Grace, Love & Kindness + Life.

It's official that 2015 is live and active. As if we had an option. It's time to wake up and take back control of your LIFE . And it begins with your health. Because Healthy people, are happier. Their skin glows more, the hair shines more, and their smiles are bigger! Are all healthy people happy? Probably not, but the reason would be a whole other blog post. We're going with healthy habits! I understand many people within our metro area are doing the Daniel fast . (see here for details http://www.openbible.info/topics/the_daniel_fast  ) Which is AWESOME! I'd like to believe it would be a little different in the modern days here though.. we are such an active society, where we have 'fat skinny' people! I'm not blogging about a Daniel fast. It was just a paragraph. If you are doing one, I commend you! I however, am not . I am however on the Advocare 24 Day Challenge.  This year, I'm All-In as if I wasn't already? No.. I have been. T...

Today I take Day 1.... of a 'Do Over' Challenge. Yes, I realize this will be two challenges in one month I'm taking on. But you know what that means in English?  New challenges=Success at LIFE. Take THAT life. And why not. What is in your life you'd like a 'Do Over' with? I'm not taking ANY personal credit for this here, I'm merely excelling in my own Do Over and hoping others will follow with in persuing something they should have already done, or wished they could still. Jon Acuff http://acuff.me/  is pretty swell. I saw him live, speak first, and I lucked out for sure. Because now I'm reading his books too. Score One Jon.  I went to see Andy Andrews http://www.andyandrews.com/  whom I had seen before and KNEW was awesome.  But then just like God does, introduced me to Jon. He makes things fun. As does Andy. So now I have two favorites. Just so happens one of them has decided to challenge me... and thus where my blog...

Reading books strikes up the 'writer' in me. I like to believe I can write, I love to believe I'm creative. Reading my current book '8 reasons your life matters' -John Maxwell right now, I'm on the 5th reason. And it brought back some memories I'd care to share. Maybe you could relate. Being picked last . I'm going to take you back to my upbringing. And I'll wrap it all back into that simple sentence of 'Being picked last'. I grew up in Southern California. I was born in Oklahoma City, and quickly uprooted back to where my family originated in Indio, Calif. From here, we lived in an apartment for a good few years I recall. This is where I would hop the fence, go to the motel 8 just to get ice, because... well because we could. After here, we were homeless. I recall a good portion living out of the car. There were 3 of us. Mom, Heath and I. Heath was 4 years older than I. I don't know why... because after a month or so, we did...