Christ Centered Thought

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If you are not reading the Book of Mormon each day, please do so. If you will read it prayerfully and with a sincere desire to know the truth, the Holy Ghost will manifest its truth to you.

Thomas S. Monson

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Each time we give of ourselves to others, we take a step closer to becoming good and true disciples of the One who gave His all for us: our Savior.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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In the worst of circumstances, when everything else crumbles, family and the gospel of Jesus Christ are the essentials.

Quentin L. Cook

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On those days when we feel a little out of tune, a little less than what we think we see or hear in others, I would ask us, especially the youth of the Church, to remember it is by divine design that not all the voices in God’s choir are the same. It takes variety—sopranos and altos, baritones and basses—to make rich music. When we disparage our uniqueness or try to conform to fictitious stereotypes—stereotypes driven by an insatiable consumer culture and idealized beyond any possible realization by social media—we lose the richness of tone and timbre that God intended when He created a world of diversity.

Jeffrey R. Holland

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Faith yoked with consistent action fills the heart with kindness, the mind with wisdom and understanding, and the soul with peace and love.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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Our faith can bless and righteously influence both those around us and us. Our faith can fill the world with goodness and peace. Our faith can transform hatred into love and enemies into friends.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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How to support victims of sexual abuse.

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Faith is more than belief. It is complete trust in God accompanied by action.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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You Can Change: How to Be Your Best You

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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: ‘Go down again - I dwell among the people.

John Henry Newman (via cranio-giglio)

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Our obligation and privilege is to embrace improvement in everyone as we strive to become more like our Savior, Jesus Christ. — Jean B. Bingham

#sharegoodness #ldsconf #charity #forgiveness #love

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Personal Annual Plan

Adapted from “I Need Thee Every Hour” by Elder L. Tom Perry. BYU Devotional Jan 2, 1977.

“Grow mentally each day. Prepare yourself for the eternities to come. Be close to the Lord. Understand the potential within you as one of his spirit children. I encourage you to start this new year with a plan, with new goals, with new objectives, to lift yourself physically, socially, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually to newer heights on your eternal course toward eternal life. Again we would encourage you to recognize: ‘I Need Thee Every Hour,’ in every aspect of a life based on His plan, His law, and His way.”

Make an annual written plan for yourself.

Have an annual personal review every year on your birthday.

Track, evaluate, and revise your plan annually.

Develop established and specific goals that can be tracked.

Physical Plan:

Physical health - such as weight range, pulse rate, blood pressure; include an annual check up with your doctor around that same time.

Mental health - be aware of your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors; realize there are some things that can be fixed and others that can managed; find ways to be still and find joy each day.

Financial health - short term and long term financial goals promoting independence and flexibility; plan for ways you can serve others (e.g. mission, community service, education); create a personal balance.

Relationship Plan:

Relationship with your family (wife, children, parents, in-laws, extended family).

Relationship with friends and business associates.

Continually ask the question, “what kind of an influence in the world am I for teaching righteous principles?”

Seek social and emotional balance in your treatment of others.

Learn to be comfortable in the presence of others.

Study Plan:

Create a study program to improve your mind.

Build a yearly calendar down to the day complete with study objectives.

Include spiritual, professional, and personal interests.

Personal Worthiness Interview:

Ask yourself the temple recommend questions and honestly answer.

Choose a special area to focus on during the year that would improve your personal worthiness and bring you closer to your Heavenly Father.

Enjoy the thrill of accomplishment and the power of determination to do better.

“It is not enough just to do, you also have to be.”

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