mindfullness
60/60 Review
Good morning all, It has been a hot minute since I've posted. I am not ready to go into the details yet. I will though as I need to discuss it. I wanted to take a moment to discuss my 60/60 challenge. As a reminder, I had a timer that went off every hour of the day that I was awake as a reminder to pray for 60 days. At first it had a profound impact. I fel…
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Bad Day
The Power of Habits, Routines, and Daily Task Lists
I'm linking my planner that I have been using (and loving) this year if you need a tool that will help map out habits to build, set routines, and create daily task lists cuz this planner is the bomb. How's that for a long sentence? If you didn't know... your habits and routines are NOT for when things are going right. They are for when things are go…
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Storyteller
StoryTeller - Fantasy Self to Reality Part 3
I really touched on the point I want to make with Part 2, but I didn't specifically point it out. Sometimes we want to do a full reset on our understanding of ourselves. To remodel ourselves. Did you ever dream of moving to a new school in middle school or high school and becoming someone new? Like changing everything from the way you dress to the way you act?…
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Storyteller
StoryTeller - Fantasy Self to Reality Part 2
Why do we put things off till another day? It's because we believe our Fantasy Self, or Future Self, is stronger than who we are right now. So how do we get from where we are now to that Fantasy Self that can conquer all these things we delay on? Let's use my sugar issue as an example. I want to eat the ice cream. I want to eat the candy. And I throw …
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Baby steps
Staying Steady
As I evaluate where I am at in life, I realize that staying steady is an area that I can improve upon. I think many of us can. We create a plan and then we either meet success or resistance. Success: Yes, let's do more and go harder Resistance: Oh no, let's do more and go harder Have you ever been losing weight and you think, what if I cut out half of th…
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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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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
Rock June with Baby Steps
If you aren't tracking, stop reading and go make notes of the important things (important things to you) Step count Calories Pages written Time on task etc... Now that you have your baseline, make a small, tiny, itty bitty increase to that number and set that for your goal for this week. For me, my goals for this month are focused almost exclusively on health…
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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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Storyteller
StoryTeller - Hard Things Continued
Sometimes on our way to do hard things we get overwhelmed. We've started telling a new story to ourselves and we hit a wall mentally. If you can power past it, go for it! But what if you can't power past it. What if you try to power past it and you end up giving up all together. First have patience and grace with yourself. Don't fall back into old s…
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Baby steps
Time for a Hard Reset?
You ever do a hard reset on a device? Where you have to wipe everything and start from factory settings? Do you need a hard reset to your life? How can you tell? Are you finding yourself constantly behind? Are you struggling to do the meaningful things? The important things? Let's do a hard reset. 1. Do a brain dump on everything that "needs" to…
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Baby steps
Meditation Hack
Do you want to learn to meditate? Is it a goal to meditate for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, an hour? Are you struggling to get started? Take one mindful breath. An hour of meditation is a series of mindful breathes strung together. Start with one. That's all. If you take one mindful breath today, you are winning. Just one. And then one day, add another. …
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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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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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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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Goals
How to achieve Consistency
Today can be your Day 1. Day 1 of push-ups. Day 1 of meditation. Day 1 of green smoothies. Day 1 of living with less. Day 1 of positive self-talk. Day 1 of moving your body. Day 1 of enriching your mind. Day 1 of sobriety. Day 1 of self-prioritization. What's your Day 1 going to be?
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Goals
3 Days To Smash Those Goals
The single most important thing you can possess when turning goals into reality is consistency. It's not perfection. It's not luck. It's having the strength and courage to show up over and over again. The balls to get up over and over again. Baby steps when needed and giant leaps when the energy is there. That's all. Progress over perfection.…
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Challenge
1st Challenge of 2021 Complete
"File:Africa-animal-big-carnivore-87410.jpeg" by Petr Kratochvil is licensed under CC0 1.0 < said in a booming voice > I declare 2021 as the year of challenges! < crowd responds in a southern belle voice while grasping chest > why I do declare! hahaha. So my first challenge of the year, for the 2nd week, was to eat only meat for a week. …
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minimalism
Less Is Now Challenge for January
Minimalism has been a passion and battle of mine for long while now. I find it one of the most challenging aspects of myself. I go from overwhelmed from too many clothes, too many options, to a nice, easy wardrobe in which I eventually buy more in my desire to own in all. It's an ongoing battle with myself. I am MUCH better than I was before, but it affects dif…
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