Your Time Is Now

"One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted" 

DO IT NOW!!

I came across this quote just the other day and it's true. There are so many things that we all want to do but we end up putting it in the back of our minds and most of the time forget about it completely and never really achieve what we want to do.

It's time for change, your time is NOW!

What better time than now to start doing the things we wish we had started, the things we forgot about, the things that could better ourselves and the ones around us. Lately I have been complaining how my life doesn't seem to be getting better and all I do is the same things, go to work then home and repeat. That's all I seem to be doing with of course going to church on Sunday's.

I can't get a better life for myself, I can't have the life I want to be living if I don't make changes in my life which will help in get that life. That's why as you can tell I am starting up my blog that I completely forgot about as my last post was from 2 years ago. I have made a decision to start up my blog again so I can have something new and different in my life to help mix things up and over time change more and more things in my life or add in new adventures until I do have the life I want to be living.

- Courtney 

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas

This year for Christmas I wanted to do something different, something that showed a little more love and care that I have for the ones I love. The best idea I had was to be creative and do DIY presents. making these presents has been fun and exciting, as well as a good money saver in the long run. because I don't feel the spirit of Christmas when we are spending $500-$1,000 just on presents. especially when the person may not even like it or need it.

I have already completed my Sister's and Brother's present, in the progress of finishing my parents. Now I did not think of all the ideas by myself, I have looked all over the Internet DIY google images, using pinterest and also instagram. If you ever have thought about doing something creative as a gift I definitely support it all the way!!! 

- Courtney  

Courage

Have you ever been reading something at random and there is a little passage in it that seems to be speaking out to you or that is answers a situation that is going on in your life at that time? well that happened to me last night, I was reading the Ensign (LDS magazine) and I was looking through it and as I stopped and read something President Thomas S. Monson said in the April conference this year I couldn't stop but think about the words.

"In order for us to make the correct decisions, courage is needed-- the courage to say no when we should, the courage to say yes when that is appropriate, the courage to do the right thing because it is right..... Inner courage also includes doing the right thing even though we may be afraid, defending our beliefs at the risk of being ridiculed and maintaining those beliefs even when threatened with loss of friends or of social status..... As we move forward, striving to live as we should, we will surely receive help from The Lord and can find comfort in his words"

I think sometimes it is easy to say that when the time comes you will say the correct thing no matter what the outcome may be but will it? and yes there are times were it is easy because from the very start you have made the decision to do a certain action ie a friend offers you a smoke, I would find that easy to decline but there are also harder things to decide. I have found myself lately questioning myself and if I should do a certain thing and the reason why things have stopped me is because of what others might think of me not what the Lord would think of me.

We should never fear men we should only fear God!!

- Courtney

Stepping up

After 7-8 months of working at Thaspa as one of the Beauty Therapist, I can say that I have found where I am meant to be. I love it there and the girls and clients (well most of them) are lovely. I can see myself being there for years now its just a case of learning and growing as a therapist and an individual.

in saying that this also means I have got a letter from Centrelink stating that I am no longer on New Start Allowance as I have reported  12 weeks and continuing income over the allowance limit!! I have been waiting for this day for so long. No longer do I need to report, no longer do I need to be job searching 10 jobs a fortnight!! no longer do I need to worry about doing something wrong by them and getting my payments cut. I am set. I it is time to work out what is going to happen with Joshua so he can also get off Centrelink!!

- Courtney

Success in 2014

Today is the 22nd day in the first month of the year and I have already accomplished a few of my new years resolutions and I have made process in my career. 

I have gained my full licence!! I can finally relax and not worry about doing any more tests to get to the next level in driving, I am at the top level nothing but clear skies from here.

I am finally putting together a workout routine for the gym so I will be more focus and will be going there more often. Mondays I will be training my arms/chest/back Tuesday-Wednesday Cardio Thursday-Friday I am still working out if I will be going because of work and Saturday Legs. Now that is just the basic structure of it I must mix it up or do more than one thing I day depending on how I am feeling as there are a lot of classes I can take and I want to try them all and work out which ones I like the most and which ones I do not like at all and mix them up in my routine.

the biggest news of this post. I am moving up in my job!! I had a chat with work today and found out that one of the other girls is leaving us to go off and do her own thing and because of that they need someone to fill her extra hours and they will bring someone else in and take my old hours. This couldn't of come at a better time with us moving out and any extra money is always welcome. Also they want to give my more responsibility at work which is awesome!! be nice being the new girl anymore.

- Courtney

Trying To Keep The Peace

So recently it seems that I have been having some issues with certain people in my life and who they are to me I cant just kick them out of my life. I have tried to talk things through with them and trying to get them to see it from my point of view and how they are making me feel but they either just shrug it off, take it too personally or say that its none of my business and to stay out of it. I know that with some of it they really don't know they are doing it but it still hurts. So I just keep it inside now and let them be. 

I know I shouldn't be keeping it inside but I am not completely I do tell my husband what happens and he can see it too so we have each other to work things out and calm me down.

Do you have someone in your life that even though you cannot stand them you have to keep them in your life... Mother, Sibling, Father, Teacher, Colleague or even your Boss? What do you do to help you get through it or have you just declared that they are dead to you?

I have gotten to the point of looking on the Internet for help. I have found some tips

1. forgot the past - take it one day at a time but forgot the past and all they have done. 

2. Laugh it off - Rise above the petty arguments and the unloving comments don't take the advice or nitpicking too seriously, in they eyes they think they know what's best for you.

3. keep it short and sweet - you don't have to spend a lot of time with them especially if you don't need too. plan your day, plan what you are going to say so then it comes time to talk to them that you can say what needs to be said and then say you need to go with insert important event that can only be done that day, don't just leave.

4. Remember its not always you -  The reasons to why the person is acting the way they do to you may not be your fault at all, it could be something that they are going through and the only way they can cope may seem rude on the outside to you but really on the inside they are hurting more then you will ever know.

Keep these things in mind when you are faced with someone or a group of people that just don't seem to be giving you a break!

- Courtney

Hello 2014

LET THE YEAR BEGIN!!

So have you made your new years resolutions yet? and if not are you? I have made my list and I have put it up in my room. Some things I have put down are going to be easy I just need to start and then there are others that will take more time and hard work put into it for it to happen.

How is the first day of 2014 going for you? I am loving it!! I am so thankful for everything. I am alive, I have a loving husband with friends and family I can also share my life with. I am turning 24 years old this year, a little scary but also exciting.I have booked my full licence test, I am looking to get my career to where I want it to be.

There are so many things the new year will bring and I cannot wait for it to all unfold before me!

- Courtney