The Happiness Challenge

I have one of the coolest friends.  She is just sunshine on earth.  Yesterday she wrote a post on her facebook page that said, "Positive energy breeds positive energy. I am living proof and loving life. Give it a try. Make a conscious effort to not be angry or negative for 24 hours. You'll find yourself doing it again the next day..."


I thought to myself, I am a positive person and I am usually happy, but am I as happy as I want to be?  I have my days, but I want to be happier.  So I made a decision to take on her happy day challenge.  I told her I am in and I will report back.  


So today, October 19th, 2011, I decided to be positive all day. No negative feelings, words, actions or thoughts.  NONE!  Did I follow through?  YES!  YES! YES!  And it was awesome!  I had a great day.  Everything about today was positive.  I love it and I DO want to do it again tomorrow.  As the quote says, "We are as happy as we make our minds up to be"!  I am choosing to see the glass half full with plenty to share.  I want to make every day as happy as I possibly can.  Why not?  Why would I not want happiness to follow me where ever I go?  I crave happy.  I deserve happy.  And now I am choosing to be happy.  


I found this awesome quote today while I was searching the internet,
" No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change".  


So for me, being happy most of the time, or should I say being positive most of the time is not enough.  I want it ALL the time.  And I am on a quest for happiness.  


Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

The Face Of Happy

Happiness

Happy, Happy, Happy

Oh the Smiles!

Angela

Do you Mind......

I am back....again.  Seriously I keep apologizing for slacking on my blogging, but I am just BUSY!  I like busy.  Busy keeps me moving and not sitting still.  Sometimes when i sit still for to long, I think about all the things that could be and might have been.  But my blog today is not about that.  That will be another post.

My girls are growing up so fast.  Today I came home and Brooklyn ran upstairs to tell me that she wrote her whole name all by herself.  That to me was so advanced.  My little girl wrote her name all by her self. I keep looking over at the dry erase board and there it is, her name.  I am so proud.

Sutton is getting so big.  She is talking so much more now.  I love that because it means she is getting better.  Before when she was sick ALL THE TIME, she had so many ear infections that she could not hear well enough to pick up words and repeat them.  But now that her health is so much better, she hears us and repeats what we are saying to her.  I am so glad that I kept this blog, because when I look back and read all that we went through, I can see a HUGE difference.  I pray that she continues to progress and stay healthy.  So happy we discovered essential oils.

Speaking of the oils, I know that I can be over the top about them and that I am constantly talking about them or posting about them, but what they did for my little girl was a miracle.  Those oils changed our lives for the better.  I have to tell every mom about them.  What if another person is going through the same thing?  What if my neighbor had not introduced me?  We would still be in a mess of sickness.  So I will continue to talk about them and share them.  Not just that, I plan to pull my family out of the pay check to pay check mess.  I am not gonna keep building another persons dream.  I am am building my families future and making sure we have what we need.  I want security and I want to know that my hard work is going to my future.  That is why I am doing what I do.  Because my family is that important to me.

I don't care about the lovely nick names I am apparently being given by family members, I will continue to build my business, I will continue to use the oils and I will always talk about them.  If I let negativity stop me every time I heard it, I would probable be in some corner crying my eyes out.  I would have never done all the things I have done in my life if I let the things people I know and love get to me.  I will never be that sad sort of person that crumbles at the sight of doubt or negativity (I think I got that from my mom).

I will always support those I love.  No matter what, no matter why, no matter how.

As the quote goes....

"Be Who You Are And Say What You Feel
Because Those Who Mind Don't Matter
And Those Who Matter Don't Mind"

If you are reading this and are wondering what that means,
 It means those who matter in your life and truly care about you will not mind you being yourself. In fact, they will welcome it.