Day 3:: The {21} Challenge, Spark & House of 3 goodie bag

Day 3: This is amazing! We are on day 3!!! We are doing it! We are being that Power for good! We are taking one step at a time to our goal. YES! Don't you love it?

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Today's quote: “We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.” Stephen R. Covey

Isn't that awesome? We have to keep the end in mind. We have to be truly effective. We have to see our goal. We have to visualize the person we are becoming with every step. And the POWER of good we are in our life & in others' lives!

Every step, every minute, every day, every week we must be effective. Yes, we are all busy. And busy is good, but if we are forgetting our goal or saying, "I'm too busy to be my best self." hmm.. we gotta change.

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And I love how he says: 'we may be very effective'...ha! I know I've thought that before...I'm busy. I'm effective...BUT..as the quote points out..the rest of the recipe of success is:
begin with the end in mind...THEN we will truly be effective. We will see our end results as we have envisioned them.

I'm not going to lie...this first week is the most difficult. But, you can do it! Week 2 & Week 3 get easier. Trust me..I've done it. It stinks, to be quite frank!

Especially when my family is having my favorite: icecream! aahhhhh! I seriously drooled looking at them eating it. But...I thought of all of you. I thought of the 21ers who are doing more difficult things than me...breaking the smoking habit or starting an exercise habit... I made a protein shake instead...with crushed ice. And ya know? It wasn't that bad. No, it wasn't icecream, but I remembered our quote; it begins with a single step. And if I ate the icecream now...i'd be going backwards.

No. thank you. I prefer to move forward.

so:

I'd love a list of all participants & your blogs so I can put you down & we can blog hop & help strengthen each other, ok? Please leave your info here.

and other good stuff:
*I'm off today for a Spark meeting. We are so excited to share the Spark with everyone..it's coming together nicely. Did you see we have the teacher info up? Go check it out! It's going to be so incredible! I hope you can make it!

*House of 3 is in da bag today...the bag o' goodies over at Renee Pearson's extravaganza.

* Think Big Art released an e-book today. All you photographers & creatives...look at marketing in a new light...download it here & check it out!

happy Day 3...don't give up! You can do it!
R