The Beautiful Basics: My word for 2012--BELIEVE

Sunday, January 1, 2012

My word for 2012--BELIEVE

Happy New Year to you all!

This year we had the honor of being one of the first people to usher in the new year! I think New Zealand is first and Australia is second...but don't quote me on that!

I decided to pick a word that would encompass my goals and motivations for the year. My word is BELIEVE!

I want to:

BELIEVE that Heavenly Father wants what is best for me and will lead to my ultimate happiness, so I must BELIEVE in Him and myself to make that happen.

BELIEVE that I can complete a mini-triathlon in Sydney in October.

BELIEVE that life is meant to be lived actively and not sedentary.

BELIEVE in myself.

BELIEVE in families and work hard to make mine even better, closer, and more wonderful that they already are.

BELIEVE in the goodness in people. Deep inside there is always something good. (Sometimes you have to look really deep!)

BELIEVE that I can become an "academic". (This goes along the whole PhD quest I am currently in.)

Even when you think you can't...BELIEVE that you can.

1 comment:

Siobhan Larkin said...: This is very inspiring! Just what I needed to read today. I'm glad I stumbled upon your blog :); January 8, 2013 at 6:45 PM

Why Beautiful Basics?

Welcome!!
This is my blog about Beautiful Basics, the basic things that almost seem like lost arts, like baking bread or tatting lace. Its also a blog about little old me. Who am I? A southern girl with Texas roots and American pride who loves the views of Paris, a good art museum, and a good chicken fried steak...I also currently live in Australia.

For those of you who are LDS, I have also been encouraged to add ideas for Relief Society Activity Nights at church. Have you ever had one of those (what I call) revolving door callings? The calling that you keep getting over and over again...you can't figure out if you are good at it and that is why you keep getting called or if you are so bad at it that they keep thinking "maybe this time she will get it right!"? That is me with what was formerly knowns as HFPE. I keep getting called into it in some form or fashion over and over again. I love it when the Bishop or counselor extends the calling and then says " Are you familiar with the HFPE program?" or a similar statement....I just want to say...uh, yeah..remember about 6 months ago when I was in charge of it??!! :) Oh well, I must still have SOMETHING to learn from it! At this exact moment (I hate to jinks myself) I am actually in Primary and not HFPE. So, this is my blog, I hope you find great ideas here and some inspiration. For those in my ward, you will look at this and say...yep, went to that HFPE...so it may be nothing new to you but I also hope to post other ideas as well.

Please feel free to email me at beautifulbasics@gmail.com if you have suggestions or comments!

Here's to being Beautiful, inside and out!