My friend becky sent me this quote. I thought I would share with you:

“Friends are like butt cheeks. Crap comes between them, but they always stick
together.”

 Happy Friday!

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If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power

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My mom sent this to and it made me laugh!

“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” - Herm Albright, (1876-1944)

I so agree to this! I know this works great especially at work. You can make a game of it. Whenever I am in a meeting or around people who are so negative and just want to complain and make excuses, I start being the most positive I can. Always seeing the other perspective and ways to offer solutions.

It does 2 great things for me:

1. It makes me valuable. People come to me when they are feeling down or negative because they want to brainstorm ways to get out of it. Which also means, they help me whenever I need some support.

2. It annoys negative people to death which means they do not want to be around me. This reduces the amount of people I have to listen to moan about their lives and how much they dislike other people.

I like to be around people who are fun and full of life. People are wanting to be the best that they can be. Just motivates me even more!

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Continuing with my Sea World theme for the week, I went and saw the new show, Believe while I was there. During the show they said I quote that I just love:

"There is a moment when you stop wondering and just believe."

It really sums up a lot of what holds me back from really living life out loud. I allow self doubt to creep in and keep me from taking action and moving forward. I can spend a lot of time thinking of the best solution, asking others for advice and their opinions and then finally I may make a choice.

If I would just stop wondering about what to do and just believe in myself, I will make the best choice and move forward in life. It is hard sometimes just to believe in yourself but I am getting better at it throughout the years. I see the great results I get when I believe in myself so I know it is my best bet.

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“Worry gives a small thing a big shadow” ~ Swedish Proverb 

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Henri Nouwen:

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

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Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

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Yesterday writing about dancing got me thinking about this quote I love:

“Life may not be the party we hoped for but while we are here

we might as well dance.”

Things are going to happen to us in our lives we are not going to be happy about. Life does happen and we are going to lose love ones, we are going to miss opportunities and we are going have some raining days BUT, we have a choice on how we deal with them.

We can chose to spend our time in fear of these events. We can hide ourselves away in bed with a packet of Double Stuf Oreos and watch reruns of America’s Next Top Model. We can chose to allow the ourselves to be taken over by the negative feelings and just dwell on how life is not what we expected.

OR we can chose to dance. We can chose to we have to take the good with the bad and the GOOD always out weighs the bad. We can chose to smile and celebrate life instead of live in fear of it. We can chose to realize that we control ourselves. We may not be able to control other people or all situations outside of ourselves BUT we can control what we do about them, how we handle them, and what we learn from them.

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Everyone knows I love Sex and the City and I can not wait until May 31st when the movie is released. Justin bought me the whole complete series for my birthday which explains all the pink balloons he gave me on my bed.

The series ended with a very power quote and I want to share it with you. This quote is something I really believe in. This is a great outlook to have on relationships.

“Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that’s just fabulous.” - Carrie

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