action or service that brings aid.  Choices Atlanta meets the needs of women less fortunate who seek options.  Through our services, we can make a difference in the lives of these women and their families.  Our charitable mission is to inform, encourage, and inspire the volunteer within all of us who believes that we can make a difference in the world around us.

• Charity groups – Choices Atlanta’s life skills workshops provide speakers to charity groups for women that are less fortunate.  Our presentations offer topics that inform women and help them to understand that their choices today will have consequences for their tomorrows.  Choices Atlanta is the prudent and understanding voice that communicates options, decisions, and choices.  Through the workshops, women gain valuable knowledge and life skills to use as they move forward and find stability for themselves and their families.  Christy Merritt, Director of Programs at The Drake House in Roswell, recently said, “the life skills workshops are informative and very thought-provoking, and we appreciate the help in educating our moms on these very important topics, because it is by working together that we can make a difference.”