A Little Better Day by Day

Do not expect to become perfect all at once. If you do, you will be disappointed. Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today. 

We cannot become perfect at once, but we can be a little better day by day. 

-Lorenzo Snow

I've been having one of those months, you know what they are like. And I found this among my piles of papers that I'm trying to get through during this process of moving and organizing. It was something that I really needed at this time in my life. We can't change yesterday, but we can change today. We can do one little thing better, and slowly we will move toward that person that we want to be, and the person that God wants us to be. 

(I usually try to give credit on where I get these from, but pinterest linked this to some weird iTunes app... if you know where this originally came from let me know so I can give them credit!)

Credit to Kikicomin on Etsy

In a Nutshell

I think this sums up what life really is all about. I was raised in the LDS faith (still strong in it) and I always thought this was how ALL Christians lived their lives. Of course, no one is perfect, but this is what we should be aiming for in the simplest of terms.

Go out there, work hard so others don't have to pick up your slack or make up for your neglect.

And be nice to people. Everyone. I know it's hard, but you never know when you are the one person in a day who actually smiled at someone. Who spoke in a kind tone to them. Who went out of your way to help them, even if it was just by listening to them or smiling at them as you walked by.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Leonardo daVinci