What gives you energy??

Lately I’ve been focusing especially on maximizing my time and using it meaningfully. The two main things I’ve been focusing on are planning, and getting enough sleep! These two things are SO key for me in getting done what I need to, feeling productive, and feeling happy.

With that being said, this past week I have just NOT gotten adequate sleep! Saturday night we were out at a Halloween party, Sunday night we hosted a mini horchata & pumpkin cookie party, and last night, friends ended up coming over again. (Guess lately we’ve been awfully social!) Well, my 10:30pm bedtime just hasn’t been happening. 

Yesterday I tried to push through the day but was so exhausted the entire day, and today has been even worse. 

My typical go to for energy when I still have things I need to get done are to eat a healthy meal, workout, or in extreme cases take a nap. However... naps usually end up making me feel groggy and I don’t get much done afterward anyway!

Is there a good solution?? 

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What is your go-to for quick energy? Working out or taking a nap?

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How about things you’ve found that give you energy in your everyday?

A Blog's Self Discovery

Bringing this blog into full swing is exciting. However, deciding on content, determining the brand, and designing it all is of course, a process.

The internet and social media can be a bit bizarre at times-- whether an overload of over-exaggerated, over-glamorized lives, or quite honestly a fear of the unknown in viewers, or perhaps a vulnerability in sharing your heart in such a public setting.

My favourite blog was one that managed to avoid all of these things. Her personal life remained a bit separated from her creative life online. She seemed to share the best of the web, with only slices of personal opinions. Really, blogging should be about sharing and promoting ideas, promoting creativity, not personal promotion. Aren't we all the same, just boring humans? It's our ideas that make us unique. The ideas are what are worth spreading (...not a TED talk reference).

Here's to the loveliest ideas on the web. Or perhaps to the ideas my own little self is working through, with requests for collaboration. Likely thoughts on meditation and mindfulness, minimalism and a bit of design and fashion, assuredly with lots of recipes.

It's not about creating the same thing that everyone else is already doing. More like discovering where this takes itself along the way, allowing it to create itself.

Google gave me this quote for the day, a good one, right?

(photo: http://www.oprah.com/quote/quotes-about-perfection-anna-quindlen) 


I hope you'll stay a while.
& share some ideas while you're here.


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Running Late

I have five minutes before I need to leave. Which is how time seems to have gone lately. Because time is constantly running, meaningful lives are created, they don't just happen. I keep expecting it to just happen, for my life to be meaningful. Especially if I include at least some meaningful things within my life... but I'm realizing that some isn't enough. Life needs to be intentional to be meaningful, and rather we live in a world now where everything else tries to dictate the way we will spend our time rather-- devices that ping and tell us where to go next or what to do or what to read or look at... I'm searching for a more meaningful life, through mindfulness and intention and productivity and more love. I don't have a plan but I need one. 

This is a creative outlet. Because the creative pieces of me are all sorts of lost... This is an organizational space: for the ideas and words to sort themselves out. A sort of Accountability: I need to stick to the goals I make. & who knows what else it will become from there. 

Journey with me. A path of self-discovery and renewal. A dive into mindfulness and creativity. Just hoping to create clarity.

I love Reese, and we have a goood thing going right now. We are learning the ropes, and the up's and down's of life and that is pretty exciting with him by my side.

I never want to forget it. How in love with him I am and how much I want him to be mine forever. So here's to the beginning of forever eh?