"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice" Wayne Dyer

We naturally want the best for those whom we are close with. Whether it be our children, our relatives, our friends, our acquaintances - as women we are natural nurturers. It's important to realize that our views and attitudes about our world are the single biggest influence we can give to those around us--either positive or negative.

Keeping the zest alive in our own lives is one of the most influential ways to encourage passion in others. Here are some ideas to awaken the passion within.

Find a role model. Think of people you know who seem to have a natural passion for their life and their world. Spend time with these people and spend less time with people who are negative. Make positive people the models for your own days and conduct.

Discover something new. Choose an interest that you have never made time for and make time for it. Perhaps its painting, writing, photography or woodworking - as you rediscover the passion and joy found in creating, let that spill over into other areas of your life.

Ann McGee-Cooper offers strategies to help people rediscover lost passions in her book, You Don't Have to Come Home From Work Exhausted. Here are a few of her tips:

* Be curious - try anything once. * Challenge yourself to learn new things. * Believe in the impossible. * Smile a lot and laugh often. * Experience and express emotions freely. * Be creative - even about solving everyday problems. *· Let go of worry. Don't dwell on what awful things might happen. Focus on the incredible things just around the corner. * Don't allow yourself to be confined by the judgment of others. * Dream. Imagine your life the way you'd like it to be - no matter how outrageous.
Keeping the passion alive in our life is one of the best gifts of encouragement we can share with those around us. Choose and implement one of the above ideas or create one of your own that will help awaken passion in your everyday life.

May we remember him who loved us so much........

"Faith dares the soul to go farther than it can see."
William Clark

To me, faith has always been a light in the darkness. When I am unsure, nervous, anxious, or scared... I fall back on faith. It always lights the path ahead. "Faith is the soul's food. One cannot live without it, or live well on just a little." While I have drifted back and forth many times in how diligently and actively I practice faith, I have noticed the times my life is most complete and content are when faith is a high priority. I am thankful to know of a loving Father in Heaven who requires me to exercise faith and to know I have a Savior in Jesus Christ. This week is a week to contemplate all that Jesus did for each of us, to look inside ourselves and utilize Faith to the fullest!

Today:
If you could imagine faith as a bank account, what would your balance be? Do you need to take steps to increase how actively you "live" the principle of faith? If so, what is a step you might take today?

And...here we go!

1. Angel or not, I will have to ground you anyway!.

2.You can't have me any way you want me.

3. As my mother used to say, you're full of sugar.

4. A warm shower,after I'm done working out or doing something strenuous.

5. Even in the most crowded of rooms you can still feel all alone.

6. Monday is a day fraught with peril.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to a cold soccer game in LOGAN burrrrr, tomorrow my plans include chillin and watching conference with my family and Sunday, I want to enjoy another relaxing day!

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Breakfast

If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be? I love the series of psych, it would be fun to be a fly on the wall in that home!

Lunch
What did you have for dinner last night (Thursday) ? pasta casserole, salad and broccoli! I love steamed broccoli!!

Dinner
If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be? hum.....that's a hard one, maybe Arizona or Carolina???

Midnight Snack
What is your favorite flower? I love tulips and roses and daises all about the same!

Recipe of the Week (instead of your recipe for life what is it just for the week?)
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. Marcus A. Antoninus

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Have an Ugly WEEK on me!

Have you ever had one of those days (or weeks) where everything on your plate was something you didn't look forward to-doing? I faced such a week this past month. I remember going to bed, doing my positive thinking, only to come face to face with the bleak reality that there wasn't one thing on my list I felt positive about. I had ended up with a pile of things I didn't really want to-do, but all the same had to be done.

Just before drifting off to sleep Sunday night, I had an idea. I would make the upcoming week an "Ugly Week." Since I knew Monday contained three tasks I was dreading, I would find every other task I dreaded and fill the rest of the day. I would do the same thing for Tuesday and each other day that week. Every morning I would start with the task I least wanted to-do. The more annoying the task, the higher it would move on the priority list.

Monday morning came and I arose, determined to have my "Ugly Day." When the mail came, I didn't look at the fun stuff -- just the bills. As I went throughout the day, I chose the tasks that went "against my grain." I worked through the backlog of unattractive to-dos.

By the end of the week, something interesting had happened. I had marked off so many of those "weigh one down" tasks that I was in an incredibly good mood and felt so much lighter.

Your Turn:
When you find yourself in a backlog of to-dos that you don't want to-do, try this "ugly-week" tactic. Too often, we let these tasks remain undone and drain our energy for other tasks. When we incorporate just one "unattractive" task into our day, it can weigh us down the whole day. If we have twenty unattractive to-dos, we schedule ourselves for a month of "feeling under par." Having an "ugly week" allows us not only to consolidate those unattractive tasks, but also to feel good as we wipe the slate clean with "done" marks.