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“Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair”

Apr

One of the most valuable assets we can have in life is to be trustworthy. It is worth gold whether in business or friendships or family. When you can trust a person it creates a bond of loyalty that runs deep. And when someone can trust you it gives you that same bond of loyalty [...]

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“Accept what it is, let go of what it was, and faith in what will be.”

Apr

I have thought a lot about changes lately as I just spent the last several days with my daughter and her high school friends on a trip to Las Vegas for her Senior Spring Break trip I had promised to take her on. The timing of the trip couldn’t have been worse as we are [...]

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Suggestions For Success

Apr

We each may have our own definition of what the word success means to us in our lives, but I believe that success is something that each of us strive for. Figuring out how to achieve success has been the topic of countless books and articles throughout time. One particular article that I thought had great suggestions on achieving success was [...]

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Remember what it was like to get butterflies?

Apr

We live in a world where people go through relationships like they go through boxes of breakfast cereal. Many have relationships of convenience or relationships based on “having no one better so why not settle for this person??” Often times before ending one relationship people are out scouting for their next one, keeping their relationships [...]

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“How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain?”

Apr

That quote comes from a talk given by one of my favorite speakers, Dieter F. Uchtdorf. Here are a few excerpts from the talk: “Over the years, I have had the sacred opportunity to meet with many people whose sorrows seem to reach the very depths of their soul…Often their grief is caused by what [...]

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Happiness is Contagious!

Apr

A research study at Harvard Medical found that, in fact, happiness is contagious. It suggests that happiness is influenced not only by the people you know, but by the people they know. The study showed that happiness spreads through social networks, sort of like a virus, meaning that your happiness could influence the happiness of [...]

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Some days you need a good cry and a great cuddle

Apr

“…you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.” – Lemony Snicket So I will start by admitting that what I am about to tell you might seem a little ridiculous so right up front I am going to just admit [...]

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“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn`t call it genius.”

Apr

I love that quote by Michelangelo! It is so true that the great work of this world is not done by geniuses, but by ordinary men and women that are simply hard working and dedicated and who strive to achieve extraordinary things. We are in the final week of completing the construction of our new [...]

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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”

Apr

Single parents carry an incredible burden. Only those who have been a single parent can truly understand just how heavy that burden is. For a period of ten years I was a single mother myself, trying to raise my two children who were around 2 and 5 years old when I got divorced. When I [...]

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Filling Up Your Inspiration Tank

Apr

When my children were young I used to teach them the principle of filling up their gas tanks – our bodies and minds are like a car that is always running. In order to run we need gas in our tank. Even when the car is in idle and not driving forward it needs gas [...]

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The Greatest Thing About Becoming Successful (Forbes Article)

Apr

One of the greatest things about becoming successful in business is the ability to take time to mentor young people who are just starting out. This week has been filled with one entrepreneurship extravaganza after another. It began with the IPOP Foundation (www.ipop.org) event at Alta High School with high school students pitching their entrepreneurial [...]

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“Family, where life begins and love never ends”

Apr

“Family is like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.” I grew up in a family of ten children. Five boys and five girls. How my mother did it I will never know! Especially because we weren’t the most mellow of children to say the least. [...]

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IPOP Foundation Encourages High School Students to Become Entrepreneurs!

Apr

Today was awesome! Our charity, the IPOP Foundation (www.ipop.org), which stands for “In Pursuit of Perfection” hosted our Mobile App competition at Alta High School with the help of Principal Fidel Montero, a huge advocate of entrepreneurship. The charity is focused on promoting, educating, and perpetuating entrepreneurship as a pathway to self-reliance. We challenged the [...]

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A Song Can Make All The Difference

Mar

Waking up in the morning is hard. Especially when you are working late into the night and not getting nearly enough sleep, which I am sure many of you suffer from just as I do. That alarm going off in the morning has to be my least favorite sound in the world. But tonight my [...]

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Ideas to get you prepared for April Fool’s Day

Mar

I cannot believe that Monday is the last day of March and Tuesday will be April 1st. Better known as, April Fool’s Day. I have personally never been a big fan of April Fool’s Day but perhaps that is because I haven’t put much effort into celebrating this holiday in the past. So in order [...]

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10 Ways To Make The Most Of Every Day (Forbes Article)

Mar

“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.” – Og Mandino Each day we [...]

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Some days you just want to throw a tantrum…but there might be a better answer

Mar

When I sat down tonight to contemplate what to write about my day my first thought was to write about wanting to throw a temper tantrum at the end of a really bad day. I had just gotten off the phone with Comcast’s customer service line with a gentlemen offshore who, bless his heart (its [...]

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“The greatest concern in the minds of men will always be what could have been”

Mar

Stepping out of your comfort zone can be scary. Feeling overwhelmed and overloaded isn’t fun. Trying and failing is a huge bummer. But worse than all of these is having to live the rest of your life with the woulda-coulda-shoulda regrets that come from never finding out what could have been. Put yourself out there. [...]

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Isn’t it Amazing that We Made It

Mar

Tonight I came home after working an incredibly long day with the subcontractors at our home and collapsed into a chair. My daughter came home and I told her that the rest of the night was all time just for her and I to spend together. We sat together on the couch and started having a [...]

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Assume the Good and Doubt the Bad

Mar

“Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad.” -Jeffrey R. Holland So many times in life we hear something, or read something, or receive bits and pieces of information that leave room for interpretation of a situation or another person. And the instant [...]

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You were given this life, so LIVE IT WELL!

Mar

“You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.” That quote has helped me many times in my life. Especially during difficult or stressful times when I feel overwhelmed or incapable of handing a situation I am given. We have all heard the phrase that “God doesn’t give us more than [...]

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If You Can…

Mar

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being [...]

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If You Want to Achieve Your Goal, Share it!

Mar

“Research recently conducted by [Dr. Gail] Matthews shows that people who wrote down their goals, shared this information with a friend, and sent weekly updates to that friend were on average 33% more successful in accomplishing their stated goals than those who merely formulated goals.” Goal setting is one of the things I am the [...]

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“What I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.”

Mar

I finished my day off today after going a million miles an hour non-stop from the moment I jumped out of bed (okay “jumped” might be a bit of an exaggeration, it was more of a begrudging stagger if I am totally truthful). I was trying to respond to a hundred emails, answer a constant [...]

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Do We Make Our Own Luck?

Mar

Let me start by saying Happy St. Patrick’s Day! And what better day to talk about the subject of Good Luck and Good Fortune? Back to the question I posed in the title of today’s blog – Do we make our own luck? I am a firm believer that we do! The times I have [...]

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Getting There is Half the Fun

Mar

Every summer when I was a kid, my family would make the long drive from Washington State where we lived at the time out to Utah to visit our grandparents who lived here. That drive was a brutal 14 hour drive if you didn’t add on all the time for every potty stop we had [...]

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Two Words: “Stop It”

Mar

A few days ago I posted a blog about a young girl who was being bullied. Then today my son sent me the link to a video and he asked me to watch it – he said it is a video that would change people’s lives because it hits the viewer in such a powerful [...]

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“That’s the way the cookie crumbles”

Mar

Growing up in a family of ten kids led to some awesome memories. One memory in particular that I thought about today was the following story: We were sitting around our massive dinner table (it took a huge table to hold all 12 of us!). We were preparing to sing Happy Birthday to one of the [...]

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Making Money While Making The World A Better Place (Forbes Article)

Mar

Making money while making the world a better place – what could possibly be better than that? That is exactly the goal of impact investors. James Lee Sorenson, successful entrepreneur and philanthropist, calls it the “double bottom line,” and achieving that double bottom line is something he is incredibly passionate about. Impact investing is “doing [...]

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Finding Out Who You Are By Learning Where You Came From

Mar

Figuring out who your ancestors are is one of the coolest things in the world. I was lucky to have Grandparents who were big into doing genealogy research when they were still alive and they provided me life history books for their own lives as well as providing me life histories written by my great-grandparents [...]

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