Month: February 2017

You are HERE.

Do you KNOW how many souls are YEARNING for JUST ONE MORE DAY & won’t get it??

You’re standing here NOW.

You’re breathing here NOW.

If YOU have the ability to wrap your arms around the people you love today. Then, DO IT.

Use your lips to kiss & your voice to sing & for goodness sake…. JUMP, RUN, DANCE!!!

YOU. Yes, you. You better be living the BEST VERSION possible of your life NOW!!

Not just because others CAN’T.

But, truly, because YOU CAN.

I can’t help but think about Nick‘s last months on the face of this planet. At 25 years old, there were days he was confined to a hospital bed.

At 26 years old, he could no longer lift his wife & swing her around like he used to.

And, at 27 years old, he stopped being able to talk to his baby girl, to hold her, to kiss her…

If that doesn’t convince you to get your butt moving, I don’t know what will.

Sometimes I have days where my desire to LIVE is so great! Even when life is not so great.

It BURNS through me and I like to think it’s Nick reminding me what truly matters. I have life. I have breath.

I am grateful.
& I will make it COUNT. 💕✨❤✌🏼✨

#onelifetolive #makeitbetter #makeitbrave #madeforbrave #lovemattersmost#prolove

True Love

True love pulls you in & holds you close, “Baby, I’ll never let you go.”

True love tells you “I’m here to stay” & “I’ll follow wherever you go.”

True love lasts long past the hour that all the lights went out.

It sounds a lot more like a whisper than it sounds like a shout.

 

True love treasures promises like it treasures gold.

True love doesn’t abandon ship because of “fat,” “ugly,” “old.”

True love latches on when darkness sets in.

True love says, “You don’t ever have to be alone again.”

 

You were right. & I was wrong.

You’re my life. You’re my song. <3

#truelove #findit #keepit

 

What I Want My Daughter to Know

What do I want my daughter to know when she grows up?

I want her to know that she CAN do hard things, that she was MADE FOR BRAVE. 💪🏼

I want her to respect what her body can do; to TAKE CARE of that body because she CAN & not because she has to. 💕

I want her to KNOW deep down in her soul that she is LOVED & that “BEING LOVED BY GOD” is the only thing that TRULY defines her. 🙏🏼

I want her to SEE her momma & all she’s been through & know that she is CAPABLE of thriving instead of just surviving even the worst of storms. ☔️

I KNOW that Courage. Faith. Hope. &&& most of all… LOVE. will ALWAYS be hers.

I only PRAY that she KNOWS it & NEVER EVER FORGETS. ❤

(And, to each & every Momma reading this: I pray you know the same things about you, too. Courage, faith, hope & love are yours. You just have to remember to use them! 😘)

#mommydaughter #myhopesforher #wifeandwidow #loveafterloss #parenting

A Job with PURPOSE (AND, it’s paying my bills?!)

LOOKING back at my post from December &&& STANDING IN AWE!!

$1,200 made in DECEMBER…

$1,700 made in January… a 45% RAISE?! HOLLAH!!

Here is what I posted back in December… Working on a post for January! CANT WAIT to tell y’all what we did with January’s income!!

Dogs are EXPENSIVE!!!

Even ones as TINY as this!! 😮

This little girl is SUCH a sweetheart!!! 💕She was my grandfather’s pup & we knew she needed a stable place to stay. Grandpa was so sick and we wanted him to know she was being ❤ WELL LOVED. ❤ Now that grandpa’s passed… this little pup has still been with us & she’s come with quite a few BILLS. EEP!! 

It turned out that….

👉🏼vet bills
👉🏼immunizations
👉🏼haircuts
👉🏼toenail clips
👉🏼appropriate attire

(😂 Did I just say “appropriate attire” about a dog?! 😂🤗 Well, its true with this one.)

All that ended up up totaling well over $600!!! 😱

AND, Austyn’s ADOPTION?? It costed: SAMEZIES. $600 after all was said and done. 🙆🏼

That’s over $1,200 of ADDED EXPENSES, to an already SUPER EXPENSIVE holiday season. 🎄

Normally, that would make things a little:

➡️ TIGHT. ⬅️

BUT… we just got our LAST PAYCHECK for the last week of December…. The one that comes from my COACHING business.

I re-did my math for the month;

And… HOLLA!!! 💁🏼

Wouldn’t you know it?! We made an extra $1,200 almost EXACTLY.

I would do my job for FREE (no joke)…🤗

but SOMEHOW I get paid to do this…..

… and THOSE PAYCHECKS allowed us to do TWO things for our family that were plain just the RIGHT THING TO DO. ❤

I LOVE helping people & I LOVE my family.

I’m stinking stoked that I get to do both on the SUPER REGULAR!! 😍😍😍

And, I get to do it, with this sweet little teddy-bear-lookin SIDEKICK. 🐶

I’m not telling ya all this to brag, but because I’m so excited to be mentoring OTHERS to build their businesses too.

And, an extra $1,200 for my family made ALL THE DIFFERENCE for us at the end of 2016. 🎉

#21daystofitwithalyssa #heeeeybuddy#loveyourselfchallenge #mindbodyandsoul

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