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.
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
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