We are halfway through the first quarter of 2018 and I’m sure you have been on top of your intentions and goals.  Every morning and every week smashing goals like recycling pop cans (I’m from up north, where we say pop not soda LOL)

I’m proud of you.

I’m proud of myself as well…sorta.  I’m often asked how do I maintain my schedule and life.  I make things look so easy and yet honestly I screw up a lot.  For instance, I committed to do no flesh for the month of February i’m good on that however, I also decided to do a week of no sugar per the 21 day sugar detox diet.

I bombed on Day 6 of 7. I went to Wakanda and had popcorn with butter, salt and jalapenos.  Did I feel bad?  a little but I still ate it.  LMAO.  Did I beat up on myself, nope.  I decided to focus on what I did accomplish which I realized a few days AFTER comign off the detox.  I realized how much and how easily I would eat particular items that were on the DO NOT EAT list. Here I was believing that I really don’t eat sugar but errrr umm I do.  And I felt the difference when I began allowing these foods back into my system.  I felt bloated and heavy. My energy levels spiked and fell hard.  i wasn’t as alert. i drank less water.  I slept really hard when I began eating these items again. so guess what?  I….

nope I didn’t stop eating them. Hell I like them, but I did think twice before reaching for them or purchasing them.  Sometimes our goals and intentions are more about the awareness they bring rather than rigidly holding onto them.  They are guides.  A measuring tool by which we find out what works and doesn’t. More importantly, we figure out WHY they do or don’t fit.

I have modified a few of the intentions I set for the first quarter of the year. Some, because I was overzealous about what I could feasibly accomplish, others because life shifted some things and I can’t do them yet and still some because…I am resistant to them.  Still I’m feeling that I’m making progress. I had to reassess things and shift the priorities based on real time and what’s presently going on with me.

I’m sharing this to say that if you weren’t sure…it’s perfectly OK to modify what you SAID you were going to accomplish if and only if you can be honest about the reasons why AND live with the choices and outcome.  Otherwise…get to it folks.

We have a little over a month to finish out this first quarter and then see how we are on our goals and what’s the next quarter intentions/goals.

Keep breaking habits and creating new ones that fit the you, that is blossoming each and every breath and day of your lived experiences.