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Replace Junk with Amazingness

Joanna — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:30:43 +0000

‘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:

Get the house fully settled from moving here last Month (Painting/ eliminating)
Becoming incredibly money savvy (budget/ investment)
Getting the word out locally about my coaching (advertisement/ events)
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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Life Journeys: Reasons to travel

Joanna — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:28 +0000

You’re be-bopping along the highway when you hear a message on your radio, or you get an important phone call, or you remember something that you’d forgotten about that resonates with you…

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.

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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.

Raw Food & Fresh Blessings

Joanna — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:48:51 +0000

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.