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Saturday Quotes
Legacy
The meaning
Fresh start
Make a difference
The quotes for today are all about making a difference.
Tis The Season…………
Tis the Season……………….
Tis the season to be busy?
Do you feel like the lead up to Christmas is full?
Do you have long list of things to do?
As I write this there is only 22 days until Christmas Day.
Yes, 22 days!
I love this time of year I love the whole celebration of Christmas and to me it is really important. I love the decorations up at the shops, I love Christmas Carols and I love Christmas movies.
I want to enjoy Christmas Day and I don’t wake up on Christmas morning exhausted.
I want to embrace the whole day and soak up every bit of the experience.
How do I get to Christmas Day and still have the time to enjoy it?
Today I had the intention of getting up early and going to boxing at 8am. After boxing I had planned to go and help at one of the schools I am at.
I woke up had breakfast and then was having my coffee (I love coffee) and thinking okay I really have to hurry up if I am going to make it to boxing. In my head the plan was great but my body today was not willing. I then decided that it was okay not to go to boxing first.
I had to be kind to myself.
So, my thought is to be kind to yourself.
Look after yourself and say no to things, it is okay.
Plan your days, make a list if you need to.
Plan to have some rest time.
Schedule in to do the things that you enjoy.
Acknowledge what you have accomplished.
Does this really need to be the season to be busy?
How can we simplify the lead up to Christmas?
This afternoon I am choosing to just watch some TV and to read. This afternoon for me is a time to recharge because tomorrow I have to…………………..
Tis the season to be jolly.
Just Write
Yesterday I went to my first Shut Up and Write sessions.
It is where a group of writers meet in a coffee shop and just write. Yesterday there were four of us and we met at a beautiful coffee shop in Mt Hawthorn.
The purpose of the session is just to focus on a project that we are working on and just write. The timer is set on an agreed time, first for 25 minutes and then we just write. Then we have a break and chat. Then the timer is set for 40 minutes this time and we again just write. Then we have a break and the timer is set again for 40 minutes.
There is something about writing in blocks of time that really helped me focus a lot more.
I love the opportunity to just sit and to just write. Oh and to drink great coffee.
The coffee shop was busy with people having coffee, having breakfast. As I was writing and working on my book, conservations from the other people in the coffee shops were there in the background. The background noise of conversations floated in and out as I was writing. I thought that they would distract me but, they didn’t.
I achieved so much yesterday.
I have organised my book and I have written a few devotionals.
So, my thought is why cannot I get that much done at home?
Why cannot I put the timer on at home and allow myself to just write?
Meeting in a coffee shop with other writers gives me accountability. I had to make the time, show up and write.
I am encouraged when I am sitting with others who love to write.
When I am at home and write, I can get distracted and you just seemed to notice that things need to be cleaned.
This can be a good thing though; your house get cleaned.
Making the effort to meet at a coffee shop, with others works for me.
Yes, this is something that I would like to do a lot more.
Yesterday was a very productive day for me. I wrote and wrote and wrote.
It was a bit of a breakthrough day.
I have a real purpose to write now, the book idea is flowing and I couldn’t be happier about it.
What is something that you can put your timer on and work on for just 25 minutes this week?
Friday Quotes
Today I have been thinking about what make me smile? What makes you smile?
Today celebrate you.
What is ironing?
Yes and Amen.
God is with her.
Love This.
Yes being vulnerable.
Worship
This song, loving it. Worship Him.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msz4DM1k8i8
This is something that I haven’t wanted to do for a while.
Vulnerable moment, but all good.
Thank you for watching.
My Mentor
This week I was so blessed to catch up with my music mentor.
I was staying at my sister’s in early 2007 and I was watching the Christian channel, there was a talk show on and the host was interviewing Merelyn Carter. She was talking about the Dove Body Perogram. I watched and listened, this subject resonated with me I was so focused on the subject. I wanted learn more, to know more and to do more.
Then a few months later I was in a Christian bookstore I had chosen a book and then I wanted something light to read like a women’s magazine. One of the employees of the shop suggested some magazines. I remember so clearly reaching into the box and choosing one magazine I opened it and the page I found myself on was the one with Mereyln Carter being interviewed. It was from the exact TV program that I had seen a few months ago.
Yes, insert what!!!
I love it when there are those little confirmations.
I brought the magazine and read the article a few times. I also read that she offered music workshops.
Merelyn and her husband David are Carter & Carter.
They are country music singer/songwriters.
I did contact Merelyn and went for my first workshop in 2008.
We have known each other now for about 8 years.
It was so good to see her and her husband this week.
I had a mentor session and we talked about new goals and ideas. It was such a great night. We laughed, we planned and reflected about where I was when I first met them and where I am now.
Yes, it has been a journey, a great journey.
I love it when you can share your dreams and ideas with people who are going to encourage you, who are going to challenge you in a positive way.
I also have someone that I need to be accountable with.
Is there someone that you would love to learn from?
Do you have a dream in your heart and just needs a little help to live it?
Find a mentor, find someone that can encourage you creatively and journey with you.
You never know what will happen.
Blessed
I don’t know about you but I find birthdays as a single woman a little bit difficult. If I am really honest.
I said to someone another birthday as a single girl, not married and no children.
Aaahh!
But something really amazing happened on Friday my birthday, I actually realised how blessed I am.
It was one of my favourite birthdays.
I went to work and as you know I work as a school chaplain, I had such a lovely day. We had assembly and the whole school sang Happy Birthday to me. It was such a great start to the day.
Then I just realised I have so much to be thankful for.
I received a beautiful bunch of flowers there was a birthday cake and lots of laughing.
Friday night I celebrated with my family and that was really special. I loved having my nieces and nephew there to help me unwrap presents. I loved the excitement they feel when they go and help get the cake ready. I love how birthdays are so exciting to them.
I feel really blessed at the moment.
We can go around focusing on what we don’t have or we can look around and see what is in our lives.
I can sometimes focus on what I don’t have, but when I look around and focus on what I do have my world becomes bigger.
I know that it happened, on Friday my world became bigger. On Friday, my focus changed about celebrating birthdays. My focus shifted into a much healthier way of looking at birthdays.
What is something that you can focus on, what is one thing that you can say that you are blessed.
Celebrate life, embrace life.
You are important.
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