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Cristie Gardner has graduated a SECOND time from the Mindset Mastery Course! After completing it the first time in 2015, Cristie repeated the program again to achieve her next-level goals. I just wanted to offer my congratulations for her accomplishments as a Mindset Mastery Honors Graduate, this...

By Cristie Gardner Working with something usually means partnering with it. The LAW is created by and aligned with God; therefore, working with the Law means partnering with God. In 1988, I was pregnant with our eighth child. We had a seven-passenger Volkswagen bus, and I became quite concerne...

By Cristie Gardner A few years ago, my husband and I traveled to Guatemala to visit my sister and her husband. While we were there, they gave me a gift I treasure deeply: a beautiful necklace with matching earrings. But what made it truly special was the story behind it—the story of Creamos. Tha...

By Cristie Gardner In his book The Science of Getting Rich, Wallace D. Wattles describes the Law of Perpetual Transmutation. In simple terms, it means energy from the formless realm is always flowing into the material world, taking shape. This energy is limitless and inexhaustible. Physical mani...

By Cristie Gardner Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” And if he didn’t say it… well, he should have! If there’s one law you can always count on, it’s the Law of Cause and Effect. This law ...

By Cristie Gardner As a little girl, I loved going to the park and playing on the seesaw with my sister. We delighted in shifting our weight just right—so we could lift the other side higher and longer, or let it drop faster. Up and down. Up and down. When our side was up, with our faces warmed ...

By Cristie Gardner I watched in awe as our daughter delivered a healthy, 7 lb 10 oz baby boy, Caleb. We were with her through the final stages of labor, and it was clear why they call it "labor"—it's hard work! As little Caleb’s head crowned, a problem became apparent. The cord that had faithfu...

By Cristie Gardner Recently, our four-year-old granddaughter was trying hard to express something she wanted very much: extra playtime when it was clearly time for rest. She was doing her best to communicate her case but lacked the words to persuade her parents that her plan (at least in her min...

By Cristie Gardner More Lessons from the COVID-19 Days In Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2, Hamlet tells Rosencrantz that Denmark feels like a prison. Rosencrantz replies with something along the lines of, “If that’s how you see it, then the whole world is a prison.” Hamlet responds with one of Shakespea...

By Cristie Gardner It began with belief—and a vision. It would’ve been easy to blame my injury for my inability to walk more than a few yards without being consumed by pain in my legs. But I’ve done the work now—the fierce determination, the sacrifices, the time, the study, the anguished pleas ...

By Cristie Gardner Lessons from the COVID-19 Days: The pandemic brought countless unexpected changes, twists, and turns to our planned paths. It affected each of us differently. Some, especially introverts, enjoyed the time in relative solitude. Others longed desperately for conversation, hugs,...

By Cristie Gardner "Happy talk, keep a-talkin' happy talk; Talk about things you like to do. You gotta have a dream; if you don't have a dream, How you gonna have a dream come true?" This cheerful tune, written by Rodgers and Hammerstein in 1949 for South Pacific, may sound simple, but its mess...

By Cristie Gardner For years, I’ve written down my goals—the character traits I wanted to develop, the things I hoped to own, the adventures and projects I dreamed of completing. But at times, I felt like I was stumbling in the dark, hoping my dreams would somehow materialize, not really knowing...

By Cristie Gardner Yesterday, I watched in awe as our daughter gave birth to a beautiful, healthy 7 lb. 10 oz. baby boy—Caleb. We were by her side during the final stages of labor and were powerfully reminded why it’s called “labor”: it’s incredibly hard work. As little Caleb’s head began to em...

Thoughts Make the Person By Dr. Stan and Cristie GardnerMentors in Physical Health and Personal Achievement “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Volumes have been written on the power of the human mind. As a Man Thinketh by James Allen. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. The Secr...

(This was given to me by a good friend, Renae Pelo, the year before I took the "plunge" into homeschooling - it was instrumental in helping me have the courage to begin my own homeschooling experiment. I'd like to also thank Sherrie Hatch for gifting me the book "A Thomas Jefferson Education" two...