I was going through my old email, and found these 21 great reminders, so I thought I’d share!

ONE - Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

TWO - Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

THREE - Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

FOUR - When you say, “I love you,” mean it.

FIVE - When you say, “I’m sorry,” look the person in the eye.

SIX - Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

SEVEN - Believe in love at first sight.

EIGHT - Never laugh at anyone’s dream. People who don’t have dreams don’t have much.

NINE - Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.

TEN - In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.

ELEVEN - Don’t judge people by their relatives.

TWELVE -Talk slowly but think quickly.

THIRTEEN - When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, ‘Why do you want to know?’

FOURTEEN - Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

FIFTEEN - Say ‘bless you’ when you hear someone sneeze.

SIXTEEN - When you lose, don’t lose the lesson !

SEVENTEEN - Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others; and responsibility for all your actions.

EIGHTEEN - Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship..

NINETEEN - When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

TWENTY - Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.

TWENTY-ONE - Spend some time alone.

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For years, I’ve been scared to share the real Angie. The one that has been given a talent but sometimes is afraid to share it.

Why does fear stop us in our tracks so often? It can cause us to take what we’ve been given and hide it away in a pretty little box, hidden away from the world, where it is safe… But safe isn’t where the fun is. Safe is for the faint of heart.

I wanna play big!

I want to share who I am, what I do and help others through my talent and give of the gift I’ve been so generously blessed with. I want to make a difference.

I found this bible verse that says it all:

“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.

So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’

But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.

For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
—Matthew 25:14-30

How true is that??? Pretty cool stuff…

So, are you going to step out in faith and play big or are you going to step back and play it safe?

I think I’ll choose to play big…

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I received this in my email from a friend and was just horrified… Knowing people who have been through this, and seeing others recovering from major surgery, makes me wonder what on earth our country’s coming to when they would consider something like this…

It’s nice to see that Lifetime Television is taking a stand to help prevent it. Click on the link below to make your voice heard.

Proposed Mastectomy Law Change

(written by a surgeon) ;

I’ll never forget the look in my patients eyes when I had to tell them they had to go home with the drains, new exercises and no breast. I remember begging the doctors to keep these women in the hospital longer, only to hear that they would, but their hands were tied by the insurance companies.

So there I sat with my patient giving them the instructions they needed to take care of themselves, knowing full well they didn’t grasp half of what I was saying, because the glazed, hopeless, frightened look spoke louder than the quiet ‘Thank you’ they muttered.

A mastectomy is when a woman’s breast is removed in order to remove cancerous breast cells/tissue. If you know anyone who has had a mastectomy, you may know that there is a lot of discomfort and pain afterwards. Insurance companies are trying to make mastectomies an outpatient procedure. Let’s give women the chance to recover properly in the hospital for 2 days after surgery.

This Mastectomy Bill is in Congress now.. It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important. Please take the time and do it really quick! The Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill is important legislation for all women.

Please send this to everyone in your address book. If there was ever a time when our voices and choices should be heard, this is one of those times. If you’re receiving this, it’s because I think you will take the 30 seconds to go to vote on this issue and send it on to others you know who will do the same.

There’s a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act which will require insurance companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy. It’s about eliminating the ‘drive-through mastectomy’ where women are forced to go home just a few hours after surgery, against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy from anesthesia and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached.

Lifetime Television has put this bill on their web page with a petition drive to show your support.. Last year over half the House signed on. PLEASE! Sign the petition by clicking on the web site below. You need not give more than your name and zip code number.

The Petition

This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE make your voice heard and tell others to do the same.

Just think… That could be YOUR mom, wife, sister, grandmother, best friend, or YOU they may be pushing out the door.

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I’ll bet you’re wondering what I’ve been up to lately, haven’t you? Either that, or you forgot about me entirely!

I’ve been working as usual and getting settled into my new life. The transition didn’t go quite as smoothly as I had planned but life has a way of throwing little obstacles out there for us. I think it’s just to see us try to navigate the hurdles (since I tend to trip over my own two feet on flat surfaces as it is!)

With the layoffs pretty recently at work, and friends who worked for Chrysler losing their jobs, it got me to thinking a lot about my own job security. Really, there is none and that’s a frightening thing for someone who just moved from a friend’s basement!

With the economy being what it is, it seems that the job security enjoyed by our parents is no more. It’s not like you can just assume that you’ll work for that company for 40 years and retire with a great pension. It’s now up to us to secure our own financial future.

My friend, Troy, had introduced me to a product that I fell in love with since it helped me so much and in trying it, also gave me the opportunity for a great stream of ongoing residual income. Oh, I tried Mary Kay and Quixtar in the past and never really found what I was looking for with either of them. This is tremendously different and I’m thrilled I found it (or it found me, to be exact.)

What is it, you may ask?

It’s called VEMMA and it’s a complete liquid nutritional supplement and it’s a fantastic product. The icing on the cake? The opportunity to earn money with them is tremendous. They also have the only healthy energy drink on the market called Verve! (it’s the only one classified as a dietary supplement) They also have energy shots. Pretty cool…

It seems like there’s something for everyone with the company and there’s no pyramid scheme like I’ve seen in other companies (no, I’m not naming names.) I’m just so excited about how simple it is! The founder and CEO, BK Boreyko, really puts his money where his mouth is. His idea is to pay the people for word of mouth advertising instead of paying a fortune to advertise. And guess what… It works! What other energy drink pays you to drink it? Oh yeah… And it’s 100% money back guarantee. Can’t lose with it.

The other cool thing is that there are no sign up fees (you simply order your own product and you’re eligible to start earning) and they give you two free extremely professional websites to help you get the word out about it. You can see mine here and here.

So, that’s what I’ve been up to (that and spending time creating a blog Find Your Feel Good to give more info about health and wellness and another platform for me to gab…LOL

So, that’s the scoop, folks! I spread myself too thin and this blog is what suffered the most. I love writing here and plan on still doing so; however I’m working on finding some balance so I can get more done!

If anyone would like more info about creating extra income or the product, just click on any of the links, or contact me. I’ll be happy to answer any questions.

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Yesterday while driving to work, I saw a sign in someone’s yard that said, “Gratitude unexpressed is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

I thought about it (which is exactly why they always put things up there) and thought how very grateful I am for everything in my life. It has taken me years to get to the point where I can be grateful for the so-called “bad” stuff.

I used to be thankful when things went my way and threw myself one heck of a pity party when they didn’t. All I ended up with when I had that attitude was a roller coaster ride called life. I was high on life when things went my way and then “whoa is me” was my motto when they didn’t. When I had that attitude, things didn’t go my way as much as I would have liked.

Funny how that happens…

Over the years, I’ve struggled in many ways: financially, physically, emotionally (no comments from the peanut gallery,) and spiritually. I tried what seemed to be everything and just ended up in the same place - back in a hole of financial stress, emotionally drained, overweight and tired, and questioning everything, with no real spiritual connection.

And then everything changed…

I read the book, Codependent No More and woke up. I’ve told the story before about how that was my wake up call to get out of my totally dysfunctional marriage and give myself permission to become the person I knew I was meant to be.

When married, I always fought with my husband’s demeaning of my ability and talent. It was a struggle to have a motivational website and be married to the most negative man alive and deal with it on a daily basis. After going through the motions for what seemed like forever, I just decided I was worth more than I was living and was time to move on. I just didn’t know how.

And then fate stepped in…

One Conversation Changed Everything

Sitting in an ice cream shop, across from my daughter’s friend’s mom, a mere acquaintance, the words, “I’ve got two rooms downstairs; you’re welcome to stay with us” changed my life. And I’ll be forever grateful to her…

Long story short - we moved in and started over. That was the first step of my new journey. Sweet relief. Peace. No more floor made of eggshells.

I wish I could say I did everything the easiest way possible but that’s far from the truth. That’s a story for another time.

Moving along a few months… I ran across a man who we shared a couple of mutual friends and we started talking.

My friend I lived with invited me to her church to see Joyce Meyer speak. I’ve watched her on TV and read her books, so I jumped at the chance. When we were there, I ran into this guy I had talked with and found out he went to church there as well. Small world.

That night, I felt like she was talking directly to me. It was as if it were about my life. I knew that wasn’t coincidence… I felt so at home. I decided that night that my life was going to change and change it did.

I started attending church there weekly and loved it. Felt very much at home… At the Christmas Eve service, I sat with the friend I ran across I spoke of earlier. That was the start of our friendship. We talked a bit more and just slowly got to know each other. We sat together at church, and one day, out of the blue, he mentioned something about having a rental home opening up. I jumped at the chance and saw it that day.

It was perfect…

When I moved in, he had left a bottle of Vemma in the fridge for me, stating it was a gift to me. I started taking it and fell in love with what it did for me. I started taking it regularly and found that I started feeling so much better. Increased energy, general improvement in my sense of well-being, and the weight I’d been struggling with for years started dropping off… Funny how that happens when your body gets what it needs…

I just felt wonderful. So much so that I decided to promote it myself. And that’s exactly what I’m doing. It’s pretty cool because I love their energy drink, Verve, as well. Doesn’t give me the upset stomach or jitters like the other ones I’ve tried and there’s no crash. I usually drink one in the afternoon at work and it keeps me going.

I could go on, but my point is this… I’ve had SO MUCH incredible stuff happen to me since I made the choice to not settle for what little I was getting that I feel the need to express my gratitude for everything that’s happened to me. Granted, there’s been the downs with the ups but I just feel so much more equipped to handle them now…

I’ve been so truly blessed with friendship, resources, opportunities and health that I can honestly say it’s hard to believe… I guess I’m just one lucky lady…

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