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Just a Motivating Monday – Themed Edition ~ Marriage

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THEMED EDITION ~ MARRIAGE


I wanted to do a themed edition of Just a Motivating Monday on Marriage, because Valentine’s Day is in 1 week! I think the best thing that we can motivate each other on is on marriage….

I’m going to talk for a moment on my marriage. We’ve been together now for 9 1/2 years, married for 5 1/2 years and happy for ALMOST 3 years. During these past 9 1/2 years we have truly been tested, we have truly prevailed and we can truly say we have defied all odds by remaining together and ending up happy at that.

I know that marriage is one of the hardest things in the entire world. Parenting is very trying and some might think it is one of the hardest things in the entire world to do, but MOST people don’t just walk away when times get tough. There are the few people out there that do do this {sad that they are parents} but most parents stick with it and fight with everything in them to ensure that their children have UNCONDITIONAL love. Marriage is not like this in most cases. It gets hard, promises are broken, you fall out of love and the towel gets thrown in… the marriage in most cases ends up being over.

We’ve been at the lowest points in our marriage.  Promises, vows were broken, being in love was non-existent, and divorce should have been immediately in the works.  But something amazing happened, we fought.  We chose to fight hard with everything we had, and the most amazing thing happened ~ we fell in love with each other, all over again.  THAT was amazing.  Now we know, times will not always be easy, but if we stick with it and fight together to grow back together, there’s a sweet reward.

“A successful marriage is falling in love over and over, always with the same person.”


I hope in some way this post will touch you and remind you that marriage is meant to be forever.  If times get hard, fight.  Fight til you literally have NO FIGHT left in you.  Falling in love over and over again with your spouse is amazing, and so worth the hard times to get there.  

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Just a Motivating Monday ~ Unfinished Business

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!  NEXT WEEK IS A THEMED JUST A MOTIVATING MONDAY  
~MARRIAGE~

This week I read in my motivating book I’m currently reading called The Power of Focus that we should make a list of our unfinished business. Then next to each item write how it will better our lives if we complete that item.


I decided to immediately write that list. I wrote things I’ve been procrastinating on, big things, little things, anything that’s been on my mind. So I have this list, and I have just dove into tackling it. I started with something small like cleaning off the top of the fridge, mailed off some much overdue items that needed to be mailed off. Today I tackled a couple of larger items, and I FEEL AMAZING AWESOME!


I’m challenging you this week to do this. Just make your list and put next to each item how it will positively effect your life if you complete this item…. and hang that list up where you can constantly see it. You want those items smack dab in YOUR FACE!  Then start small, and work yourself up to the big items…. get your brain feeling clear of having that nagging to do in your head.  Let’s get our unfinished business out of our life!

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Just a Motivating Monday – Our Choice

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Life gives us mountains to climb, and if we stop at the bottom we never know what beauty lies up at the top.


I don’t fully understand why we have to be dealt tragic things to deal with.  Loss, divorce, money issues, death… the list can go on and on and on.  There are so many life challenging things that we have to go through, and during these times the majority of us can buckle to our knees and throw in the towel.  A majority of us forget to turn our worries over to God trusting in Him that things will work out, because THEY ALWAYS DO.


This past week I went through another pregnancy loss.  I think that one main thing that got me through it is focusing on positive things.  The last time I went through this I didn’t do this, I buckled to my knees and felt like my entire world was colliding all around me.  This time, I felt my pain inside, but I knew that I had to keep going…. I had to find out what beauty is lying ahead of me.  Last time it ended up being a beautiful little girl I call Ella… this time, we’ll find out soon.


I was going to base my Just a Motivating Monday on pregnancy loss, but we all are struggling with something in our lives.  Something that has us sad, stressed, worried, sickened… something that we can charge head on and defeat with happiness.  But the thing is…. it’s your choice.  It’s your choice how you handle the hardships in your life.  It’s your choice when you will be happy again.  It’s YOUR CHOICE.  So, how are you going to choose this week?


Here’s how I’m choosing:


I just lost another baby that was growing inside of me, but….

  • I’m going to continue being a good mom and wife
  • I’m going to write out my goals and accomplish them
  • I’m going to smile when I get out of bed, because despite tragedy…. I’m still living
  • I CHOOSE to make the best out of each day
  • I CHOOSE to not let a day go by where I allow sadness or regret to take over my day

We choose the outcomes of every situation… good or bad.  Unfortunately we don’t to choose the tragedies and unfortunate events that happen to us, but we get to choose to embrace it for what it is and grow from it.

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Just a Motivating Monday – Happiness

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It’s really unfortunate that our world is filled with so much unhappiness. I’m going to be simple and to the point this week.


Happiness is a choice.  I’m a STRONG believer that  we create the things in our lives all by ourselves.  If you’re unhappy it’s more than likely because you are choosing unhappiness.  Heck, if you are constantly focusing on the negative things in your life, the people around you’s life, you can bet your butt you’re gonna be completely, miserably unhappy.


Focus on what you have, focus on the happy moments that happen in your life.  If you focus on those things, guess what…. it’s the most amazing thing EVER…. you’ll have more of them.

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” —Oprah Winfrey

I look at that quote by Oprah and think that this most definitely has a lot to do with happiness.  Not just things.  Happiness is something you either have, or don’t have.    


Focus on happiness.  


Choose Happiness.


I hope this little snippet on happiness will inspire you from here on out, not only for this week but for the rest of your life to choose happiness.  We are too blessed to be depressed!
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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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Just a Motivating Monday – Blueprint Your Days

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I’m one that wakes up and goes with the flow.  I don’t know why, but I haven’t been mapping out my days.  I know what things need to get done and kinda wing it.  Not a smart thing to do when I have a household to take care of, a job I do at home to stay on top of, and a company I am building so I can accomplish all of my dreams.
The logical thing to do is to make a blueprint of my day the night before.  I have weekly goals that I know need to be done, so I am looking at my week and decide which days I need to do what.  Tonight I sat down and did a blueprint for each day of this week so that I can wake up and know what needs to be done.
I know that this might be something that most people do, but I don’t. Working at home can sometimes be challenging and I need to find a new way to reach the goals I NEED to reach.  
It feels good when you accomplish something.  I’ve been reading this amazing book called The Power of Focus and received this idea from them.  We need to map out everything in our lives and focus on the blueprints that we make. If we aren’t making blue prints then how the heck to we intend to arrive on the ending result?

I’m starting this tomorrow, not only for my immediate goals, but my long term goals and dreams.  I hope that this will motivate you to do the same.   



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