Getting it Together

Do you know how many days I've told myselt I'm going to write a "trainwithmandy" entry today?  Too many to count.  Life is different now with two kiddos at home.  I love it, it's just that things don't get done like they used to. Throughout the past 11 weeks I've worked toward balance.  Some days it happens and other days it doesn't.  As a stay at home mom and owning my own business there is a crazy new reality that's been created.  Food journaling has been put on the back-burner, prioritizing workouts, reading time and doing two things at once is slowly becoming perfected.  I find that my little escape is diving into a book where I never fully appreciated the time-out before; I sure do now.  Don't get me wrong, my passion and love are my children (check out my reading list if you don't believe me), but too much of anything is never healthy.  Plus, I sure do love learning and reading seems to fill that need.

So in the spirit of getting it together, which I completely understand is a lifetime process, here are two quotes I've read recently that have inspired me to keep working at "getting it together."

"Champions know that there is a difference between interest and commitment.  When you're interested in something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results!"  -Author Unknown

I find that this is so true with a busy schedule.  We all have busy schedules.  My interest that has turned into a commitment is leading a healthy lifestyle and setting an example by living out the best me I can be for my boys.  If I want that for them then I need to step up to it myself so they can witness it firsthand.  Granted, they will witness firsthand my failures but hopefully we can all work through them together.

"To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of practice itself." - George Leonard

Everything is a practice (for me) nowadays.  It's practice of oral hygiene-the new and improved cleaning routine (brought about by the new hardware in my mouth)-to eating breakfast every morning to practicing strength training 2 times a week.  The focus isn't the outcome, its the day to day practice.  If I have the practice down, the outcome will follow.