Women, Are You Serious?: A Guidebook for Relationships and Happiness

By Sharif K. Rasheed

In Women, Are You Serious, Sharif K. Rasheed asks women to question their relationships with both self and others. Looking at past relationships is a thought-provoking self-empowerment tool to motivate you while you embark on a personal journey to self-love.

Happiness starts with awareness and honesty. Guided by what he believes are the principle factors to achieving happiness, Rasheed helps you embrace your personal strengths that will become the building blocks to your new foundation of love and happiness.

The question now is, Women, Are You Serious?

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496915719

Sharif K. Rasheed

Sharif K. Rasheed is a Wright State University Graduate and recipient of the Sociology Outstanding Alumni Award. Inspired by life experiences he felt compelled to write a book that offers steps for women to experience positive relationships and achieve happiness with others and most importantly, your-self. Mr. Rasheed helps you look at the way you perceive love and relationships and how the common denominator for success begins with loving and relating to yourself. “Being aware of the people in your life is important. It can bring you love and happiness with little to no eff ort” - Sharif K. Rasheed

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Published by AuthorHouse 06/09/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4969-1572-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4969-1571-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014909619

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Contents

Chapter 1 It Starts with a Test

Chapter 2 Let Go of Then and Embrace Now

Chapter 3 What Are Friends For… ?

Chapter 4 You should already know…

Chapter 5 It only takes TWO

Chapter 6 Experience is life

To the Women that inspired and changed me

What I love about Women: Their Strength

What do I love about women? I have asked myself that question numerous times and it is the very question that leads me to writing and educating. I love the strength that many women exude. I was raised by a strong woman who showed me what true strength was. That strength is what keeps me strong during times when I feel like I am weak and cannot go on. I remember, in my childhood, when I saw my mom make two dollars feel like a million bucks. As I sit here and think about holidays, birthdays, sports, back to school shopping, and other times when I was a youth, I truly appreciate what my mother did for me, not only back then, but also what she continues to do for me now. She instilled the seed of strength in me, and that seed grew and helped me a lot, even if I did not know it when I was a young child.

Strength is not physical with all people. Internal strength is what I can now look back on and say my mother showed me. She was never the strongest woman in the room physically, but her fearlessness was her strength. I never believed I was poor because my mother created a world that sheltered me from reality for as long as she could. I love that about women because it is something that cannot be taught. The women I saw growing up all had this internal strength. I do not want to quantify my mother’s strength because it is not measurable. It came when it needed to come and left when it needed to leave.

I was raised by women for my entire life and I appreciate it more now. Women are my foundation. Most of my friends tend to be women. I have no negative words for the strength they have. So when I talk about strength I base it on their strength. These women stayed strong even when the odds were not always in their favor. In writing this book I want to offer women some guidance that will help them to have the same strength that helped raised me.

What I Love About Women: Loyalty

My mom used to tell me all the time, I brought you into this world and I will take you out. Now you are probably wondering why I put this under a section subtitled loyalty? I was scratching my head as I wrote it, but I will explain.

I will start by saying that I was a terribly behaved kid, with a smart mouth, and I lived a sneaky life. Well I thought I was sneaky even though I usually got caught. My mother moved me away from my family in New York City because she knew what I would become if I stayed in that area. I was curious and analytical when I was younger. My mother pulled herself away from the family in order to guarantee me a better life. It was hard for her because she loves her family. She sacrificed her love and life in order to give me a better life.

As a young man I saw that a lot in the women in my life. Their loyalty was to their children. They would do anything and everything to help their children, even threaten to take them out of this world. It was a deep loyalty that is not as prevalent in the women of today.

Loyalty is not always easy because sometimes it put my mother in situations that truly hurt her. Her strength played an important role in her loyalty. I want to help women recognize the need for loyalty again, and how in the long term it also helps yourself.

What I Love About Women: Love

Love is a woman’s most powerful ability.