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A Gratitude Practice. Don’t roll your eyes at me. Gratitude works, and it takes less than 10 minutes a day. Starting your day in a positive mindset, thinking of small moments to be grateful for. My question for you, is why aren’t you practicing gratitude? “If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.” Roy T. Bennett How I Started With Gratitude Rachel Hollis. She is the reason and the teacher I had for gratitude. I did not learn this practice until I was 35 years old. I didn’t grow …
I love organizing spaces in my home, Spring cleaning, and checking off home projects off my list. I basically enjoy getting rid of clutter, and refreshing a space in my home. My most recent example of this is organizing my home office. We moved a little over a year ago, and we are now chipping away at projects to make our house feel like home. “A good system shortens the road to the goal.” Orison Swett Marden My home office was a “throw things in the room and shut the door” space. I really wanted to utilize my office but …
Good self care is all about building habits and systems that work for you. For me, self care isn’t spa days and face masks at home. What works for me, is creating time for myself to work on goals that I care about, and setting myself up to succeed in my day-to-day routines. Here’s a list of what I think are important factors to take care of yourself and also make headway on some goals. Scroll to the bottom to see what this looks like in my daily life. When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. …
My Long Term Goal- Running A Marathon Running a marathon has been a goal that I have been writing down since February 25, 2020. I didn’t write about what led up to me making such an audacious goal, but I did write down affirmations that day. I wrote, “I believe in myself, I chose to be happy. I am strong, I love my body for everything it has done for me. I love who I am becoming. I love myself.” Before deciding to run a full marathon, I had run 2 half marathons and a handful of 5K’s. I had …
“Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.” James Clear My First Monthly Goal My first 30 day goal was to drink half my body weight in water daily and start drinking a Fab 4 Smoothie for breakfast because I snacked so much when I went to work. Drinking all my water was not a real challenge for me, I already brought a water cup to work, but I needed to make sure I was drinking more. Switching my breakfast routine, did take some refining. I heard about the Fab 4 Smoothie from Kelly …
“Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.”- Tony Robbins https://www.azquotes.com/quote/564493?ref=long-term-goals 2022 is going to be a big accomplishment of long-term goals year for me. Three long-term goals will come to fruition. -I am going to run a marathon. -I will pay off my student loan. -I will write a cookbook. It will not be published, but written. These are big, …
“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.” ― C. JoyBell C. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/bravery What Does It Mean To Be Brave? The definition of Brave is: ready to face and endure danger or pain. Ready to face and endure danger or pain. Think on that for a second. Think of a time you consider yourself brave. Did you endure danger or pain? Being brave has a lot of different meaning depending on situations, and the person that is defining it. Bravery could look like being an all-star …
“Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not.” – Octavia Butler Hey Goal Sisters! I want to talk about how habits can help you maintain your self care needs. I know how important self care is as a busy woman and mom. Some moms feel mom-guilt doing anything for themselves. I am at a place in my motherhood journey that I do not feel guilty about taking time for myself. Why? Because I am intentional about showing up well in almost all other areas of my life. I spend quality and intentional time with …
“Be the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the next time.” – Oprah Winfrey “Embrace the Suck.” I first heard this term from Rachel Hollis a little over a year ago. What exactly does that mean? Basically, as she explained it, it means how long are you willing to suck at the thing you want to pursue in order to get better at it. Do you want to start a blog like me? It’s going to take time. It’s going to suck. A podcast? It’s going to suck to learn how to …
Small goals give us benchmarks to work towards that better our lives, and begin with habits. When we begin to see some progress towards our goals, then we get more motivation to keep going. “It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.” – Confucius Goals are important because they give us direction or a purpose in our life. What is the definition of a goal? “The object of a person’s ambition or effort; an aim or a desired result.” -Oxford Dictionary. A goal has to matter to you if you want to achieve it. All …
