4152 The Woman in the Mirror
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
There's a moment — and if you're honest, you know exactly the one I'm talking about — where you catch your reflection and the first thing that crosses your mind isn't kind. It's not always about what you look like physically, although sometimes it is. More often, it's deeper than that. It's the look in your own eyes that says, I thought I'd be further along by now. It's the quiet measuring of the woman in the mirror that happens when you compare who you are today against who you imagined you'd be at this point. And just like that, the woman staring back at you becomes not enough....
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4151 Design Your Day
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
Why is it that we can pour ourselves into everyone else's schedule, everyone else's crisis, everyone else's to-do list, but when it comes to our own day, we just… wing it? We wake up, already behind before our feet hit the floor, and we spend the next twelve or sixteen hours reacting. Putting out fires. Managing the chaos. Surviving until we can collapse back into bed and do it all over again tomorrow. And somewhere in the middle of all that surviving, we forget the most important thing. Our own day. The one God gave us. The one we will never, ever get back. So design your day! Psalm...
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4150 Stop Going Back
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
Have you ever made a decision, felt good about it for a moment, and then spent the next three days replaying it in your mind like a movie you can't turn off? You made the call. You weighed your options. You moved. And then — almost out of nowhere — the doubt crept in. Did I really think that through? What if I'm wrong? Maybe I should have waited. Stop going back! When we make a decision and clarity stalls, something uncomfortable starts to bubble up. It's the fear of being stuck. Not stuck because the decision was wrong, but stuck because we won't let go of it long enough to see where...
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4149 Overflow with Hope
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
When you feel like all you're doing is running away from or toward all the things, it's hard to find joy and peace in life. You can get down and out about your circumstances, and all hope feels lost. But as Paul says in Romans 15:13, "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." Have you ever had one of those seasons where it feels like you're just running? Running toward the next thing on your list. Running away from the thing you don't want to face. Running in circles because you're not even sure...
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4148 Look For Something To Work With
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
There's a moment in every marriage where you have to make a choice. You can stand there replaying every missed pass — every time your spouse came up short, every promise that got fumbled, every "we'll get to it" that never got to anything. Or you can do what the good ones do when the clock is running out. You can look for something to work with. Think about what you do now. Are you one who focuses on what doesn't work? Or are you willing to see what's possible? Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . #RelationshipBuilders #CreateYourNow...
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4147 Never Miss A Beat
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
Parenting is a never-ending, rhythmic song that plays over and over again. Some of the melodies are soothing to the heart — a sleepy child curled into your shoulder, a shared laugh over something silly at the dinner table, a "thank you, Mom" that comes out of nowhere and undoes you a little. But many more of the notes disrupt the nervous system. The 2 a.m. cries. The slammed doors of the teenage years. The days when you've given everything and it still doesn't feel like enough. However you hear it, you can't run from the most important responsibility in your life. Never miss a beat. Parents,...
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4146 The Circle Isn't Wasted
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
There is a particular kind of tired that comes from walking in circles. You look up and realize you have passed this same tree, this same doubt, this same conversation with yourself, more times than you can count. You are moving; your legs ache to prove it, but the scenery refuses to change. And somewhere in that repetition, you hope that the circle isn't wasted. Because the real question, the one that keeps you up at night, is "does any of this matter if I don't even know where I am?" Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . #Inspiration...
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4145 Just Because Life Takes An Unexpected Turn
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
Life doesn't always unfold the way we planned. One day the road looks clear, and the next, it curves somewhere we never saw coming. Unexpected turns can leave us feeling disappointed, confused, or uncertain about what is happening in our world and what God is doing in the middle of it. But here is what remains true even when everything else feels shaky: God is never surprised by the path ahead. Just because life takes an unexpected turn, God was not caught off guard, and He is not scrambling to figure out what to do next. "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord in...
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4144 Keep Walking When the Miles Feel Long
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
There is a particular kind of tired that has nothing to do with sleep. It's the tired that comes from carrying a dream for longer than you expected to carry it, from praying the same prayer for the hundredth time, from showing up to the same unfinished work day after day and wondering if today is any different from yesterday. If you're in that kind of tired right now, know that you are not stalled. You are in the middle. And the middle is where most of life actually happens. So keep walking when the miles feel long. We tend to picture progress as a straight, visible line — one clear step...
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4143 You Didn't Come This Far to Come This Far
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
A journey lasts a lifetime. It requires a chosen mindset, intentional thoughts, and actions that put an exclamation point to movement. Not a comma. Not a question mark. An exclamation point—a declaration that you meant to keep going. As you travel the various paths set before you, let this settle into your spirit: you didn't come this far to come this far. You kept what was valuable in front of you. You pivoted where necessary. You became consistent as time moved on, even when consistency cost you something. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at...
info_outlineWhy is it that we can pour ourselves into everyone else's schedule, everyone else's crisis, everyone else's to-do list, but when it comes to our own day, we just… wing it? We wake up, already behind before our feet hit the floor, and we spend the next twelve or sixteen hours reacting. Putting out fires. Managing the chaos. Surviving until we can collapse back into bed and do it all over again tomorrow. And somewhere in the middle of all that surviving, we forget the most important thing. Our own day. The one God gave us. The one we will never, ever get back. So design your day!
Psalm 118:24 says, "This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."
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But can I be honest with you? It's really hard to rejoice in a day you never actually showed up for. It's hard to be glad about something that happened to you instead of something you walked into on purpose.
So here's what I want you to sit with today. Are you designing your day, or is your day designing you?
And before you get nervous, let me be clear about what I mean. Designing your day does not mean you have all the answers. It does not mean you wake up with a color-coded planner and a perfectly mapped-out timeline from sunrise to sunset. Some of you just exhaled, and I'm glad. Because that's not what this is about.
Designing your day is about intentionality. It's about being thoughtful with the who, what, how, where, when, and why of your hours.
It's asking yourself before the noise starts, what matters most today? Who needs my attention? Where is my energy best spent? And honestly, what do I need to protect myself from so that I can actually be present for the things that count?
Because here's what happens when we skip that step. When we don't design our day, somebody else will. Your inbox will design it. Your coworker's emergency will design it. Social media will design it. That one text message that sends your whole mood sideways before 9 a.m. will design it. And before you know it, you're standing on the side of the road wondering how you got there, feeling like a passenger in your own life.
That's no way to live. And it's certainly not what you were created for.
Think about how your days work right now. Be real with yourself. Is there a rhythm? Is there any kind of structure that gives your hours a sense of purpose? Or are you flying by the seat of your pants most of the time, hoping things just somehow work out?
Ephesians 5:15-16 tells us: "Be very careful, then, how you live — not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity."
Making the most. That's an active phrase. That's not sitting back and letting the current carry you wherever it wants to go. That's choosing. That's steering. That's designing.
And here's the thing about time that I need you to really hear. Time is the one thing you cannot get back. You can earn more money. You can rebuild a relationship. You can start a new career, move to a new city, try again in a hundred different areas of your life. But you cannot get back a single second of a day that has already passed. Not one.
So why would we treat our days like they're disposable? Why would we hand them over to whatever happens to show up?
The K.I.S.S. ~ Design your day!
You are worth more than a life lived on autopilot. Your calling is worth more than leftover hours and scraped-together minutes. The people you love are worth more than the distracted, depleted version of you that shows up because you never took the time to be intentional about how your day would unfold.
Benjamin Franklin once said, "If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail."
And I don't share that to pile on guilt. I share it because it's an invitation. Planning is not a burden. It's a gift you give yourself. It's you looking at the day ahead and saying, I'm going to show up for this. On purpose. With purpose.
Start small if you need to. Five minutes in the morning before the house wakes up. A prayer. A deep breath. A simple question: God, what do You have for me today? That's designing your day. That's putting your hands on the wheel instead of riding in the back seat with your eyes closed.
Proverbs 16:3 promises us, "Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and He will establish your plans."
Did you catch that? He will establish your plans. Not your chaos. Not your scramble. Your plans. The ones you brought to Him with intention and surrender. He honors that. He meets you in that.
So design your day. Not because you're trying to control everything. Not because you think you have to have it all figured out. But because the life you're living right now is the only one you've got, and it deserves more than your leftovers.
Your day is waiting for you to step into it. Not stumble through it. Not endure it. Step into it, fully present, fully aware, fully committed to making it count.
Design your day. Create your now!
Here's Your Challenge:
Tomorrow morning, before you check your phone, before you open your email, before you respond to anyone else's agenda, take five minutes. Just five. Sit down with a pen and a blank page and answer these six questions:
- Who needs my presence today?
- What matters most?
- How do I want to show up?
- Where will my energy go?
- When will I pause to reset?
- And why does this day matter?
Write your answers down. Pray over them. Then walk into your day on purpose.
Do this for one week straight and watch what shifts. You were not made to drift through your days. You were made to design your day.
"One step at a time leads to miles of greatness." ~ Kristianne Wargo
"Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!"
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