Mom 4ce Challenge

A lot of you have seen us posting about our weekly workout groups.  And you're bummed because you live on the other side of the country and can't join us, right?  Well, now you can!

Kelli and I are pleased to announce the launch of the Mom 4ce Challenge group!

Join us for support and motivation to reach your goals to get healthy and to get your family on the right track! 

Here's how it'll work.  

Starting July 1st, we will be creating a private group.  Members of this group will receive meal plans (with a grocery list!) and workouts for the duration of the challenge.  They will also get lots of support and motivation from us and from the other members of the group.

Random prizes will be given out during the challenge as well =)

The challenge will run 4 months (July- October) and costs $100 ($25/ month).

So how do you get in on this?  Easy.  Email us at mom4ce@gmail.com!

Priorities

What are your priorities?  You know, the things that define who you are.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately.  It finally dawned on me that no matter how crazy cool my goals are, I was never going to accomplish them if they weren't in line with my priorities.  No matter how hard I try, if a goal makes me compromise one of my priorities, it's not going to happen.

So, how do you figure out your priorities so that your goals line up with them?  Priorities are those things in your life that you would be devastated if they disappeared.  They are what fulfill you, give you purpose in life, makes you proud...

Can you name at least five things that are that important in your life?  How about your top three?  Of those three, what is the most important?

Write a priority statement for that one and keep it with you where ever you go.  Look at it every day.  The more you keep that front and center, the easier it will be to choose what goals you're going to accomplish, what tasks are important and (most importantly) who is the most important.  And then you will know where to focus your time and energy.

I sat down and did this for myself at the beginning of the year.  I wasn't surprised with my top three, but I was surprised at some of the results from looking at my goals through my *priority lens.*

My top priority, the one thing I never want to forget is to honor God in everything I do.  This changes how I look at my relationship with my husband (does that comment build him up or tear him down?) how I deal with my kids (even though I don't want to play another game of Go fish, is it important to them?) and how I deal with people in my business.

By filtering my goals through this lens, I know which ones to focus my time on.  And I know that if I honor my priority, the goals that I have set will soon be checked off and I'll be planning new ones.

I challenge you to take an honest look at your priorities and write them out.  You will be surprised at how it changes how you look at your goals!

What are your top 3 priorities?

Get Down!

Tired of hitting December 31st and realizing that your resolutions have fallen by the wayside?  Want to know the secret for sticking to those resolutions?

First, don't call them resolutions!  We can all resolve to do something, but unless we actually put those resolutions into an action plan, they won't get done.

How do you change a resolution into a goal?  Write it as if you've already accomplished it!  Instead of:

 I want to lose 25 lbs this year.

Write:

 I lost 25 lbs by walking 10,000 steps a day and cutting out one soda a day.

Wait, you mean I have to write them down?  YES!!  That is the key for turning resolutions into goals and then accomplishing those goals!  And don't just write them down once and forget about them.  Write them down weekly.  Modify them as you need to, but never forget that you wrote them down.  They are your road map to looking back on the year with a sense of pride!

You want to know another secret?  Dream BIG!  Think about what goal would be so crazy cool to accomplish and write it down.  Don't limit yourself only to what you know you can accomplish.  Challenge yourself to go bigger!

Create a vision board.  Look through magazines or websites and find pictures that inspire you.  Pictures that represent your goals.  Print them out, cut them out and put them on a board that you look at daily.  Keep your goals (or pictures of that goal) visible everyday.  The more you look at them, the sooner those goals will be turned into reality.

Tell someone what your goals are.  The more people who know what you're working towards, the more support and encouragement you'll get along the way!

Create to- do lists.  Each day write down one or two steps you can take to reach your goal.  Pretty soon those little steps add up to a big goal being accomplished.

Too many times, when we think about goals, we look at the big picture.  We forget that it's little steps that get us there.  You had to learn to crawl before you could walk and you had to walk before you could run.

What little step can you take today that will get you closer to where you want to be tomorrow?