Last night I was rummaging around my bathroom, searching for things to pack (to pack! more about my trip later!) and because I can't just do one thing at a time, I was compelled to organize my growing collection of Bath &  Body Works products.

You may or may not know this, but I started working for Bath & Body Works last September. I did really well for a while, but I've unfortunately (for my bank account) gotten to the point where I just can't help but buy things! Sometimes. I'm not crazy. I don't think I'll ever have the collection comparable to some of my co-workers (one has over 60 candles!), but I'm learning what I like.

So... I decided to do some a review of sorts. Really chill. I'll just let you know what my favorites are in each category, since I get that question a lot.

Cool.

So I'll see you in a week?

i'm just really proud of this piece of lint.

so sturdy & fluffy. 

an anomaly, really.

Launching Leaders

So it turns out that churchy self help type seminars are a huge deal. Who knew?

Now, I can't really tell you a whole lot about what this one is really about 

because I attended like 3 of the 7 or 8 or however many sessions there were.

BUT, Brother & Sister Ritchie are super sweet missionaries who I picked up some wise thoughts from.

(I also stole these super flattering photos of me from their website, http://theministryofbusiness.com/)

ANYWAY.

I was looking at my notes the other day, and there's actually some gems, so here you go:

+ Write a personal constitution.

You're not going to be what you say you want to be if you don't name them & remember.

Peak Performance Model:

+ Spiritual Toughening

+ Time Management (self esteem=productivity=tm)

+ Financial Fitness

+ Skills & Talents- find your oil

+ Nutrition & Rest

+ Humor (the most successful leader/person only laughs at themselves, no one else)

+ Creativity

+ Mental Toughness- "I will go, I will do."

+ Communication

+ Leadership

3 Es of Training (Communication, I think?)

Educate

Edify

Empower

7 Steps to a Great Talk:

+ "I remember..." story

+ Summarize

+ a Scripture

+ object lesson/visual aid

+ "Will you..."

+ "I promise..."

+ "I know..."

^ Also, 

Humor, Passion, Voice, Face, Grooming, Time

*An 8 minute talk is 8 minutes or less. That's my jam.

Gotta have a good mix of:

Message, passion, credibility

I love that. I think it applies to the way we live life,

not just the way we give talks!

So so awesome.

I also would say message/cause because of the next part...

BHAG -> Big Hairy Audacious Goal

(something we should all have! but that I can't figure out)

BHAG = cause, credibility, passion

And that's all we have! Except for a couple great videos.

The first one is a TED Talk by Benjamin Zander,

which I remember nothing about except that it was good & this:

"I will never say anything that I could not stand to be my last words."

The other one is something I just remember being adorable and hilarious:

The Story of Jonah far across the sheeaa!

k i'm done. 

legality: the final frontier

21, yo.

i got my hair did,

ate lunch at sweetgreen,

and shopped too much.

and then i watched pitch perfect at home with my sister.

it was not what i pictured 21 to be.

but it was happy.

and happy is all i asked for.

hollydayz

In November through last week, I worked a lot. 

Holy holidays in retail. People are insane.

And I was tired. But it was mostly fun.

Other things that happened:

+ My coworker and I took pics with Santa at the mall, obvi.

+ I said goodbye to some sister missionaries.

We have some amazing Sisters here in DC South, 

and Tori will be pretty cool in CA I guess.

No more Sunday School snapchatting for me.

+ My sister got me Pitch Perfect, fleece lined leggings, and the cutest Anthro mug,
so I need literally nothing else to live.

+ I spent Christmas with my favorite cousins in Virginia & it was so perfect and fun.

+ The week after Christmas I got enough time off to go home!
I baked, slept, and played with the dog. It was the best.
We also went to the farm (!!!) and I over-snapchatted it.
It's seriously gorgeous, though.

 







aaaaaand that basically brings us to now.