Coupons

http://www.debbiedoescoupons.com/2011/04/11/20-whole-coupon-inserts-giveaway-2/

Seeing if I can do this couponing thing.  This is a great site.  Follow along!

OK, Can't seem to get it together for 7 hours, let alone 7 days

My last post was to change my habits.

My goal was to do something better for me and do it for 7 days to see if it would become a habit.

My goal needs to be reworked.

Does doing something for 7 days become a habit?

Challenge for the next 7 days--

• Body
• Drink 8 glasses of water--two before each meal
• Finances
• Keep track of all money spent
• House
• Make my bed daily and do one load of wash daily
• Spirit
• 15 minutes a day spent on me and off Facebook.

What are yours.  Lets keep everyone accountable.

I will check in daily and post how I did.

Similarities and Differences

Look at these images...

Quickly, note---are they the same or different?

In what ways?

I will share my list and how it inspires me in my life coaching business.

The similarities:

• Campbell's soup is a hearty, tasty, easy soup that provides vitamins and minerals and fills you up on a cold day.
• Homemade soup is a hearty, tasty, easy soup that provides vitamins and minerals and fills you up on a cold day.  

Oh, they are the same, right?  If we just look at similarities, they are exactly the same.  But, when we look under the surface with all our senses we see what sets up apart.

The differences:

• Homemade soup takes time, so it really isn't as easy as canned soup.
• Canned soup is premade with additives and smaller vegs and meat.
• No matter what, basically every can of Campbell's soup will taste the same.  It is consistent.
• Every time you make homemade soup it can turn out very different, depending on what is available and, lets face it, our mood that day.
• Homemade soup is richer and more flavorful.
• Campbell's soup costs less to make.
• You do the work for homemade soup;someone else does the work for canned.

Hmm, it is NOT the same.

How does this apply to YOU?

Are you taking the easy way out?

Are you settling for a less that spectacular existance?

Are you ok with being just like everyone else?

Are you settling for the same thing everyday, afraid to look outside the "can"?

Are you expecting richness or thinking that what you are used to is great?

Are you thinking that someone else doing the work is easier and you are ok with how it is been so...

Think about it.  

You need to do the work to get to the best life possible.

You deserve the richest, most flavorful, spectacular life and "soup" possible.

I can help you get there.

2011 Resolution

I was watching something earlier this evening that joked about falling in love and spending all their time at the gym trying to look good. I don't even remember what I was watching, but I remember those days. 

I remember those early days of love/lust when I worked out everyday, drank slim fast, ate salads, stood up straighter, took time to go to the tanning bed, fixed my hair and make up all to look my best. I wanted to look my best.

Unfortunately, I have not been with anything like that in a while. Some days I am willing to say that perhaps I am depressed. Some days I just feel I have given up on love and finding MY special person.

But, 2011 started a little bit ago and I just realized something very, very important. 

I need to have that love affair with ME! I need to fall in love with myself again. Take that time for ME. Look at myself with the pride that I have wanted others to look at me.

That is my 2011 resolution. I will love me. Take care of me. Take time for me.

What to do when you have a lot to do

Are you ever overwhelmed?  Your to do list is so long in your head that you can't imagine putting it on paper?

I am there right now.

My big to dos...
   Get my Masters
   Move
   Buy a new car  (when I get over my intense sadness of getting rid of my Jeep)
   Getting out of my medical bills
   Lose 50 pounds
   Get a new job
   Work harder on my coaching business
   Do a national level speech

My little to dos...
    Clean off my lay down couch
    Mop my kitchen
    Figure out how to do my hair in this new haircut
    Put out my Fall decorations
    Lose 5 pounds
    Finish the laundry

Enough?  Yes   Is this really all?  Probably not.

Sometimes I dream too big.  Sometimes I lose sight of the dream totally.

I am off the computer for a while this evening and the couch and I am having a meeting of the minds and I am going to win.  Then, maybe look for a job.

Everything is doable one step at a time.  I am off to start stepping.

I guess its better to hurt that feel nothing at all?

There is a country band out now called Lady A and they have a song out entitled, "I need you now".  One line in the song says, "I'd rather hurt than feel nothing at all".

That line has me thinking.  How many people feel that way now.  I went on a tirade this week after walking behind a young woman at SIU-E (a local university) wearing stilettos--clomping along, bent knees, leaning weird.  I could only imagine it was because her feet hurt.  I have seen the pose before by a lot of women that choose the style.  Then, a few minutes later, I saw a girl with a skirt so short that you saw shadows in the nether region!  She was standing there pulling the garment down over and over again.

It seems that women are again to the point were it is better to be uncomfortable for fashion.  Sad.

But, I think it has to do with the current trend of public angst that is happening with all the reality TV and current economic problems.

I have had a lot of issues in my life and sometimes  I myself find myself on those particularly down days wishing I had a t-shirt that said, "so you think you are having a bad life, well let me tell you..." and then I would list all my woes.  (perhaps the shirt would have to be very big some days)

What to do, what to do?  I think we need to get someone to listen to our problems so we can dump them and move on.  Some are good dumpers, some are not.  Some want to dump and never be the listener.

My mission for the day--and week--identify when and who to dump to and then move away on on with my life.  Can you do it?