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New Year, Same Old Me 

 January 18, 2018

By  Katie

I totally get that the new year is the perfect time to reinvent yourself. I’m doing it with this blog, all I see on social media are “BE A NEW YOU” challenges, my son has started very deliberately ignoring me…we’re all trying new things. And while I know it’s all very well intentioned (minus my son) I’m trying to not get too caught up in the “new me” stuff.

For me personally, I find it as a set up for failure in a lot of ways. I’m not someone who can “cold turkey” things; I need baby steps. Jumping 110% in and throwing my whole life on it’s head usually ends with me in dirty leggings, in my bed, sleeping on Cheez-It crumbs and using Cinnamon Toast Crunch as medication, no good at all.

So in my quest to make some desperately needed changes, I’m starting small. I read the book Body Love by Kelly Leveque, which was a bit of an eye opener. She comes at nutrition from a very scientific, fact based place but does so in a way that makes it easy to understand and apply to your day. Her strategies are lifestyle based, not diet based, so I don’t feel like I’m on an eating plan or trying to follow a restrictive diet. Everything about it is very applicable to real life and I’ve found it easy to implement in small ways. I’ve been consciously eating and working within her guidelines for about 2 weeks now and I gotta say, I’m feeling good. More on this later.

The other big piece of this whole puzzle for me is simply taking better care of my whole self. And since we’re discussing real life, this is way easier said than done. I’m a mom, by definition everyone else’s care comes before my own. Hence the fact that everyone in this house has clean hair and I’m currently sporting 3 different kinds of dry shampoo. But I digress.

I came across this on one of my favorite websites, A Pair & A Spare, the other day and I was like, Ok that’s interesting. These are all excellent, positive, life enhancing habits! Things I should be doing everyday!

But this is me so I most certainly will not be doing all of these on the daily because I am simply not that together BUT choosing a few a day? That’s entirely doable! 
So as part of my very own, self directed New Year Challenge, I will be doing 4 of these 9 things each day for the next week. This week I will be focusing on: 1 Session of Exercise, 6 Minutes of Meditation, 7 Glasses of Water and 4 Breaks – Stretching & Mental. 
And since everything is better with a crew, join me?! Choose 4 things and comment below! 
xoxo

Hi! I'm Katie...


I'm a marketing strategist, content writer & chronically online elder millennial with a theater kid heart and entrepreneur brain.

I hope fellow women entrepreneurs  market their business, create content that feels oh-so good & live this business life to the fullest!

Join me, won't you?

xoxo

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