I know i suck i will admit it now. Here it is ALMOST April and i am just getting around to posting my new year post! Sad i know but maybe it isn't sad and maybe it actually means i am doing what i wanted to start this year out? I have had this post rolling around in my draft folder for far far too long so here it is....
Well 2011 is here and yes that is CRAZY! it seems like more than ever time is flying by. Every new year i like to have a "saying" or something to work on and or follow for the year a
"one word motto" so to say. Each year something stands out, something i feel i need to change, i need to do better at or just something i have noticed others around me struggling with. This year the economy was a huge huge elephant in the room for many families, i feel so blessed the economy didn't horribly affect any one in my close family yet those around me and the news reminded us that others were bombarded by these trials, rocked by unemployment,losing homes,and very very hard times. We are blessed and didn't feel much from this but ripples. Also In my own life alto has been going on some things super super exciting and completely overwhelmed with happiness (Our little man on the way!) and others sad,difficult, and confusing. And with that these "Moto's" have helped me in my life, now this may and probably is to everyone nothing like outstanding wisdom or something that may help you, but just wanted to share why i hope and know it will help me. This year i have decided to choose TWO "moto's" the first is "Looking for the good" This seeming quite obvious on what it means i think it mean quite a lot more than the obvious meaning. I find myself and others focusing on the bad in things far far too much than the good, and kinda had my own aha moment this winter when i realized that there is good in everything!! in everything there is something good to come from it!..we just need to find it..and not just find it FOCUS on the good only. Too many of us get wrapped up the the gossip of the world and allow ourselves to be "swept away" by anger hatred and looking at the bad in everything or everyone. We look at people around us and point out the bad int hem far too much. I was so intrigued by a article by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, entitled "Finding the good" you can find HERE
"We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding, fairness, and forgiveness we so desperately desire for ourselves. It is our choice; for whatever we seek, that we will certainly find." I find this so true in life once you get looking at the bad it is hard to stop you soon find yourself swallowed by your own thinking and continue to see the bad, why? it is easier than the counter part! right it is easier to have something happen in your life where someone hurts you and you see just the bad in that person instead of thinking "what can i do for them in the hard time they are having" or you have something you wish and prayed for not go your way and instead of thinking "what good come from this" you get angry and upset and think why me. This is not easy i KNOW i struggle with it too, but with all the bad/scary stuff happening in the world right now it is too easy to see the bad and feel overwhelmed right?! Second "moto" of the year is "Present" i have a constant problem with looking to the future too much! I am the girl who has a plan, i think things out (often too much) i dream about the future and such. Well too often do we have such tunnel vision on the future we forget to live in the PRESENT live for now quite living and waiting for "the next big thing" to happen and live for now soak up what is ahppending today!
I must realize that in order to fully soak in the past and be ready for the future...and in order to be joyous in the moment I must live in the present. Now having this little man coming soon i am constantly telling myself slow down enjoy being pregnant you will only be pregnant with our first once, you will only have this exact day once. and Everyone is constantly telling me "soak this all up, the baby comes and grows faster than you can blink" so in the name of new motherhood i will use my motto of LIVING IN THE PRESENT always so that when our little bean gets here Kay and i can soak up every moment, every diaper, every smile, and every single hour we spend with this little one straight from heaven! so i hope i and every one else can try to keep these thing in our mind for the new year, i know life will still go on as I find a balance as I let some of the "bad" things rest and find "good" so that the very most important things will have my "present."
and you will find these two things on my fridge to remind me of it
"Find The Good" "Be Present"
Well 2011 is here and yes that is CRAZY! it seems like more than ever time is flying by. Every new year i like to have a "saying" or something to work on and or follow for the year a
"one word motto" so to say. Each year something stands out, something i feel i need to change, i need to do better at or just something i have noticed others around me struggling with. This year the economy was a huge huge elephant in the room for many families, i feel so blessed the economy didn't horribly affect any one in my close family yet those around me and the news reminded us that others were bombarded by these trials, rocked by unemployment,losing homes,and very very hard times. We are blessed and didn't feel much from this but ripples. Also In my own life alto has been going on some things super super exciting and completely overwhelmed with happiness (Our little man on the way!) and others sad,difficult, and confusing. And with that these "Moto's" have helped me in my life, now this may and probably is to everyone nothing like outstanding wisdom or something that may help you, but just wanted to share why i hope and know it will help me. This year i have decided to choose TWO "moto's" the first is "Looking for the good" This seeming quite obvious on what it means i think it mean quite a lot more than the obvious meaning. I find myself and others focusing on the bad in things far far too much than the good, and kinda had my own aha moment this winter when i realized that there is good in everything!! in everything there is something good to come from it!..we just need to find it..and not just find it FOCUS on the good only. Too many of us get wrapped up the the gossip of the world and allow ourselves to be "swept away" by anger hatred and looking at the bad in everything or everyone. We look at people around us and point out the bad int hem far too much. I was so intrigued by a article by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, entitled "Finding the good" you can find HERE
"We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding, fairness, and forgiveness we so desperately desire for ourselves. It is our choice; for whatever we seek, that we will certainly find." I find this so true in life once you get looking at the bad it is hard to stop you soon find yourself swallowed by your own thinking and continue to see the bad, why? it is easier than the counter part! right it is easier to have something happen in your life where someone hurts you and you see just the bad in that person instead of thinking "what can i do for them in the hard time they are having" or you have something you wish and prayed for not go your way and instead of thinking "what good come from this" you get angry and upset and think why me. This is not easy i KNOW i struggle with it too, but with all the bad/scary stuff happening in the world right now it is too easy to see the bad and feel overwhelmed right?! Second "moto" of the year is "Present" i have a constant problem with looking to the future too much! I am the girl who has a plan, i think things out (often too much) i dream about the future and such. Well too often do we have such tunnel vision on the future we forget to live in the PRESENT live for now quite living and waiting for "the next big thing" to happen and live for now soak up what is ahppending today!
I must realize that in order to fully soak in the past and be ready for the future...and in order to be joyous in the moment I must live in the present. Now having this little man coming soon i am constantly telling myself slow down enjoy being pregnant you will only be pregnant with our first once, you will only have this exact day once. and Everyone is constantly telling me "soak this all up, the baby comes and grows faster than you can blink" so in the name of new motherhood i will use my motto of LIVING IN THE PRESENT always so that when our little bean gets here Kay and i can soak up every moment, every diaper, every smile, and every single hour we spend with this little one straight from heaven! so i hope i and every one else can try to keep these thing in our mind for the new year, i know life will still go on as I find a balance as I let some of the "bad" things rest and find "good" so that the very most important things will have my "present."
and you will find these two things on my fridge to remind me of it
"Find The Good" "Be Present"
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