New Orleans Trip

 This is going to be a picture blog because how better can I possibly describe things!??! I got to take a bath in this!! I've seen them before on TV and pictures, but seriously.. I got to do it myself. One weird thing - when you start draining it out, IT'S LOUD!! Just saying...

The best thing in New Orleans is the FOOD. Seriously.. SO GOOD.
This is a MUFFALETTA.. I can't describe the taste of this sandwich. It is simply tasty.

Cafe Du Monde - Evidently the yummiest place to get a beignet. It's a famous place :) 

 These powdered sugar covered things are beignet's. So, there ya go! We had them two different places.

 There is always live music every where you go. But this band had a dog that would just sit there and they put sunglasses on him. SUPER CUTE!
The puppy must have been very well trained or drugged.. I didn't know and I didn't ask.

 Jackson's Square and a voodoo shop. Interesting eh?
Not supposed to take pictures inside so I snapped this.. I was kind of weary about it, but I just had to.. : /

 Now, here's to the really fun stuff. Mary Kay feeds us so well! This cheesecake was absolutely to DIE FOR. All of it really.. even the greens :) It was really the dressing we had to put on it, but all in all.. such a good meal! FOR FREE :) Love my job.






We were treated to a HUGE Mardi Gras party and unfortunately didn't take a ton of pictures, but there was a live band as we were walking in and another one inside. They brought tons of people on stage intermittently to do stuff. And food stations were everywhere (of course).

This is a memorial of Katrina. Someone asked if the house was real. I won't mention who :)

 Sweet car on the side of the road.. who wouldn't take a picture?

 This is a Po-Boy sandwich.. also very yummy. A little spicy, but it was good!




We also had some fried alligator. It's actually pretty good. I was surprised. It taste like chicken but a little more chewy and a lot more moist.

Notice that they actually call New Orleans N'awlins. I thought that was funny. I mean some of them talk like that but I didn't actually think they would spell it like that too. Nola and I laughed. Oh and Nola is another name for New Orleans. So, this restaurant is called NOLA cookery :)

Limited to False Beliefs

I am assuming everyone has at some point in their life had someone say something negative to them. I am assuming at some point we have said something negative to ourselves. Some people think ill of themselves without any outside explanation. Beautiful people who don't understand what everyone else sees. Incredibly charismatic men and women who can't see beyond their own insecurities. With that being said, I learned something this past week that makes so much sense I don't know how it could be any clearer.

I was listening to a CD by an amazing National Sales Director with Mary Kay. She was explaining how our mind works from some research she has done and books she has read. (For consideration of the blog I am not going to go into detail about that) Something I have understood lately is that your mind believes what you tell it. It is something that I believe and something that I am working on with my own "self talk." However, I didn't quite understand how this worked or why until now.

Your conscious mind is your logic and reason. But your subconscious mind contains the programs that control the functions of our body. It takes information from our conscious mind and turns it into action! The perception we have of ourselves might be limited due to the false beliefs that we or others have put there throughout our lives. Phrases like, "You're too shy to do that," "That kid is faster than you," "You're not smart enough for Harvard," "You're weird," "You are such a nerd." They may not appear to be THAT bad, but your subconscious mind remembers them FOREVER and puts it into action. It will go on following the input that is there. It does not know the difference between true and false. It does not take a joke, it takes you at your word.

Research has found that 77% of the programs in our mind are wrong. Would you fly in a plane with 77%, 50% or even 25% of the programs being wrong? NO WAY! But we walk around in our bodies every single day. How can we cure these false beliefs? How can we become the person we were really intended to become?

We need to surround ourselves with positive influences. We need to stop telling ourselves negative things. But the real way to fix all of the broken beliefs is to replace them with who we would like to be. Hang pictures in your house of the kind of home you would like to have, the kind of family life you would love, the kind of trips you would like to take, the kindness you would like to instill on others, the kind of money you would like to have, and even the spirituality you would like to have. Make a dream book with pictures all of these things. It takes just 21 days of looking at it every morning and every night to convince your subconscious that it will happen. You will forget about the book after a while, but if you do the 21 days and you surround yourself with positive influences and create a way to make it happen then 2 or 3 years down the road 90% of what was in that book will have happened. It has happened over and over again in my business. People creating dreams for themselves, changing their thought process, and their dreams come true.

We are NOT the people that we think we are. We are so much more! We can create anything we would like to in our lives. We CAN influence our future and we can change ourselves and our lives for the better. I am going to make a dream book. I am going to look at it every night and every morning for 21 days straight. And I will write a blog post in two or three years and let you know how much of it all has happened. It has happened before for me. With my goals I wrote down, I forgot about them and a year later all of them came true except one, which I am still working on. :) Suffice it to say, I will become the person I want to be and I will create the life I want to have. I am so excited for this new adventure. Who's with me?