2021
75 Hard - Time for a Reset
February 2020 we started our first #75Hard. October 10th, 2021 I started my second #75Hard. I've been rather busy lately, and that's ok, tis the season. Due to that busy-ness, I don't have much to say today except that I felt a reset would be really good for me. No, that's not what I mean. What I mean is that 2022 is my year. My birthday is 2/2…
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Year in Review
A Review of My 2021 Goals
I thought I would review my 2021 goals as it has been a hot minutes since I've even take a look at the list: Marathon: We tried doing a marathon and it got canceled due to covid. We are scheduled to run an unorthodox ultramarathon in October that will technically cover this. Tough Mudder: woot woot! Nailed it. Everesting: Turns out that this event is very e…
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Year in Review
9 Days Left - What to Do
We have 9 days left to scramble to show we did something this first quarter. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY We have 9 days to plan and prepare for the second half of the year. So let's do a down and dirty (oh yeah baby!) brain dump: List out must dos This might be home maintenance, pay insurance for the year, register kids for school, etc... List out big goals List out e…
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Challenge
Two Weeks Left of the First Half of 2021 aka A Really Long Title
The photo is the day before my wedding to a man whose heart stole my world. And a baby Bella on the side. You have 2 weeks left. 14 days. Choose wisely dear one. I am taking a media fast to help me with my focus. I am going to finish this first half of the year physically strong. #beastmode I am not where I would like to be with the rest of my goals for th…
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Challenge
GoRUCK Tribe
GoRuck Tribe I thought I would mention this challenge again. It is a 4 year long challenge. You can join any time. Here are my favorite points on it: * A different challenging workout each month. Some of the months I feel like a champion because I do so well with and other months there is obvious room for improvement. Either way, I finish them with the streng…
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Baby steps
Making Plans to Succeed
Prime Day/s is/are upon on us and it got me thinking. Events like this and Black Friday and what not tend to break the best laid plans, well not really. In theory they do until we realize that we never made plans to succeed. We just said, "I'm not spending anything right now" and left it at that. I remember once in college listening to a group of p…
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Year in Review
Day 2 of 30
So, you've thought it over, are you going to do this thing? How are you going to prove yourself today? How are you going to show up for yourself today? I would recommend that you pause right now. What is one thing you can to do today that moves you in the right direction? Got it? Now close your eyes and see yourself doing the thing with joy, fulfillment, kno…
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Year End Audit
30 Days Till...
You have 30 days to: Learn how to do a push up Lean how to do a pull up Start a blog Start a YouTube channel Start a podcast Run a mile Perfect the chocolate chip cookie Find the best lasagna recipe Find your signature dish Cement self prioritization habits Learn a new skill for work Start a garden Walk every single day Spend time feeding your brain daily (reading) …
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Year in Review
Here's Your Sign
Have you been waiting for a sign to start the thing? Here it is. You have 30 days. 30 DAYS. Till the first half of the year is gone. You have 30 days to finish the first half of the year stronger than you started it. You have 30 days to catch up. Get back on track. Focus. Begin the thing. Finish the thing. Not tomorrow, not in a week. Today. Start toda…
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Book Recommendations
Book Recommendations
I feel like every other day I am writing one of these. Not true, but time is elusive and hard to keep track of. Loosey Goosey. Let's get into it. I had no clue Tina Turner is a Buddhist. I thought this was a great little introduction into some Buddhist principles. I don't think there is any magic bullet chanting and I doubt she would say that, but it do…
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Challenge
First Quarter 2021 Challenges
One of the things I truly enjoyed in 2020 were the challenges I completed. First it helped with variety in activities and second it helped to challenge different areas. I really felt it helped with stagnation. So this year, I wanted to be more intentional with challenges. Here is the one negative thing I would say, I did too many challenges this first quarter …
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Book Recommendations
Favorite Books - 2021
This is going to be a surprisingly long list considering I'm writing this not even a full 2 months into the year. Several of these are re-reads which means they rank really high on my list. Sorry, I'm not the best book reviewer because I don't wanna be. I just wanna say, yo, read this shit. All but one of these books were checked out from the library…
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Intention
Stop Doing Filler Work
Stop Doing Filler Work. No more busy work. No more putting things down on a list for the sole purpose of a dopamine hit for striking it off! Your brain rewards you for certain tasks. Purchase something online? Dopamine hit. Eat something not nourishing to your body? Dopamine hit. Cross something off your list? Dopamine hit. Have you heard that instead of keep…
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Baby steps
Keep Your Promises
Keeping your promises is one the most precious gift you can give yourself and those around you. When my children were little I read somewhere how important it was to keep your word to your children. That is a true struggle to change your automatic responses. "Mom, can we go to the park after lunch?" Automatically me: "Yes". Thunderstorm rolls…
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Storyteller
Story Teller - Our Most Told Stories
2020 has been a very difficult year for so many. So much loss in so many different forms. Loss of life. Loss of our definitions of our days. Loss of jobs. Loss of way of life. Loss of proms. Loss of graduations. Loss of our traditional celebrations that define us at a fundamental way. So far 2021 is no different. When we are in the struggle, it is a strug…
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2021
When You Disappoint Yourself
Great God, I ask for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself -Henry David Thoreau This is one of my favorite quotes of all time. As we evaluate our lives, our last year, this last week, we may find something where we have disappointed ourselves. How to make our way through things like this. 1. Hold space for forgiveness. Let's begin by holdin…
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Challenge
February Challenge Review - Social Media Fast
Things I learned during my one week media fast: 1) I have more time without social media 🙊🙊🙊 Shocking, right? Seriously though, I was able to get so much more done. I should note that I uninstalled social media apps, games, and cut out YouTube as well. I cut out games because I knew I would look for some other distraction if I cut out media. To be fully serio…
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Goals
Manufactured Motivation
Haven't I written about this before? Why, yes I have here and here . For those that don't remember, don't want to read the previous articles, or whatever, manufactured motivation is engineered motivation. Motivation is skill that can be developed. One that can assist with motivation is by using deliberate markers in our life. I've mentioned th…
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Challenge
February Challenges
I tried creating my own challenge. A push-up challenge of 100 push-ups every day no matter how ugly they are. I don't think I had as much benefit from them as I was hoping for. I think I am going to have to take on a longer one. Maybe this one or this one ? This week's challenge is a one week social media fast. 🙌 I am ridiculously excited for this on…
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Goals
How to Become
When you think of your future you, who are you? What are you doing? What does it feel like being this best you? What are your priorities? We talked about this a bit in my last post. Who do you intent to be? What are your intentions? Now, looking specifically at your habits and routines. Do they support your intentions? Are they the best way to achieve those in…
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