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New Bloggin Adventure

I started a new blog... surprised? Yeah me neither.

This new project is based on my love for adventure and trying new things. I think that life too often tends to get too hectic, stressfull, crazy and even dull but, if we are constantly getting out there in search of adventure we may find that we spend less of our lives in these sorts of moods.

I want to live my life in bliss.

So come check out my blog GIVE IT A GO and let's give life a go.

Neverland

Fly away to Neverland

Maybe we'll never land

Just take my shaking hand

I'm Starting a New Adventuuurrreee!!!

Guess what! I'm starting an Adventure.

Yes, I did move into my new apartment in a new place with new people, that is an adventure but not the one I'm talking about.

I going to write a full -fledged novel in a month... "full-fledged" as in 50,000 words. Impossible, you say? False, people have actually completed this insane task and I'm about to too.

I have to write about 1,600 words a day and if I don't I give you full permission to ridicule me like no other until the end of time.

So, here I go... as you can tell, I already have bags under my eyes but you cant miss the enthusiasm on my face and that, my friends, is what counts.

Create Bold New Paths

Todays Focus: BE BOLD & CREATE NEW PATHS

There have been times in my life where it was easy to be bold, those times happened when I knew without a doubt what I was standing for. When our confidence in life waivers I find it's harder to find that courage to be bold.

This summer I had the most amazing opportunity to work as an EFY counselor. EFY is a youth camp for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Youth ages 14 to 18 come for a week to be spiritually uplifted, strengthen their testimony of the gospel, meet kids who are striving for the same things in life, and realize that living the gospel is cool. I went to EFY every summer from when I was 14 to 17 and had "Being a Counselor" on the top of my bucket list.

Going into my first week as a counselor, no matter how much I had looked forward to the opportunity, I was terrified. I was scared that my kids wouldn't like me, that I would say the wrong things, that I wouldn't click with anyone, or that I down right wouldn't be able do it. But, the Lord prepares us for the tasks that are put in front of us, I know that without a doubt. The second I walked on to campus, terrified and all, I knew that was where I needed to be.

The next month flew by, I cannot think of a time in my life where I learned so much. I learned what it really meant to love, and love everyone. I learned how to rely completely on our Heavenly Father and to do and say the things we are prompted to. And, I learned that with His help, I can do hard things!

I was bold.

Since then, it's been back to the real world. Real worries, cares, concerns instantly found their way into my mind. I am a college graduate without a plan in the world and this scares me. I don't know exactly where I need to be or what I need to be doing, none of the plans or ideas have given me that "Ahah" moment.

But I realized that maybe that moment wont come until I legitimately take that step in the dark or that leap off a cliff. I realize I need to move.

Literally.

So I'm being bold and creating a new path for myself... by moving to Utah next week. I know, I know. Utah is never somewhere I thought I would be going. Paris, Venice, Bangladesh sound more like it but this is a means to an end.

Heres the plan: Fly into Utah on Tuesday, Stay with aunt and uncle until the 1st, Rock my second interview with this job I really want in SLC (while using public transportation due to not having a car...yet), Move into my new apartment in Provo, Become the best of buds with my new roomies, If I get the job I'll do a happy dance and eat tons of ice cream, If I don't get the job I'll skip the happy dance and eat tons of ice cream anyways... and then job hunt in Provo, Save up mucho bucks, Either buy a car/move into SLC/or travel to unknown lands.

And there you have it. Wish me luck!

come to the edge

Come to the edge. 

We might fall. 

Come to the edge. 

It's too high.

Come to the edge.

And they came, 

And he pushed,

And they flew. 

-Guillaume Apollinaire

my life in bullet points...

I haven't posted in months, so here's to making a long story short. 

• My last full semester of college was good, aside from a huge case of senioritis. 

• In April the time had finally come for me to graduate from Brigham Young University-Hawaii. My amazing fam-bam got to visit and we gallivanted around the island in search of adventure. 

• We found it, in the form of a plane that Chase, Logan, and I jumped out of! By far, one of the most wonderful moments of my life. Check for the Bucket List.

• I stayed a few more months to finish up 3 of the most exhausting classes of my life (aside from Anthropology, I quite liked that one). 

• My dear lovely wonderful roommate Taylor got married to the love of her life, Grant, so me and the girls made a pit stop in San Diego, on the way home, for their reception. 

• I got to be home for a week before my next adventure began... EFY

• I spent an entire month bearing my testimony, dancing my heart out, praying like mad, and enjoying the company of some of the dearest spirits on earth. By far the BEST job I have ever had. 

• After EFY I spent another week in Utah visiting lots and lots of family. 

• Brittany, one of my absolute best friends from high school got married this summer as well. Her and David are so perfect for each other it's beyond words. (Pics to come).

• Now I'm home, prepping to hopefully move to Utah within the next week or so and start my next adventure. 

safe haven

Dont tell me you can listen to this song and not want to dance.

A few weeks ago I went and saw the new nicholas Sparks movie, Safe Haven

(see trailer below)

and they danced around the room to this song and my heart melted. 

Love love love.

it'll be by your side

I [heart] OneRepublic

dream big

A few days ago I was thinking about the prompt: DREAM BIG

So, I'm a huge planner/goal setter. Not saying that I am good at sticking with them. No. But I love the feeling of having something to work towards.

A few semesters back I was re-reading The Secret and The Success Principles and I decided to make a Dream Box. Inside I put pictures of things that I wanted to have, do, or be. I have pictures in there of everything from a pair of TOMS to a a gondola in Venice.I even have trinkets of things like business cards and foreign coins that remind me of things I want as well.

 

I hadn't looked in that dream box for quite a while and I was only reminded of it once I read that days prompt. So I decided to open it up and have a look. A few things had actually come into my life, which I thought was really cool but the best part was that I had forgotten I had put $30 in there to remind me even when situations might be dire financially, things always work out. You don't know how much I needed that $30. What a blessing. 

What I gained from this is that, dreaming big doesn't have to be elaborate. Even our small dreams have a way of making life wonderful. So don't forget to make goals and dreams, you'll never know when you'll need them.