Message from Amy…

Hello Beautiful Women!

What a great April my family has had!  My daughter Sidney and I hopped in the van and drove towards the Grand Canyon. We got as far as Moab UT and decided to park. What a beautiful area to visit, and what a ton of fun things we did. HIking, camping, sightseeing and one activity in particular that we enjoyed was Rock Climbing. Yes, my 9-year old daughter and this 39-year old body decided to conquer our first real rock climb (not the indoor variety) in an area where there is, no other than…World Class Rock Climbing! Why not? If you’re going to rock climb why not go to the best!
What fun we had, and I discovered that rock climbing can be a metaphor for life.

I personally noticed that every time I was just about to the top of the rock I would tell myself, “This is good enough” never really getting all the way up.  In the midst of having every fingernail holding onto this gigantic boulder for dear life and my toes scrunched into the tiniest crevice bearing my entire weight, I paused to ask myself, “Where in my life do I say ‘this is good enough’?”  My answer….many parts of my life.

The truth is that I almost never go the full distance, being content to just have enough, to get by. Well, I decided to break that train of thought (habit/subconscious belief) and do something right there, right now. I then said a ‘Hail Mary’ Prayer and took a leap to the slightest indentation and crevice imaginable on the boulder, and got up to the very top! “I DID IT!” What a fulfilling feeling and a sense of achievement that entered into my entire being.

Now that I am back into my regular routine, I look back and at times I ask myself if I am settling and coasting at that ‘good enough’ point, and then I take an uncomfortable leap to move forward towards my dreams and my goals.

What situations in life are you coasting through and maybe need to take a leap at?  Are you stagnant with exercise, weight loss, vitality of life, lack of joy and energy and perhaps not even realize it?

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To improving your health to become your very BEST SELF,
Amy