My Sister…Paige Junaeus

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storeystyle_ad1My sister, Paige Junaeus just launched her new website. When I was growing up, it was a great privilege to have a sister who was also a friend and a mentor. Paige Juneaus taught me a lot about style, class and even dreaming big. As an adult, I’ve been able to see many dreams fulfilled with the help of my sister’s influence. Paige has quickly become a true world shaker. From being one of the key assistants in the Hollywood Bible Study for over twenty years, to traveling the world teaching people on how to live up in a sometimes down world. Paige has become a leading conference speaker because of her wit, wisdom and love for people. It is a privilege to call her sister, friend, and fellow world shaker.

Paige Junaeus is a Speaker, Columnist, and Creative. She is well known for her work teaching and motivating people from all walks of life. Paige got her start in the fashion world, eventually moving into interior design, and ultimately into public speaking. Between 1972 and 1983 Paige modeled for Mary Web Davis. After roughly ten years of high fashion runway modeling for designers. Paige decided to pursue other professional interest. Starting in 1984 she attended Long Beach State University. After spending 4 years there Paige went on to start her own interior design company, working with a number of furniture labels including Ralph Lauren and Henredon. She has designed a number of notable homes, corporate offices, and estates in Newport Beach, Beverly Hills, Pasadena, Santa Barbara and Stockholm, Sweden.

Alongside Paige’s interest in fashion and design, she has been involved in ministry and community outreaches ever since she was introduced to the local church. Her earliest church experiences started as a child when in 1967 her family became a part of a neighborhood church in Whittier, CA. Under the care of Pastor Ron Prinzing. Paige often tells stories about this time in her life during her speaking engagements, attributing her later work as having been directly inspired by the many wonderful people she had met and been supported by.

Not long after Paige’s positive local church experience she began to get more involved in ministry. During her early twenties she began teaching a bible study in her mother’s home that encouraged many young people to attend. This study lasted over five years, bringing substantial spiritual growth to all that attended. Today, over twenty different ministries currently attribute their origins to those meetings.

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Don’t Just Live the Dream…Enjoy it!

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Your priorities are more than just the things you need to do right away. Priorities mean deciding how you live your life – its like finding your style, your groove. You may want to be center stage as a performer, or you may prefer to work out of the limelight. You may be most excited when you are working with a group, or you may find that you only accomplish things by working alone. If you like to work with other people, you may need to be the leader or you may need to be the go-to person who gets the detail work done.

You might need complete freedom to create, or on the other hand, you might need a framework or a clear step-by-step plan. Would money be a priority even when you had enough to live comfortably? Would you like to help people who are sick or deprived of something else? Your most comfortable situation may be a combination of several of these. Probably, though, one style fits you the best.

Your priorities will fine-tune the picture. How do you want to live? How do you want your body to look and feel? Lots of friends or just a few? Many years ago, I found myself having to go through this work on myself. I was traveling all over the world speaking to groups. I was living the dream and it was exciting. But it was also a grind. I was traveling twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four days a month.

One day I found myself looking up at the ceiling of another hotel room and thinking, “There’s got to be more to life than this. I want to go to my kid’s Little League games. I want to mix it up with my friends. I want to be home.” I had my priorities all wrong.

I had to stop and think how to balance my passion, my purpose and my priorities. With a little work,
I was able to reduce my traveling schedule and spend more time at home. And you know what? I actually enjoyed traveling more, because I was doing it the way I wanted to.

Your priorities change over time. You’ll want to keep checking in with yourself, asking yourself if this is what you want and when you want it. You’ll find too, when you start accomplishing your goals, that in itself, will affect your priorities. In fact everything in your life will evolve. Even your purpose may change over time. Andrew Carnegie spent half his life making money and the other half giving it away. He was born poor, but once he was rich, he wanted to give back.

I’ll tell you a secret. You know the reason I was traveling so much? I was trying to be someone else. I had read that another speaker was always on the road, and I thought, “Well, I guess that’s what I have to do. I’m not really doing my job, unless I’m traveling all the time.” There I was again, living my life by someone else’s rules. I was living the dream, but not enjoying it.

I learned my lesson, and I hope you learn from my lesson too. Your goal may be the same as someone else’s, but you have to accomplish it your way, with your abilities, your purpose, and your priorities. Like the old saying goes, you were born an original, why die a copy?

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