beYOUtiful

The last 3 years I have tried to think of a way that will inspire, motivate me and not have your typical New Years resolutions. I've shared on this blog what I have done previously (re-SOLUTIONS HOPE ) and this year I had another idea. I shared it with my family last week and decided to post it. As I have said before, I seem to think my ideas if I make it public and need to be held a little more accountable. This year is no exception and I thought the idea was good, but I already know I will have a difficult time applying it. If any of you can help me - I would really appreciate it. So below are my notes that I used and wrote so I could have a hard/concrete copy of the ideas that came to me. Beware that most of my ideas are very corny, but that is kinda how my mind works. So read below if you so desire...

In the past 2 years I’ve given the first message of the year because I try to think of a new/different way to have a new perspective on the new year and have new goals and re-solutions.

1-1-11 started out this year.

We are only ONE (1) person. We will only BE that ONE for this year and for all eternity.

today is 1-23-11 ha ha, so 123 let’s go....

I had this picture displayed:

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define: beautiful

–adjective (in dictionary on the internet)

1. having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind:

2. excellent of its kind:

3. wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying.

I had this idea come to me awhile ago, a different way to spell beautiful

beYOUtiful

Have YOU ever realized that YOU are the only person that is with YOU 24/7. “This is YOUr time.”

YOU can't BE YOUrself if YOU don't know, understand, and accept YOUrself first. Try to take time to YOUrself and contemplate YOUr life and choices.

Try to think about what kind of things YOU would or wouldn't like to do, and act accordingly;

Decide what YOU must change in YOUr BEhavior to align YOUr life more closely to what YOU BElieve.

BE conscious every day of the decisions YOU make, however big or small, and how close they bring YOU to BEing the person YOU really want to BEcome.

BEing YOU will BE an eternal quest. YOU are the only ONE that can change or BE come YOU!

Sometimes it takes others to help us BEcome what we want to BE.

I couldn’t BE a grandma til I had grandkids.

Janelle needs others to practice giving IV’s so she can BEcome a nurse.

Trev can’t BE a paramedic without someone is distress.

Cort needs someone to need his services to BEcome a graphic artist.

etc....

parent - child

student - teachers

We aren’t always alone. Do YOU like YOU when YOUr with others? Do they help YOU BEcome who YOU want to BE.

We’ve heard the saying “Live Life to the FULLEST”

I dissected the word: beYOUtiful - starts with BE and ends with FUL

BE FULL

What do we want life to BE full of?

Love, success, happiness, family, gospel....

continue to dissection, the middle is - YOU t I, the t looks like a + sign so now it BEcomes:

YOU+I

who could YOU + I represent?

YOU & God, YOU & spouse, YOU & friends. Are YOUr relationships helping YOU beYOUtiful?

Only thing YOU can’t change about YOU - YOU are a child of GOD!

With God all things are possible.

This year I want to encourage YOU to BEcome who YOU want to BE. Discover YOU, find YOUrself and BE true to YOUrself.

Often we we say the word BUT and it keeps us from becoming what we want to be.

“I could...BUT...”

So every time YOU catch YOUrself saying BUT, say the letters individually - B U T =

beauty or beYOUty. So every time YOU find YOUrself saying or thinking BUT let that remind you to stop and focus on BEing YOU, living up to YOUr potential and making YOUr dreams come true!

I then gave them all some vinyl lettering of to put on a mirror, wall, to remind them and a paper with the following quotes. (Cort designed the graphics for the vinyl, thanks bud! check him out here)

YOU BEcome what YOU want to BE

by BEing what YOU want to BEcome.

If YOU can imagine it, YOU can achieve it.

If YOU can dream it, YOU can BEcome it.”

William A. Ward

“If YOU want to BE happy, BE.” Leo Tolstoy

Life is YOUr canvas. No one can paint it but YOU. BE YOUrself.

Delight in YOUr YOUth.

(We are all YOUng - it’s all relative. We are all aging at the same pace. One day at a time.)

“BE YOUrself - everyone else is taken.”

“BE true to YOUrself.”

YOU are a child of God.

“The future BElongs to those who BElieve

in the BEauty (BEYOUty) of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt

This is YOUr life. It is YOUr one time to BE YOU.

Experience every good thing.

(adapted form Maya Angelou quote: “This is my life. It is my one time to BE me. I want to experience every good thing.”)

So now is the hard part - taking my own advice and deciding what, who, how I am, to BE ME - my youngest turned 18 last week so I guess all my kids are legally adults now and they need to BE THEM and make their own decisions and be accountable for them. I definitely have hit a milestone and now is the time to learn from my past and make the future BE FULL and the making the most of the YOU + I relationships in my life.

A friend gave me this advice a few weeks ago: "Everything depends on everything reoccurring until we answer from within. The thousandth time may prove the charm."

I've decided that to beYOUtiful for me, I'm going to have to start to answer from within.