A challenge for you!

This year has barely started and I am already up to my neck with all the things I want to do! I have spent the last week learning, soul searching, and planning. It is exhausting and exhilarating at the same time. I will get my body bugg tomorrow! I also plan on getting my first workout of the year done. I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions, but as I have just finished my second seminar, went to Year of Your Dreams, starting a new quarter at school, and find myself in a good place to get some things started…now is as good of a time as any to move forward with my plans.

One of the biggest things I am working on right now is finding healthy ways of loving myself. It is easy to forget to do that with school and so many other priorities to just get back to me and doing the things I love. One thing I promised myself is that I would get back to photography. It’s been a long time. I think I needed a grieving period to let go of the dream of the career I so desperately wanted but found it did not work with my situation or the situation of my family. I feel like I am a different person now. I honestly don’t even know what my photographic point of view is anymore. I am looking forward to figuring it all out now!  I also have switched the way I view exercising. I start that tomorrow. It will be 30 minutes of loving myself for sure! LOL…I also want to get back to quilting. I love doing it. Time will be a factor for all these things, but I don’t have to spend a whole day doing it. An hour here or there should be just fine.

I now challenge you! What are the things that you love doing that you have put off? We all do it. Life gets busy with work, kids, house work, etc. The things we love to do for ourselves eventually go out the door with the garbage. I challenge you to spend one hour a week doing something for yourself you haven’t done in a long time that is just for you. You will be surprised how much that will help! I promise.

I have started my next thing on my list of 34! It is something that I will not be able to cross of until the end of the year, but that is ok. My task was to make a new recipe from one of m healthy cookbooks every week. I am making a vegetarian chili from one of my cookbooks tomorrow. Sunday is my cooking day traditionally, but things had to change a little and I am making it tomorrow instead. I did go grocery shopping though and have everything I need. I will let you all know how it goes. One thing I am feeling kind of sketchy about is that it has mushrooms in it. I hate mushrooms, but hey…it’s time to start trying new things and maybe even acquiring a taste for others!

Year of Your Dreams was cool. It really helped motivate me and set up my intentions for the year. Everyone comes up with a “stake” which is kind of like a motto to keep you motivated. Mine is just like me…cheesy, and I love it! Mine is “Future songs and flying dreams” and comes from a song that means a lot to me right now. Really that is what this year is for me…finally accomplishing some dreams, moving forward into a beautiful life, and starting our family. I cannot wait!