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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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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Story Teller - The Next Step
What happens when you tell stories without action? You end up living in your glory days even if those glory days never happens. "I'm going to start training. And then I'm going to run that marathon. And then I am going to speed up my time. And then I'm going to get a sponsorship. And then..." But the training never begins. Or the trainin…
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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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Do Less
I think the easiest places to begin are with your routines and meetings. Morning routine - do you read or watch the news? Cut that out. If you need to consume the news for particular topics set up Google Alerts. You can have Google scour the net for you on a particular topic and have it emailed to you daily. https://www.google.com/alerts do you force yoursel…
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