Excuses

This week I want to talk about excuses. We all make them. Even the smallest of excuse keeps us from doing something. Down the road they often will start affecting your health, fitness, and life. We rationalize and explain away so much, rather then just tell ourself the cold truth. This week I would like everyone to try participating in the One Week, No Excuses Challenge. Try to motivate yourself by setting an internal alert. The best thing to do for yourself is become aware of the excuses that are not useful, real, or true. Instead of saying: Well I can't do this because this is going on. Make the dialogue positive.

Think about relationships for example. Think about relationships you have been in that ended or dates where the other person bailed or said not. When you turn to your friends to help you feel better, they often will tell you positive things. Things such as: You're perfect and they are stupid for not seeing that, or You're better off without them. We need to look at ourself the same way instead of feeling sorry for ourself.

Think about all the excuses we make when trying to get healthy. I am a master at these excuses for sure. People often blame their health on their DNA. I often find myself blaming it on time I do not have.

These excuses also apply when something goes wrong at work. When we run late we tend to blame traffic. When we don't get something finished we blame technology. I know that in high school I loved to blame my computer or printer for why my work was not done.

Just take time to change the way you think. Make yourself take responsibility for things that take place in your life. You never know what kind of reward life will bring you if you stop blaming others. Let me know in the comments if you are taking part of our challenge this week. You can come back in a week and let me know how it goes.

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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein

Choice and Accountability

This weeks value is Choice and Accountability. I started my personal progress again last week so that I can finish it. I forgot how much time is put into a lot of it.

We are all given the option to make choices. Depending on those choices depends on how our life turns out. Some choices are smaller then others, like choosing what movie or TV show to watch. Choosing to dress the way you do can even affect your life.

The scripture that is given for this value is:
Choose you this day whom ye will serve;... but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15

Make choices in life that will improve it. Make them so that you feel better about yourself. Sometimes it is not an easy task. Especially when what you want to do may be something everyone else is doing. In my life I have made choices that have challenged myself and the way I live. I know that if I would have put more faith in God I would not be where I am today. I know that we shouldn't live in the past though. We should always live in the now. I love my life now and can't wait to see what life has in store for the future.

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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein

Frozen

If you have not seen the movie Frozen you definitely should. It is a very cute movie and very entertaining. I get the pleasure of hearing these song almost on a daily basis. I know I have talked about the song "Let It Go" from the movie in a previous blog. All of the songs in the movie are catchy though. My daughter turned three yesterday. We celebrated her birthday today with a Frozen themed party. It was so much fun. I enjoyed making the cakes and shopping for her party.

The cakes were not what I expected at all. The tutorial I had found to follow ended up not being what it was supposed to be. I was able to salvage the cakes after a long process of trial and error. Over all we had a great time. We ended up watching the movie too.

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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein

Five Minute Friday: Exhale

Happy 4th of July!!!

This weeks Five Minute Friday word is Exhale. It is a holiday weekend and I am looking forward to doing a lot of exhaling the next few days. This is not just any normal holiday in my house though. Today is my daughters third birthday. We are having her party tomorrow. I have spent a lot of time the last month making sure I had everything for this party. After the party is over I will be able to relax and inhale and exhale for a few days. I think sometimes, especially as a mother, I forget to exhale. I am so many times going and going and going. If I am not physically going my mind sure is. It is always going in a thousand different direction.

I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend. Please share any traditions you have below.

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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein

Juice

This week I am thankful for juice. I have been trying very hard to drink less soda. In the process it has left me craving some sort of liquid other than water. Walmart has this amazing watermelon juice made by Minute Maid. I was surprised when I first tried this drink because I do not like watermelon as a fruit but I loved the juice. I went out and bought two jugs of it along with two jugs of Sunny D Smooth. I have successfully drank half the amount of soda then usual and a little bit more water.

What drink have you been craving the most this summer?

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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein

Rainbow Wave

I saw this picture and was speechless. Nature is so beautiful sometimes.

What does this picture make you think of?

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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein

Great or Greatest

This weeks prompt is: Great or Greatest. What makes a blog great? What makes you follow a blog or "Like" a post?

When I am looking at blogs the ones that stick out the most to me are, the ones that talk about subjects I enjoy, the ones that are written well, or ones that have stories that keep my attention. I follow a a few blogs that are all about faith and religion. I also follow a few receipt blogs. I love being able to see different point of views on some subjects as well. Its hard to say what makes a blog great. Everyone has their own opinions. For me the people with great blogs are the people who write from the heart. The blogs that are not written because of the views or comments. Great blogs are written by people who enjoy writing and just want to share their thoughts. There are so many reasons these days for people to blog. People blog to advertise, to connect with people with similar interests, to have their voice heard and create awareness, to help other, to stay in touch, to keep record of their life, to express creativity, and to gain knowledge. I started my blog because I wanted to share my thoughts with others and to try and make a difference. It amazes me when I visit someones blog and I can tell that they have spent so much time working on it. I love seeing someone emotion through their writing.

What do you think makes a great blog?

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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein