July 12, 2011   99 notes
mth2011: I posted this quote above a few months ago and it has been re-blogged almost 5000 times since.  There is a reason.  This quote is pure truth.  I say this to myself almost daily.  A year from now, you will wish you had started today.  Things I am so glad I started a year ago:  grabbing life by the horns, blogging consistently, owning challenges, and - among a million things - I’m so grateful I started leaning on God to guide me through so many transitions when I felt overwhelmed x infinity.  In the last year, I’ve learned more from my “failures” than anything.  I would not trade them for the world.  Risk is worth it.  Trying something new is worth it.  You just never know when simply starting something will change your life forever.   It was just a year and a half ago that this whole Making Things Happen journey started!  What if I never hit publish?  What if I never took that giant risk to plan the first 13 city tour?  What if I never got to Watercolor for the first workshop and never met Gina or Emily?  God is awesome.  A crazy idea took me to making an outline, writing a blog post that I was petrified to publish (seriously, I had about a dozen people read over it and almost deleted it twice) and then getting such a strong response that I decided to get out of my office and show people how to make things happen.  27 cities later and almost 500 alum, I’m so glad I did something about that crazy little idea in my head.  Sometimes, planting the tiniest seeds can lead to the biggest successes.  Plant those seeds deep today.  Plant what matters.  Do not take no for an answer.  Give yourself permission to risk.  You hold the reins on your life and you can choose to really live it OR…  don’t even think of the alternatives.  Anything other than using your full potential, loving deeply, giving fully, making mistakes and finding joy in the journey through them, doing the hard thing - that thing you’ve been fearing but you know you need to just do - anything other than what’s at your core is just not worth it.  Do. Not. Settle.  You were created for greatness.  Period. Do you really think you were put on this earth just to “get by”?  No way.   So, what are you starting today?  Don’t just think about it.  Tell me.  Then, do something about it.  - Lara

mth2011:

I posted this quote above a few months ago and it has been re-blogged almost 5000 times since.  There is a reason.  This quote is pure truth.  I say this to myself almost daily.  A year from now, you will wish you had started today.  Things I am so glad I started a year ago:  grabbing life by the horns, blogging consistently, owning challenges, and - among a million things - I’m so grateful I started leaning on God to guide me through so many transitions when I felt overwhelmed x infinity.  In the last year, I’ve learned more from my “failures” than anything.  I would not trade them for the world.  Risk is worth it.  Trying something new is worth it.  You just never know when simply starting something will change your life forever.   It was just a year and a half ago that this whole Making Things Happen journey started!  What if I never hit publish?  What if I never took that giant risk to plan the first 13 city tour?  What if I never got to Watercolor for the first workshop and never met Gina or Emily?  God is awesome.  A crazy idea took me to making an outline, writing a blog post that I was petrified to publish (seriously, I had about a dozen people read over it and almost deleted it twice) and then getting such a strong response that I decided to get out of my office and show people how to make things happen.  27 cities later and almost 500 alum, I’m so glad I did something about that crazy little idea in my head.  Sometimes, planting the tiniest seeds can lead to the biggest successes.  Plant those seeds deep today.  Plant what matters.  Do not take no for an answer.  Give yourself permission to risk.  You hold the reins on your life and you can choose to really live it OR…  don’t even think of the alternatives.  Anything other than using your full potential, loving deeply, giving fully, making mistakes and finding joy in the journey through them, doing the hard thing - that thing you’ve been fearing but you know you need to just do - anything other than what’s at your core is just not worth it.  Do. Not. Settle.  You were created for greatness.  Period. Do you really think you were put on this earth just to “get by”?  No way.   So, what are you starting today?  Don’t just think about it.  Tell me.  Then, do something about it.  - Lara

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