Being Me: Week 41

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." 

Being Me: Week 41- Do the work (if you want change)

October theme:  We can't become what we want by remaining what we are

There are less than 90 days left in the year as we count down to 2020. Another year of goals and lists, intentions and promises and another year of seeking change. But until you make the commitment to change something, even just one thing, nothing else will change. The year will come to its end as you attempt to recall what made it different from the past?

To help you find your direction for 2020 start now and commit to something new.

Every year at the close of the year I begin new lists of goals and dreams. A bucket list of what I want the year to represent. I love the promise of a new year with all its hope and possibility. Even if the list seems repetitive; lose weight, organize, write more, drink more water, find my purpose, I am still making baby steps towards change. And the easiest way to do that is to create habits around the change I seek.

This past January, I decided to spend thirty days following Whole 30, creating a clean slate of what affects my body and how I feel. That shift was all I needed to catalyst the change I had been seeking for a lifetime. Just like once I quit smoking, a whole new world of possibility was revealed.

Those 30 days taught me how food affects my body and how I feel and with small adjustments I made better decisions for my future self.

 Themes for each month to journal, create or contemplate on your journey

• January - The best time for new beginnings is now

1. Morning routine
2. Mission statement
3. Create your YES list
4. Goals, baby steps, tiny promises
5. Putting it in motion

• February - Before anything else, find yourself, be yourself and love yourself

1. Take care of your body
2. Meditation and solitude
3. Food choices and ideas for change
4. What makes you happy

• March - All you need is tea and warm socks

1. Enjoy the simple things
2. Letting go of thoughts and things
3. Both hands
4. Mindfulness (social media and smart phones)
5. Setting intentions

• April - Water your roots so your soul can blossom

1. Water and other things we need to grow
2. Time to blossom
3. The 3 R's
4. Forgiveness

• May -  The difference between a flower and a weed is judgment

1. Stop judging yourself and others (why we judge)
2. The grass isn't always greener
3. Love is the absence of judgement
4. Stop judging yourself if you don't want to be judged

• June - Believe you can and your halfway there

1. Believe in yourself
2. Believe in others
3. What thoughts have distorted our beliefs
4. Invest in yourself

• July - Bold stripes, bright stars, brave hearts

1. Integrity
2. Taking risks
3. Abundance
4. Let your light shine

• August - We are who we choose to be

1. Who do you think you are

• September - Sometimes we can learn and study & know, and sometimes we have to believe, trust and hope

1. What do you know to be true of you
2. Books that create thought
3. What holds you back
4. Trust yourself
5. Hope means your always ready to see the good in tomorrow

• October - We can't become what we want by remaining what we are

1. Do the work if you want change

• November - Small seeds of gratitude will provide a harvest of hope
• December - Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of hope

 Mission Statement:  I will improve my overall health and wellness, use kindness and inspiration with a vision that creates  a community of giving and in doing so achieve my purpose in this life.   

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