Good Morning Monday!

As I sip on my cup of coffee this morning, I'm trying to sort out what to do first! I have to say that in the last month I have learned a lot about what path I want to travel down. Some times in life it doesn't feel as though you have a choice what path to take but you do! That was the hardest thing to learn and to actually feel it inside that you have the choice to do any thing you want to do! I really try hard to not look at things half empty but lately in the last couple of years that was my outlook. Sad, but true! Should I feel bad about the choices I have made in the past...nope! That's just another reason to hold on to some thing negative and not give some thing positive a chance to form in my life. Now a days I feel as though people take life WAY TOO serious! The hassle of "life" is what I read on some one's profile over the weekend and I thought "Wow...at least you are a live..lol". The very next moment I thought "hey, wait a minute, I think I have actually said that before"! I felt as though I was having a conversation with myself??? LOL...don't call the crazy bus yet, I think there is still hope for me!

My path had a fork in the road just recently and I had to make several hard choices but in the end it always works out! Just remember that every path has rest stops and exit ramps. Just in case the person next to you read the map wrong..lol!

So, today I sit here at my work station and try to be thankful that I actually have a chance to create and make some flowers. I made a flower spray set late last night after everyone went to sleep. I kind of like making these. They give you several options how to use them. The sprays are great to put on a card as well. So if you break the set up you can get a few projects out of it. The set also allows you to spread out the flowers across a two page layout, if you want to use them that way. It's like a large spray that has been broken up. 

This set should be listed by this afternoon on my blog. I need to organize a page for items I want to sell on my blog. Trying to just sell my items on my blog instead going through a third party. It's another way to save money! That will also be on my "to do" list today as well ;)

I hope everyone has a creative Monday!

Keep trying until you get the results you want!

We all can walk right? Well, most of us can unless we have a disability. We are taught at a early age to walk and most of us are walking by the age "1". Some of us will start a little sooner and some a little later. The end result is that we are all walking because we were motivated to! If we were not motivated by someone and told to keep trying over and over, we would have never learned to walk. I'm here to tell you to WALK! Well, maybe I should say do not give up! You have to keep trying no matter how many times you fall. This can relate to our scrapping too! I would like to give you an example of how I am still learning how to WALK...lol.

I made this rose about year ago:

I thought these were cute but some thing kept telling me to keep trying.

Now almost a year later I make these using the same punch and technique:

I also want to talk with you about what "WALK" stands for here on my blog.

W= Willpower

A= Aggressiveness

L= Love

K= Kindness

When you are "WALKing" you first have to have "Willpower". You have to have the will to take your creativeness to the next level. If you don't have the willpower you will never be able to move a long to the next steps. The second step is Aggressiveness. You have to be aggressive towards what you want. You have to go and get it! Stop waiting for something to happen and or drop into your lap! The third step is "Love". You have to love what you do or it becomes a negative activity for you and you will not get very far with it! If you are not doing what you love the first two steps will soon disappear. The fourth is "Kindness". You have to be kind and give back. If you have ever heard of "give and you shall receive" well, that is very true. When you give, you are feeding a positive energy which is around you and in return positive things will be attracted to you . Then positive things will happen for you.

So, I hope you look at your scraps in a positive way today and "WALK".

Be sure to keep checking back on the blog all week. I will have a picture tutorial of one of my flowers and I will be challenging you this week too!

Motivational Scrap - Cleaning out the junk in your head!

Before I can teach how to create some of these beautiful flowers, we need to do some cleaning! I call it, cleaning out the junk in your head. We are all creatures of habit and we need to break some of the rules we have stored in our thinking process. The first thing is no negative thinking! I know you are saying to yourself that is easier said than done. That's right and we are going to start in small steps.

If you think you can't, you already failed! You can condition yourself to break the habit of "I can't do that". Stop thinking "I don't have the talent like she does" WRONG!! I have talent like everyone who believes that they can do this! Talent is just a positive outcome. Talent isn't somethng that only certain people have. Everyone has talent and we just have to learn how to unlock it!

The first step in cleaning out our junk, is to keep score. This is probably the only time I will have you focus on negative thoughts. Today I will need you to get a sheet paper and pen. Put it some where you can get to it easy. On this paper you will be keeping score of your thoughts BUT only the negative ones! Every time you have a negative thought I want you to put a mark. I DO NOT want you to write out the negative thought. The reason is the more we see negative the more we will find negative. So the marks are just marks and that is the only thing that should be on the paper. Do not write a title on the paper, do not have anything else but your marks. Keep this to yourself and don't let anyone know what you are doing. This is a private list only for you to see!  I want you to keep score for 5 days. Each day start a new sheet but keep all your old sheets.

You might be asking why I'm having you keep score. Our  minds are train to see what we want to see. If  I told you to look all around for only the color yellow in the room, you would find it. Now, I'm going to ask you to shut your eyes and when you do I will ask you to tell me what was red in the room. I bet you would have a hard time telling me what was red in the room. This goes back to the saying...if you think of positive things, positive things will happen to you. When we focus on negative thoughts our minds are trained to find the negative things around us, making us believe that we attract negative things to us. WE DO..LOL. because we told our mind to find them! We will focus on that some more on another day right now I need you to keep score!

Every time you think of words like this: can't, forever, never, will not, "Oh Boy", WHAT!, no, couldn't and the list goes on.... make a mark on your sheet. The first day you will probably be marking your sheet a lot. The goal here is that each day that passes you should be marking on your sheet less then the previous day. THAT'S OUR GOAL!

This is our first step to thinking positive. If we don't start training ourselves to think positive then we can not produce positive outcomes!