Know That You've Already Won

     When you see an advertisement saying that you may have already won a jackpot, your body becomes activated with excitement.  Yet such words are true:  You have already won!
     Every prize imaginable in this life is yours, so there's no need for you to search any longer.  You're already the winner, and you claim your prizes through affirmative thinking and positive emotions.  Imagine what it feels like to swim in a sea of your manifested desires.  Retain that sensation, along with your gratitude, and it shall be done.
     You're a winner through and through.  The more you know this fact, the more you live it.

Doreen Virtue

My Holiday Letter

Dear my friends and family,

Whew!  What a hectic year this has been...  I will be honest in saying, I will be one happy girl to put 2010 behind me.  Although, I am leaving it with a feeling of gratitude for all the good things that came out of it.  For every trial, a lesson is learned and more is gained.    I will always consider 2010 my "strength" year.  Wow, it makes me tear up to even write that.

I stand in continued awe of the love around me and all that I have.  Every single one of you have contributed to this beautiful life I live and I am forever grateful to call you my friends and family.

I also wanted to stand in gratitude for all my dears who have made it successfully through their health issues this year.  I assure you, you are amazing people and I hold you up to the light everyday.

My children are blossoming at full speed and changing as rapidly as the days pass.  I sometimes find myself just staring in amazement at the beauty of their souls.  I'm excited to see what awesome things this New Year brings for them.  :)

I have set several empowering intentions for the New Year and invite  you all to do the same.   May we all flourish with abundance and love in 2011!  Woot!  Woot!

I love you all!

Kristen

Gratitude Quote

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

- Brian Tracy

Gratitude

  Have I taken the time to look around me and appreciate all that I have?

Sometimes I like to ask myself this question.  I can get so caught up in all that is going on around me that I lose track of myself, my purpose and my joy.  A little mental inventory is just the perfect thing to bring me back into the now. 

Last year, my world was full of chaos, sadness, anger, fear and pain.  At times I felt like I would never see the light.  The light did come.  And it actually came in the middle of the chaos!  It wasn’t a big, blue, bright, endless Arizona sky at first.  It was just a sliver of beautiful sunlight through the dark clouds.  But it was there…  It’s so easy to get caught up in it all, that we can’t see further than 1inch in front of us.  This is the time more than ever to be grateful for what we do have.  Even through life’s trials, we all have something to be grateful for. 

Gratitude brings more good to us.  I encourage you to take the time to look around you and smile.  This too shall pass and good is coming your way!