Change 3 Challenge!
In an effort to be more mindful in all areas of my life I decided to create the Change 3 Challenge!
Read and scroll down for linkup party directions!
What is the Change 3 Challenge and when does it start and end?
The Change 3 Challenge is a call to look honestly at your life and find 3 things or habits you want to change. After you choose which 3 things to change, you make a plan on how you are going to do that. Then you announce it somewhere public (here in the comments, on our Facebook page, on your Facebook page, on your blog, etc.). This step makes you accountable (because honestly how many times do we say we are going to do something and then not really do it) and helps provide some incentive to carry through with your plan. If you use this blog post or our Facebook page you will also get some extra encouragement from myself and our readers. This is a way to partner up with others and be more mindful in changing for the better and developing good habits.
We kick off this fun challenge on October 1st! The end date for this challenge is November 1st!
You can jump in at any time!! My hope is that if you work hard on changing these things for one month (or however long you participate with us) that your changes will become permanent habits!
Why am I doing this? And why did I ask my friends to do this with me?
I am doing this because I have fallen into some bad habits and I need to replace them with good habits. I am really good at the talking part of changing but sometimes I fall short on the actual “walking” part of changing (you know I can talk the talk, but don’t walk the walk). So this is my way of helping myself to change, and hopefully helping others at the same time! (A real win-win!)
I am partnering with some good friends of mine to help me with my accountability, so you will get to watch them go through their Change 3 Challenge as well. They are wonderful women who will be blogging/vlogging about their own Change 3 Challenges and working to help encourage and help each other (and you!) along the way!
Who are your friends?
Rebecca Voeltner– Milk and Honey Living
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Melinda Weiser– Weiser Academy
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Kristi Phillips– Kristi R Phillips
Joy Capps- Who’s Learning? Who’s teaching?
What are my 3 things?
This was really hard for me to decide. I have a long list of things I want to try to really mindfully change for the better. After some prayer and really being honest with myself I came up with these 3 things.
1. Drink more water everyday– this one was a no brainer for me. I know I will feel so much better if I just make this little change!
2. Drink a green smoothie everyday– this is a good way for me to accomplish 2 things at once. I am the worst about eating breakfast and sometimes it gets to be 12 or 1 and I realize I have not eaten. Of course then I am starving and over eat. By the way doing this is HORRIBLE for your metabolism. This also makes sure I am putting in some really great foods into my body that I might not normally eat. Everyone needs a good nutritional boost everyday!
3. Exercise twice a week. This is the one that scares me to post. I have failed miserably at this over and over again. It is the one thing I know I need to work into my life but just have not been able to. I wanted to pick something else but I was talking to my friend Kristi ( the one from above) and I told her about not wanting to pick that one. Just like a good friend instead of giving me an excuse, she reminded me that so many moms struggle with this.This is a challenge and one of my goals was to be able to encourage everyone to pick something and really conquer it. How can I do that if I am not willing to? This is the hardest thing in my challenge for me, so this is where I am asking for the most help!!
Ok so I have shared mine- I cant wait to start reading your blogs and everything tomorrow and see what your 3 things are!
Why should you join along with us?
We ALL need encouragement and accountability! Plus two (or 4 + heads) are better than one! If you have a habit you want to change but are not sure how to maybe we can help give you some good ideas on how to do that.
How can you join us?
There are several ways!
You can comment on this post or our facebook page and let us know what your 3 things are and we will all work to help encourage you! You can also comment on any of the other co-hosts blogs/vlogs or any of their social media they will have listed above. We all want to see you succeed so this is a group effort!
Are you a blogger ? Video blogger? –If you have a blog or vlog simply add your link to your post in below in the linky section. Scroll down to find how to do that along with the requirements for linking with us.
(you can link up with us without doing the challenge- just scroll down for directions)
Every Monday for the month of October for Mindful Mommy Monday we will be doing a check in with everyone!
-I’ll check in with my success,struggles,etc from the week
-I’ll link up with my co-host so you can see how they are doing
-There will be a place for you to link up with your blog/vlog post about your challenges for the week
– you will be able to comment on the post and let us know how you are doing or if you need help or encouragement
Are you ready?? Do you want to link up with us?
Link up Party Directions- there are two different linkups sections. Please follow the rules posted below, violations will be removed. Thank you!
The first link up section is for blog/vlog participants in the Change 3 Challenge.
The second link up is for the link up party that I will be hosting every Monday.
If you are participating in the Change 3 Challenge you can enter both link ups!
Rules for linking up with us-
-please follow me on at least on of my social medias!
-once my co-host are posted please follow them on one of their social medias
-please add our blog link up to your post to help us grow!
-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 too or needs too
-no giveaways or advertisements please
-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!
Change 3 Challenge Link up!
Link up Party links- links will open on Monday September 30th
This is who I linked up with this week – click here to see!
Lets do this! What are your Change 3 Challenges going to be? How can we all help you? Do you need ideas or encouragement?
This will tie in nicely with Motivational Monday. It only takes 30 days to change a habit so this is a really good idea – I keep trying to drink more water, I will have to think of 2 more things in order to join in.
Yes! Come link up with us!! One of my things is drink more water too. I know I have not been the best at that and I really need to change that. I feel so much better when I drink water. This seems to be a very common bad habit, I have had several moms tell me one thing they want to change is their water drinking habits. Maybe we can all come up with some practical ways to implement that!
This sounds like a fantastic thing to do – I’m a huge fan of accountability and am always sharing my latest ‘challenges’ with my readers. Good luck and look forward to reading on Monday 🙂
I love accountability too! I hope you come back and link up with on Monday! Even if you don’t do the challenge there is still another link up party right underneath the Change 3 Challenge that we would love to have you do! Thanks for stopping by!
This sounds like an excellent idea. I will need to think to whittle it down to just three!
Thanks for linking up to Something for the Weekend #SFTW
I have a LONG list too! But with 3 kids,a blog,a house to take care of, and just life in general I thought I should just start with 3 . It seemed a lot more manageable than 2500!lol! Whenever you write your post about it just link up in the first section and I’ll be there to cheer you on!
I’ve signed up! I’ve been working on the “From Frumps to Pumps” challenge from Modest Mom Blog and am amazed at how well I’ve done. I’ve been thinking about other changes as well, seeing as how just changing one or two things has made a big difference, but wasn’t sure how it would go. This is a good way to hold me accountable.
Yay! So glad you are joining us!
What a great challenge! I’ll be interested to hear what your three things will be 🙂
Thanks so much for sharing at Essential Fridays.
Blessings
Mel from Essential Thing Devotions
What a great idea. I am all for accountability so if I say I am going to do something I usually write it down and announce it so that it MAKES me do it! I look forward to hearing what your 3 changes are going to be. Thank you so much for linking to PoCoLo x
I love this idea! Being accountable and having peers to motivate and encourage you does really help. Good luck to everyone who joins in.
Over from SITS Sharefest….have a wonderful weekend!
This is such a great idea! I just ran across this on Twitter, and I’m so glad I did. This will be interesting.
Thanks for stopping by! If you have a blog I would love for you to link up with us today during our link up party!
What a great idea. I had already chosen to change some things starting today. Which are the always irritiating weightloss subject, to get to bed earlier and to be more fun for my daughter
those are great! I am so glad you stopped by and linked up with us! Feel free to add any other links from your other blog on the link up party too!
This is a great idea! I found a recipe for green smoothies that you can freeze ahead of time. This has made SUCH a huge difference for me because I hate dealing with the work and mess of making smoothies. It isn’t the best tasting thing, although it isn’t disgusting, but I feel really good about myself after I eat it. Good luck with your challenge…I will look forward to reading updates!
Thanks for linking up with Mommy Moments!
Becky 🙂
Thats kind of what I did. I had some kale and some bananas that were going to go bad so I just made up a couple of little baggies and threw them in the freezer and you are so right- it makes it soo much easier! What is your smoothie recipe?
Thanks for hosting this goal challenge Amber. I know it is helping me focus on being a better mom, wife, and daughter of the King! I hope you will be blessed through this adventure!
I am so glad you are joining us Melinda! I was laughing becasue I was glad that someone elses list looked as long as mine! But I think it is always good to have goals to and work towards a better version of ourselves!
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