I’ve never believed in limits. If you want me to do something, the most effective way of motivating me is to tell me that it can’t be done. I believe from my heart that the biggest limits we face are those that we place upon ourselves. If you peg a horse’s reins to the ground, the horse learns that it is unable to move...

After a while you can simply drop the reins to the ground and the horse won’t move because it believes itself to be staked into position. Or a tiger freed from a cage will, reportedly, continue to pace the ground marking out an area in the forest the size of the cage that it had previously been kept in. Both are useful analogies because many of us remain spiritually and emotionally tethered by constraints that are only in our minds, bound by prison walls that don’t really exist.

We can accomplish amazing things simply by using our minds to the potential that God has given us. “Mind over matter” is more than a tired cliché. If the paperwork from a medical exam comes back with the diagnosis of a disease, we don’t have to receive the diagnosis. By the power of faith we can create the reality that we want to live in. When a doctor told me that a family member, who was four years old at the time, was going to die, I simply wouldn’t receive it. The family member turned 18 last winter.

Getting into People’s Hair My sense of unbounded empowerment is with me in my Dene Nicoles Salon while I work on people’s hair.

My initial foray into the world of hairstyles began before my permanent memories were in place. My mom told me that when I was a toddler, she ran an after-school program and if she weren’t alert, I would treat the other children to a hair cut.

As I grew older I continued cutting and styling everybody’s hair who would let me, including Snoopy, my Irish Setter — who didn’t actually have any choice. By the time I reached seventh grade, kids were coming to me for haircuts and styling. One day I cut a girl’s hair so short in the back that it scared me out of finishing the haircut. By leaving the hair short-in-back-and-long-onthe- sides, I had inadvertently created the world’s first A-Frame hairstyle. The style quickly became a rage that swept through the East Coast. I like to think that my mistake really did kick off the style that day. After all, every radically new hairstyle in the world has to begin somewhere with a single haircut. I’m sure that in many cases a style results from a mistake. If the A-Frame style didn’t, in fact, start with me that day it was certainly an odd coincidence.

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