posting notes

I'm a note post-er. I've got scriptures and quotes taped up all over my mirrors and walls. Post-It notes with to-do lists, grocery lists, goal lists posted inside my wallet and on every page of my planner. Reminders on my steering wheel and dashboard.

I find a deep strength in being surrounded by powerful, inspiring words. I try to memorize them sometimes, because I want them to be in my mind, in my heart. I love sharing them, because I want my friends to feel what I feel when I read them.

So this morning, here's a glimpse of what I've got taped to my computer and desk:


"But if ye will turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart, and put your trust in him, and serve him with all diligence of mind, if ye do this, he will, according to his own will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage." ~Mosiah 7:33


"Blessings require some work or effort on our part before we can obtain them. Prayer is a form of work, and is an appointed means for obtaining the highest of all blessings." ~Bible Dictionary


"I testify that each of us has a potential in this life and beyond the grave that exceeds our fondest dreams." ~President James E. Faust


"There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul." ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox


"...I will also be your light in the wilderness; and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my commandments. Wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandment ye shall be led towards the promised land; and ye shall knwo that it is by me that ye are led." ~ 1 Nephi 17:13


"Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God—men and women with unlimited potential to do good in the world. Believe in personal virtue. There is no substitute for it anywhere under the heavens. Believe in your power to discipline yourselves against the evils that could destroy you. Believe in one another as the greatest generation ever yet to live upon the earth." ~President Gordon B. Hinckley

"Search diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly and remember the covenant wherewith ye have covenanted one with another." ~Doctrine and Covenants 90:24

"...be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Steve Jobs:
"Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma--which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

"Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?" ~Ecclesiastes 3:22

 "There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” —Ronald Reagan

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act--the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward....The most effective way to do it, is to do it." ~Amelia Earhart

"Don't let your nutty theories control your life without testing them." ~Ramit Sethi

"Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothings is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." ~Calvin Coolidge

"The Lord knoweth all things from the beginning; wherefore, he prepareth a way to accomplish all his works among the children of men; for behold, he hath all power unto the fulfilling of all his words. And thus it is…For he is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever; and the way is prepared for all men from the foundation of the world, if it so be that they repent and come unto him. For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old, and as well in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round." ~1 Nephi 9:6, 10:18-20