It's a hard knock life

Once again, if it's not apparent, I've fallen behind on the Blog Every Day in May challenge BUT I plan on still blogging about every topic it just may not be on the same day.  I really am enjoying this challenge because not only do I get to blog about things I've never blogged about before it's also helping me be more creative in coming up with my own creative blog posts. 

Without further chatter the 16th day of the Blog Every Day in May challenge is to talk about something that is hard in my life and how I'm over coming it!  Wow that's not hard at all....LOL

Even though I'm a total realist I really don't have any complaints of my life that are major hurdles.  I guess if I had to really think and discuss something it would be to remember that I can't have it all right now.  I am a very motivated and independent person and it is really hard for me to sit back and wait.  Oh did I mention I'm highly impatient. LOL  I'm a doer especially when it's something I've put my mind to so when I know that I want something but can't have it right then it drives me crazy.  It sort of takes over and is top priority.  I do all that I can to make whatever the goal is happen.  I'm sure your thinking yeah a real problem but I think sometimes it is a real problem because instead of living and enjoying the now I'm constantly working towards a future goal.  I don't think neither of these things are bad but too much of one and the lack of the other is. 

I'm trying to balance and remind myself that I don't always have to plan and do for the future but to just stop and enjoy the happenings of today.  I'm so fortunate and super blessed to have a great family, close friends, a boyfriend that puts up with my crazy antics, a steady job, and beautiful place to lay my head at the end of the day.  Not to mention all the opportunities that I get to jump at in between.

Not a very hard life and even if it was look at all the stuff I have to be thankful for!

Possibly

Humpday

picture via Bing

Fight for Happiness

Found this quote on Pintrest and thought it was really great!

New 30 Day Blog Challenge- Day 23 A Youtube Video

A few months back I was venturing out into the blog world and some how came across a post that said this video was awesome and we had to watch it so I clicked on it.  I can't remember who's blog I was on or anything like that but this video is definitley moving.  I actually started crying when I watched it because it is so touching and just amazing.


Today when I was trying to find the above video on youtube I also came across another video of the precious miss Lucy a year after being with her new family.  It too is really sweet.

Be Still....

Be still and know that I am God. -- Psalms 46:10

Lavender Fields

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden, or even your bathtub.

                           Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

New 30 Day Blog Challenge- Day 2 Your Definition of Success

The widely accecpted  dictionary definition of success is-

1. The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted

2. a. The gaining of fame or prosperity
    b. The extent of such gain.

3. One that is successful

4. Obsolete A result or an outcome

My definition of success is being happy with yourself and being content in the life you have built for yourself. 

Now with that being said, I think that society and American society in particular places too much focus on material success.  To me material success is the view that you are only successful if you make X amount of money or live in a mansion and crazy things like that.  We have all heard the saying money can't buy happines and I think that Americans, in general (yes there are exceptions), think that if you have money you are successful and I don't think that is anywhere near correct. 

Success is living a life and being happy with the person that YOU are ok with.  As long as you think and feel that it's good enough then you are successful.  Of course everyone's ambition is different and everyone has different goals but in the long run if I have a happy marriage, a healthy family, a semi-successful (money making) career, and I am happy with the way my life is going then I consider that a great success.

Words to Remember

Magical

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Terry Brooks

Sunday Words of Widsom

Organized Chaos

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
Marcus Aurelius

Knowledge

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

Blog Challenge Day 5- Favorite Quote

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out shouting..."holy hell...what a ride!"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!  This quote isn't one I necessarily live my life by, TOTALLY anyways, but every time I read it I get this huge smile.  It is hilarious to me and it reminds me to go out and have some really great and crazy experiences because life only happens once...we can't play it safe ALL the time.  :)

Life's like a Labyrinth

Life is like a labyrinth you may not always take the right path but you just have to keep trying different routes until you slowly make your way to the end.

Blinded

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595

Stay

Wow! This song is so great. Thanks Colby for turning me on to this artist. I love her.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Balance

"Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much
of ourselves we give away" Barbara De Angelis

The Dare

"Feel the fear, and do it anway. All serious daring starts from within." Eudora Welty