‘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!)

Related Articles:

GPS: Where are you going?

Essential Life Coaching:

Information

Free Consult

Maybe it’s as simple as picking up a few things from the store for a recipe that has that special ingredient you’ve been wanting to try…

Maybe it involves stopping by a friends house to apologize for not being there for them that last time they needed you.

Maybe you realize that you haven’t been listening to your own needs and you need to plan something fun…

Just as there are reasons to alter your course of travel in this life, there are  reasons to alter the path you’ve chosen for your health:

You may be on life’s path and recieve a bad diagnosis…

You may realize that you need to lose or gain weight…

Your energy levels may not be up to par…

You may realize you haven’t slept well in weeks…

Maybe you don’t have peace…

Maybe you are just out of balance- not focusing on what’s important RIGHT NOW…

Do you feel like the road that EVERYONE is telling you to take  is not YOUR authentic way?

You are unique and multifaceted.  You are coming from a different beginning place than anyone else.  You have original paths to tread.  Occasionally,  your path will join with another’s and you can go along together for a time.  At times you will find yourself having to significantly change plans while others seem carefree.

Please don’t wait for a major roadblock to force you look for an alternate route.  Check your life balance to see which areas of your journey need constructin NOW… Which areas are you excelling in, and which have detour signs?

I would love to share my GPS program.

Growth

Planning

Session

Every single person I’ve talked with has been surprised when they realized where THEY feel they should be focusing right now.  Every single person has reported feeling more balanced after our FIRST GPS talk.  Every person has felt much more positive and optimistic about the future after we were finished with this relatively simple 30 minute exercise.

I would do this for free!! As a matter of fact, I am.  I want to shed some light on the map.

To sign up for a free phone consultation that will program your GPS and make sure you’re headed in the right direction for you, your health, your purpose, send an e-mail to:

joanna.lifecoach@gmail.com

Please include “Free Consult” in the subject line.

If you’re new to raw foods, don’t be intimidated by these directions, this is just for example   I recommend organic produce because we have a wide variety of toxins that we’re exposed to every day.  Eating pesticides should not be in our dinner plans as far as I’m concerned.  Search ‘dirty dozen’ here

Green Smoothie Steps:

1. Rinse well, 2 stems of Kale and 3 sprigs of parsley.  You don’t want anything crawling up out of your blender!
2. Add Kale, parsley, 1/2 inch or more slice of fresh ginger root, T raw honey, t coconut oil (Nutiva rawks! Nutiva Organic Coconut Oil, 29-Ounce Jars (Pack of 2) ), a pinch of sea salt for mineralizing, t spirulina powder, t cacao to your high powered blender of choice (I love my Vitamix).  Blend thoroughly: this will resemble swamp water
3. Save half in a covered glass for later today (I’ve even had it the next morning).  I just use cling wrap– works fine.
4. Cut off outside of a fresh pineapple and quarter.  Add half of one of the quarters to the remaining half of green mix still in your blender.  (Store the remaining pineapple in a glass container in fridge.) Also add one frozen banana (if you haven’t discovered frozen bananas yet, you’re in for a treat!  Just peel ripe bananas and freeze in a gallon zipper bag.  Makes smoothies creamy and frosty.  Frozen bananas also make amazing soft serve when pushed through an auger style juicer with a blank plate attachment!) Blend on high til smooth.
5. Stop the blender– add ashwaganda extract,  1/4 cup dried coconut flakes (unsweetened!), and t flax and blend on low just until mixed in.  This gives you something to chew– because you have to chew your smoothie!  (Your saliva is the beginning of your digestive process, and you want to get all of the nutrients you can out of this amazing concoction!) 
6. Get ready to fly!  Yum…

Related articles:

http://freshblessings.net/recipe-directory/

http://freshblessings.net/raw-info-series/