Hey everyone!
I wanted to share some things with you today. If you've been
following my blog at all you probably know that I have had a really busy July:
at the beginning of the month Addison and I took a one-week road trip to my best
friend's house and had a great time playing with her kids and Toni and I did a
lot of work for business together and it was great to collaborate. We came home
for a week and then we were right back for two more weeks over at my parents’
in Illinois and then I went to Summit in Nashville for Beachbody. Now I'm
finally home and unpacked with put everything away and I'm trying to get back
into a routine.
I’ve been
feeling off all of last month and some of that has been my nutrition; even
though I've been drinking Shakeology, my other meals are not on point when I'm
traveling. I've been doing awesome with my fitness, which (for me) once I get started
it is it is just a non-negotiable for me but I've recently realized that I
haven't been taking care of my whole self.
I’ve been doing
my workout which is great: I've been doing 22-Minute Hard Corps so it's just 20
minutes and I’m in and out and I'm done and I'm moving on with my day. I'm
drinking my shake every day, no issue. Well when I was traveling, we were
eating out a lot and my cravings got all messed up and my complexion is a
reflection of that right now. But another thing that was off for me was my
personal development: reading books!
My small
group this summer has been reading “Grace-Filled Marriage” and I got about
halfway through it and then with traveling and everything I stopped reading it.
I'm the type of person that when I read a book where you learn things and
implement them I really need to focus and take notes and highlight. I’m very
engaged when I read; otherwise it's just pointless. I could just be reading a
novel or some other fiction but I really like to make the books that I read “count”
and I haven't been doing that.
The other
book I've been reading is “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” because I want
to become a better person and a better leader for my team so that I can help
them to start achieving their goals for themselves. I'm a very scheduled person
and I thrive on that; so although it was nice to travel and see people, when I
got out of my schedule I wasn't reading before bed every night or taking notes
or listening to my podcasts regularly either.
I think that
so often people forget that your health is multifaceted! Even just missing one
Sunday at church makes me feel “off” because I'm not getting my cup filled. I
love getting daily devotional emails and I share them quite often on my
Facebook page if you if you look through it (bit.ly/1fitlife). Those quick
little nuggets fill my cup and make me feel more whole. Reading a book about
bettering my marriage, or reading a parenting book, or reading a business book,
or just a feel-good book help me “fill up” my tank in all areas of my life.
I think one
of the next books I'm going to be reading is called “The Energy Bus”; I've had
a lot of friends tell me that it's amazing and so that is in my cart on amazon
right now. I want to encourage you to not just focus on one area of your life;
you need to focus on all the areas of your life. Your fitness is important;
your nutrition is important; your spirituality is important. If spirituality
for you means your faith and your relationship with Jesus like it does for me, or
the energy of the universe, yoga, meditating, or other religions that's fine. But
it's taking care of your inner self that's really important to do, by taking
some time off for your mind to unplug. I just spent half an hour in the backyard
just picking through the grass at the clovers and just letting my mind be blank
for a while and letting my fingers look at a puzzle and not have to be focused
or figuring out anything else.
One of my
commitments this August (I'm not waiting until school starts up again) is that
I'm taking little little bits of time after Addie goes to bed or trying to get
up before she does to get plugged back into my personal development. I’d like
to share some of that with you, too. I've read so many amazing books recently
and since I mentioned I am a note-taker, and I want to share that with you. I'd
really like to start posting more things about personal development and
bettering yourself in all areas, so that’s where I'm at right now right now.
My fitness
is doing great, I love my program. My nutrition is getting back on track now
that I'm home: Corey and I have our monthly meal plan calendar out for dinner and
we went grocery shopping and we are staying on point with that. I’m also getting
back on track with my personal development now, too. If you are looking for a
good book to read please don't hesitate to reach out and ask; I’ve got a great
bookshelf that I'm filling up of books that I've read.
I love that
part of being a Beachbody Coach is taking care of your inner health as well as
your body. If you would like to read some of my takeaways from the books that I've
been reading because I hope that the information that has been blessing me can
be used to bless you as well, please follow me on Facebook: bit.ly/1fitlife
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