Describing Yourself In One Word

The sun starts to rise in Charlotte just before 6 a.m. which makes waking up early to exercise 10,000 times easier. Waking up to total darkness is brutal so when even the tiniest bit of sunlight shines through, it helps a lot!

Today’s class went well and basically killed my core. In a good way!

And for anyone looking for a barre workout you can do at home for free, my best friend Laurel (whose birthday is today!) texted me this morning about this YouTube video and said it was a good one:

• Full Length Barre Workout with Jessica Smith

Just sharing the love!

Breakfast

After Pure Barre, I headed home to make myself a smoothie for breakfast.

I blended the following ingredients together:

• 1 cup frozen strawberries
• 1 banana
• 2 handfuls fresh spinach
• 1 cup strawberry Greek yogurt
• 1 spoonful almond butter
• Vanilla almond milk

Simple and simply delicious!

Describing Yourself In One Word

I swear Ryan and I talk about the most random things on our evening walks with Sadie. Lately a lot of our conversations have centered around finding a more permanent place to live. (Ryan and I are seriously considering buying a home – our first!!! – and we drove around with a realtor for five hours on Sunday. We are feeling hopeful but trying to remind ourselves to be patient.)

Anyway, last night I remembered a rather thought-provoking session I attended at Wanderlust that I meant to talk to Ryan about following my trip. The session centered around self-love and being the best version of yourself. We were encouraged to think about one positive word we think someone who loves us might use to describe us. This immediately made me curious about what Ryan would say and I finally remembered to ask him last night.

His answer? Vivacious. He also said “joyful” and both answers made me smile. I wasn’t sure what he would say but I appreciated the words he chose. (I definitely didn’t see “vivacious” coming!)

Ryan asked me to describe him in one word next and I copied him and shared two words: Loyal and adventurous. He’s always up for anything (which is one of my favorite things about him!) and he is a very loyal person.

I thought this topic might make a fun question of the day, so now it’s your turn…

Questions of the Morning

• What positive word(s) do you think your loved ones would use to describe you?
• What positive word(s) would you use to describe someone you love?