1. Beautiful Mornings: A Guide to Getting Started
We’re starting the Beautiful Mornings Challenge this week, and it’s all about waking slightly earlier (actually, that’s optional) and creating a beautiful, simple morning routine. Making the most of the delicious morning light and quiet. So let’s talk about how to get started this week. This first week, we’re just going to pick one thing […]
1. Week 1: Letting Go of Struggles
This week, let’s spend our gratitude & letting go sessions on the struggles we’re holding onto right now. What kind of struggles might we be holding onto? Here are a handful of examples: Struggles with distractions and procrastination Struggles with someone else’s behavior Struggles with stress or being overwhelmed Struggles with weight issues Struggles with […]
1. The Healthy Eating Habit Plan
As we discussed in the Healthy Eating Habit Overview, we’re going to take a gradual approach during this challenge, with small changes. This approach works whether you have lots of change to make (like I did in 2005, when I was really unhealthy) … or if you’re already pretty healthy but just have a few […]
1. Create Daily Week 1: Just Create the Space
Let’s get started with the Create Daily Challenge — this week, all we have to do is create the space and enter into it. Pretty simple! The idea is that we’re not going to say, “I’m going to write every day for an hour,” and then do it for 1-2 days before failing. That’s not […]
1. Awesome Finances Week 1: Fearless Mess Sorting
It’s time to start our Awesome Finances Challenge! This can be a scary or stressful area for many people … so this week, we’re going to be very gentle with ourselves as we start. We’re also going to be courageous. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.”~Eleanor Roosevelt This is about turning […]
The Beautiful Mornings Challenge Overview
This challenge is about simple, loving morning routines, and I’m calling it the Beautiful Mornings Challenge. It’s about creating some space for meditation, reflection, movement, writing, or anything else you’d like to have room for in your life. And finding some space in the mornings for that, a sacred space that takes advantage of the […]
Overview: The Declutter Challenge
Let’s do a reboot on our lives by clearing out our clutter. Join me in the Declutter Challenge! For the next four weeks, we’ll declutter together. One space at a time. We’ll create space in our lives by letting go. By hauling away the unnecessary. By paring down to what we truly need and cherish. […]
Meditation Habit Overview
I’ve said it a number of times: meditation is the fundamental habit. Why? Because it helps you develop an awareness of your urges & rationalizations that will help you develop or quit any other habits you want to create. Meditation takes a lot of practice, but in my experience, there’s no more useful habit you […]