Life's Lessons of Efforts

I'm gonna start off with the fact that I have learned,
that sometimes the best therapy
(although often thought to be any form of chocolate )
may just indeed be letting tears roll down your face,
no wiping them away with you hands or tissues.
Just let them roll on down, splattering where they fall.
It's good stuff.

President David O. McKay once said,

"Wisdom comes through effort. All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power and your soul power—'Ask, and it shall be given you seek, and ye shall find knock, and it shall be opened unto you:' (Matt. 7:7.) But you have to seek, you have to knock. On the other hand, sin thrusts itself upon you. It walks beside you, it tempts you, it entices, it allures. You do not have to put forth effort. It is like the poor, fallen woman who lies in wait to deceive. It is like the billboard advertising attracting you to drink and to smoke. It is like the message that comes into your very homes with the television and radio or the golden packet put right into your hand. Evil seeks you, and it requires effort and fortitude to combat it. But truth and wisdom are gained only by seeking, by prayer, and by effort."

I've realized this more and more in the past few months.

And so I've resolved to put more effort in.

More effort into being confident from the inside out,

the right source.

More effort into my scripture study and learning.

More effort into my prayers and the relationship they are building.

More effort into things I enjoy, like reading Harry Potter.

More effort into friendships.

More effort into people.

More effort into trying to ask for things, being humble.

(In a CES fireside called Coming to Know given by Sister Rosemary Wixon in Logan last year, she said, "There is something very humbling about asking. Asking is an act of faith.)

More effort into talking to people about myself...

... my feelings, my struggles, my frustrations, my joys.

More effort to not mess with the man in between:

(p.s. the video is kinda WEIRD,

but this is my favorite version of the song)

And more effort to be more than I are:

More effort to dream:

And what I've already experienced has been exciting!

What are you going to put more effort into?

The Butterfly Circus

Um, so. There's this video. It's apparently been up on youtube since October and after watching it I can really only say,

1. Why has no one showed me this before because it's AMAZING?!?!

2. THANK YOU! To Aleisha for posting it on your cute blog,

3. Watch it. It's 22 minutes or so but it is a fantastic use of them,

and

4. You should be warned, tears escaped my eyes multiple times.

I just love it.

I want to be like Mr. Mendez,

Always able to see people's worth.

Help them to see it again too.

Show that they can get through anything.

Show myself that same thing.

Because we are all Divine,

and we all have something to offer the world,

whether others, or even ourselves, see it right away or not.

The Next Curie, Noether, or Meitner

This was posted on Facebook today and I kind of liked it:

"You don't become great by trying to be great.

You become great by wanting to do something,

and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process."

Love that part.

Don't try to be the "next great" (they are indeed greats)

Be you, by finding something you love, and doing it.

In my dreams . . .

I have a lot of thoughts in my head right now

I also don't think they will all be coming out
However I did just read another blog
that I want to share a story from.

"As we stopped off the side of the road to take some scenic pictures the next day, another car had parked 50 feet or so away from us. Two men got out of the car and began unloading their road biking gear. As we looked around at the scenery, I turned around in time to see the two men on their bikes begin climbing the fairly steep road up the canyon. I smiled and called out, "you're braver souls than I!"
One biker man smiled and called back out,
still pedaling, "You could do it too!"

I snorted and countered, "Yeah right! In my dreams."

Then the biker, almost out of earshot, called out without looking back,
"So dream!""

now granted not all of us WANT to ride a bike up a hill
but how many things that we might want to try
that there's an inkling of desire to experience
do you we say, "only in my dreams" to?

I vote we all take this advice and Dream.