10.15.11

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion.

You must set yourself on fire.

~Arnold H. Glasow

Motivation is the subject for today.

There is something in your life that you continue to do over and over.

Is it:
Simply getting out of bed in the morning?
Eating Healthy?
Exercising?
Doing your Hair?
Cleaning your home?
Driving to work?
Nursing that baby?
Writing in your journal?
Reading a good book?
Volunteering?
Teaching someone something new?
Learning something new?

Where does your drive come from to carry on?

Today...think about something that is a challenge in your life...but you do it and over and over and are glad you do.
Write about why you do it and how you feel when you have completed the task?

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10.1.11

The rules of soccer are very simple,

basically it is this:

if it moves, kick it.

If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

~Phil Woosnam, 1974

It's begun and Four of the Five kids have started soccer. It's so much fun to watch them learn and become better in their skills. Some have scored once, some have scored twice and some have never scored...but just love to kick the ball.
Here are a few things to write about...even if you don't do soccer.

Do you play?
Do you want to play?
       if no..why?
Do you watch?
       if no..why?

Do you cheer?
Do you scream?
Do you want to scream?
Do you coach?
Do you understand the rules?
Do you want to scream because of the rules?

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9.15.11

Delicious autumn!

My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

~George Eliot

Sept. 23rd is the Fall Equinox...it's still 100 degrees here at my house.

However, there is one tree on the other side of the wall that is trying ever so hard to turn yellow. It's an Arizona Ash and it's working hard to find fall. The trees around it are green as every....can it find the strength to pull fall into Arizona for all of us to enjoy?  I sure hope so...I love to see change in nature!

Write if you see fall in your area and if so...where and what does it look like.

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9.1.11

What have you learned?

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8.15.11

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

~Charles Schulz

This is my birthday month and I love having a birthday. It's always so exciting to catalogue all that you have learned over the past year and then the waiting game of what you will learn over the next 365 days.

I use to be scared of getting older...now...it's just a part of life that I love.

-Tell your posterity how you feel about getting older and wiser.

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8.1.11

You learn something every day if you pay attention.

~Ray LeBlond

Back to school this month...write about a memory that you have from your one of your 1st days at school.

 

 

 

 

 

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7.15.11

Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

~Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir

Write your thoughts on the HEAT of the Summer.

LOVE vs. HATE

I nothing good to say about Arizona in July!!

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7.1.11

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

~Elmer Davis

I often wonder where courage comes from, especially those that sign up to fight for our freedoms.

Is that a courage that comes from your father, mother, grandparent through the gene pool?

Is that a courage that you are expected to have because those before you fought in the military..therefore you will as well?

Is that a courage that comes from seeing someone in pain, therefore you are determined to fight for them?

Write about someone in your family or someone you know that has signed up to fight for our Freedoms!

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6.15.11

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

~Author Unknown

I remember my father buying me a beautiful Lladro statue from Spain while he and my mother were there for a LDS Mission. They both picked them out for all of us girls...specific to what they saw us as.

I love my little dancing beauty and have her on a very high shelf safe from my little grommets. It's a purchase that I know they really couldn't afford..but they did it with not a second thought.

Write about a gift you might of recieved (store bought or made) from your father that means something to you.

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6.1.11

Earth laughs in flowers. 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never thought of this before...but it seems to be true.
The earth shows it's humor though nature and I can see the Earth laughing through flowers.

This Weeks task is to think back on a time you saw nature expressing it's emotions through color or lack of color and then WRITE ABOUT IT!

Spring Flowers
Summer Blossoms
Fall Leaves turning colors
Winters Barren Trees

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5.15.11

-Napping under the Sun-

I remember when I was younger coming home from Church in the Spring and having the outside be slightly cool and our home nice and warm.

I would park my body on the floor right in front of the back door of our home. The door was a glass door and so it would let in a door full of light across the carpet. Enough light to keep warm and not too much to make you sweat. I loved reading the Sunday comics laying on my belly on the floor and then taking a nice Sunday nap.

Write your thoughts or memories on this subject!

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5.1.11

I think skipping could be the answer to many of our adult health problems.  ~Jeanne

When was the last time you had yourself a little skipping fest? Give it a try, if only for 60 seconds! Then write how you felt afterwards. 

Better yet..challenge your child, friend or sibling to a skipping race.

I guarantee it's gonna make you laugh.

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4.15.11

On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.

~Douglas Horton

Today...write your beliefs of your Savior, Jesus Christ.
Write how you feel about Easter and the beautiful miracle that took place so many years ago.

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