Today marks one month since I began “this journey”. A month ago, on my birthday, I decided I would start to consciously live life. Too often, we allow days, weeks and eventually years of our lives to pass without making the changes we desire or doing what we’re meant to do. We become robotic and overwhelmed with daily mundane responsibilities and forget to LIVE.

Change this drastic doesn’t and cannot happen overnight. I decided I would tackle this challenge by setting small attainable goals and running with it. Please visit my about.me page to fully understand what I am attempting to strategically accomplish.

So, how has this month been? What have I done? What has changed? How do I feel?

Overall, I feel great. I’ve been more positive and certainly more productive. I have not been as strong willed as I hoped I would be on some goals yet truly kicked ass on others. Which is fine (for me).

Here are some of my current goals and where I stand with them J Love, support, suggestions, encouragement are all welcomed!

1. 5 AM club: Ouch! I did fabulous the first week of deciding to join the 5 am club. I woke up at 5 and got stuff done! I stepped out of bed motivated and roaring. I often left for work (at 7:30) already feeling accomplished. THEN, our dreaded time change happened and ever since I have lost all enthusiasm. This week needs to be better. I plan on giving myself explicit tasks I’d like to get done in the morning before work and only attempt 5 am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Let’s see what happens…
2. Cutting the Cord: In an attempt to be more productive, use my time more efficiently at home and save money (my triple play..lol) I decided to cut the cord and get rid of cable. Cutting the cord has been by far my most favorite change. Not only has it been quite easy, in addition to saving $100+ dollars monthly, I have been given back hours of my day.
3. Starts from the Inside: The basis of this goal surrounds the quote: “A healthy outside starts from the inside”. I’m skipping the diets and the fads and the gimmicks – my goal is simply eating real food. And by real, I mean unprocessed and not man made. This is probably going to be one of the most challenging goals and it will certainly be a slow gradual process and I’m not sure where on the continuum of “healthy eating” I want to be just yet. What I do know right now is that I’m ready to change what I put into my body. I plan on writing a more detailed blog on what I currently consume and what I want/plan to eliminate. I am also interested in and reading more about the benefits of juicing. Any suggestions/opinions about this would be great! Currently sipping on a cocktail of yellow split pea soup, an entire onion, several cloves of garlic and various seasonings boiled to perfection. Delicious… cheers!
4. Be the Change: Be the change you wish to see in the world. This goal is all about giving back and defining my life, my message, my purpose, – ultimately defining me. My challenge is going to be, choosing to be the person who not only notices what’s wrong in this world but trying to be part of the solution. My hope is finding time to volunteer and give back to my community. I have completed multiple volunteer applications at various hospitals in my area – hoping to work with their pediatric departments. No responses yet but keeping my fingers crossed. But even on a smaller scale, I simply want to make people smile. I want to pay it forward. I want to find small ways to make people’s lives just a tad bit happier.

I guess there hasn’t been much drastic change in the past month. However, there has been lots of effort. I do hope my efforts become change along the way.

SO looking forward to Spring…

Wishing everyone a productive week!