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Just a Motivating Monday – But Not You

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Today for Just a Motivating Monday I’m going to post a quote that inspires me and just jot a few notes that are on my mind about it.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you. ~ Jim Rohn


I think it’s so important for us to know that just because others do something, you don’t have to follow them. This quote to me is so awesome, because I’m currently striving on growing. Personal growth is HUGE for me right now, and I have to sometimes know that others may do things this way…. but I don’t have to.  Especially when you see the people around you doing things that don’t help them grow.

Most importantly, I don’t have to leave my future in some else’s hands. Scariest thing ever!

Really read and take it in. Try to think about how you can apply these things to your life and how you can grow so much from it.

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Just a Motivating Monday – Personal Development

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When you’re a teenager and you just think you have life figured out and then an adult comes and tells you otherwise you feel quite bitter about the situation.


Then you start out your 20’s and you think oh… hmm…. looks like I really didn’t have it all figured out… but I sure do now!  I look back at myself in the beginning of my 20’s and laugh at what I thought life was all about! 



I know that I have so much more personal growth to experience and that is something to me that I look forward to.  But I don’t think I knew who AMANDA was until probably the age of 27.  26 I was starting to get a clue, but now I know who I am.  I know what I want.  I know what I represent and stand for.  I know what I want out of this life, and am figuring out what it is that I have to do to get what I want out of life.

The most important thing I’ve realized is PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT…. the most important thing for us as human beings.  Constantly exercising our inner selves… doing everything that we can to grow inside every day.



I recently had this relationship with this girl (we won’t use names but she’s serves as the PERFECT example) who honestly was the most lost soul I had ever seen in my life.  While hanging out with her I noticed so many times where she would try to be whoever it was that she was hanging out with most at the time.  I think we all test the waters of the people that we have in our lives, but dang it… this screamed LOST SOUL IN NEED OF MAJOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.


I tried to help this girl, because I believe we should ALWAYS be developing our inner persons into more, but she like so many people that I see in my world are stuck in this constant place in their life.  They do nothing for their personal development.  Then they complain of their current situations.  Well, if you are doing what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always had.  My most favorite quote in the world!  In fact, I do not believe this is not my first blog post about it either!


These people in our lives that are stuck in these “ruts” and continue to make excuses for why they are never working on personal development are probably not the best people to keep around you all of the time.  You MUST surround yourself by people who are striving to grow like you are striving to grow.

Ways to work on personal development:


READ!!!!  Always be indulged in a book that is written by a successful person or a book that is based around growing and becoming successful.  I wish I would have done this 10 years ago, then I’d be not even 30 and probably in the top 5% of successful people.  


Write out your goals… don’t just think of them.  GET THEM ON PAPER… HAVE THEM IN FRONT OF YOU ALWAYS!  This way you are constantly seeing what you are striving for, and you will just work on becoming who are supposed to be in order for these things to attract to you.


Every day… reflect on the events that took place.  Take 20 minutes to sit back and think about everything that happened.  Then the events you weren’t please with replay them in your mind how you would have liked them to go.  Then you no longer have these bad feelings inside and instead feel that you have learned from your day’s events.

We should ALWAYS be reading books on how to be a better person, how to know how to get what it is that we want out of this life.  Instead of music in the background… why not put on some inspirational audio CD from a successful person.  Always be striving to grow… and you will.  


And always be YOU.  Don’t try to be somebody else, because the point of this life is for us to find out who we are and embrace it and grow with it.  The key word here is GROW.  Never stop growing on the inside.

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Just a Motivating Monday – Patience is a Virtue

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Last Just a Motivating Monday I talked about Forgiveness and talked of how for the next few weeks I will be basing my Just a Motivating Monday post on virtues.



Patience is a Virtue

Something that we’ve heard over and over and over again in our lives. As a child I never got it. I never quite understood why being patient is a virtue… actually, I think back then I never quite understood VIRTUE.

The best way for me to talk about patience as a virtue is through my eyes as a mother.  Recapping on virtue, we know that things of virtue are things of righteousness, moral excellence.  My goal in life is to be virtuous.  It’s something that definitely takes a lot of focus and striving for.  I am willing to work at this, even if it takes my entire life.  To be known as someone of virtue is an honor.

Patience.  Hardest virtue I think there is out there.  Especially as a mother!  It’s extremely important that we don’t lose it on our children.  Trust me… there are MANY, MANY, MANY times a day I would like to just fly off the handle, because it’s easier.  Instead I have to remind myself over and over and over again that this too shall pass.  If I hold on to that one virtue that is extremely hard to achieve and just be patient, it will pass.

Motivation…I need motivation to be patient.  I think the best motivation for me is my children’s memories… I don’t want their memories to be of their mom frustrated, impatient, not being there for them.  I want them to know that no matter what… I’m here.  I want to be the model mom.  I know I never will be, but I sure can strive to be.  Being a model mother requires a lot of virtue, and the hardest, yet most important one is patience.  Teach them how to be patient by being patient.  Teach them to be virtuous by being virtuous.

This week I’m going to work extremely hard on being patience.  Patience with my children, my husband, my work, me… I’m just downright going to be as patient as I possibly can.  Let me tell you, this is EXTREMELY hard on me.  I struggle with this virtue more than any of them.  So tomorrow I will wake up with a personal goal for the entire week.  The beauty of it is the more we practice being patient the easier it becomes.  Let’s give our children memories of a patient mom, a mom that was easy to approach, a mom that took the time to listen to their needs, a mom that took the time ensure that they felt important.

If you have anything else to add on this virtue, please leave it as a comment.  I’d LOVE to read other’s thoughts on this virtue… especially since it’s the one virtue I struggle with.

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Just a Motivating Monday – Forgiveness is a Virtue

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Carissa over at Good N’ Crazy had a great topic on her blog for Church Talk. It’s something that has totally stuck in my mind since reading it and I think I’m going to spin off of her post for Just a Motivating Monday.

Virtue is a beautiful word. It’s a word that I’m trying to master into my life. I want to be virtuous. I want people to look at me and smile with the thought in their mind… she has so much virtue about her.

For the next few weeks I’m going to pick a virtuous trait and talk about it for Just a Motivating Monday.

This week: Forgiveness

Everybody has been hurt by someone they love.  Or maybe you hurt someone you love.  The point is… we have to be able to forgive in our heart.

President Hinckley of the LDS Church once said in an article:

“Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.”

I know it is so hard at times to forgive people, but are you perfect?  Have you gone through your whole life not doing a thing wrong to someone?  Have you been forgiven?  Forgiving somebody, especially yourself can be one of the hardest things in this world to do.  But if you are virtuous and want to be forgiven, you yourself  MUST do this.

Tips to Forgive

  • Pray to Heavenly Father and ask Him for His help.  He can soften your heart and help you to forgive.
  • Get rid of the bitterness.  If you’re still plotting out ways to get even the forgiving process is no where near.
  • Once you have forgiven, let it go.  Don’t hold on to it, because that’s holding a grudge… which does not mean you have forgiven.
  • Don’t focus so much on the negative things that have happened to you.  If you are focusing on the positive things in your life, and the positive things people have done for you, you will be able to forgive the negative things easier.  There’s no point in holding on to negativity when there’s so much positivity to welcome into your heart.
  • You need to remember that when you are forgiving, it’s for you.  It’s not for the person that did you wrong, but it is for you and your exaltation.  It’s a process you must go through, and you will be forgiving others for you.

A very good friend of mine… you can find her on twitter @jenhoehne contributed to this post by saying:

“I think that forgiveness is one of those words like “love” that people use loosley. To truly forgive someone means you have let go of any ill will and no longer harbor feelings of anger or angst toward another person.
Forgiving ourselves goes hand in hand with forgiving others. We are often times harder on ourselves than the person or people we have wronged. Forgiving others means letting go of hurt they have caused you and forgiving yourself is learning to love yourself after you have caused another person pain. Both are crutial in the eternal realm of this life and critical to our salvation and prosperity hereafter.”

Final Thought:

I know it’s hard… forgiveness is one of the hardest things that we do, but it’s something that in time needs to be done.  I haven’t completely forgiven everybody in my life that needs forgiveness, but it’s definitely something I have been working on.  Some of the people I have forgiven I have chosen not to have in my life.  Reasons being that they just aren’t a good influence on who I’m trying to be, but I have forgiven them in my heart and with God.  It’s something we should all have… it’s a virtue and if you want to be virtuous it’s a step you should take.


I hope that this post inspires you to start the forgiving process if you haven’t already.  I hope that it inspires you to always have a forgiveness attitude in your heart ~ it will only make you a better person.

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Just a Motivating Monday – Success

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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ~Albert Schweitzer


Success… something that his been so strongly on my mind lately. But what is success? Success to me is something different than success to you, but in the end I think we all believe that we have reached our success once we are happy in our lives, happy with our situations.  Yet, I believe that we should continue on.

I am happy, and I feel that I have already met a great deal of success in my life to be at the point I am at today. But I know that there is so much more that I can achieve in life, and so much more happiness to be discovered. So, I continue on in my search for further success.

Life to me is such a journey and learning process. We should never cut ourselves short and settle in life for something that has just became comfortable…. we need to continue to challenge ourselves and be happy. Once you get stuck in a rut, well at least when I get stuck in a rut, I’m not happy. For us to continue to be successful in this life constantly challenge yourself for happiness, which will in turn lead to success.

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700th Post – A Little Insight

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This stands as lucky blog post #700.  My life has been busy lately!  Good busy though!  I have a lot on my plate, but feel so fortunate with everything going on with me.  Things in my life are changing, I’m changing and I couldn’t be more excited.  Ever since I read The Secret a few years ago I swear my life has gotten better and better.  I have learned how to focus on the positive things in life and  I just continue to attract positive things to me and my family.

I know that in life I’m not always 110% positive, but I try my hardest to look at the positive i ANY situation… even situations that downright just seem gloomy.  I feel like I have tried to focus a part of my blog on positivity and helping people to realize that if we focus on negative things we will receive negative results.  I believe that if you truly believe that everything in your life will work out, it will. I am going to sit here right now and tell you that it works.  

I read something in a book that I picked up yesterday called The Power of Focus.  I have only read the first chapter and am already seeing wonderful points… one in particular struck me today. 
If you keep doing what you’ve always done, then you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got.

Stop and read that… and then reread it again.  It is probably one of the most simple but truest statements out there.  Are you happy?  Are you struggling?  You are where you are at right now, at this very moment because of choices you have made in your past.  If you are happy with where you are at, then keep doing what you’re doing.  If you’re not happy, and know that there is so much more that you are worth and are capable of being, then change your life now.  Decide what your dreams are that you want and start mapping out your road to achieving them.  The only way to be greater than you are now is to step out of your comfort zone and get there. 

Hope that gives you a little insight for my 700th post ~ and hope to see you back here on Monday for Just a Motivating Monday… working on something special!

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Just a Motivating Monday – Dreams

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Your Dreams


Do you dream big? So many people in this world are stuck in what I call a big, fat rut! I’m so like this myself at times, but sometimes we get to a point where we are comfortable and used to the same thing every day. What growth are we getting from this? I’m getting to this point. Everyday I wake up to the same thing…. there’s no challenge, there’s nothing big that I’m working towards and that will keep me in this rut.


So I’m changing this. I’m sitting down and mapping out my dreams… it doesn’t matter how big your dreams are, what matters is that you have dreams. If you don’t have a dream of what to work towards how in the world do you expect to ever progress in life. You can easily get lost in the every day life if there isn’t something motivating you to be big.


Why are you doing what it is that you do every day of your life? Are you at a point in your life that you expected yourself to be at? If not… why? Do you have your goals and dreams in a place where you can see them every, single day? The only way that we can grow and achieve things that we want is if they are in front of us… every, single day.  Make a dream board, make a dream journal… just make sure you are seeing your dreams every day and are doing what you can to achieve them.

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She Prayed… and my heart melt

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I wrote a couple of minutes ago a Just a Motivating Monday on a special poem that touches my heart. There are moments in my life where something so precious, so sweet happens that I just want to stop and kiss that precious smile.

Yesterday my daughter did something that was downright PRECIOUS! The girl is only 26 months and in the middle of playing she walked over to the ottoman put her hands by her eyes, her face into the ottoman and started rambling. I heard her say princess and a couple of odd off the wall things, then she says “Amen” stands up and smiles… I said to her “Were you praying?” and she says… “YUP!” and my heart melt at that moment. And I felt like an extremely good mom, and am proud of the example that I am setting for her.

They watch everything that you ever do…. make sure that you’re setting the right example.

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Just a Motivating Monday – Stop to Kiss That Precious Smile

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I did not have the best week ever… but I’m going to try to turn that around this week. I’m focusing on the positive.  I get so stressed out sometimes with work and my kids and the house and then feel like I completely suck at everything… and I know that I’m not the only one who feels this way.

I read this poem somewhere.. I have no idea who to give it credit to, so if you know who wrote it please let me know so I can credit the writer.


Dear Lord, it’s such a hectic day
With little time to stop and pray
For life’s been anything but calm
Since You called on me to be a mom
Running errands, matching socks
Building dreams with building blocks
Cooking, cleaning, and finding shoes
And other stuff that children lose
Gitting lids on bottled bugs
Wiping tears and giving hugs
A stack of last week’s mail to read
So where’s the quiet time I need?
Yet when I steal a minute, Lord
Just at the sink or ironing board
To ask the blessings of Your grace
I see then, in my small one’s face
That you have blessed me
All the while
And I stop to kiss
That precious smile

I want to talk for a minute on why this poem really hits home with me.  We strive to do a million things throughout the days/weeks and we need to stop to appreciate the biggest blessings that we have received and it’s the sweet faces of our babies.  I hope that this post motivates you to do something special with your children this week.  Something out of the ordinary, something that lets them and you know that they truly matter.  They truly are the reason for every single thing that we do in this life.  They are the reason you are keeping your blog, they are the reason you feel complete.  Stop, kiss that precious smile and be thankful for the stressful moments, the screaming moments, the tears and fears…. because it’s all a blessing and a beautiful one at that.

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Just a Motivating Monday – Relaxation

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I have just gotta apologize for skipping out on Just a Motivating Monday last week! Things were crazy busy in such a good way around these parts that I completely could not get to it… but this is a new week, and this week we’re starting this week off RIGHT!


Sometimes we don’t find the time that we need for silence… our moments of sorting our thoughts, feeling the feelings in our heart that point us in the direction or path that will define our life.  These times of silence and relaxation are so important for our souls.  If we just continue to go on and on without taking a time out for ourselves


“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”  ~Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne


We run, run, run and try to do everything in our little power to rush a million things in a day that only has so many hours. I do this EVERY, SINGLE DAY! I am going to make it a point to follow Pooh’s Little Instruction Book and find time to do nothing, listen to the things that can’t be heard and to find time to take a hot, hot, hot bath with candles, soft music and NOT BE BOTHERED!


I would love it if you left a comment and let me know things you do to relax.

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