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“Your mission: Be so busy loving your life you have no time for hate, regret or fear.”

 –Karen Salmansohn

Honestly compliment someone daily: “Never miss an opportunity to make others happy.”

Learn how to swim: “Because people die in there!” –Nicole Shepard

Make a big change: “You will recognize your path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.” –Sara Teasdale

Go to the temple at least twice a month: “To believe in something and not to live it is dishonest.” Mahatma Gandhi

Get a full-time internship: “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” –Stephen R. Covey

Leave the country: “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” Mohammed.

Send someone a card/email twice a month: “We are all pencils in the hand of God writing love letters to the world.” –Mother Teresa

Gratitude journal everyday: “For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it’s enough that there are trees in the world.” –Russell Brand

 Go on a road trip: “You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.” – Steven D. Woodhul

Change oil in my car on time: “Because she’s gotta last a few more years.” –Nicole Shepard

Move to Salt Lake: “If you don’t like where you are, get up and move, you’re not a tree after all.” –Jim Rohn

Read the Book of Mormon by the end of May: Because I want to.

Read the Gospels by August: Because I love Jesus.

Study/read Isaiah (institute) by 27^th birthday: Because great are the words of Isaiah—as great as they are confusing.

Bare testimony on Fast Sundays: “Our words are our greatest assets for change.” –Unknown  

Take Institute: Because most everything awesome about your life has a direct link to Institute.

Call up and go out with friends at least every other week: “Let us resolve to cherish those we love by spending meaningful time with them, doing things together, and cultivating treasured memories.” –Pres. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Buy four copies of Just Who Will You Be, sign an inscription, and give one to someone, once a season: “We are first and foremost human beings in our own right. We’re entitiled to our own lives, our own dreams and goals, our own legacies.” –Maria Shriver.

Read Increase in Learning by Elder David A Bednar: “When an apostle writes a book, you read it.” –Blair VanDyke

Go camping: “Nature forces within us are the true healers of disease.” -Hippocrates

Be someone’s second chance: “Being humble is recognizing that we are on earth not to see how important we can become, but to see how much of a difference we can make in the lives of others.” –Gordon B Hinckley

If it scary, do it anyway: “Storms make trees take deeper roots.” –Dolly Parton

Cut back on the complaining, use a rubber band and a gratitude list: “Don’t be a defeatist, dear it’s very middle class.” –Violet Crawley

Deal with math, even though you don’t want to: “When you feel like quitting think about why you started.” –Unknown

Get published: “Whatever you are, be a  good one.” –Honest Abe

Be classy, sassy and a little smart assy!: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” –Laurel Thatcher Ulrich