Urban Poly Princess

I need to learn this asap!!! Selling one house averages 5k but flipping the same house can profit an average of 30k. It doesn't take a genius to get that flipping is where you can make a lot of money quickly. Which is ultimately what I want so I can invest in multiple things and make residual income doing nothing. NOT so I can do nothing BUT so I can enrich my family relationships and ultimately serve best in the kingdom of God. I want to make my money work for me instead of me working for my money.

By becoming intimately familiar with Real Estate sales I can learn and gauge what will sell in certain neighborhoods and have good knowledge of what buyers want. I certainly don't regret the education I received and it is extremely important to me ALTHOUGH Real Estate doesn't use my Master degree in Library Science OR the BA in English. It sort of uses the MBA because Real Estate demands the know-how to run a business effectively.

Curtis had on a very nice light aqua shirt last night. I have something similar. He looks good in bright colors because of his coloring. He has a deep tan that plays off that nicely. Strange because I look amazing in the same bright colors because of my coloring too but it is the ivory/olive skin contrast with my jet-black hair. We have very different skin tones but they both look amazing in the same bright stuff.

So am I going to stop being friends with the hottest guy in Cache Valley who just happens to be in my ward now AND is a good person when I leave???!!! OH HELL NO!!! He was diagnosed with diabetes when he was 19 and hasn't altered his diet really. He told me he counts carbs but when I asked him what is his limit he doesn't pay attention to that either. Whatever I eat I try to keep the carb count below 20 and I don't usually eat junk although I'm not going to deprive myself either. I do like the way I feel however when I eat well AND I need to look good in designer clothes. I do already but not like I could or have in the past. I don't want to be the hot chunky girl who could look even better if she just lost weight.

How you look is huge in sales whatever anyone says. Maybe that's wrong, I don't care. I've been very lazy fitness and eating-wise. Wow!!! I just glanced at the calendar and I only have 3 weeks of work left!!! I'm not going to pay rent again unless and until I move into my Westgate loft in downtown Salt Lake City. I'm glad Curtis and Holly came to our fireside yesterday. Often they didn't attend or maybe I didn't notice BUT even before Curtis was here Holly would not attend ALL the meetings BUT she would always come to fulfill her calling.

My brother is on his was to New York after just finishing a Hacker conference in Vegas. He always gets these jobs that allow him to travel all over the place but then he just wants to be with his family. I love my brother and his family so much and I want to work my business with him so he doesn't have to work like a dog the way he always has. Making over six figures is nice BUUUT at what cost? He ALWAYS works part time teaching or consulting online. It's why he keeps putting off his PhD. Alisa is into her Zumba big time too.

When she stayed home and didn't do the Zumba thing her house was clean all the time, now it is horrible along with their yard. I told George his backyard looked like something out of a horror movie the last time I visited him. He told me I was welcome to clean it if I wanted to do that. I definitely don't think Alisa should be responsible for EVERYTHING when my brother contributes NOTHING to the running of his household.

He has an incredible marriage and family BUT I know it could be even better.

Helaman 3
35 Nevertheless they did fast and pray oft, and did wax stronger and stronger in their humility, and firmer and firmer in the faith of Christ, unto the filling their souls with joy and consolation, yea, even to the purifying and the sanctification of their hearts, which sanctification cometh because of their yielding their hearts unto God.

What Manner of Men? - Donald L. Hallstrom
However, this vastly increased accessibility to the voices of the Lord’s servants, which are the same as the Lord’s own voice (see D&C 1:38), has little value unless we are willing to receive the word (see D&C 11:21) and then follow it. Simply stated, the purpose of general conference and of this priesthood session is fulfilled only if we are willing to act—if we are willing to change.

Walking was not easy—he did his best, using a cane in each hand, and he fell often—but quitting was never an option. He made a commitment to honorably and devotedly serve a mission, and he did.

We should be different because we hold the priesthood—not arrogant or prideful or patronizing but humble and teachable and meek. Receiving the priesthood and its various offices should mean something to us. It should not be a perfunctory “rite of passage” that automatically happens at certain ages but a sacred act of covenant thoughtfully made. We should feel so privileged and so grateful that our every action shows it. If we seldom even think about the priesthood, we need to change.

We need to serve! The essence of holding the priesthood is to magnify our calling (see D&C 84:33) by serving others. Avoiding our most important duty to serve our wives and children, not accepting or passively fulfilling callings in the Church, or not caring about others unless it is convenient is not who we should be. The Savior declared, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind” (Matthew 22:37) and later added, “If thou lovest me thou shalt serve me” (D&C 42:29). Selfishness is the antithesis of priesthood responsibility, and if it is a trait of our character, we need to change.

Once this man decided—once any of us conclude—“That’s just the way I am,” we give up our ability to change. We might as well raise the white flag, put down our weapons, concede the battle, and just surrender—any prospect of winning is lost. While some of us may think that does not describe us, perhaps every one of us demonstrates by at least one or two bad habits, “That’s just the way I am.”

Well, we meet in this priesthood meeting because who we are is not who we can become. We meet here tonight in the name of Jesus Christ. We meet with the confidence that His Atonement gives every one of us—no matter our weaknesses, our frailties, our addictions—the ability to change. We meet with the hope that our future, no matter our history, can be better.

The only complete response to the question posed by Jesus Christ “What manner of men ought ye to be?” is the one He succinctly and profoundly gave: “Even as I am” (3 Nephi 27:27). The invitation to “come unto Christ, and be perfected in him” (Moroni 10:32) both requires and expects change. Mercifully, He has not left us alone. “And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. … Then will I make weak things become strong” (Ether 12:27). Relying upon the Savior’s Atonement, we can change. Of this I am certain. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

I looove this!!! I need absolutely no faith to read my scriptures, pray or read from conference talks. Filling your mind with good eternal things automatically leads you  to choose the right, to make the decisions that allow you to progress. How does this NOT help? Doing so brings me closer to my Savior whether I want that or not. It can't help but happen. Similarly prayer does the same thing. 

I have really nice shower curtains and then one of my shower curtains matches my bedding for my double bed that can't fit at my mother's house anyway. It is an old bed my brother gave me BUUUT the bedding matches the shower curtain AND it looks good to me anyway. I also have a bunch of maroon towels I can't use unless I move out. I want to keep my chairs, my makeup desk and then even my small desk and office chair, mirrors and the pictures I really like. He has a bunch of spare rooms and I know he has a couple bathrooms. 

He can come and see my stuff before he decides. If he can also help me take my other stuff to Salt Lake that would be amazing. Especially since I don't have home teachers and my brother keeps leaving all over the place and he doesn't have a truck like Curtis does. I want to take my tv, tv table, mirror, some of my pictures, plants and then my make up desk, mirrors and knick-knacks I'm going to box up. I'm taking my dishes too and I'm going to get my mother to get rid of the dishes in Salt Lake City. He can take most of my utensils too. I don't need my pots either. Some of them have never been used. 

I don't need my tv to entertain me up until I leave since my internet can do that. My last day of work is the 28th so I can do it any day after that until September 4th plus I'm going to take stuff in my car too. I hope this is a good deal for him because it would be excellent for me.