ARE YOU feeling beautiful today?

Feeling beautiful is a personal choice women should feel empowered to make for themselves, every day.

According to a study conducted by Dove, 96% of women said they wouldn’t choose the word “beautiful” to describe themselves — although about 80% said there is something beautiful about them.

Ladies...begin to see yourself how God sees you! As you do, there will be a light in your eyes that not only brightens your life, but will serve as a lighthouse to all those around you. Thank you, Dove, for putting this short video together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DdM-4siaQw

Spirituality is so much more than going to church. Spirituality is a 'state' of the relationship you have with God. So how do you develop this in a world where the culture attempts to define your worth and beauty? 

For me, it is through self-reflection, personal prayer, and daily reading of the word of God. These things cause me to witness the perfect example and to reflect how God thinks/sees and how God  spent his life helping others to believe in themselves and know of their infinite worth.

My spirituality grows proportionately with my ability to see the world, but more importantly...myself...thru the same lens that God looks thru. This feeling of being a "spiritual" person seems to deepen as I learn about the Savior and focus on being more 'intentional' with my daily choices and what I allow to shape my lens. 

I can be my own worst enemy at times and the adversary knows this. If we allow him to destroy us mentally by planting untrue seeds in our mind that we are 'average...then we make his job easy. Stop watering those ungodly seeds! There is less need for the devil to even tempt us with sin if we take ourselves out of the game thru mental self-destruction. He wants us to think that we are just one out of 5 billion people and that we have 'disposable worth', meaning that if we disappeared...the world would hardly skip a beat. 

I want you to know that:

• YOU MATTER
• YOU HAVE INFINITE WORTH
• THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE WITH YOU IN IT AND...
• YOUR IMPACT CAN BE, AND IS, GREATER THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE. 

This is why you must develop your relationship with God and make it a focus to become a more spiritual person. As you do...you will find greater happiness because in this relationship...you will be reminded HOW SIGNIFICANT AND BEAUTIFUL YOU REALLY ARE!

"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."

 Proverbs 3:5-6

I hope you are feeling beautiful today. It is a choice. You decide what lens you will look thru!

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The Secret to Making Progress

The Secret to Making Progress:

The secret is realizing that life is not an elevator. It is a staircase where you progress step by step as you make the effort to climb. So why is it that you want quick and easy things as if you can go from the basement to the presidential suite in one overnight step?

In the business world, you may seek money and promotion...but with that additional responsibility comes a greater need to be able to handle a higher level of pressure, problems, conflict, criticism, and opposition that comes with it. So God has designed it that we move in steps. And each step we advance and then balance ourselves and prepare to move again. Sometimes life will offer you a blessing of taking a few steps in the same stride, but you may not ready because you still perceive yourself as being too far down the stairs or you have too much fear to take the leap. It is possible that our gifts and talents can sometimes take us places that our mind is not ready for, that our self-perception isn't ready for, and even that our character isn't ready for  

Stop putting so much pressure to go so fast. Although you think you want to take 10 steps with each stride, I have found I get more progress in life step by step...and as I am patient, humble, stop complaining, and an willing to do my part to make the effort and never give up...the Lord will guide you and give you the strength to rise up the stairs faster than you could have ever imagined. But first you imagine yourself getting to the top of the stairs and not envisioning yourself getting 1/2 up the stairs and falling back 4 steps. 

WARNING...If you get complacent on a step and run into a challenge then it can push you back enough that you fall backward in the wrong direction. However, if you are focused on progress, and keep trying each day, you will have forward momentum even if in the smallest way. During a difficult and overwhelming trial sometimes we you trip...but if you try daily and don't ever stand still on that step...that way....

In closing, if you find yourself, for whatever reason, feeling like you keep falling down the steps and life gives you blow after blow, heartache after heartache ...I hope this video gives the peace and hope to turn your circumstances into a beautiful heartbreak and never stop trying to taking that single step forward.

written by Dave Nabrotzky: mialisia designer, father, husband, friend, child of God, "step-taker"

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Dealing with Rejection is a Matter of Perspective

Dealing with Rejection is a Matter of Perspective

When it comes to dealing with rejection, it is all a matter of perspective. Perspective will get you far in life! In sales, I expect people to say yes. But when I get the "no's", I am reminded that I am that much closer to the next "yes"

Know the statistics of your business and industry. It is a numbers game. If the stats say that for every 100 nos the average person gets 6 to say yes. Then look at it like you need to go out and get the 100 nos in order to get the yes. With this perspective, a "no" is not as discouraging, it is motivating to know that you are that much closer to your goal. 

I love that pro baseball players understand the numbers game too but don't get discouraged. If a player goes to bat 10 times and strikes out 7 times...his batting average would be .300 and he would be making millions and millions even when he has to get 7 "nos" to get 3 to say "yes". 



When people say no...the key is not to take it personally. Women take it much more personal than guys do. I hope to change that thinking. Will you all help me change that? When I hear a "no"...I just hear a "not right now, but please try me later when I am more open minded" This perspective allows me to keep love in my heart which keeps a desire to serve them again in the future.

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