Sideshow: Ciara: Say your goals and get them done!
Ciara: visualize, verbalize Want to succeed? Visualize your goal, then verbalize it, says Ciara. "I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud, and work for them, they will happen," the Austin, Texas-born model-singer tells Shape mag for its September issue.
Ciara: visualize, verbalize
Want to succeed? Visualize your goal, then verbalize it, says Ciara. "I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud, and work for them, they will happen," the Austin, Texas-born model-singer tells Shape mag for its September issue.
We bet Ciara, 29, whose latest LP, Jackie, came out in May, applied that technique to one of her most serious life challenges: losing her baby weight. The "Goodies" singer admits she ate well when she was carrying her son, Future Zahir Wilburn, born in May 2014. "Don't ever let a pregnant lady be hungry," she says, "because when I was, I was like the Tasmanian Devil!"
Ciara tells the mag she lost 60 pounds in four months with a daily training regimen that included boxing, cardio sessions, and exhausting stuff like that. "It was a very intense program, and I was extremely focused on it," she says.
Bill Anderson's reunion
Can there be anything sweeter than reuniting with a loved one after a long absence? Bill Anderson had that feeling this weekend, when he got his favorite Grammer guitar back after it went walkabout nearly half a century ago.
Two pawnshop owners from Phoenix, Ariz., presented him with the instrument at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville on Saturday. The guitar, named after its designer, country singer Billy Grammer, was a favorite, said Anderson.
It's "the only guitar I played onstage for between five and seven years," said the "I Get the Fever" singer, 77.
Pawnshop owner Mike Grauer tracked down Anderson when he noticed the guitar had a label saying it had been custom made for him. "I just wonder," Anderson said after performing Saturday. "If [the guitar] could talk, what stories it would tell me?"
WXPN wins national prize
Congratulations to University of Pennsylvania listener-supported radio station WXPN (88.5-FM). The station and its associate GM, Bruce Warren, have won station of the year and program director of the year at the annual FMQB Triple A Conference, held over the weekend in Boulder, Colo. "We're extremely proud and happy that we have won these coveted awards," WXPN GM Roger LaMay said Monday.
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