The Little Things

Good Morning!

After a grueling couple of weeks full of challenges and small victories, I just wanted to take time out to tell you what keeps me moving forward.  (drumroll....  I know your on the edge of your seat....LOL)   Instead of just saying it, I'll tell you a story.

I have a good friend (James R Davis) who is also my business mentor and someone that has given me lots of great advice and encouragement over the last 4 years.  Often I log in to my facebook account and am immediately motivated by one of his posts, business and personal.  Jokingly I refer to this as my daily dose of "vitamin J".  So this morning, I wanted to show a little appreciation for my "vitamin J" for the day and I acknowledged the roll he was on with his posts and told him in so many words, "I'm looking forward to a time that I can feed into you as much as you feed into me".  His response "you already do, you just don't know it"...

AWESOME!  This is someone that I truly admire and look to for encouragement and wisdom telling me that I do some of those same things for him.  That definitely put a smile on my face.  This small gesture of shared gratitude that lets me know, no matter how messy or difficult this life has become or can be, there is a much larger purpose that we are walking in.  So, on a day like yesterday.... I'm getting by on "The Little Things". 


Some of my Little Things this week:

There are the biggest most vibrant roses growing in front of my parents house, and walking past them reminds me of all the times as a child I would make "perfume" with the petals and a little water.  They remind me of the awesome hair accessories that I saw on the website for "Flowers from Fatima" just the other day.

I cut my son's hair into a near perfect Mo-Hawk for his football pictures, and he loved it :-)

I keep finding amazing things on Pinterest (of course) that I want to do for my kids.

I've been drinking tons of water and my skin looks GREAT! always awesome.

Fall officially starts tomorrow and the leaves on the trees are slowly begining to turn, I love watching the transition.

I get to cuddle with the cutest and wildest sleeping 1 year old every day, mommy time can be tough but it's awesome too!

I could go on and on... my point is just that I've found  reasons to smile everyday.  Like a friend of mine recently said, it's a choice to be happy, there are a million excuses that we can make for why things are miserable.  Why not choose joy over sadness...

Maybe it's time to start listing out your little things. 
Bye ~ For Now

1 week into the challenge

Hello to you!

I am super excited to share with you my progress after one week in the SBC 90-Day Challenge.     But before I do have to back track a bit.   This past week was INTENSE, emotionally.  I was feeling super drained and overwhelmed with different currents of emotion dealing me a tough hand.  I was crazy busy with the kids home, we are transitioning to a new school and I thought it best not to go back to the old one for a few days while I explained to my 4-year old that we were switching and why. (you can imagine that this conversation did not go without tears)  And truly, it's been a battle going from a 2 parent household to 1. 

So with some of these things going on, it would seem like waiting 1 week to get started wouldn't be a bad idea.  Plus me and the Noble One, are still working out the kinks of our training schedule!  But when  I got that brand new pink bottle of Skinny fiber, I simply could not resist.  If I was excited before, I am super excited now!  After just one week of taking the Skinny Fiber, I lost 7 lbs.  This weight loss came without any significant changes to my routine.  I pretty much are like normal, (I'm working to incorporate more meals into my day).  My activity level was moderate with walks to the park for the kids play time.  and BOOM, 7lbs gone!!!

Good Bye and Good Riddance!

I certainly feel good about this early progress.  So much so that I finally posted my official before photo. I want everyone to know where I'm starting so that I am accountable for the progress I want to show.

Now I did attempt to incorporate this Ab Work Out.  and you know what?!?! I was NOT ready for that.  it says it's a 30 day Ab challenge, so I'll give it another try.  

Anyway 7lbs!!!!  :-)   To be continued.

 

Check out my challenge HERE

Bye for now~