Every year around this time I get an itch to assess the year and figure out what I have accomplished, take a look at my vision board for the year and figure out how to get back on track if need be. Being completely transparent with you about 50 percent of my 2019 vision board is a complete wash, but (surprisingly) I am completely ok with that.
Around March this year I decided to take the limits off of myself and focus on what gives me peace versus putting unrealistic expectations on myself based off of what I felt would make others around me “proud” or “satisfied”.
So I have assessed some major areas of my life and am focused on working on them this month!
Spiritual
Affirmations are kinda new to me (something I’ve implemented over the past 2-ish years) but it is a total game changer! It’s crazy because its not that its something I doubted would make a difference but simply something I never thought about implementing in my life until we started sitting under my current pastor. In fact when Raelynn was first born I immediately began speaking affirmations over her life and I already see some of those affirmations manifesting in her little personality now! For myself I began strategically placing sticky notes all over our bathroom mirror to not only read first thing in the morning but to also easily refer to on moments when I’m having a hard time. For this month I want to incorporate some new bible verses to pray over and affirmations to read but to also maintain my current routine because it has made such a huge difference!
Health
So physically I really need to do better with working out and eating better. But also being completely real with myself I wanted to start small this month. Starting small by tracking my water intake and drastically cutting back on caffeine. Conveniently I found this Habit Tracker (posted and created by @KathlynCeleste) on Instagram and will be using this to hold myself accountable.
Relationships
Maintaining and creating relationships is something I’ve been working on for a while but I’ve honestly haven’t put any real action behind my desire to improve on this. I love my bubble and I unfortunately allow fear (and the enemy) to grip me to the point that I hate leaving my bubble (the house) and feeling vulnerable. Besides my immediate family, I struggle opening up or even simply holding a conversation because I’m likely overthinking that conversation and feeling exhausted by the end of the interaction. I understand a part of it is the introvert part of me but I also understand that God didn’t put me here to do life alone. So I’m challenging myself to feel vulnerable by placing myself in some sort of social setting once a week this month.
Personal
Last month I decided to stop overthinking blogging and to just freely write. I am proud to say I feel like I’m finally in a flow of blogging and writing. I’ve been working on using this blog for what I created it for: an open and safe space where I can not only encourage other women to freely be themselves but also hold myself to that same standard.
Feel free to share some of your goals or habits you want to maintain or change this month and if you’re looking for an accountability partner let me know because I’d love to be your girl!
XO.
Michelle
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