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. …
“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 …
“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 …
