Just thinking about challenges lately & things that are "challenging."
We ALL face challenges. No one gets through life without difficult times, major change, loss of life, depression on some level. If only we could. And we either grow from it all & find a way to deal with it... or in some cases people don't.
The people I love the most are those that will show you how vulnerable they are & how crazy their life really is. No one's life is perfect & exempt of challenges... although sometimes people's lives appear more perfect than they are.
And then there's those overly dramatic people we all have in our Facebook newsfeed. Yep. We ALL know their life is NOT perfect.
Puh lease... could you keep things a little more to our imagination?
Raising a teenager, for instance, can sometimes be challenging. She never went through the "terrible two's" but there are moments when I wonder if she couldn't have just gotten it all out of her system THEN instead. And that's not to say that she's terrible now by any means... it's just that she feels very comfortable arguing with me over stupid stuff all the time.
Like... reallllly??? Whyyyyy????
I do miss her being so young, even though I have LOVED every single age & the young woman she is becoming.
Just took her to the doctor for her annual checkup & she's 5'8"... as in 4 inches taller than me. And I bet she still has an inch or two to grow...
Finding time to get my photos onto pages & into the scrapbooks is a MAJOR challenge for me lately. AdvoCare has a 24-Day Challenge to get your health back on track... so maybe I should do my own 24-day challenge to finish a page every day for 24 days? Imagine how much I could accomplish if I would just DO IT.
I do randomly get pages finished, it's just that I'll go back through old scrapbooks & feel so thankful I got those photos & stories on paper before POOF it was gone from my old brain... & think... how many current memories & conversations am I not putting on paper that will never be remembered?
Just shaking my head.
But here's some of what's been accomplished in the last couple months... (if you're a scrapbooker & want to see more detail, you can click on each one to see the images bigger)... assuming anyone is even still coming here for scrapbooking inspiration because I'm pretty sure that ship has sailed. I suck. LOL
Some people's challenges involve cigarettes, alcohol, food... whatever their drug of choice is. One person's bottle of wine every night, might be another person's gallon of ice cream.
But how is it... that same person will say they can't afford to buy something healthier... like fresh veggies or nutritional supplements? "It's too expensive."
They ARE affording to buy product... expensive products that add up... just choosing to buy non-healthy stuff instead.
I did my first 24-Day Challenge at the beginning of May. It's been almost 90 days & I'm getting ready to do another cleanse. Will I follow it with all the perfect food choices? Maybe not, but I'll get close. Last time I did it, I lost a few pounds & some major bloat. Did I necessarily need to lose weight? No. But I did want to get rid of some toxins & re-set my body for better health, so it was really nice to see results from my effort. At the time I was looking pretty bloated from newly teaching 4 night classes in a row every week & it was messing with my body big time to come home & eat a big meal at 9pm.
What else does the challenge do? It starts you thinking about making different choices in the kitchen.
It's been said that it takes 21 days to form a new habit.
What IF you made a couple different choices in the kitchen? What IF just a couple changes gave your body more energy, less fatigue, better digestion?
Small changes lead to big results.
You don't necessarily need to be local to join me in this. We can chat from afar.
No time like the present to challenge yourself with some changes... rather than letting life continue to challenge you.
It's how we continue to grow & become who we were meant to be...
Love your new layouts, especially the Denver one!
Posted by: Heather V | July 21, 2015 at 05:09 PM
She's only an inch shorter than me!!!!! YIKES!!!! And I hear ya .. little miss Tini is getting the teenage attitude too ... and she's not even 9!!!! Double YIKES!!!! LOVING the pages!! Those are gorgeous!!!!!
Posted by: Julie Tucker-Wolek | July 21, 2015 at 07:51 PM
Wow - she got so tall! Love the new pages - especially Denver and Fourteen! I'm a sucker for tons of little photos!
Posted by: E | July 24, 2015 at 09:19 AM