I LOVE inspiration ~ I’m sure you’ve heard me say that a million times, but I thrive on it in my life. I hope that through Garibay Soup I have inspired at least one soul. I can definitely, without a doubt say that I have been inspired by so many people through their blogs… that is why I have started this carnival.
If you’re just joining us:
-Write a blog post about ANYTHING at all that inspires you, or something you feel will inspire others.
-Please link back to Garibay Soup
-Please snag my Just a Motivating button on your post.
-I hope that we can all go and visit each other’s blogs and read what everyone has linked up ~ I hope that this carnival can bring more traffic for you 🙂 So, spread the comment love!
This was originally posted October 5, 2008, but I love it so much I wanted to bring it back for Just a Motivating Monday!
“Each of us must direct our own lives, chart our own course and make our own decisions, and what is best for me is probably constraining for you. We too often forget the fact that what most of us need is to be nurtured, not improved. An emphasis on improvement confirms our inadequacies, while nurturing affirms who we really are and who really loves us. Too often we try to help others by seeking solutions to their problems, or giving them our plan for personal improvement when what they need is love, understanding and acceptance.
Let us remember these two things: that personal joy comes from appreciating the present and that the greatest gift we give to others is a nurturing heart.”
~Author Unknown
I think that if we all lived by what is said above that we would all be much more joyous and happier in our own personal lives.
Welcome to the 3rd edition of Just a Motivating Monday ~ If you are just joining us here’s the scoop:
-Write a blog post about ANYTHING at all that inspires you, or something you feel will inspire others.
-Please link back to Garibay Soup
-Please snag my Just a Motivating button on your post.
-I hope that we can all go and visit each other’s blogs and read what everyone has linked up ~ I hope that this carnival can bring more traffic for you 🙂 So, spread the comment love!
Embracing My Years~
I turned 27 on Friday. I cannot believe that I am 27 years old. I’m almost to the point where I’m not going to be in 20’s anymore and I just can’t believe that it’s gone by this fast.
I know a lot of people, especially women, dread each birthday. They’re getting older, and they don’t want to. I’m the opposite ~ I love growing older. Every year I discover a little more of who I am inside. I can think back 5 years ago and it’s shocking to see what a different person I was. I am pleased with the person that I have become.
I worry less about things that seemed to be of so much importance back then. I treasure things I didn’t care about before. I’ve become a much better mom, a much better wife and I think I am much better person inside.
I embrace each year, because I think with each year I grow; I mature. I learn a little bit more about life, when I thought I knew it all the year before. I learn a little bit more about my husband, when I thought I knew him inside and out. I get to see what beautiful people my kids are slowly turning into. I love each year, I love my Birthday and embrace it all ~ because this is life and instead of dreading we need to be grateful and live it up to its fullest.
Every day to me is a gift, and I treasure every year granted to me just the same. I hope to see 100 and I hope that it’s all documented right here on Garibay Soup.
Here’s to another fabulous year ~ and hopefully many more. I can’t wait to see what I learn and become along the way.
Here’s my sister and me celebrating another year of my life! I’m the one on the right if you’re just joining me here @ Garibay Soup OH and don’t mind the quality – it was w/a camera phone 🙂
Welcome to the 2nd EVER Just a Motivating Monday! If you are just joining us here’s the scoop.
-Write a blog post about ANYTHING at all that inspires you, or something you feel will inspire others.
-Please link back to Garibay Soup
-Please snag my Just a Motivating button on your post.
-I hope that we can all go and visit each other’s blogs and read what everyone has linked up ~ I hope that this carnival can bring more traffic for you 🙂 So, spread the comment love!!!
With that being said……
Last week I gave away a copy of the book The Secret. The reason why I gave away a copy of this book was mainly because it has inspired me more than words can describe. I have ALWAYS looked at the negative side of things. Before that book came into my life I thought negatively, I spoke negatively, I lived negatively. Guess what… my life became quite negative.
When reading the book I thought, there is absolutely no way that just changing the way I think will bring upon different results in my life. If I’m tired, it’s because I’m tired. I can’t change that by thinking about being awake. So, I tested it one day. I was so unmotivated, exhausted and saw no hope in me getting off the couch, away from my movie and cleaning up the mess of a living room my kids made. So, while my mind was thinking how I couldn’t do it, I decided to stop dwelling on the fact that I was too tired, and started thinking about how wonderful it was going to be to have my living room clean. I got this jolt of energy, had it done quickly and was motivated to move on from there.
I promise, it works!
This book also explains the importance of gratitude. If you’re not grateful, what makes you think the universe (or God in my eyes) will grant you more wishes? Wake up grateful everyday for the things you have, and not dwell on the things you do not have. You may think this is easier said than done, but I’m doing it now, and that’s HUGE!
I feel like I have changed my life, my family, my marriage, my financial situations all because of positivity and this book. When I’m not feeling right, or being depressed I instantly change the way I feel and watch myself transform right before my eyes.
The mind is the most powerful thing, and we have power over our minds. Use them for the better, change your ways to positivity and be grateful…. see your life transform right before your eyes!
A few of my favorite quotes out of the book:
Bob Doyle: The emotions are an incredible gift that we have to let us know what we’re thinking.
Therefore, if your emotions aren’t positive I can pretty much guarantee you that you aren’t attracting anyt-hing positive into your life.
Robert Collier (1885-1950) “See the things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Don’t fret and worry about them. Don’t think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.”
Regarding that quote… this is something that my husband does ALL THE TIME. He even got a Chrysler 300 this way…. he visioned, knew it would happen and one day I just went and traded my car in for it ~ he got his wish… and it was a surprise. The car is his dream car, and all he did was put it out in the universe.
Charles Hannel “To acquire love… fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.”
I hope this inspired you ~ and I can’t wait to read what inspires you!
On another note, if you won’t be attending the BlogHer conference I’m holding a Happy BlogNerd bash here! Please join me on 7/23/09-7/25/09 for some fun, and giveaways!!! You can snag my button on the side to spread the news.
I have been anticipating this launch for a while now!! I’m really excited to bring an inspirational blog carnival to our bloggy world. I was scared that after all the hype I’ve given about this launch that we wouldn’t be able to do it due to the recent accident that happened with my daughter. It was a SCARY event and you are more than welcome to read about it {HERE}. That post in itself can be an inspiring post. It’s a post where I share with other moms how I have learned through my daughter’s accident to not fret the small stuff, because in the end it all doesn’t matter as much as the safety and health of our babies. I am happy to say we are home and Ella is doing wonderfully. So, we get to have our launch party!!
I announced last week that I am starting a new carnival called Just a Motivating Monday. Every Monday I will host this carnival where we can share inspiring words with one another and help motivate each other on the hardest day of the week to get motivated!
The people who have participated in our giveaways are offering some great things for my readers!! The best part is there is multiple winners, and multiple ways to enter. At the end up my inspiring message I will announce all of the prizes and ways to enter.
PURPOSE
Do you have a purpose? Why is it that you are doing what you’re doing? If you are living without knowing your purpose you are merely just existing and not truly living.
My purpose:
Life is definitely not meant to be easy, but I have found through my experiences that I can find the joy in most things, because I have a purpose. Sometimes being a stay at home mom, actually just being a mom, you can get frustrated and discouraged by the many things that you do repetitively throughout your day. How many times do you have to clean the living room, because your toddler’s ambition in life is to see how many times mommy can have to clean it in one day? With all of the frustrations, you have to stop and ask yourself. What is my purpose?
I am pretty focused on what my purpose is. Of course our purposes can change day to day, but for now, these points are my main purpose.
Be able to stay at home with my babies, even if I am working at home – I want to be the one that’s home with them
I want to be a good wife. I want my husband to be proud of who he married.
I want my children to have a stable childhood, to know what’s coming in their lives and to have a secure feeling always
I want my children to have morals. To know the difference between right and wrong and to carry these morals with them all throughout their lives
I want my family to live in an organized, clean home – because having the opposite causes stress, and I’d prefer not to have that in our home
I want my family to love God and live by the gospel of Jesus Christ
I want to be a good example to everyone around me ~ especially my kids.
So, when I’m frustrated with the continuous cleaning up, or the constant whining, or the millions of questions, or the 3 hours of walking the halls at church on Sunday, I have to focus on my purpose, otherwise I might break. It’s what keeps me strong, it’s what keeps me focused and it’s one of the most important things in my life besides my family.
If you have not discovered exactly what your purpose is, you have one. Sometimes it takes sitting down, looking at the things you are doing, figuring out why you are doing them and in turn figuring out what YOUR PURPOSE is. If you find that you’re not happy with your purpose, then maybe the things you’re doing aren’t what you really want to be doing. Maybe it’s time to sit down with what you want out of life, and figure out the things YOU should be doing to make these things happen.
We all have a purpose, and without truly knowing what our purpose is and being in control of it, you are just existing and not truly living.
I HOPE THAT WILL PARTICIPATE BY LINKING UP TO A POST ON YOUR BLOG THAT YOU WRITE FOR THIS CARNIVAL THAT IS INSPIRING FOR OTHER READERS. IT CAN BE A QUOTE THAT HAS INSPIRED YOU, OR WORDS FROM YOUR EXPERIENCES. OR WHATEVER YOU FIND INSPIRING. LET’S GET EACH OTHER MOTIVATED ON THIS DREADFUL MONDAY ~ THE DAY WE ALL DREAD! PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU SNAG MY BUTTON FROM THIS POST TO USE ON YOUR POST!! PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU LINK BACK TO GARIBAY SOUP ON YOUR BLOG POST!!!
GIVEAWAY PRIZES:
1 winner will receive a bouquet of {COOKIE POPS} a little bite of heaven on a stick ~ need I say more? I’m addicted to these and it’s probably not in my best interest to have the creator living less than mile from me!
1 winner will receive a copy of my favorite inspirational book {The Secret}
1 winner will receive their choice of hat & headband from {Posh Petals} they are absolutely beautiful on any girl ~ small or big and my Ella is working on her own Posh Petals collection ~ WE LOVE POSH PETALS!!!
1 winner will receive a $50.00 gift certificate to {Custom Announcements by Ferrari Angel}Farah does an amazing job on her announcements ~ I hope you’ll all check her out for your future announcements
1 winner will receive a $10.00 gift certificate to {Just Poppin} they do fundraisers!!!! My kids and I have a major addiction to popcorn! 😉
To enter in the contest you can leave a comment ~ for multiple entries you can:
Twitter about this contest (1 extra entry) Participate in the blog carnival by linking up (3 extra entries) Subscribe to my feeds{HERE}(1 extra entry)
To ensure you get your extra entries make sure you leave extra comments for every extra entry you do ~ I will be choosing my winners from random.org using the comments. This giveaway will end at 12:01am 7/14/09 ~ so you have until midnight to get all of your entries in!! I will be announcing the winners on 7/14/09. I will then contact the winners via email along with announcing them on my blog. If you win and do not contact me within 72 hours I will then choose another winner.
Welcome to Just a Motivating Monday!! Good luck on the giveaway and I hope to see you back here next Monday as well….. as well as every other Monday after that!!
If you hand me something to read that’s inspirational, I can get sucked in for hours. I feel like inspirational reading is food for our souls…. and food that our souls need.
Everything that we do is inspired by something. Every successful person had inspiration. To me, I am inspired daily by many of the blogs I read. I’m inspired to try harder at keeping up my house. I’m inspired with great ways to parent my children. Thanks to {Diaper Diaries} I’m inspired to be a better wife. Thanks to {We are THAT family} I am inspired by hundreds of people to try things that work for them.
I believe that if you have the inspiration, you will succeed. You will do great things in life. What is it that moves you? What is it that inspires you to be great? What is it that inspires you to be everything that your family needs you to be? What is it that inspires you to be you? And my favorite, what is it that inspires you to get motivated on Monday?
I want to start a weekly carnival. I hope to have other’s join in with me by writing something inspiring to other moms, wives, daughter, sisters…. whatever it is. If you’re at a loss, why not put an inspiring quote that you’ve read…. something that moved you and you want to share with others to move them.
Monday’s are probably one of the most un-motivating days for me. Monday’s and I have never really seen eye to eye. I like to take time out on Monday mornings and do inspirational reading. I like to find things that will motivate me into starting my week off great. So, I introduce to you ~ Just a Motivating Monday ~
Please join me on Monday, July 13, 2009 for the first Just a Motivating Monday ~ There will be a GIVEAWAY with multiple chances to win!!
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