Focusing On What Matters

Do you ever stay at home and avoid going out on cold days? I still do this but I was much more successful at it before we moved to our farm. Currently our farm isn't much. We have about 30 chickens and 2 pigs and 3 dogs. But every morning and evening I have to go out no matter the weather and feed and check on our animals. If you have paid attention to the weather here in the south we are getting some nasty cold weather. Here in Oklahoma we have avoided that ice that Texas is getting but it's still been close to zero degrees when I've had to be outside.  For my farm it only takes me about 10 minutes to quickly feed and water the animals as long as they don't need any special attention. But this week we happen to be 'farm sitting'. So after I take care of our animals I have to drive to our friends farm and take care of their livestock. They have many more animals and many more chores.  Yesterday I dressed warm even though it was below zero when you

If you follow my Instagram you saw that yesterday was a hard day for me to get my workout done. It was really cold that morning and getting out of my nice warm bed and jammies was not something that I wanted to do. Lucky for me I made a BBM VIP friend that is an hour ahead of my timezone. She had already messaged me so I finally turned off my alarm after 5 times got up and turned on the light and hopped right back in bed. I started chatting with my friend and telling her how much I didn't want to be get up and do my workout. What does a workout buddy do but encourage you to just get it done right? So I grabbed all my clothes from the comfort of my bed, thank you tiny house, and got almost all the way dressed to workout without stepping foot on the cold floor. I took it one step at a time just thinking about what the next step was to get to my goal. Not the end result because I wanted to do anything but workout. Step 1: Get dressed Step 2: Get shoes on Step 3: Turn on Yo

2018 started out a bit rough. We drove home from vacation with family over New Year's Eve and arrived home early morning on the first to a house full of frozen pipes. Like the entire house! Even the water in the toilet was frozen! So starting out the New Year ready to crush some goals and make some changes didn't go as planned. In the past this would have taken over my entire year. I would have lost my momentum and kept going with the bad habits I want to break. But not this year! This times I'm going to pick up where I am and keep going. Last week was just a week that didn't go as planned. We had to wait for the water to unfreeze. I had to unpack and get the house in order from all the stuff brought back from Christmas. So it was a week of preparing for this week. This week I'm prepared to get started. This week I'm ready to make the changes I need to so we can have the life we want to live! Did you already lose the momentum of the New Year? Its not to la

2018 is less than 24 hours away as I write this. Everyone is posting about New Year's Resolutions they are making and how 2018 is going to be different. Me...I don't make New Year's Resolutions. I never really have. Mostly because I've seen so many people make them with great intentions and then fail miserably. Almost 4 years ago we made big life changes. We decided within a few weeks to pack up our family and move from Colorado to Oklahoma. Since then life has been increasingly different. We live in the city...now we live on 10 acres. I was terrified of chickens...now we have at least 30 chickens at all time. In a few weeks we will be ordering more. We also have a duck, guinea, and 2 pigs! We had two wonderful boys...now we added a daughter and plan for one more sometime in the future. So life was normal. We were living the same way I grew up and we were happy until we realized we really weren't. Now we are! We have learned how important it is

Last week Briana with Bikini Body Mommy was hosting her last surge before Christmas and I was excited and fully on board to bust my butt and lose a few pounds before the holidays. I started the workout ready to have a great week. Then BAM...finishing up and my shoulder decided I pushed myself to far and I was done for at least a week. I wasn't sure how long it would take to feel better I just knew I needed to not push it further because 7.0 starts in a few weeks and I need to be 100% ready. I have a 50 pound loss that I want to achieve this year. It's actually a realistic goal and it feels like that I could actually achieve it this year but it seems every time I want to take a step forward towards making this goal a reality something like this happens. Back in September when I had successfully completed 2 surges and dropped a pant size I was motivated...then I had a vacation that helped me go back to old habits and all the progress and motivation has contiuned to go out th

I've always struggled with keeping up with any type of routine or schedule. Some schedules like when I was in school or when I was working outside the home were a forced schedule and I didn't have a choice but to follow it. But now I'm a wife and mom and homesteader. I make my own schedule. I don't have anyone telling me when to do what needs to be done. I have responsibilities. I have a husband that requires attention, children that need to be fed and taught, and farm animals that need cared for. But for the most part I can make my own schedule and adjust our schedule to fit whatever my needs are.  This has not served me well. I struggle to keep the house picked up and cleaned. I struggle to keep the kids on a school schedule. I struggle to keep my family on any type of a routine. I struggle to meal plan, prep or grocery shop if I'm honest. I struggle with keeping myself healthy and getting regular exercise. But I'm trying.  I've tried many things to he