Feelings Are Like Waves

"Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf."

Year In Review for Kids - FREE PRINTABLE

 I made these to do with my kiddos this week, and thought I'd share with you all. For the pink & teal version go here:http://bit.ly/1wXHDgT - for the red & blue version go here: http://bit.ly/1rviGsj - just click the 'Download' button at the top, it will print out at 8.5x11 size. Happy New Year everyone 

Good Habits

"Good habits are not acquired simply by making good resolves, though the thought must precede the action. Good habits are developed in the workshop of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed."

—Delbert L. Stapley Ensign, Nov. 1974-

Breaking the Barriers

"Today, many will break through the barriers of the past by looking at the blessings of the present. Why not you?"

Steve Maraboli

Better Things are Ahead

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind." 

~C .S. Lewis

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On My Way To Being Me

"Far from what I was once was but not yet what I am going to be."

Do Something Today for Your Future Self

Do something today that your future self will thank you for.

Courage

Courage does not always roar, sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 

“I will try again tomorrow.”

~Mary Anne Radmacher~

Water Your Grass

"You may think the grass is greener on the other side, but if you take the time to water your own grass, it would be just as green."

Water, water, water:)

Freebie Friday - New Year and Printables etc.

Free Food Journal Printable

For those of you who have weight loss goals for this year, here is a free printable food journal. This website also has links to some favorite weight friendly recipes sites, and apps for your phone to track how you're doing. Click HERE

Free Desktop Calendars

Click HERE

and HERE

Free New Years Resolution Kit 

It's never too late to start right:)

Click HERE

Read the Scriptures in 365 Days Reading Chart

Love this! Read the Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, D&C and PofGP in one year!

Click HERE

Free 2012 Primary Theme Printable

Also available in Blue, Green, Red & Turquoise. Click HERE

Free Learn With Pleasure Printable

Click HERE

A Year from Now & Be Yourself

"A year ago from now, you will wish you had started today."

~Karen Lamb

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 But remember.....

"Be yourself, everyone else is taken"

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Make a New Ending

A great message to remember going forward into the new year:

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, 

anyone can start from now and make 

a brand new ending. 

-Carl Bard

{Thank you Jaqui for the quote!}

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Things That Matter Most

Dieter F. Uchtdorf: 

“My dear brothers and sisters, we would do well to slow down a little, proceed at the optimum speed for our circumstances, focus on the significant, lift up our eyes, and truly see the things that matter most.”

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Simplify

“We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are.” 

 ― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Don't Fritter Away Your Lives

"It is necessary to prepare, to plan, so that we don't fritter away our lives. Without a goal, there can be no real success. The best definition of success I have ever found goes something like this: Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Someone has said the trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never crossing the goal line."

Thomas S. Monson, "Three Gates Only You Can Open," New Era, Aug. 2008, 2, 4

The Beginning is the Most Important Part

"Any task in life is easier if we approach it with the one at a time attitude. ... To cite a whimsical saying; 'If you chase two rabbits, both of them will escape.' No one is adequate to do everything all at once. We have to select what is important, what is possible, and begin where we are, with what we have. And if we begin and if we keep going the weight, the worry, the doubt, the depression will begin to lift .... We can't do everything always, but we can do something now, and doing something will help to lift the weight and lessen the worry, 'The beginning,' said Plato, 'is the most important part.'"

--Richard L. Evans, Thoughts for One Hundred Days, vol. 4, pp. 89-90

Do More......

“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”

William Arthur Ward

Goals

"Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about."

- Unknown

Just Distracting Enough

I particularly liked this by Ardeth Kapp when I read it:

"It is wonderful, but not surprising, that after the admonition to "be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God," he tells us how this is to be in these few simple and compelling words, "Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not" (D&C 6:20, 36). Doubt and fear are enemies that can enslave us in prison walls of our own making.

Thoughts don't have to be sinful, only distracting enough to weaken the communication so we don't hear the whisperings of the Spirit. Looking unto him in every thought will eradicate thoughts that fuel the fires of jealousy, envy, pride, and related diseases that distract and destroy.

We are instructed, "Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God" (D&C 121:45). President David O. McKay said, "No principle of life was more constantly emphasized by the Great Teacher than the necessity of right thinking".
(Ardeth Kapp, BYU Womens Conference 1999).

David O McKay also said, "I will tell you who you are, when you tell me what you think about, when you don't have time to think".

Remember our "thoughts don't have to be sinful, only distracting enough to weaken the communication so we don't hear the whisperings of the Spirit."

Hope you have a good day.

Not an Act, But a Habit

Artwork taken from here.