How I KEEP my wellness goals all year long

For me, if I ever want to achieve my wellness goals – and maintain them {!}, I have come to discover that I must

1. Get very basic with my goals

and

2. Go cold turkey

{as in, COMPLETELY give up something, or COMPLETELY add a new habit}

Now, that is what works for ME.

You will need to discover what works for YOU!!

Take some time to think back to a time when you were really living in wellness:

• What kinds of habits did you have?
• What were you giving up?
• How were you achieving your goals?
• What made that time in your life DIFFERENT?
• What made it work?

Once you know the answers to those questions, you are ready to move forward in a realistic way, that works for you, not someone else.

So, keep your OWN PERSONAL lifestyle in mind as I share how I get it done. Keeping in mind that these may not work for you, or may need to be tweaked, or … they may be the perfect way for you to meet your wellness goals this year, and to keep on meeting them!

How I keep my wellness goals:

1. This is how I was finally able to squeeze in a CONSISTENT workout routine:

The key for me was to drastically lower my expectations to having only ONE expectation: Just get it done.

2. I get back to basics on the food plan that saved my life.

I slipped on my healthy eating this past year. Now, I am getting back into my diet with the “Cold Turkey Method” – by going 100% for only 2 weeks, and then aiming for an 80/20 lifestyle on this healing, yet challenging, diet:

3. I keep my stack of healthy cookbooks right on the counter, for meal planning:

For us, healthy eating means eating real foods, planning ahead a bit, and getting rid of food in boxes. We are particularly diving back into our I quit sugar books, especially for the kids. Anyone else have kids that are running around like they have wind-up Christmas candy canes in their backs?

4. I keep my essential oils accessible & I replace my toxic products bit by bit:

I am nutty, crazy, surprisingly in love with these little bottles that A. smell ridiculously good and make my house smell like a spa. And B. WORK.

There is buzz about these babies everywhere, so I wrote a post to answer your burning questions about EO’s, in my frank, honest way. And …. let me just say… ENOUGH about all your status updates on blasted boogers & woes…get the dang oils already!

5. I force rest into my life, even if I think I don’t have time for it:

Getting to the spa on a regular basis is simply not an option in this season of my life. And I will readily admit, I love to go spa-ing. So, instead, I have taken a few simple steps to create a Refuge Of Rest in my very own bathroom.

This year, my New Year’s goal is

to stop living in survival mode.

I hope you will join me!!

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