Picture: Max & Maxwell Equestrian Photography Horse (named Golden): Equestrian Adventures of Florida Nails: Emerald Spa & Nails Dress (called Poetry): Don’t Stress The Dress

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“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” -Unknown (my long-time, good friend, Rachel Lang’s motto)

Thank you all for supporting this blog through…

• comments
• shares
• likes on social media

The visitor counts have grown beyond what I thought was possible in less than 4 months.

Circumstantially, this wasn’t the year to use my gifts or go after this dream, but I went (grateful for those who have helped along the way)…

The opportunities that have opened up have blown my mind…

Biggest Reward

Seeing each of you go after your dreams and goals, at times, means even more to me than the excitement/fulfillment of going after my own dreams (including starting this blog).

I stopped counting the number of people who sent messages (try to read once a week), pictures/links to businesses or dreams they were inspired to go after in spite of the odds.

One of these messages read:

“Keep up the blog posting… It’s really cool and neat you’re spreading your thoughts/viewpoints on things. I always admired how you went about things. Thought things through, so it’s cool you’re putting your thoughts out into the world.”

Another one read:

“You saved/changed my life, I want to thank you.”

These notes mean the WORLD to me!

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I also know when I went through a lot of stuff years ago, I couldn’t write or laugh and my gift(s)/confidence felt so buried like it would never come back. I also didn’t even have one dream for the future or a desire to dream.  

If you feel that way today, realize that everyone has or will have ups and downs in their life. However, you can still learn to dream again.

You are amazing and the world needs your gift(s). What you take for granted may be someone’s lifeline. In fact, the very things I went through gave me the desire and the content to create this blog. That could be true of you and your dream too!

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Collaborators/Upcoming Project

Sponsored trip (see this post).

Photography: Max & Maxwell Equestrian Photography Horses (named Golden & Pickles): Equestrian Adventures of Florida Nails: Emerald Spa & Nails Dress (called Poetry): Don’t Stress The Dress Videography: Chiola Films

Working on this project including RIDING A HORSE AGAIN, after getting through physical rehab (after a car wreck), has been amazing and has felt like a dream!

More Details Coming Soon!

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Email Sign Up

We added an email sign up link. Before it was up I already had a stranger asked to be placed on the new email list after reading a few posts. 🙂 Thank you to everyone who entered the contest by signing up with your email to receive new blog posts.

Diary Contest Winner – Timothy Lowe! Congratulations!!!

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I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannikah and an amazing holiday season and I hope in this coming year that you

“find your gifts“…

(whether you do it for your job, a hobby, to help someone else or to make yourself smile)

…and

“give it away (to your world).”