‘The only constant is change,’ I’ve heard it said… As an army wife, I can attest to that.

Hoo-rah.

Over a year ago my friend Susan and I made a cross-country pact to each other. ‘Replace junk with amazing-ness.’ If you are familiar with Susan Powers’ work over at Rawmazing, you know that she has been doing just that!  Not only does she have an amazing offering of luscious, health inducing, gourmet recipes all created in her own kitchen, she also has a Rawmazing cookbook on it’s way to press.

Many of my own issues, goals and dreams had to be put on ice while our family made several life changes over the last several months.  Change happens…  by nature, I tend to resist…

After our second cross-country move in a little over a year, we are now relatively settled and I am ready for action!

Personally, I was surprised to realize that 2010 is half over!  Where should I start?

New state, new friends, new church, new grocery stores and malls.  New opportunities!  (Can I get an amen if you’ve been there recently?)

~~If you haven’t taken the time recently to chart where you are headed, just jump right on in with me… Here is an 1-2-3 action plan for a successful second half:

Essential Life Reset 101:

• Set Goals by Area of Life (Business, Family, Finances, Friends, Health, Home, Leisure, Projects, Recreation, Spirituality, Travel, Work)  Brainstorm as many things in each category as you can dream up.  Translate these ideas, then to:
• Goals By Month by highlighting which ideas you want to get started on immediately.  Break these down further by planning what you need to do to move toward each goal in the upcoming week:
• Goals & Achievements for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday… (you get the idea)  It’s important to have a place for writing down both goals AND achievements for reference the following week.

Some of the goals I decided to work on right now:

1. Get the house fully settled from moving here last Month (Painting/ eliminating)
2. Becoming incredibly money savvy (budget/ investment)
3. Getting the word out locally about my coaching (advertisement/ events)
4. Getting my diet back on target (releasing a few pounds, too!)

I’d love to hear what goals you are working on!  Please feel free to share and we can encourage each other

Blessings!

Joanna

~One of my favorite sites is ListPlanIt, check it out if you are a list-maker/ planning type as well.  (For $20 a year, I think  it’s well worth not having to make these sheets myself!)

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How wonderful it must have been to have lived in the garden… I know only the peace of my own little garden.  It must have been magnified many times over!  There IS something about gardens that calms me and centers me: helps me to put life into perspective.  The cycle of life.

Life.  Death.  Today I choose life.  I want an infusion of freshness!  A shot straight to my veins!  I want this for you, too.  Let’s embrace life today:

• Breathe deeply: Let’s get out and get some fresh air, move, live.

• Drink deeply: water, coconut water, fresh juice, herbal tea, cucumber . Eat lightly: Why weigh ourselves down.  Freshness.  Fruits, veggies, smoothies
• Forgive: Bitterness & frustration only hurt us.  Let it go. Let it go. Let it go. Visualize: What is it that you want to be doing with your life?  What talents do you have?  What were you born to do?  What small step can you take today to work toward that ideal?
• Rededicate to the things that are most important in your life.  We can get so caught up in greasing the squeaky wheel that we miss the beautiful and most important things in life.  For me these things are:

1. My relationship with the Master Gardener

2. My relationships with my family: hubby, kids, parents

3. Sharing the blessings with others as they are revealed to me…

A new Fresh Blessing is on the way.  My daughter Kassi will bring a child into the world sometime in September.  This past couple of weeks I have been away from posting, getting things ready for Kassi & Paul to come visit us.  Hustling and bustling about, hoping to make her first trip to our home here in Louisiana something she’ll want to repeat again soon.  I made her favorite meals and we played board games until the wee hours of the mornings.  Of course, I couldn’t resist breaking Paul in with a great green smoothie.  He’s a good sport!

And yes, this announcement means that she’s making me a grandma!  Again!  Our first Grandbaby was born to our eldest son & his lovely wife this past year– that’s him at the top of the post, Griffen is now 9 months old!

I feel so refreshed from this time of fellowship.  I have a completely rejuvenated outlook on life.  What a fresh blessing.   I hadn’t realised that Fun & Recreation was lacking in my life!

Since they went home I have begun every morning with a master cleanse drink.   This has easily replaced my morning cuppa and is so much better for me!  It’s like a morning gift to myself…  I’m still having my one cup of coffee, but not until much later in the day and I’ve already switched to decaf with the intention of eliminating it totally within the next couple of weeks.  My adrenal glands will thank me.

When doing the rawfood diet, I tend to enjoy eating simply.  One of my favorite breakfasts is simply cut up apple with chopped pecans or brazil nuts, raisins and cinnamon.  I usually have a green smoothie or two per day and a couple of small snacks.   There are some of my favorite easy recipes here, and tons of great recipes over at my friend’s site, Rawmazing.

What gift will you give yourself this week?