Challenge
Upcoming Challenges
First, I am working testing out my reaction to various foods as part of the elimination diet. Background info for those who haven't been tracking, I took a food sensitivity test in 2020 and I just finished 4 weeks without those foods I tested as being reactive to. Last week, I tested my sensitivity to garlic. Thank GOD! I didn't have a reaction. This w…
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Goals
Feeling Lost?
"John Spencer Smith, 1769-1845" by Provenance Online Project CC0 1.0 If you are feeling lost, finding it difficult to find traction in your life, or struggling to create your goals for this year, try this exercise. Heck, do it as a time capsule thing for no other reason than doing it. Write a letter about how you've improved your life from your b…
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Love
For Today: Be
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. BY ROBERT HERRICK Reduce distractions : you cannot stop and gather the rosebuds with your nose stuck in your phone. Duh. We get tired of hearing it. We get tired of telling ourselves this. But then we get the itch and the twitch and we for…
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minimalism
Less Is Now- Reduction Challenge
In Less Is Now , the Minimalist end with a challenge to reduce items every day for the month of January. Reduce 1 on the 1st, 2 on the 2nd.... 31 items on the 31st. I thoroughly enjoyed this challenge until the last week. One note is that I tried to keep this challenge to just my items. I would have had to reduce items that I love, use, or need if I had truly…
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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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Goals
Stretch Goals
"Morning stretch" by Lottie's pets & stuff is licensed under CC0 1.0 As you consider new goals, either for 2021, the week, the month, etc... consider turning them into stretch goals. Stretch goals are to stretch you. Not necessarily achievable. How can you tell if it's a stretch goal? Can you currently map out how to achieve the goal?…
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