Pink Hugs & Blessings

Getcha Mind Right. . .

2012-02-26T01:35:00.000-08:00

Just read some pretty powerful stuff from The Daily Love...A mind truly is a powerful thing...what are you choosing to believe or NOT believe about yourself?

A goal is dead...NOTHING...if you haven't made up in your mind that you're worth the results of the goal and that you have the will, determination, and self-discipline to fulfill it.

Then you actually HAVE TO SO SOMETHING...yes...some actual WORK and CONSISTENTLY...to see any fruit from your faith in your goal.

Here are the two thoughts that JUMPED ALL IN MY FACE:

1. Faith first, mindset second, goals third, action fourth, persistence always.

-Mastin Kipp @The Daily Love

2. Today's Affirmations:

I tell a new story about what's possible.

I surround myself with people who believe in my dreams.

My dreams are real, my doubts are not.

And I'm Off. . . .

2012-02-24T17:56:00.001-08:00

Was up all hours of last night and came across this blog where these awesome and inspiring women, who are uber eager to become even MORE awesome are participating in The 30 Day Challenge!!!!! I was kinda disappointed because I stumbled upon this brilliant idea on Day 9...But knew inside that I HAD to start NOW...this was too good of an exercise to pass up or put on the back burner for another 20 days or so...

The Challenge is pretty much, helping women get in a routine of becoming the women God created us to be...we've been instilled with all these amazing characteristics, attributes, and talents yet don't have the time, the will, energy or drive to manifest them...we've grown tired and weary as we go through the motions of caring for kids and husbands or busting our butts to climb the corporate ladder to prove ourselves just as worthy as our male counterparts, being Supermom as the college degree hangs and collects dust on the bedroom wall or working double shifts (figuratively and literally speaking) to make ends meet...both types of women ending her day exhausted, catching her breath thinking, "When do I get to get myself together?"

Now, you may be thinking, "What's so BIG and BAD about this challenge?"...not much, to be honest. It's very little basic things like drinking these morning and night "elixirs," going to bed at a decent hour and walking up earlier than you normally would, writing in your prayer and gratitude journal and praying, breathing and stretching exercises...calling a buddy who's doing it with you and encouraging and holding each other accountable...little things you do daily until its routine and habitual which will lead to MAJOR results in the long run...(low key its the Compound Effect.)

Soooo...Crystal OFFICIALLY gave me the okay to jump on in!!...YAY!!!!...I did the warm milk last night (although I didn't get to bed until like 1am...Booooo!) but I was so excited to jump start this challenge. AND...the warm milk bit was quite tasty...Just picked up my lemon juice to start the "morning elixir" tomorrow. I'm at the point where I am ready for a new me...A me that I love being and that others love being around and would love to know. I'm ready to be self-disciplined and decisive in all my thoughts, actions, and decision making. I LOVE the affirmations...all that's missing is that "I am fearfully and wonderfully made!!"...(my 2012 motto).

So...who's down to start getting their lives together with me?

Recap of the First Sermon of 2012 in Photos...

2012-01-02T02:05:00.000-08:00

Good Stuff, Fate.

(minister of The Metropolitan Church of Christ).

This was taken from the first installment of the

Fresh Start series.

Peep knowledge.

Feelin' Good...

2011-12-31T01:47:00.000-08:00

It's 1:18am and I'm still up...BOOOO! I should be knocked out but my mind keeps ticking about EVERYTHING...but long story short, about my 2012. What I want it to look like, my goals I yearn to accomplish, my dreams I wish to shoot for, the new, improved, and better me I long to become. I know I need to get things together...my career, my aspirations, my family, my marriage...MY LIFE. And I KNOW it can't be done without God as my foundation for everything that I choose to do, first and foremost. I'm also coming to terms about my "weakest links" that keep slowing me down and keeping me great distance from being my best: procrastination, indecisiveness, fear, and ME (whomp whomp).

So...later today I'll be making my short term and long term goals for 2012 and posting them (accountability is needed and is a must for a sista). Then I will be back with a plan of action to commit myself and to ensure I am on track to meeting my goals.

Feeling Good is my 2012 song dedication to myself. I wasn't a fan of this song until Melanie tore down the house with it on X-Factor, especially since it had so much meaning behind it for her because of her upbringing and where she had physically and mentally came from...I connected to her and to the lyrics...

It's a new dawn

a new day

a new life for me
And I'm feelin' good...

...about 2012.

For All My Lifetime Channel Lovers...

2011-06-13T12:17:00.000-07:00

Morning Monday Beauties!

I have exciting news! Just found out that Lifetime has teamed up with who else other than Mary Kay to offer the Renewed You Sweepstakes!!! If you love Lifetime shows and FREE Prizes go to the following link to enter...http://www.mylifetime.com/sweepstakes/renewed-you

You have the chance to enter up to two times a day to win a big-city getaway, spa treatments, a makeover, retail therapy, and great products from Mary Kay to make you feel renewed!
http://www.mylifetime.com/sweepstakes/renewed-you

I would be super-stoked to find out one of my dearest friends, family members, or ever-so-great-clients won the grand prize...So go ahead and enter...and don't forget to thank me when you win.

*Pink Hugs & Blessings*

Christine L. Bryant
Independent Beauty Consultant
http://www.mylifetime.com/sweepstakes/renewed-you
www.marykay.com/cbryant380
cbryant380@marykay.com

Mary Kay Inspiring Stories

2011-06-13T11:53:00.000-07:00

Mary Kay Inspiring Stories: "Ever thought of creating your own film...being in the spotlight...getting a taste of the film industry?? Be a part of the Mary Kay® Inspiring Stories program. Mary Kay is forming three ALL FEMALE film crews to create a series of mini documentaries. Be a part the opportunity to create an empowering message that promotes the education and prevention of domestic violence! Previous film experience is not necessary."

Bored Outta Ya Mind??...Here's Something For You To Do!

2011-06-01T10:58:00.000-07:00

Here's a chance to get personalized skin care recommendations specifically for you!...What skin care is best for your skin type, what make-up colors are best for your skin tone...and much more. Please go ahead and try it out...if you have any questions about anything you see, don't hesitate to ask me..call, text, email or reply back to this blog post. Feel free to share this Beauty Profiler with your friends or post on your fave social networking site. Have Fun and Enjoy!!

More than anything, leave me a comment or message and tell me if this Beauty Profiler was helpful or not.

*Pink Hugs & Blessings*

Christine Bryant
Independent Beauty Consultant
www.marykay.com/cbryant380
cbryant380@marykay.com

Me...The Co-Creator of My Life??

2011-05-27T11:36:00.000-07:00

So, while keeping up on my blogs that I read daily, I've been seeing this idea of "ME" being the "Co-Creator of My Life". I haven't quite understood what exactly this meant so I would pretty much breeze through that part, especially knowing that my Lord and Savior is THEE ONLY Creator of my life and yours.

Recently I've been on an emotional roller coaster as I'm undergoing "My Lessons of Life," AKA: My Circumstances, My Storms, Major Tomfoolery...LIFE! I choose to refer to them as "My Life Lessons" because I choose to believe that God is not just allowing bad things to happen to me as I sit here questioning his motives as to why are these things occurring. But instead, I know that God is teaching me important lessons to help live my life to the fullest, to help build me into the D.O.R.K. (Daughter Of The Righteous/Risen King) He wants me to be, to help me find and live my purpose in Life, and to better equip me with the godly characteristics that I need major work in.

So, for when my marriage is at a low, I could, and have many times, choose to feel like a complete loser and think, "Boo on my life," or I can thank God for the test (and for the testimony to come) and work my butt off on Acing It, so I don't have to struggle with this storm anymore. I look for the lessons in my circumstances, and trust and have faith in God, that He'll see me through since I know He does not give me anything that He knows I can't bear.

So when I feel burnt out, like a loser, unloved, lonely, stressed...(ADD YOUR OWN HERE)...I choose NOT to! I choose to change my way of thinking about the situation and choose to feel the POSITIVE feeling to the previous negative one I was just experiencing.

I have learned this is what it means to be the Co-Creator of My Life. I choose to feel loved, not lonely, to feel like a winner, to feel refreshed and blessed. Because I am fearfully and wonderfully made...

As Lady Gaga would say, "I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way" but only because God made ME and YOU to be nothing less...So why think and act like you are?

Choose to be the Change you wish to see.

*Pink Hugs & Blessings*

Mary Kay Featured in Essence June 2011

2011-05-19T12:16:00.001-07:00

I <3 when I see Mary Kay products in magazines...because we are just THAT good. This is the new Time Wise Foundation that includes all the anti-aging fighting benefits that our skin care line also has...double the benefits!! This is Essence and the foundations are also featured in O Magazine, as well.

Wonderfully Made

2011-05-19T10:47:00.000-07:00

He tells me that I am "Fearfully and Wonderfully Made"...but how much of that do I truly believe?...I've been going through a lot of tomfoolery (you'll see that I use this word way too much) this past year and it's led to stress and worrying; not leaning and relying on God to see me through and it's been taking a physical, mental, and emotional toll on me...no bueno.

But God is a good a GREAT God and he knows EXACTLY what he's doing in our lives...we just have to trust and believe that he knows what's best...

'Christine, even if that means going through it right now in my marriage?'

...Yes, even if it means troubling times in my marriage, Christine, God still knows this is what I need to go through right now...(whomp whomp =/ )

Through these ever-much-so trying times, I've been reading two particular blogs: The Daily Love (whoot whoot!!) and Proverbs 31 Ministries, along with a few new Twitter Accounts that I'm following now, and I've been noticing a re-occurring theme from the content of each of their postings: Self Love and Acceptance.

I began thinking, 'Do I really care for and love myself the way I thought I did?'

I've been so into my family and my husband and my mess, that I may be neglecting myself and not even knowing it...You know, we as women, invest and sacrifice all that we are and have for our families that we tend to forget ourselves...and any thought of taking care "me" would be just darn right selfish, right?!?...but I'm beginning to realize that I have to take care of me, and know and believe that its not being selfish...but its the self love and acceptance for myself that I've been lacking.

Now, through my trials, I'm learning not to be worrisome and stressed (have I mastered it, GREAT SCOTT, NO!...but I'm learning), and to rely on God, for he knows I need to learn something from these circumstances and he's building me up into the DORK (Daughter Of The Righteous King) he has created me to be (which is one of my requests I've been recently praying for anywhoo...).

I'm also learning not focus on the problems before me and to focus on the results or the outcome...focus on the lesson to be learned...on the person that I will have grown into due to my endurance, patience, and faith during my tomfoolery...

...and that is what I am CHOOSING to do.

*Pink Hugs & Blessings*