It's in the Stars.

Goal Keeping

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."

My two big new years resolutions (among many more)

included these things:

1) Keeping my nails nice and long. 

Also known as.. no biting.

2) Less distracting and negative media

Also known as.. no PG-13 movies.

And guess what. 

For exactly 60 days, I have been keeping these goals!!!

Congrats for me!!! Whoot!

My Bucket is Full

Inspired by a dear friend.

I've always loved the idea of having a bucket list.

Something that is attainable and believable. 

On August 2, 2010... KayKay and I made our BL's.

And this is/was mine:

-Go to all the LDS temples in the world

-Get kissed in the rain

-Marry my soulmate for eternity

-Meet the Pope

-Swim with dolphins

-See a duckbill platypus

-Get a puppy as a present (with a big red bow)

-Adopt children.

-Ride a giraffe

-Raise a chicken egg

-Catch a fish with my bare hands

-Donate my blood (DID it! Nov 2010)

-Have a child be named after me

-Ride on a train

-See the white house in Washington D.C.

-Touch a corpse

Isn't it interesting the things that are important to us at certain times in our lives?! I love thinking about it.

What kind of things are on your bucket list?!

Go with the flow

It's 3:03am.
I'm sitting all alone in my dark house with only the typing of keys and blowing fan to keep me awake.
I am utterly exhausted, sunburned and with a head cold to boot.
One word,
Idaho.
(sorry guys, not Wyoming! haha)
I'll have pictures to show and stories to tell,
but for right now, I just wanted to say a little something about God.

Honestly, those who know me, know that I dislike hiking/camping/out-doors-dirty-stuff

but for some reason, when Michelle asked me to go to her family reunion up in Idaho,

I said yes.

For sure, I wouldn't do it again anytime soon....

But I'm grateful for the experience and to learn more personally that God is always watching out for me.

ALWAYS.

Every single day when I awoke to the sun shining through my tent, it was a day to be......... alive.

On one of the days, I went for a walk on my own.

I was sitting beside this BEAUTIFUL stream that just kept saying to me...

"Go with the Flow."

Just like that, 

"Go with the Flow."

So, to make a long post short, That is my goal ---->  TO GO WITH THE FLOW.

Books change things

Have you ever read a book and realized that your view of the world is suddenly shifted?
Everytime I read the Book of Mormon, I always feel better.
Everytime I read Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens, I realized what I can work on.
Everytime I read Goose Girl, I just feel happy about love and life.

This time, it's called The Alchemist.

"All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sane, and you will see in it all the marvels of creation. Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there."

"I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living now."

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” You’ve got to find the treasure, so 

that everything you have learned along the way can make sense."

“When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.”

“Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World."

My favorite quote from the entire book:

“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”

Everybody should read this book. 

It will change your life.

Today is the Day

Here they are.
The moment you have all been waiting for... My New Year's Resolutions!!!
#1 Be honest - Telling my feelings or at least acknowledging them, standing up for what I believe in and telling the truth
#2 Attend the temple at least once a month. -Probably Thursday mornings.. 5:30am
#3 Read more books - Knowledge is power
#4 Trust in God - This includes taking each day one at at time.

Here are some .. sayings and quotes that have been inspiring me lately... my Top10

1. "We don’t have to be perfect today. We don’t have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can." -Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin
2. The fruit of silence is prayer
   the fruit of prayer is faith
   the fruit of faith is love
   the fruit of love is service
   the fruit of service is peace. -Mother Teresa
3. "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." -Audrey Hepburn
4. "Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of someone else." -Judy Garland
   
5. If who I am is what I have and what I have is lost, who am I?
6. Today I will experience JOY
7. "Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties." -Helen Keller
8. "None of us are secure except we keep the commandments of our Heavenly Father. The pathway of righteousness is the highway of happiness. There is no other way to happiness." -George Albert Smith
9. "My Savior loves, My Savior lives
   My Savior's always there for me
   My God: He was, my God; He is
   My God is always gonna be" -Aaron Shust "My Savior My God"
10. God loves me not because of what I do, but because of who I am.