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6O WAYS TO MAKE LIFE SIMPLE AGAIN!!!!


annd.... 10 WAYS TO MAKE A HAPPIER YOU!


Tis the year to be a happier, healthier, best-you-can-be YOU!


xoxo

A picture a Day to Keep the Inspiration Today.

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” - Albert Einstein 
     I want this quote to grace my experiences as I start the 365 challenge. What is that, you ask? Ah, well, it is a project where one takes a picture each day for an entire year! It isn't seen as a challenge to me, per se. This is solely due to the fact that I take many a picture, already! However, now it will be my duty to take at least 1 picture, to not only keep track of my life on a daily basis, but to (drum roll please) remain inspired!!


     You could sign up to be apart of the 365 day project, by going on their website: http://365project.org/
However, I figured I can just participate via facebook and have my own 365 day album. I'm still indecisive on posting a daily blog, replicating my 365 project for blogger-land...I think that may be an over-ambitious route.
But I know, through it all, I also want to take some artsy fartsy snap shots, focusing on quality over quantity!


So, another cheers, for remaining inspired and seeing each and every day as its own special miracle.
I'd like to quietly cease my sloshing-over thoughts, for now, with another awesome quote I discovered. It will help me find those miracles in the tiniest of crevices, methinks.  

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.” 

- Charles R. Swindoll

xoxo

Here's to the Unknown!

     The New Year is just over that hill, past the lamp post, across the ocean, through the forrest, under the tundra, past the clouds and into the horizon. It's more like a,"Second star to the left and straight on 'til morning," sort of scene, except it isn't solely located in a child's imagination, and I don't have to fly to get there. All I have to do is live, and 2011 will come to me, if I want it to or not.


     Sondheim's lyrics ring true, for I am, "Excited and scared." Both those feeling seem to fit together as well as peanut butter and jelly.


     Bring on 2011. Bring the happiness, the love, the bliss, the energy, the exhilaration, the smiles, the lessons, the hope, the kisses, the encouragement, the friendships, the hard work and the accomplishments, regardless how small. This life is not one sided. Therefore, I do not beckon this new year without calling forth the heartache, the sorrow, the pain, the rejection, the confusion, the stressors, the frustration, the tears, the loneliness, the loss, the failure and the challenges that will surely touch my life in some way. Without any of the negative, it's easy to forget to be thankful for the positive. And if everything came easily, there would be no proof of truly being alive; everything would be pleasant and nothing would be real, raw emotion.

"Tragedies happen. So what are you gonna do, give up? Quit? No. I realized that when your heart breaks you gotta fight like hell to stay strong - and the pain you feel, that's life. The confusion and the fear - it's there to remind you that somewhere there's something better out there and that something is worth fighting for..." 

     2010 has been both inspiring and heart-breaking. All I can do is take both the good and the bad, and continue to move on...one step at a time.


Tegan and Sara's song, The Con, helped me realize, that I too, am, "Capsized, staring on the edge of safe."  2011 is the year of walking the plank and taking the plunge!
Ah well- here's to the unknown!