Happy Faces

Happy Faces, People!!! ....They aren't just for kids

Happiness ....can be INTENTIONAL.

I'm standing in my quiet kitchen.

Quietly thinking about my day.

Saying my affirmations to myself....
(I am calm. I am kind. I am confident. I am intentional...)

Listening to...silence.

Breathing deeply... and just BEING.

And then of course ...

eating my healthy and cheerful breakfast!!!
(Steel cut oats + coconut + coconut milk+ happy strawberries)

My friends....

Take a quiet moment today to

stop.
smile.
breathe.
be grateful.

And set your intentions on happiness.

My Oatmeal is happy.... Let's all be Happy today 

Happy Saturday!

XOXO,

Missy
💙issy

Dreams Come True By...

Fill in the BLANK..... "Dreams come TRUE BY................"

Want to know MY answer?!!

Dreams come TRUE by .....

BEING INTENTIONAL.

If you want the life of your DREAMS....

You have to GO AFTER IT.

EVERY DAY!!!

Nothing changes in your life...without ACTION.

Every morning I create an "Action List"

What ACTIONS do I need to take to move me closer to my goals?!

To improve from my SKILLS?

To build relationships with God and those I LOVE?

To build a Successful Buisness??

To Live a life of Purpose??

Action Steps.

Often..small ones.

After all .... "Rome wasn't built in a day"

Right?!!

Want to change something?!?

Make an ACTION LIST!

And DO something ON IT!!

Pretty soon ..,you'll be making progress
Faster than you ever imagined.

And the Dream life that once seemed IMPOSSIBLE.... Will become a REALITY.

Because YOU ...took ACTION.

What are some of my ACTION steps?!!

💜Daily Silence/prayer/meditation
💜Daily workout
💜Daily healthy eating
💜Daily intentional affection for my family and friends
💜Daily reading of personal development
💜Daily self evaluation of needed action steps.
💜Sleep

REPEAT.

What are YOUR daily ACTION steps??

Clean & Crunchy Tuna Salad

****Clean and Crunchy*****

Yes Please!!

My kids LOVE Tuna!!!

But mayonnaise?!? 

Soooo... swap it!!!

For GREEK YOGURT!!

Seriously!!! They'll never know!!

So good!!!

Clean and Crunchy Tuna Salad

1 can tuna in water...drained
1 celery stalk chopped
1/4 onion chopped
1/4 tsp onion powder
Sea salt and pepper

I eat mine open face!!!!

My bread of choice ?!
Daves killer "Good seed Bread"

Add cucumbers on the side!?!

Clean...Green..and crunchy 💙

Who wants Tuna for lunch?!?

Mom Sanity Saver Tip

*****Mom Sanity Saver Tip!!!****

1. Citrus is your friend!!!
Slice an entire orange or lemon and add it to your water in the late afternoon!!!

Natural energy ✅

Mood booster✅

Vitamin C boost for your immunity ✅

makes getting your water in pretty and tasty with minimal added calories✅

2. Take 5 minutes to go outside and watch the sunset.

Breathe in the light....breathe out any of the accumulated stress of the day.

Consciously let it fill up your soul with calm....

Before you head back in the house to battle dinner..baths ...and bed ...

Unless of course your children are always calm and rational at bedtime....

Then...well ....my hat's off to you...
You can borrow some of mine 👬👭

Taking a little time for ME....makes me the best Mama I can be!!!

Breathe In, Breathe Out

Breathe Blue skies in ....breathe Grey skies out...

I was lying in bed this morning ...

And I felt distinct LACK of anxiety.

Weird.

Most days I wake up with anxiety.

It's normal for me and I have learned to breathe and talk myself into getting up and moving with affirmations...prayer.. listening to personal development ...

Then following that with healthy habits of breakfast, exercise, and sticking to a to do list..

Today I had no anxiety.

I thought "why is that God?!?"

I think it's because I focused ALL weekend on this one thing...

Choice.

A choice to deliberately recognize what I thinking.

If my thoughts were good....I focused them and affirmed them to myself.

For example "missy do you notice you are feeling happy". Or "missy do you notice you are feeling loved!"

Then I could confirm that I was in fact TRUELY feeling those things. And then I could thank God for them.

Now the flip side....

All weekend when I had a negative thought...

Instead of punishing myself by thinking "missy .. You're so dumb why do you think negative thoughts"

I acknowledged them!!!

For example: "missy!! Your house is messy and that's making you anxious!"

Or "missy your kids are acting out and that's making you feel inadequate "

Then you can keep your negative emotion at arms length and say ...

Is it TRUE?!! Is it HELPFUL?!!

Do I choose to walk through that "cloud of emotion"

To my SHOCK ....I was able to rationally disengage from negative thinking!

MIND EXPLOSION!

It's called ACT therapy.

Audiobooks are my therapist😂...
And I'm reading this book called The Confidence Gap by Russ Harris

It's changing everything I thought about ....my thoughts!!!

Today I woke up with ZERO anxiety?!!

Why?!?

Because I feel in control of my emotions!?!?

Oh my gosh I think my life just turned on its head!!

Last example:

My alarm went off and I thought "you're going to feel anxious because you have a lot to do today and you're tired"

Then I stopped... And I chose

No...actually I'm not. Actually. I don't FEEL anxious. I'm in total control of this feeling and I choose to get up and feel calm and free.

And I did.

Today is Monday. Blue skies in..Grey skies out.

Gold Digger

There are always plenty of people who will choose to find what's WRONG with people.

To point fingers...dig up dirt... Be unkind.

But this I know....

When you choose to see the glittering treasure of possibility in everyone...

Like our Savior sees in YOU.....

Your life will glitter like GOLD.

There is light and darkness.....everywhere.

Let's bring out the light in others...instead of burying them in dirt!

Everyone is "dirty"...flawed... and broken

But they are also precious beyond measure...

Be a GOLD Digger!!
Even if it's the tiniest sparkle at first....

Choose ...to Find the gold!!

XOXO,

Missy