In honor of Global Running Day on June 1, 2022, I am inspired to share with all of you 10 Reasons Why I Run. I have only been running for 3 years now, but I have learned a lot of lessons. I’ve had some setbacks, but I am always motivated to push forward, and that has helped me stick with my running goals. Why I Love Running “Running is my therapy. It gives me release. Mental, physical, and emotional release. Some of my fondest runs are when I was blaring music and crying my eyes out, all while trying to …
What I love about goal setting is all the ideas, planning, and dreaming that occurs. But guess what? Goal setting is hard! Why? Because of the plethora of rabbit trails you can do down while exploring goals. This is often where I get stuck and feel like Alice in Wonderland. I get an idea, I decided to research it more, and then the trail breaks off, I take a right turn, I go under a tunnel, and come out on the other side, and I have no idea how I got there, and I am usually so far off course …
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 …
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, …
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 …
