‘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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Sooooo…  How do you actually put this into practice?  I mean– anyone can eat an apple, right?   But how many days have you gone without your apple a day?!

Why IS it so hard to follow the straight and narrow road?

Raw food– meaning fruits, vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts and primarily focusing on fresh foods.

Uncooked– to keep the enzymes in tact so that our bodies can actually benefit from the nutrients in these amazing powerhouse packages from nature.

Breaking News!

• Contrary to popular belief: Raw food has NOT just recently been discovered…  It’s been here on Earth and readily available to us since the world began.  We are just rediscovering it and it’s wonderful benefits…

• The main purpose for increasing the raw food intake in your diet is to give you more nutrients, which gives you more energy, greater vitality and allows your body to use it’s resources for healing.
  

• There is no rule that says in order to eat raw food, you can’t eat anything else.

• Your body is designed to eat foods in their whole food form.

Carol at DeepNourishment.com says it so well:

“Today, many people eat processed or fractionated foods that are, in truth, only parts of food and are often combinations of things that don’t even exist in nature.  These products are split off from the whole. They are split off from nature itself.

Calling fractionated foods “food” is like calling petals that have been plucked from a flower “a flower.”   They are not.  They may remind us of a flower, but they do not have the beauty and vitality that a flower has. They are no longer alive.

Whole foods, on the other hand, are alive and complete.”

Also– when you cook food– somewhere over 105 degrees, the extreme temperatures begin to kill off enzymes.  This makes your body work very hard to digest what you’ve eaten and takes from the stores of energy that would otherwise be spent rejuvenating your immune system or, perhaps even fighting off the swine flu virus.

There are many people with many different ideas about the exact science of raw-foodie-ism.

The most effective way that I’ve found to begin is to eat only sweet fruits for breakfast.  There are a number of reasons why this is beneficial.  For one, when you wake up in the morning, your body cycle is in the cleanse mode.  This cleansing mode will stop as soon as you put something into your tummy that requires a lot of energy to digest.  Eating a breakfast of simple fruits allows this cleansing process to continue for longer and optimizes your detoxification and healing process, not to mention the fiber in fruit is wonderful for moving things through your system.

Following this one step alone in the morning will begin to give you more energy!  And who doesn’t want more energy?!

**Next up, tomorrow: The Number One Reason You Don’t Stick with Raw Foods and How to Adjust Your Mindset!