My name is Nicole Major, and as the co-creator of ShadesofGoodness.com, I am excited to be taking a more active role with the publication. However, I will continue to share stories in my column, Our Humanity. It’s an honor for me to be able to share stories that matter to us – stories about, well, ordinary people. People who might be doing extraordinary things while simultaneously living out their day-to-day lives. After all, isn’t that what life is all about?
As the adage goes, we rarely know what a difference we were making until after we’ve made it. I desire to bring stories of hope, that present the journey from struggle to success on the center stage, where it belongs — where each one can inspire us.
These stories will help us understand what success is. In my opinion, if you’ve lived every day the best that you could, then that is success in its purest form. You can’t do any more than your best — but your best is the foundation for greater.
All of our lives are brimming with purpose, even if we don’t realize it yet. My dream is to bring light those purposes so that they might inspire us to dream, to do, to succeed and to accomplish more than we ever thought possible. To help us live as we are destined to live.
Nicole Major, Co-Creator of Shades Of Goodness, has written professionally for more than 15 years for a variety of publications including the Jacksonville Business Journal, Women in Aviation Magazine and The Herald. She’s written internationally for PC World Egypt, the Middle East Times, and Am Cham Egypt’s Business Monthly Magazine. She is currently a fulltime staff writer for the Fairfield Ledger in Fairfield, Iowa where she has written under the name Nicole Hester-Williams. In 1997, the Arthritis Foundation nominated her for a profile story she wrote highlighting a young woman’s struggle with Rheumatoid Arthritis; she was subsequently awarded a Celebrate Independence Medal. Nicole has authored three books including “Amina, Princess of Zaria,” which was a brief Amazon bestseller for books in African literature in 2007. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in interdisciplinary studies with concentrations in both journalism and social science. She currently lives in Fairfield, Iowa with her husband Jason and their two daughters, Danielle and Gabrielle.
