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Life Reset: Focus on Your Home
We have looked at a lot of areas to address when doing a life reset. We still have a few more to cover! If you are in the midst of doing a life reset, don’t forget about your home and environment. Far too often, people improve their health, habits, and even finances, but forget about the space where they spend so much time. Luckily, it is super easy to “Reset” your life in your home, with these tips. Get Rid of What You Don’t LOVE In classic Marie Kondo style, go through your home and get rid of anything that doesn’t bring you joy or happiness. All those things you…
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What You Can do for Your Fall Anxiety
Autumn anxiety is a form of anxiety you get seasonally, often between the end of summer and the beginning of fall. Learn more here. Preventing it comes down to understanding what it is, and what you believe is the cause for you specifically to get this disorder. Here are some tips to help you prevent autumn anxiety, or at least reduce its effects. Don’t Make Things Harder for Yourself It can be hard to accept at first, but sometimes you are doing things unintentionally to make your anxiety worse. If you have had autumn anxiety before, and you fear it happening again, try to rationalize what these fears are. Do…
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Sunday Musings: Our Halloween Plans for 2020
Good Sunday morning! This is the first installation in my Sunday Musings series — twice a month, I am going to write about what’s on my mind that week and give a little update on what’s coming for the week. This is a work-in-progress so I will hopefully get it fleshed out as I go! I have realized that I have published a lot of information about Halloween but I really haven’t talked about what we were doing for Halloween this year. Honestly? Very little! We have two kids — one is a freshman in college and the other is a freshman in high school. Before the pandemic, I would…
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Life Reset: Don’t Forget Your Finances
Resetting your life should encompass every area of your life, not just your health or habits. It should also include your finances, which is such a big part of your life, and actually impacts whether you can reach your goals or not. Here are some things to know about working on your finances, and why it should be a priority. What are Your Financial Goals? Start simple by writing down exactly what your financial goals are. Be as specific as you can, down to the amount of money you want to earn or save to achieve those goals. While your financial goals will be specific to you, here are some…
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Do You Know What Your Limiting Beliefs Are?
Limiting beliefs are something you often think or believe, without even realizing it. A limiting belief is a type of thought you have that provides some type of limitation and keeps you from even trying. It can be about you, other people, society, or anything else. This might be a limiting belief that you can never be wealthy, won’t achieve the level of success you dream of, or that you can’t wear that swimsuit with the body you have now. Limiting beliefs can be big or small, and all impact you greatly. Why Are Limiting Beliefs a Bad Thing? The reason you don’t want to have too many limiting beliefs…
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Time for a Mental Health Reset: Use Affirmations
If during a life reset you are more interested in improving your mental and emotional health, you might want to use affirmations. These are a wonderful addition to your mental health routine, as they can help you with your mindset, both in good times and in difficult times. Understanding Why Affirmations Work Affirmations are positive statements or phrases that help you experience happy, uplifting, optimistic, inspiring, motivational, and positive emotions. They can be used in so many different ways, but during a reset, they help you to stay in a place of inspiration when it comes to making positive changes in your life. Affirmations are going to help put you…
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Take Control of Your Time – Set Some Boundaries
Poor time management can cause stress you don’t need in your life. If people at work or within your family and friends are taking advantage of you by requesting or demanding precious time – it’s time to set boundaries for yourself. Is It You? Part of the problem with letting people steal your time from you could be you. If you allow people to interrupt you at work, let friends call when you’re trying to interact with your family or if a person in a relationship disrespects you by taking advantage of your good nature, you may need to rethink the boundaries you already have in place and create boundaries…
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National Dessert Month: Apple Pie a la Mode
As we get into the holiday season, we start getting ready for the crush of desserts that will be coming our way during the season. One popular dessert during this time of year is apple pie. Here is another entrant for National Dessert Month — apple pie a la mode. My paternal grandmother made apple pies (and cobblers but that’s story for another day) a lot. I remember watching her — no measurements needed there — and hoping that I could make things that tasted as good as her baking. I think we are getting there… The recipe for No Churn Vanilla Ice Cream included in this post as well.…
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Fun Kid-Friendly Halloween Meal Ideas
With the restrictions on our Halloween celebrations this year, we may find ourselves entertaining our children at home on Halloween night. I have published a post on safe ways to celebrate this holiday. However, before any trick-or-treating, movie nights, or bike parades, you can create a fun Halloween meal for the family. Below are videos and links to posts about cool Halloween foods. Halloween Sausage Fingers Cheese Broomsticks Monster Burgers Monster Sandwiches Other Halloween Menu Posts Suggestions for Halloween Dinner Creepy Concoctions for Halloween Quick Last-Minute Halloween Party Food With all of these menu options, you should be able to create a fun memorable Halloween meal for your family this…
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Life Reset: Work on Better Sleep
Sleep is one of the best things you can do for yourself but is often overlooked. Too many people lose out on sleep or at least have a poor quality of sleep, assuming it is just something you do, and not at all important. But your sleep quality can affect nearly every facet of your life, including your physical health, mental health, and so much more. How Much Sleep Are You Getting? Before you can adjust your sleep routine, you need to have a starting point. Keep a sleep diary for a few days or week with what time you went to sleep and woke up. Note what are doing…
