I will be back tomorrow

Hello Hello my friends,

     

     I do apologize for my absence. Due to a sick little mister mister who has been running a fever off and on with a sever ear infection and croup. I have been on a rock baby, bounce baby, anything to comfort every two hours the past two days. I have my fingers crossed and considering today was a lot better then yesterday, Tomorrow he will be back to feeling almost like a normal happy not hurting baby. I have managed to get a few posts of wonderful positive quotes to the Facebook, find my words and write my one great thing a day. So with a good nights sleep hopefully tonight, I will so be able to get to share how my days have been, what my words were and my one great thing a day. But till then I hope you have a wonderful night and an even better day tomorrow.  

     Remember tomorrow is another day with endless possibilities, another post and another blog. Please continue to follow and enjoy. Always feel free to post your comments, your word or words as well as feel free to share what your great thing of the day was. I would love to hear it. Till then remember you define you through how you treat you and how much you believe in you, no matter how bad yesterday, the day before or today was, tomorrow is a new day. It is up to you and from me to you to become the best you and find your CanKan attitude. Goodnight my friends

Day Nine in the 30 days to a CanKan attitude

     Wake up with a smile, think positive thoughts, and that smile and those thoughts will follow you all day long. As I have said and as I was raised, what happens to you is based on you, what you will and will not allow to effect you in your life depends solely on you. Yesterday I shared that I have had things effect me and that what happens on my day to day bases play a part in my life, but I chose to change how those things played a part in my day to day life. If you are reading my blog, following and if you are trying out the projects that I am doing please as always feel free to share with me how you are doing, how it has maybe helped you with finding your CanKan attitude, and I always love to hear what ideas and projects help others. 

     
     So here we are at day 9 in our 30 days to a better us and into our CanKan Attitude. Writing a blog is actually not as easy as one would think and I find that with each passing day I am still learning and getting the hang of things. Today we were to go out and as we went through our day find a word so we could pin it to our board that expressed another positive thing about us and that we will share and show through out today and each day from here along with our past 8 words. Today The word I found and posted was CONFIDENT. 
     

     So how am I confident? I am confident as I continue on my path to a better me. Even through my hardest day I never loose my confidence in the fact that things will get better. I have made the choice to be confident in me and confident in what I do.  It truly is a great word with a lot of power. How did I show my confidence today? I got up, put a smile on , read my words and although today for me was a bit of a struggle, I found confidence in knowing that sometimes you can not figure things out on your own. Sometimes talking to someone and getting a different perspective is what you need to help your confidence. I gained confidence in accepting what I can and can not do and through conversation and an outside view found some solution to my problems so that I can keep being the person I deserve and need to be. This is how I incorporated my word. 
    
      I  also realized today as well that something I had planned on doing yesterday and that I promised I would get done did not get done. The re-do of the make-up look for the contest. For some reason I just forgot about it, and today was the last day to enter. So instead of finding disappointment, I grabbed my make-up, set it all up and as soon as my son went down for his nap I went to town and created another look and insured this time I did the correct colors and ribbon. 

     Once again I had so much fun and got to let out my creative side that I so love and has not show as much as I like. But we will change that soon enough. When midnight hit. I was so not really excepting to see my look in the top 100. But there it was. I made it even after messing up my first entry and having to redo it all over again. There it was the sixth row down first pic on the left. I could not believe it. Knowing I have made it this far, I so would love to go to the end and win the prize. But as I sit here and think about it. I won already. I did something I have never done, messed it up and tried again and with the fact I refused to give up. It payed off and I made it to the voting stage and the top 100. To me I am already a winner. To me I succeeded in my goal and made followed through. I am so proud of myself and it gave me my ONE GREAT THING A DAY JAR moment.
     
     My something new for the day was I decided to try a new food. Actually it was a new soup. With winter coming I would like to have a variety of soups and warm food for me and the kids to make and enjoy when it is cold outside. My soup of the day and very delicious I must say was Progresso Light - Italian - style vegetable soup. I most defiantly am not one for the light soups, but it sounded so good and it did not let me down. I most defiantly will be adding this soup to the cabinet and will enjoy it again soon.

So as we go into tomorrow, a new day. Between getting my son in for a sick visit with his doctor and picking my daughter up from her dads, We are going to find and clip another word and use our words to define us, define our life and define our actions to create a better us and give us our CanKan attitude. At the end of the day we are going to take our day and find that one great thing that happened, that one great thought or action and add it to our jar.

     

     Tomorrow is another day with endless possibilities, another post and another blog. Please continue to follow and enjoy. Always feel free to post your comments, your word or words as well as feel free to share what your great thing of the day was. I would love to hear it. Till then remember you define you through how you treat you and how much you believe in you, no matter how bad yesterday, the day before or today was, tomorrow is a new day. It is up to you and from me to you to become the best you and find your CanKan attitude. Goodnight my friends

     

8 days in and week 2 begins in the 30 days to a CanKan attitude

     Here we are at day one of week 2. Already 8 days in and feeling good. Here is a little bit about me and how CanKan Motivation came to be. See I have had my up and down moments. With each day I am refusing to let it change the total outcome at the end. I am making sure to read my board as I get up, through out the day and at the end of my day, reminding myself that I am better than any of the negative things that try to drag be down. I make sure to implement my words in to my day, tell people I love just how much they mean to me and that I see what I see in myself in them. I push to be stronger, better and carry my CanKan attitude with me. 
     
     This life is what you make it and for awhile I was letting it get the best of me, drag me down and push me around. After my 34th birthday which I will have to admit was one of the roughest birthdays I had ever had, I woke up. Some reason something hit me and I knew that something had to change. My mind and thoughts were spiraling and I needed to get it under control. When I looked at everything going on I saw it all started with me. My low self-esteem, pain, hurt, sadness, postpartum, emotions, my divorce, past relationships, present relationship, so on and so forth. I had a negative and awfully sad attitude and I was no longer going to let it keep going the way it was. I decided that I was going to find a more positive and happier me. No longer was I going to let these things affect me for the worst and instead use them as steps to climb up out of the dark and back into the light. Everything that happens in life you can either let it remain as it is, be negative and allow it to make you sad and bitter or you can use it as a learning moment and turn it into a positive and make that guiding light a lot brighter. The one thing I know beyond a doubt that I am good at is helping people. I have done home health care, taken care of family and friends and was going to school to be an R.N. with a photography minor. What a mix I know. Well as I was going through and getting my tools together that I have used in the past when I had hit a low point in the past I decided while having a couple of conversations with friends and family about the life happens moments and what are you going to do lie down or pick yourself up. As I was talking about what I was fixing to do it was stated why not blog about it and share what you are doing. Give instructions and share what you do when you are in a rut and blue period so that others can use it and maybe help them. Yeah need less to say the light went off and here we are. I decided to start a motivational Facebook, www.facebook.com/CanKanMotivation and put my self and my life out there here in this blog in the hopes that it will help others.
     
     So enough about me and lets get to today. Today I got a call from a friend and first thing she said was you are insperational. Me of course ask her why and she states, because of what I am doing and how I inspire her and she would like to add that to my board. That I am inspirational. I told her it was a every seven day thing and that I will add it later, but as I thought about it and as I was talking to her I changed my mind. She is and has gone through a lot in her life, she is a great friend and she took a moment out of her day to call me and tell me she wanted to add a word and that to me meant so much 
that I decided that yes I would still add my positive descriptive word of myself that I would clip from something I found or read as well as I would write and put her initials with her word to my board. With her word and putting it to my board it will remind me that even if she is the only one that it has help inspire and help her find her CanKan attitude then I did what I set out to do and that is help someone. So doll your word is on my board and I love you to death. I could not have asked for a better woman to call a friend. I also went to find my word of the day. The word I would use to describe me. And I so found it on the very first thing I looked at. A add on a flyer set to the house. It had the word SPECIAL. 

So I clipped it and went about my day. I made sure I was a reflection of my words and that I lived my words. It was not till the end of the day and when I got ready to sit down and write this. As I reflected on the word special, I realized just how special today was. I had a friend call and show her support, I had sweet text messages of love and support, I had a baby who every time I said his name or held him in my arms he smiled and giggled at me. I had another goodnight Skype call. I am special because I am me and and I am blessed with so many great things. That being special and being me I get to enjoy and love these wonderful things. So SPECIAL, yes that would be me.
     
     Next we come to the ONE GREAT THING A DAY JAR. So many great things happened today and I was so happy and had the biggest smile through out it all. Minus a few moments that tried to get that smile. But so many things went on and so many great things made my day that in the end it was extremely hard to pick just one to write and put in the jar. But after great debate and great thought I finally chose one. My great thing of the day was...... While I was at my neighbors house my son decided to stand up using the end table turn around let go and take a step before stopping for a second and then falling to the floor, then getting to Skype with his dad and see the smile on his face as he looked at his son and  heard all about it.

      A moment that I will never forget. And a scary thought of knowing soon enough he will not just be walking but running circles around me here at the house.... LOL. But it was a great moment and I would have to say a great way to start on the ONE GREAT THING A DAY JAR.

     So as we go into tomorrow, a new day. We are going to find and clip another word and use our words to define us, define our life and define our actions to create a better us and give us our CanKan attitude. We are going to try something new weather it's a new hair style, going somewhere new, doing something new, but we are going to do something new as well as at the end of the day we are going to take are day and find that one great thing that happened, that one great thought or action and add it to our jar.
     
     I so look forward to another day, another post and another blog. I  hope you continue to follow and enjoy. Please as always feel free to post your comments, your word or words as well as feel free to share what your great thing of the day was. I would love to hear it. Remember you define you through how you treat you and how much you believe in you, no matter how bad yesterday, the day before or today was, tomorrow is a new day. It is up to you and from me to you to become the best you and find your CanKan attitude. Goodnight my friends

Week 1 : Day 7 - 30 days to a CanKan attitude

Day 7 - Week 1.
     Wow! can you believe it, already a week in. I never thought that honestly I would feel as good as I do and be so adamant about insuring I get to my posts everyday. I know I can be passionate about many things, but to know I have found a passion in sharing this walk and journey with you is an amazing feeling. I am also Hoping along the way my little ideas, thoughts and projects might help someone else along the way. It has become a mission now. I find myself anticipating each day to get on here and share with you just what my next step to the new and better me will be. 
     With that being said and making sure I don't get to sappy about it all, let's get to it. Today was day seven and our last day of week one. Now as stated, each day we are to live, act and use our words we have posted. Today instead of coming up with a word to post to our board, we went and asked a friend or family member to give us a word. The word I received from a special someone was LOVING. 

They see me as a loving person. At first they chose a word from the list of words I already had. After I explained what was going on they understood got a good giggle and chose loving. It made me feel so good, my heart skipped a beat and I was more than happy to write it with their initials, so I remember who said it and took it to pin up on the From Me To You Board with my other words. It was one of my favorite parts of the day.
     Second, I gave the mission to go outside of the comfort zone and doing something different. It could be anything from the way you do things, to going somewhere new, to doing something new. Today I decided to enter a make-up contest. I have never done one and have always seen them. By the time I had completed it and submitted it I felt accomplished and great. 

                                                  (This was my look I first submitted)

     It was nice to do something I have always just passed up. The funniest part about it was the fact that after I had submitted my look I realized and it was pointed out that the colors for the look were backwards and wrong. So after contacting the contest holder, Who if you are interested is www.facebook.com/MadeULookbyLex, and you are to create a make-up look based around diabetes awareness. But she informed me that I could submit another look and have my last one canceled out. Now most people after realizing that they had messed up and did it wrong may give up. The key is you are doing this for fun and at the same time gaining experience. I laughed and smiled knowing that I messed up but that in the end and not giving up I get to play with my make-up again tomorrow and do it the right way. See no matter if I win or not the fact of the matter still comes down to I did something new, I enjoyed myself, I laughed and smiled. The only failure in life is not trying and giving up. So don't give up if you have a set back. Pick your head up, smile, laugh, brush the dirt off and try again. 
     Now as promised, I said yesterday I had a project. I do want to say that I had found this idea online and that I am not sure who came up with it but I so love it and find it to be a wonderful thing to add to your day to day life. What you will need is a large glass jar, ribbon, paper, pen and scissors. 

     We are going to create a one great thing or thought of the day Jar. What we are going to do is once a day no matter how hard the day you will always have a wonderful thought or something wonderful that made your day just oh so much brighter. You are going to take that though or moment of the day, write it on a piece of paper and then put it in the jar. Between tomorrow and New Years Eve we will place one great thing about our day in the jar and come New Years, instead of thinking on all the bad things from this year past we will open the jar and read of all the wonderful things that happened and just how each day had something wonderful to give us and celebrate now that it is over. So here is how I made my 

                                            ONE GREAT THING A DAY JAR

1. Here I used a used spaghetti jar. I washed it, peeled off the label and rubbed off the glue

2. Considering I had used the jar to capture and house a praying mantis so that me and my daughter could have a wonderful day of learning about bugs, my lid had holes. So I tied string through the holes and made knot style bows. as well as I tied a ribbon around the neck of the jar to further decorate it.

3. I ripped a couple sheets of paper into strips (Plain and colored paper) and place them along with a pen in the jar. NOTE: I also used a small rubber band to hold the paper strips together so it will be easy to keep them separated from the strips I write on as well as pull them out of the jar.

That's it, besides I so ran out of ribbon and will be needing to buy some more soon. Now your ONE GREAT THING A DAY JAR is done. simple as that. 

     
     This closes the end of my day seven. If you are following or doing some of the projects with me please feel free to share what your special word from your special someone was, what was your out of the box action today? I so would love to hear your thoughts and comments. As for tomorrow. we will find another word to describe us but instead of writing it this week we will be finding a paper, magazine or anything else that you can find a word the fits you in a positive way, cut it out and post it to your board. Tomorrow we will go through our day and at the end of it write down one great thing that happened and that made us smile or made our day. We will take that and then add it to our ONE GREAT THING A DAY JAR, That will be us tomorrow. 
     I again so look forward to another day, another post and another blog. I  hope you continue to follow and enjoy. Remember you define you through how you treat you and how much you believe in you, no matter how bad yesterday, the day before or today was, tomorrow is a new day. It is up to you and from me to you to become the best you and find your CanKan attitude. Goodnight my friends

Week 1 : Day 5 & 6 - 30 days to a CanKan attitude

     Well hello my friends, Due to yesterdays events and the wonderful 24 hr. bug that decided to sweep through my house and get everyone in it I am having to do yesterday and today in one. So lets get down to it.

     Week 1 - Day 5

     So after being up and down all night with a sick lil mister mister, I still made it a point to get up smile and face the day head on. I chose my word for the day in which I chose the word amazing

     Little did I know that my word would mean a whole lot more by the end of the day. As my day progressed my lil mister was still not feeling good and with me being tiered due to being up with him off and on, I decided to take a nap with him. Now if you are a mom you know when you have hit your no sleep limit. At that point I knew I needed to sleep when he did. Two hours later I wake to a baby trying to catch my attention from the crib just a few feet from my bed. I go to get up, then it hits like a ton of bricks. Body aches, runny nose, chills, upset stomach, fever, yep I am sick. 
     I wanted so much to lay back down. As I forced my muscles to bring my self to a standing position and then push to go over and pick up my son to take him to where he plays, every bone and muscle in my body screamed. Then I realized and started to feel worse because now I am sick and my son is sick and we both are just doing what we can to be comfortable and get through this. On top of it I still had a Facebook to post too and a blog to write. Well my son looks at me and through his fever and I am sure aches like me, he smiles and I can not help but smile back. He is just too stinking cute. Right then and there I decided that we would cuddle and we would be attached at the hip. If this means I have to play catch up outside of taking care of us and getting better then so be it. I may not do everything I want to do but I will just have to accept that and know as well as remember there is always tomorrow.
    There is a special thanks to my dad who stepped in and assisted with my son along with for me his starve a cold feed a fever remedy I am back to the normal me today. I may have only been able to post a few quotes to the Facebook, do my word of the day, I did manage to write my letter to myself 

     As promised from the blog the night before, a letter to the old me, the present me and the future me 30 days from now. The only thing I managed not to do was I never made it to actually blog. I wanted to feel disappointment and I wanted to beat myself up because I couldn't get done what I wanted. But I didn't. Instead I looked at my word from yesterday today and looked at just how rough and hard my day was and I amazed myself that I did and got done what I did. I still in my weakest moment got most of what I had intended to do. I was amazing in my weakest moment and rocked out sick mom. 
     Now if you are following and trying this with me, what was your word for day 5, and how did it feel writing a letter to you, sealing it and pinning it to your board to see how thing may change from now till then?

     
      Week 1 - day 6
   
      Now today I knew i needed to catch up on the everyday and monthly errand things that needed to get done but did not due to being sick. I also had Physical therapy for my back in which we are still in the process of finding out whats going on and why I am in the pain I am in. So with that, I woke to find me feeling almost back to me. I am not all there but so thankful that I am not the sick version from the day before. I looked at my board, I so love the self reflection that is appearing before me. I know these words are me, That with each day I look at the board I can feel one less negative thought and more of the positive light coming through. I think about the words I have listed and decided on the word Diamond. Tho I was not quit back to fully being me, feeling better, not in pain, I felt like a diamond being pulled from the dirt, That although I still needed some polishing I still manage to shine through the dirt cover. 

      I would like to say the smile I had posting this word, I so showed pearls. I insured as I went through my day I incorporated my words, I used them and I shared them. I made smiles today, Had a smile today and it just turned out to be a great day. Me and lil man shared tons of smiles ate well today finally, and took care of my dad who in the process of taking care of us got sick today. But now that this funk has ran its course I think it is safe to say tomorrow will be an even better day and I am so looking forward to it. 
      Now tomorrow, along with getting the things I need to make my christmas gifts, I will also be getting the stuff we will need for our next project. If you are following, trying and doing these with me. Also if you don't mind sharing, what was your word of the day or would be if you just started following. Tomorrows project we will need a jar with a lid, ribbon, paper and pen. Another thing is tomorrow you will not be writing a word for your board. instead tomorrow and every 7th day we will find a friend or family member and in one positive word describe us. You will write it down and pin it to your board, you are also more than welcome to have them write it and pin it. 
     We are going to live our words, use them and experience them with each passing day.  That will never change. I am also giving myself a challenge tomorrow I am going to find something I have never done, read, watched, played, something I have thought about doing lately but just never pushed myself due to lack of esteem or just lack of confidence and see how it goes. 

                                      (My From Me To You Board at the end of today)

   With that we come to the end of our days 5 & 6. I  hope you continue to follow and enjoy. Feel free post if you have any questions, post your word or words of the week as well as any comments below. Till tomorrow, Remember no matter how bad yesterday, the day before or today was, tomorrow is a new day. It is up to you and from me to you to become the best you and find your CanKan attitude. Goodnight my friends

My apologizes, we will be catching up tomorrow

Due to a flu like cold that has hit my house and me and baby have been fighting it all day and not feeling to good. I will so be back tomorrow and we will be catching up on today and tomorrows activities. Hope you had a wonderful day and till then from me to you, be the best you I know you can be and find your CanKan attitude.

Week 1 : Day 4 - 30 days to a CanKan attitude

     Day 4 - Week 1. tonights post may seem a bit short but my little mister mister has not been feeling well and a rested mama and baby is whats needed for sure. So how was your day? As you used your words through out the day how did they affect you? when you texted and called someone using your positive words how did they react? 
     I used my words and reminded others that I saw those words in them. I texted friends and reminded them that I thought they were beautiful and kind and with that I so appreciated their friendship. I called friends and told them how I admired their strength and how strong I have seen them in times of need and they have such a wonderful big heart. That with those words I was thankful and loved that quality in a family/friend like them. In both, texting and calling it made my friends/family members days and put a smile on there face. Did you notice something else like I did? In the end not only did I make my friends and families day but I also felt great about myself due to doing something nice for someone else. 
     Doing for others can be a great feeling and can lift the spirit and the soul. If you believe in Karma like I do, all the wonderful and positive things I am doing will so come back to me at a later date.
     So what was your word today? What did you use to describe yourself and incorporate in your day along with use to describe someone else in text and or a phone call? My wonderful word of the day that I pinned to my board was "I have a BIG HEART".

     I have such a big heart that I at times will allow my heart to break so that I can help keep someone else's heart together. My heart is what rules me and guides me down my path. Going through my day and reminding myself of this along with my other words, it was this one that I realized that I do have a big heart and it allows me to love without limit and love all around me good and bad. I found so much in myself today just by this one thought and it pushed me to keep going like it has always tended to do and lifted my spirit.
     As we come to the end of day 4, we start realizing just how words have such an impact on us. Tho we are just now starting to see this will not be stopping here. When we wake tomorrow we will go to our board and choose another word, pin it and live it. We will use our words and allow positive thought to once again make way for a positive day.
     Tomorrow I will be taking my words and writing a letter to myself. If you are following and doing this along with me in that letter we will describe the person we use to be, the person we are and the person we want to be. We will take the person of the past, the person who we are not happy with and write them a letter expressing who we are and who we will be just 30 days from now. This letter is a mini time capsule and yet this letter is a letter of encouragement to ourselves. once we write the letter of self encouragement we will seal it in a envelope and pin it to the bottom of our board and in 30 day we will be opening it and seeing just how much our thought of ourself has changed. 
     With that we come to the end of day four. I  hope you continue to follow and enjoy. Feel free to post your word and comments below. Till tomorrow, Remember no matter how bad yesterday, the day before or today was, tomorrow is a new day. It is up to you and from me to you to become the best you and find your CanKan attitude. Goodnight my friends

Week 1 : Day 3 - 30 days to a CanKan attitude

     Day 3 - Week 1 and we have added another word to our board. What was your word? how did you use it and implement it in your day? Did you post it to your Facebook? Did you use it in conversation? Or did you talk to a friend and tell them what your doing and how you are doing something to create a better you starting with how you view yourself through words?

     Like I stated yesterday, words are a powerful thing. Words can reflect in our day to day self and actions. As we go through our day our mind set really determines how our day is going to go. If you wake up everyday saying "Oh great, another day" assuming that today is going to be like yesterday, you are already setting in motion for your day from yesterday to repeat. If you wake up everyday saying "Good morning, it is going to be a great day", you will be amazed to know you are setting your mind on positive mode and that your day will be unlike the day before. 

     Our day can start off great and then life like it tends to do throws us for a loop and something negative happens. The key to ensuring we continue from that point to have a positive day is all in how we handle that negative moment. To remind yourself that everything is going to be great and nothing is going to change this day. Now just a note -  Loosing a loved one or friend (animal or human) is completely understandable and is not something you can just push out and to the side. That kind of loss is something we have to work through in a mourning process. What we are talking about is things like someone treating us badly, having a hard day at work, kids having a rough day, the everyday stuff, those everyday what the crackers life moments that tends to sometime go wrong and change the outcome of our day. When these things tend to take a turn causing us to start going down the road of negative thought, it is up to us to take that control of that thought, throw it out the window and  tell yourself "I got this, I refuse to let this ruin my day. I am me (repeat your words to yourself) and I decide just how my day will go, this change will not dictate how my day will go". You changing the thought process can put your day back on the path you started when you began your day. Your day all depends on holding your positive you and carry it with you through your whole day and not just part of the day.
      So how did your words affect your day, the word or words you chose to describe yourself and posted to your board? For me, my word today was KIND. 

     I am a kind person. As I went through my day I first posted that I am a beautifully unique, strong and kind person. I made it a point to see the world for all it's beautiful and unique qualities as I drove around doing my errands. I chose to be strong through all of the many what the cracker life moments that tried to change and create a negative day. For my word of the day today I made sure that anyone I talked to, saw and interacted with I was kind in my words and my actions. By the end of my day, I can honestly say I had a great and wonderful day. By using my words, saying them and expressing them I felt great, I felt wonderful and I insured that my day continued on a positive path and just as my day hard started out with me saying it was going to be a great day, it actually turned out to be an even better day.
     Now tomorrow is day 4. There are a million positive words that one can use to describe ones self. So as we go, what may feel like you are running out of words, know that you get to be creative and explore new and inventive was to describe yourself. Do not limit yourself to just the words you know. Tomorrow when you wake up, think of your word, pin it and this is how we are going to use it. As we go through our day we are going to take the words, or if you are just starting with us, your word and like today incorporate it in to your day. Theres a twist tho..... I want you to take your first two positive words and message someone and tell them you think that of them, the other two positive words you are going to actually tell someone. If your just starting with us, take your word and do both, message and tell someone you think that of them. When you tell someone It can be a random person you see while out, a friend you see or you can call a friend or family member and tell them that you see that positive word in them. I want you to see just how it effects them and changes them in a positive light. watch or listen to their reaction. Realize that when we do this for ourselves that reaction we are creating by telling someone else that positive word is creating that same reaction in ourselves. 
   
     This completes Day three. I  hope you continue to follow and enjoy. Feel free to post your word and comments below. Till tomorrow, Remember no matter how bad yesterday, the day before or today was, tomorrow is a new day. It is up to you and from me to you to become the best you and find your CanKan attitude.       
   

     

Week 1 : Day 2 - 30 days to a CanKan attitude

     So here we are Day 2 in week 1 and the inner you. When you woke up this morning, did you think about the word you choose to describe yourself? Did you think about what it means to you? I know that this may be a completely off the wall method but what it comes down to is changing the mental thought process of ourselves. 
     Remember the saying sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. Hate to say it but it's not true. Words can hurt more than anything. They tend to stick with us, change us, affect us in so many ways. Ways we may not realize until later. Words can actually hurt more than breaking a bone. I always tell people when I hurt due to someones hurtful words "I would much rather be shot in the foot then to feel the pain of their words". See to me at least being shot in the foot I can fix that and the pain will not last long , where as hurtful words break us down emotionally and physically. The words of another manage to stick with us forever, especially if they hurt.  A positive word can lift a spirt, but negative ones can break the soul. 
     Now think about how you view yourself. Those words in your thoughts that you use to view and describe yourself, they have an impact on you. If you think, for example the word failure. If you see and think that of yourself, your mind as well as your body are going to carry that word and show others that you see yourself as a failure. If you view and think of the word ugly and tell yourself that, then your mind and body will carry it and allow people to view you as ugly. Words have a lot of power, especially the words we tell ourselves. After awhile and using those negative words in your thoughts and actions within ourselves, we begin to believe them. The conscious mind runs with them and can becomes a nasty habit.
     With this From Me To You board. Shown in yesterdays blog. You are going to be breaking that mental habit of negative thought process. You are going to replace all the negative words you have placed in your head. I like to think of it as teaching an old dog new tricks but your teaching your brain of a new way to think. Placing a word a day, taking a positive word, making it descriptive to you, pinning it to your board and viewing it each day as well as tell yourself these words, it is allowing thought replacement. You are making a habit and not only is your board growing with positive words about you but your mental thought process is changing and replacing negative self thoughts with positive ones. This is your mirror, this is your positive reflection in words.
     With that all being said let's get to it. Day two consists of a new word. a word that once again describes you in a positive light. For me today, the word I pinned to my board was strong. I am reflecting and reminding myself that I am strong. 

So now my mirror, my self image and reflection on my From Me to You board contains two words that I will see, read and remember each and every day. That I am beautifully Unique and I am strong.

     If your are following, Please feel free to comment and share what your word for yourself would be or if you are doing the board what word or words did you post to it. In order to become the person we want to be we need to believe that person is there. In order for someone to see the beautiful and wonderful person I know you are and is there you have to see and feel it for yourself. It all starts with you.
      Now a heads up a little on tomorrow. We are going to do something kind of like a mission. You are going to take your first two words, add your day three word and implement them into your day. If you just started following you can take the word you have chosen for you and today and I want you use those word/words as your words of the day. Say them out loud, use them in your sentances. If you, like myself and so many other have a Facebook. I want you to take those words and post them to your page and say this is me. such as "This is me, I am beautifully unique, strong and  ____". 
     
     This completes Day Two. I anticipate tomorrow and I so hope you continue to follow and enjoy. Remember no matter how bad yesterday, the day before or today was, tomorrow is a new day. It is up to you and from me to you to become the best you and find your CanKan attitude.

Week 1 : Day 1 - 30 days to a CanKan attitude

Hello my friends,
     Welcome to CanKan Motivation - Finding your CanKan attitude. Here we are at week 1 - day 1, the week I am dedicating to the inner you. I want this week to be all about reestablishing ourself. I want to take the next 7 days to start by building ourselves from the inside and bringing back the smile to our face. You know that smile. The smile you have not due to things, people, accomplishments and so on, but that smile that was just there due to being a happy you. Remember this is a 30 days to a happier you and this is only week one. 
     Remember the story of the little train that could. Yes, I know you are smirking, if not giggling and nodding your head yes. Well that story was all about a train who had to believe in himself and find his self confidence before he could reach the top. It is really honestly is a metaphor for the human mind. For each of us to reach the top, the best we can be we must believe in ourselves and have self confidence.
     We all go through ups and downs; highs and lows. this is something that happens not once, not twice but several times through out our lives. We will all go through blue periods, have moments we find ourselves depressed, for my girls out their that just had a baby - postpartum, or you may find yourself down due to sadness, heartache, loss, divorce, break-ups, all the things that would cause us to lose ourselves, our worth, our self-esteem and throw us into a slump. It is just a fact of life for every up there is a down. It is how we handle ourselves in that down that will determine just how fast we pick ourselves back up. 
     The things I am sharing with you are things I have personally done and used in the past to get back to me. These projects and ideas are ones I used to rediscover the me I thought and felt I lost. I also used them to pick myself back up and get going to full speed again and back on my path. 
     Now you may be asking why I am doing this. Well, once again I have found myself in a slump. I am not the me I need to be nor should be. I am in a blue period along with a bit of postpartum. I have always been an optimistic person, but even the biggest optimist can find themselves questioning life and it's reasons. With that being said, as I go through reestablishing the me I know I am and get to where I know I can be. I am going to not only share this journey but hope in the process I may be able to do what I do best, Help others in finding their CanKan attitude. So lets get to it.

                                   Day one - Create a From Me To You board

This is a board that you are dedicating to you. It is a reminder to yourself of who you are, what you are and will help in your personal view of yourself. For this project I personally used just the cork board. I will be using the option that I will be showing for another project later on. You are more than welcome to do either. Now you could always go out and buy what we are making but that would defeat the purpose. There is no better feeling than to create something for ones self and this is about doing for you and making you a better you. Sometime even the smallest thing we do for ourselves can work wonders. 

*First I went to my local Walmart and bought cork board $6, pins $3, ribbon $1. I already had scissors, paper,  pen and markers.The cork board comes 4 to a pack and supplies it's own double sided sticky tape.  

**NOTE ** - I personally tho would suggest investing in an alternative sticky tape such as Command removable double sided sticky strips. The ones that came with the cork board seemed to be a bit hard to use and for some could be frustrating. And we do not want frustration.

                                                         (option 1 - decorative ) 

First get a panel of cork board, your scissors, ribbon and your pins

Second lay your ribbon on the cork board and decide on a design. I personally choose a diamond pattern. Then cut ribbon to length. 

Now you are going to fold over the ends. This is to insure that if you hang anything or pin anything on the From Me To You board using the ribbon the ribbon will not rip and split off the pin. Once folded you will pin to the outer edge, tack and repeat in the form of your design. Now for the first half of pinning you will not push the pin in all the way due to you will be pinning a second end with the same pin. You will push pins completely in at the end.

                           *Here I used another panel of cork board to insure my lines matched up*

                                               **A special note to moms**
If you have Children this is also something you can have a helper or have them do with you for themselves.

You can do like my daughter did and leave it like the last photo,  just ribbon the corners or keep going like I did. Now I will go back and tighten up the ribbon later as well as straighten it out. But I wanted to give you and example, But I promise I will post the picture of the edited board when we come to the project I will be using my board on. 

Now I want you to take the board, place the double sided tape on the back, take it into your bathroom and place it on your wall where you are able to see and view it every day easily. This to me is like when you look in the mirror and look at your reflection. Your reflection looks back at you. This board is a mirror, a mirror of positive self reflection in words. Ladies, please feel free to add pins to the side and use it as a place to hang some jewelry allowing you to further decorate it and give it your touch. Guys if you wear rings and necklaces you can do the same as well. The reason I am saying the bathroom is because this is the place we go to first thing in the morning, where we get ready and the last place you go before bed. I have found that the bathroom is the best placement and allows this board to work the way it is intended best.

Next you are going to title your board From Me To You and pin it at the top then I want you to get a piece of paper, pencil, marker, crayon, something to write with. I want you to  Think of and say something wonderful about yourself, write it on a piece of paper and pin it to the board. Each day we are going to do this and each day we are going to read these. Day ones saying for me is - You are beautifully unique.

This completes Day one. I am so looking forward to tomorrow and I so hope you continue to follow and enjoy. Remember no matter how bad yesterday, the day before or today was, tomorrow is a new day. It is up to you and from me to you to become the best you and find your CanKan attitude.  

My journey will soon begin

So I have tried my hand at blogs before. Needless to say I never followed through with them. That to me is always the hardest thing to admit that I did not follow through with something I truly wanted. Now that a few years have pasted and I have dug a bit deeper into my self awareness, I feel I have found a reason as to why. The past blogs failed due to it was not me, it had nothing to do with what I was or was passionate about. The real me. So starting tomorrow I am going to put me out there and do what I do best. Be positive and share that positive with others. 
This really is new and will be a personal growth and journey for myself. That being said I want this to be able to help other in seeing that personal gain and growth comes from how we perceive ourselves and how we put ourselves out there. Finding That CanKan Attitude. I know I have it and I know you do to. So my mission in life is to help not only strengthen that in me but help others find it in them. So to start remember tomorrow is a new day, no matter how hard yesterday was, today was, tomorrow is a new day and it is up to you to decide what you are going to do. The best thing about life is that nothing stays the same and that it is always changing. So wake up with me and dig deep, Get your CanKan attitude, find that smile and lets face the world together and make everyday the best day. It all starts with you.
Tomorrow is a new beginning and I am starting with my first 30 days to a better me. Follow me and come along with me to find that better you. 
Till tomorrow, Goodnight, smile and know the skies the limit.