Angie Klotz

What is your POWER WORD??? You know the word that decribws the attribute you admire MOST!!

💥AUTHENTIC💥

That is my power word these days!! There isn’t much more out there that I respect more than those that are truly authentic!

The courage to be truly me without fear of judgment or ridicule is something I have battled for years- maybe forever! 😬

This weekend I was filled and fueled by this gorgeous group…. all brave enough to be authentically themselves! We laughed (a lot), cried, connected and truly drank in the opportunity to be together, share, learn and be honest about where we are at and where, and more importantly, WHO we want to be!!!

I feel FREE! Free to be ME!!

Thank you my friends for your willingness to take this journey with me!! So much love to you!

What do you think when you read this??

Learning to value my own voice over the opinions and words of others has been a freeing experience! However, I still get caught up sometimes!! Reading this helps!

It’s here!!! TODAY we make it happen!!

Literally the MOST exciting day of my entire career is here!! This is the day we will finish our First Top Trip - to Scotland! This is a goal I have been runnning for, dreaming about, working toward for 6 years!!!

More than that though, this goal marks a full circle journey!

5 years ago we missed this goal by a hair! It caused me to really examine things - “how do you miss such a big goal by such a small amount?”

The reflection helped me realize many things, most importantly, personally what I had let my personal life get to! I got close enough to the goal to know I could get it, but stayed far enough away so that we wouldn’t be able to go!

This realization started the separation and divorce process and what a process it was!

5 years later I feel I am back!! Lots has happened, I have done major work on me and now is the time!

Today is NOT about a business goal! Today is not about a trip! Today is the day where I bust through my old life and am ready to stand up and be noticed again!!! Today is the day that marks strength, determination and sets me into a different level!!

I adore today!! It’s going to be a GREAT day!!!😊

Alright, ready for some REAL talk from Ang? 😳You know I’m known for full transparency. It’s time to get even more vulnerable here. 💕

So far this year our Mary Kay team has done Half a Million in business, just like we have 5 times before! We have a new Cadillac coming, we have hit many goals..... but not THE one!

5 years ago we missed the goal - Top Trip Unit - by a hair!! 😢It made me cry, it made me reflect and it made things change! That miss helped me realize that a whole lot was wrong in my personal life and that a lot of tough things needed to happen! They did! Now things are good! So. SO. Good.❤️

BUT… that dream in my heart to be a trip director is still here.

This year we will finish the job!

THIS IS OUR YEAR!

We are done with “good but just missing”! We are done “almost” giving our all! We are BRAVE.
We are going to use courage and go for it!!!

My team deserves to be a Circle of Excellence (Top Trip) Unit! NO QUESTION. That has never been done in this area and my team deserves to wear that badge!

We are going to show Covid who’s boss. Show women that no matter what happens, you can pick yourself up, dust yourself off and CRUSH goals!! See my “Why” in the photos below. We CAN and we WILL prove to the world that we can do hard things.

It’s time to pull out the big guns💪🏻. We have until the end of June! We are in arms reach from making this a dream come true. It’s time for some miracles…

378 skin care sets, in fact.
OR
2198 mascaras
OR
1026 eye patches 👀.

Heck, I’ll take anything, need a new moisturizer or lipstick💄?? We have some pretty amazing products sold by some amazing people. I’m excited to start showing you my faves in some LIVE videos over the next 18 days. If you are a customer of someone on my team - call them, they would be ecstatic to hear from you!

WHO THINKS WE CAN DO THIS?? Drop me a comment ⬇️or some love ❣️or a gif 😁. Tell me which product is your fave! Tell your friends! Tell ANYONE that the Angels In Action team is going to be a top trip team in Canada once and for all! 🎉🎉

What can you do?
Pray 🙏🏿, cheer 🎉, sell, buy... and hopefully a combination of all 4!

I'm looking for miracles and I know that decisions, belief, action and blessings from unexpected places can totally make MIRACLES!!

Do you have a tendency to compare yourself with other and feel like you come up short?? 😬

The mighty comparison game!! Did you know, we tend to compare our weaknesses woth the strengths of others! Hmmmmm.. not a fair comparison I would say!

Drop a comment below ⬇️ and let me know what part of your life you fall into the comparison game with !

Be you! ❤️ The strengths, the parts you are working on and everything in between! My thought is, maybe my “thing I am working on” is helping to give someone else hope!!

Just be YOU!!

How do you want to make a difference?? Comment below, I would Love to know!

I realize now that making a difference can be subtle!

❣️It doesn’t have to be a grand gesture.
❣️It doesn’t need to be a donation of a million dollars to a charity.
❣️It doesn’t have to be an act to put your own life in harms way.

Just be you!

This is my thought...
when we live out loud
following our purpose
letting the God Whispers direct our steps
we will be lead to opportunity!

Some of those opportunities will take courage and getting out of our comfort zones!

Some of the opportunities will have us make big goals followed by big action and amazing things will be accomplished!!

THAT will make a difference! Others will be inspired, as they watch you succeed and as they watch you have to try again!!

Your courage and effort, whether you reach the goal everytime or not, will have others believe that they can too!!

That is how Choose to make a difference today!

I come from strength!

As my kids grow, I see things different and I definitely see this woman differently!

Every year I appreciate where I came from even more! I understand my mom better! I appreciate her wisdom and experiences! I get it now, she has walked ahead, experienced more - more heartache, more happiness, more tears, more joy! All of their experiences up to now have made her who she is! Everything about her screams strength to me and it makes me proud!

Until a few years ago, I expected perfection from my mom! I expected her to just know what everyone needed and to be that for them! We butt heads, we went for a few years with zero relationship! She always put everyone ahead of herself and we all just expected that and then we didn’t like when that started to shift!

Now, I see her in a new phase of life that she is loving!! She is doing what brings her joy and the things she could not when actively raising her kids! She embraces who she is, chases her passions and lives her values!

This is a gift - a gift to allow others to do the same by her example! She dedicated her life to raising us and poured all into our children and I am happy to see her love where she is at! Her advice that used to annoy me rings so true in my mind now and I hear those same words come from my lips!

There is just something about that unconditional love of a mom that can keep you going! It is that place where I can go and be weak and yet she always believes in me! I am blessed to still have my mom and when I see the heartache of my friends who’s moms have passed on I am more and more aware that I need to absorb my this relationship, this time and with better understanding!!

Oh and for the record, publicly, sorry mom for the attitude, eye rolls and for the many times I thought you just didn’t know! I get it now and I get it more with each passing day!

THIS IS ME!!!!

When you ask how I am, this is what I wish I could tell you!!

Give me a 💗in the comments if you hear this with your heart right now because you feel it too

This is where I am in the middle of right now...right in the middle! 😭😭I remember feeling annoyed when the kids were little when people would tell me these were the best years of my life!

I remember feeling like all I wanted at times was quiet and some time alone! Now I would give ANYTHING to go back for awhile and have them crawling all over me, smothering me in slobbery kisses, wanting me to lay with them while they went to sleep instead of feeling like this! I have 2 more and I know I really annoy them because I know now how quickly this time goes so I am holding on with more grip!
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When you first have children they talk about the challenges of parenting....the struggles of a baby waking in the night,
the toddler who won’t stay in their bed, the cost of childcare, injuries from sports...

Having to take off work to pick them up from school when they don’t feel well, helping them with homework, a messy house, the never ending laundry, the cost to buy school clothes, packing their lunches....

You watch their eyes light up on Christmas morning....and try to soak in the magic of those moments.

You coach them in sports, rushing to practices and ballgames...and tote them all over the country to let them play the game they love...no matter how exhausting or expensive it becomes.

Life is just so busy that you rarely even stop to think what the end of those days look like.

In fact, it’s not really even something you can wrap your mind around.

You go into it thinking that 18-20 years sounds like a long time....

Then suddenly hours turn into days...days into months...and months into years.

That little person that used to crawl up next to you in bed and cuddle up to watch cartoons...suddenly becomes this young adult who hugs you in the hallway as they come and go.

And the chaos and laughter that used to echo throughout your home....gets filled with silence and solitude.

You’ve learned how to parent a child who needs you to care for and protect them....but have no clue how the whole “letting go” thing is supposed to work.

So you hold on as tight as you can...wondering how time passed so quickly...feeling guilty that you missed something....

Because even though you had 20 years.....it just somehow doesn’t seem like it was enough.

You ask yourself so many questions...

Did you teach them the right lessons?
Did you read them enough books as a child?
Spend enough time playing with them?
How many school parties did you have to miss?
Do they really know how much you love them?
What could I have done better as a parent?
....When it’s time for them to go, it all hits you like a ton of bricks.

And all you can do is pray....hope....and trust that God will protect them as they start to make their way into the world alone.

Parenting is by far the most amazing experience of your life....that at times leaves you exhilarated....while others leave you heartbroken.

But one thing is certain.....it’s never enough time...💕

So for all the parents with young children...whose days are spent trying to figure out how to make it through the madness...
Exhausted day in and day out...

Soak. It. All. In.

Because one day....all those crazy days full of cartoons, snuggles, sleep overs, Christmas morning magic, ballgames, practices and late night dinners...

All come to an end.

And you’re left hoping that you did enough right, so that when they spread their wings....

They’ll fly...💕💕💕

Credit to the Amazing Author:

Stop and feel the rain!!

Normally - I run from rain! It flattens my hair, gets my clothes wet and slows me down from getting things done! Today I went out for my run at a time I thought I would beat the rain, but I didn’t!

WHAT A GIFT

The sound of it hitting the leaves, the ground, the water in the pond was so soothing. The sound of the birds chirping, singing and answering back to one another with excitement, was beautiful! The drops running down my face, dripping off my eyelashes and nose felt cleansing and gave a feeling of peace!

I am so grateful to have the ability to just enjoy the rain! I am so grateful to be living in a way that I can take in these beautiful gifts from God that I have always just taken for granted, perceived them as getting in my way or not even stopped enough to notice!

We live in a beautiful world! I have spent too long running with blinders on and missing the simple gifts all around me!

I am curious if there is anything that you normally take for granted that you stopped and noticed with new eyes lately! Tell me below!

Today was a beautiful day to just let the rain hit my face and just breathe!

What is the FIRST thing you want to do when safe to do so??? Give me your top 3
1. Go to the salon.
2. Go to the beach.
3. Go to the gym.
4. Go shopping.
5. Go out to eat.
6. Go hang out with friends.
7. Go travel somewhere.
8. Go to the spa.

This was pure JOY!!!!!

Our neighbors are freshly here from South Africa! I had a lovely chat in the driveway the other day with them and they mentioned being disappointed that the snow was gone by the time they arrived in Canada!! I told her that there was “Still a chance!”

As I was sitting this morning I heard laughing from outside! I went to the window to see the three of them LOVING the snow!!! Giggles, snowballs and the start of a snowman!! I went to the front step and yelled “you got your wish” and they literally jumped up and down and laughed!! To get them to stay till for a quick pic was asking a lot!

It got me thinking - what else in my life am I so used to, that I take for granted? That I will ponder this weekend!

I am curious, if you thought for a moment, what do you take for granted?

The “relatability factor”!! Thank God for it!

Question for you .... what inspires you about things you see in others??