Change 3 Challenge and Mindful Mommy Monday Linkup #2

It is Mindful Mommy Monday! Time to  have a linkup party again!! But first lets check in with our Change 3 Challenge bloggers !

Curious what the Change 3 Challenge is? Click here to find out!

My update-

Oh how I wish I could say that I have done so well on my challenges. I believe that honesty is the best policy so I am going to be completely honest with all of you.The only one of my challenges I did well on was drinking a green smoothie everyday.I didn’t exercise at all. I filled a water jug up and put it in my fridge last week and it is still there completly full.  As I sit here this morning feeling like a failure I have had to remind myself  of  one of my life philosophies. Failure is only really truly  failure if you learn nothing from it, otherwise it is just a learning experience.

With that in mind-This is what I learned from my experience last week with my Change 3 Challenges.

-The reason I succeed with the smoothies was becasue I made a plan and I followed through with it. I am going to write a post about it but basically I made up a bunch a freezer packets so all I had to do was grab and go. I looked at my life and came up with a practical way to make drinking a green smoothie every day much easier for me. I don’t think I ever really came up with a plan on how I could exercise 2x a week.

Life Lesson Learned– If you don’t make a plan thenthe chances of whatever you want to happen in life probably won’t happen.

Another thing I learned this week is I really need to get back on some kind of schedule or routine with everything.It is hard to make a  plan when I really dont know how my days are going to go.  I need  better balance in life when it comes to so many things and I think a routine of some sort would really help that happen.

Life Lesson Learned- If you don’t have balance in life then you are going to be off kilter on everything.

The last thing I learned is if something is important to you then you do it. If not, you make excuses. I need to make my health as important as all the other things I make sure I take care of. As a mom I put my family’s needs in front of mine. I make sure they eat well and are taken care of because I love them and they are important to me. I truly see them as a gift and a blessing from God. I need to see myself as the same so that I become important enough to take care of too.

My plan of attack-

-Work on getting in a good routine this week that works for  my family.

-Sit down today during naptime and find some creative ways to work in exercise to my life.

-Make sure I have a cup of water around me most of the day so I will remember to drink. ( I did make up some fruit infused water yesterday that I really liked so I am going to do that again today).

Alright enough about me! Lets check in with our other bloggers and see how they did this week! Click on their links for their blogs and you can catch up with them and see how they did this past week!

My Co-Hosts –

Rebecca Voeltner–   Milk and Honey Living  

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Melinda Weiser– Weiser Academy 

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Joy Capps- Who’s Learning? Who’s teaching?  

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Kristi Phillips– Kristi R Phillips

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I had several wonderful bloggers sign up to take the challenge with us!They will be adding their posts to the link up below. Please stop by their blogs and show them some love too!

We would love for you to join us on this challenge! If you want to please link up too! 

This link up is just for the Change 3 Challenge. (Please scroll down for the link up party link)

 We love link up parties here at Adventures in Mindful Cooking! We love to see your posts!! We do have a few rules for linking up so please be the sweet and wonderful people I know you all are and follow them. Any posts that don’t will be removed.

Rules for linking up with us-

-please follow me on at least on of my social medias!

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-please follow my co-hosts on one of their social medias    

– Please tweet about this link up,pin it,or  share it to help us grow! You can use the hashtag #Change3Challenge so we can all keep up with you!

-please only link up family friendly content     -please link to your specific blog post

-please no meat recipes (there are plenty of other places to do that  so I don’t need to add one to it). Recipes with dairy I am fine with becasue those can easily be subbed out for anyone who wants to or needs to

-make sure you go and visit at least 2 others from the link list you added yourself too! Its a great way to go and make new friends!

-crafts,inspirational posts, non meat recipes,projects,  DYI projects all welcome!

Basically anything you are mindful about we would love to see! 

Alright! Lets Link up!!

Have a great week everyone! Thanks for stopping by- Remember to come back next week and see how everyone is doing with their challenges and come back and link up again! 

Want to see who I like to link up with? Click here!