It's the little steps that will take us where we want to be.

It's a new year which means that everyone is creating new years goals about how they're going to be a better person. Most of those goals and habits that they were trying to make fade out after a few weeks. I think people push themselves too hard and are asking themselves to reach their goal perfectly. They have this goal that they have such as: working out every day for 1 hours, drinking 64 oz of water and sticking to a meal plan. When you think of it, going from hardly working out or not working out at all to full board, flipping your life style, it's going to be hard to stick to because it's so different from what you were used to doing. 

My challenge this year for myself is just to be better than I am today. These are the areas that I want to do better at: 

- Building my relationship with God

- Saying more compliments

- Treating my body better

- Doing more things for my family and Taylor to show them that I love them

- Pushing myself to be better in school

- Finding ways to make life simpler 

I set these goals instead of specific goals because I'm not going to expect myself to be perfect and feel like I need to do everything on my list everyday, and either should you. Idly I would like to read my scriptures everyday for 30 minutes or more so I could build my relationship better with God and feel like he is proud of me. But guess what? He is proud of progress we don't need to be perfect. Right now I am not the best at reading my scriptures so I am just challenging myself to make the move to put a little more focus on God every day. For example last night I didn't feel like reading my scriptures so I turned on a conference talk. You don't have to listen to the whole thing you can just listen and search for some good to put into your life. 

In high school I was challenged to pick up my scriptures once a day and open my book and read one verse, that's it. I thought it was easy enough so I tried it and in the beginning that's all I did. Then one verse turned into reading until I wanted to highlight something, then reading until I could write something on the side of my scriptures then I was reading one page. I never turned into someone that read all day or anything but I was doing little steps until my little steps didn't feel like enough and naturally I wanted to do more. That year my testimony was so strong, I could feel every time that I picked up my scriptures that the adversary was sad that I just won the battle he wanted me to lose and I could feel how proud my Heavenly Father was in me. He doesn't expect us to read the whole book in one day and continue to read the whole book every day. All he asks is that we try to be better. If that's all He asks of me to be closer to him then that's all I am asking myself to be a better me too. 

I challenge you to ask yourself to be better than you were yesterday and I know you will be amazed at how far your little steps take you. 

XOXO / Whitney