And It’s Life Starts’ First Birthday And The Year’s Review!

I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first started this site, it feels completely surreal!

It has been such a huge year for me, the Seize The Day List literally changed my life!  The highlights are on my quarterly updates:

  1. First Quarter
  2. Half Year
  3. Three Quarters

But ultimately the biggest thing has been nearly fully overcoming anxieties that have plagued me for 10 years which was something that had been a huge battle but this year, with the help of a new nearly daily yoga practice (in the comfort of my own home!), revised eating habits and having a more stimulated and focused mind.

54 out of 71!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So no, I didn’t complete the entire list!

I’d say I’m disappointed but I have literally achieved more this year than I ever thought was possible so the fact that I couldn’t squeeze everything in is not something I’d even consider beating myself up about, this year has just been too productive to care.  In actuality, I will try to squeeze those activities in to 2013 so at least I satisfy those particular plans.

Carpe Diem

Plans for 2013!!! 

“When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes. ” Oprah Winfrey

So 2013 is going to be a little bit different from 2012.

As much as I adored the list and what it brought to me, I’m still learning what works for me and what I want to do with my time.  So from 2012 I’ve gained a lot of self-discipline (blogging every day and achieving plans will do that) and with those newly acquired skills, I’ve decided that 2013 I want to truly workout what I’m doing with my life and also find a way to earn money from self employment (part time initially but I would like to build it up in the long run).

As I’m still not entirely sure of the direction I want to go in, I know that I’ll need to read more, study more and commit a lot of time and energy to this but I know that this is how I want to further my self-development and I’m so excited to try it.

I’ll keep blogging with with my plans and progress as they develop and I’m hoping to spend more time on Primal Zest this coming year, which has been something I didn’t really have a lot of time to do this year because of my commitment to daily blogging on Life Starts, I don’t know if that will end up being something I can use as an income source but it is absolutely something I want to take further regardless because I truly believe that the Primal/Paleo lifestyle make such a difference to life.

Here’s to 2013!

Love

Jen

 

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

“There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ” Erma Bombeck

So today is the big Christmas-Prep day at Chez Us.  Every weekend after this we’re pretty busy leading up to Christmas so today we grabbed ourselves a tree (a really really wide tree, it’s not even that tall!) and here it is full to the brim with decorations:

Christmas Tree In Daylight

Here’s the festive hot milk with cinnamon:

Milk With Cinnamon

And here’s the tree twinkling:

Twinkly Christmas Tree

And so the fire is on, there are twinkly lights on the mantle and I’m waiting for Elf to start so that I can begin present-wrapping (a tradition of mine) and right now, I have to say, I’m feeling more than a little bit festive…..

Fireplace

16 days to Christmas boys and girls, not that I’m counting.

Love

Jen

xx

Pond Digging Day 1: We’re Piling Up A Lot Of Dirt!

The wheelbarrow is only about a quarter of it but the whole is definitely getting bigger, another  (bigger and with more daylight!) progress update tomorrow:

Wheelbarrow of Dirt

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