Dreaming of Books Giveaway Hop

Are you Dreaming of Books?  Welcome to this Hop.

Thanks to I Am a Reader not a Writer Blog and 

Review's by Martha's Bookshelf.

Nearly 200 participating blogs are offering a book related giveaway and we are all linked up together so you can easily hop from one giveaway to another. 

The hop runs from Friday, January 13 through Wednesday, January 18, 2012.

Giveaway Details
I'm giving away a copy of 

Dearly Departed

a Secret Sisters Mystery

by Tristi Pinkton

Click here to read my review

Super Simple to Enter

Just Follow my blog with Google Friend Connect (GFC) and leave me a comment with your contact info below.

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List your extra entries in SEPARATE comments.
The winner will be selected using Random.org

Last Day to Enter is Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Winner will be announced Friday, January 20, 2012

Thanks for stopping by.
Feel free to browse around the blog while you are here -
we have a few other giveaways going on.

Once you're done here, HOP on over to the other blogs and check out their giveaways! 

2012 - It's a New Year - Bring it on!

2012 - A new year.  A time for reflection, yes, but more importantly take time to look forward.  Looking forward, what do you see?  Are you looking forward with anticipation, excitement and joy for the new opportunities that will present themselves every day?  Or does fear, discouragement and apathy rule of the day?

“...we truly reap what we send out: ‘For that which ye do send out shall return unto you again, and be restored’ (Alma 41:15).  If we don't like what we're getting...we may have to check out what we're sending...Thoughts and feelings have energy and travel from their origin to affect people and things; but mostly they affect the person with whom they originated...What happens to us enters our systems as energy and takes effect through our energy systems, but what we send out in response seems to have a much more powerful effect on us...Would it be an overstatement to say that during our waking hours we are either generating negative energy or positive energy?” (M. Catherine Thomas, Zion and the Spirit of At-one-ment, F.A.R.M.S. paper)

President Monson said, “At the advent of a new year, I challenge Latter-day Saints everywhere to undertake a personal, diligent, significant quest for what I call the abundant life—a life filled with an abundance of success, goodness, and blessings.”

He’s talking about an abundant life now – in this life, which also means an abundant life in our businesses – “an abundance of success, goodness and blessings.”

He then gave his ABCs for an abundant life. 

A – Attitude – “So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment.”

B – Believe in yourself – “Be honest with yourself, with others, and with your Heavenly Father . . . Don’t limit yourself and don’t let others convince you that you are limited in what you can do. Believe in yourself and then live so as to reach your possibilities.  You can achieve what you believe you can. Trust and believe and have faith.”

C – Courage – “Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently . . . Have the determination to make the effort, the single-mindedness to work toward a worthy goal, and the courage not only to face the challenges that inevitably come but also to make a second effort, should such be required. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’ “ (Ensign, January 2012, First Presidency Message)

We have a great year ahead of us – or it can be if we take the admonition of our Prophet and work to incorporate it into our lives and our businesses.  So again, I say – “2012 – Bring it on and let’s make it our best year yet!”