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2024 Check In- How are those goals doing?!

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***I’m ALMOST back from my July break, and as I came on here to start brainstorming about what I might write about in August… I realized I never published this post I meant to put up the end of June. I have not looked back or edited it since I wrote it mid-June so please read accordingly and I’ll have new content soon!****

I wrote a bit about my goals update when we were 1/4 of the way through the year… and while we have a few weeks to go until we reach the halfway point of 2024, this seemed like a good week to revisit the goals I want to keep moving forward with and how other goals may need to pivot or be approached in a new way. Continue reading →

Modifications Are Sexy!

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For a long time I thought modifications were like cheating. I am a very follow the rules type of personality and I want to do things right because #recoveringperfectionist and this is probably part of why I prefer baking to cooking. Comfort with modifying recipes and improvising with what you have is prized in good cooking. Following the rules in baking so that all the science of baking works out is more my speed. I have come to change my mind about boundaries though. If it weren’t for finding the freedom to modify, I think there are a lot of things I would never attempt at all. Continue reading →

Adult Onset Athlete

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Something that has been a unique part of my story is how I have become what I jokingly refer to as an “adult onset athlete” and what I mean by that is that if you told high school me- the me who would try so hard to miss the day in PE where we all had to run a mile and who believed theatre and sports were antithetical to each other that I would one day pay people lots of money to go run many many miles I would have told you that you had gotten lost and traveled to the wrong timeline, you must be talking about some other version of me out in the multiverse (my husband and I have been watching a lot of MCU TV shows and movies recently… can you tell? Anyway, back to the point of this post… I NEVER considered myself an athlete. Until…  Continue reading →

Where’s the Mountain? Thankful for how far we’ve come…

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Earlier this year, I was hiking with my daughters at our favorite mountain preserve and my middle child told me that she wanted to get to the top of a particular part of the mountain that day. Continue reading →

How I Started Trail Running and Tips If You Want to As Well!

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It is finally cooling off again! One of the most exciting things about that for me is that I can return to trail running- something I still consider myself to be a bit of a beginner at, but that I have done for about a year now. SO I thought I’d share a bit about how I started trail running and what I would say to someone who might be interested in doing the same! Continue reading →

September Recap and October Goals

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I love that we are getting into hiking season and cooler weather here in Phoenix! It is also Powersheets launch day!!! This always fills me with a little bit of hope that life goes on and reassures me that I’ll have a nice little personal retreat to reflect on priorities and what I want for the new year. If you want to go through Powersheets with me next year, you can order them HERE.

(The tending lists in the Powerhseets are more or less what shows up here in my monthly goal/recap posts but the magic of this tool is in the prep work and reflecting on what you want your big picture goals to be and why!)

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