So you’ve been read­ing A Diva’s Guide to the Sweet Life for a cou­ple of weeks now. Sub­scribed to the blog. Told all your friends about it. Shopped at the Online Store. And yet– what is a Sweet Diva? Am I one?, you ask your­self.

Let me try to clear things up a bit. Being a Sweet Diva is not as gooey, sticky-sweet as it may sound. It is not the unat­tain­able state of being impec­ca­bly coiffed, beau­ti­fully man­nered, gra­cious to a fault, float­ing about in a fuzzy cloud of glam­our and sophis­ti­ca­tion, dis­pens­ing bon mots and life-altering advice from a lofty perch…really, how bor­ing, how ridicu­lous, how sublime…how do I become that Diva?  Okay, shake it off, we are liv­ing in the real world.

Back to real­ity. Allow me to state the Diva Mantra:

You, my Sweet Diva, are smart savvy, fun & fab­u­lous!
You have a pas­sion for life and liv­ing it with style.
Resilient & bold, you have the courage to chase your dreams & make them reality.

This Diva Mantra is our aspi­ra­tion and our inspi­ra­tion. Being a “DIVA” is sim­ple. Being a Sweet Diva takes hard work, con­sid­er­a­tion, patience, love and dedication.

As women, we nur­ture our daugh­ters, nieces and any young girl in our lives. We try to teach them to be strong, inde­pen­dent, proud and con­fi­dent. We cheer for them, encour­age them, sup­port them, com­fort them, guide them, love them. But is that enough? What hap­pens to all the sis­ter­hood and girl-power when we turn 30, 40, 50.…? Where’s that pat on the back or the out­burst of “Yippee!” from our youth?

We women, girls and Sister-Divas need to sup­port, encour­age and dream together through­out our lives. Sin­gle girls need to reach out to our mar­ried friends and remind them who they were when they were just our BFF from high school. Mar­ried women need to reach out to our sin­gle friends and include them in gath­er­ings. Treat any woman you come across with respect. They are each spe­cial with their own dreams, goals, achieve­ments, and disappointments.

La Dolce Diva means embrac­ing the mes­sage of self-empowerment and self-worth and pass­ing it on to Sister-Divas.

Now ask your­self again, “Am I a Sweet Diva?”…