Life just got real.

It’s Monday morning and over the weekend I told the world my two goals for 2015.

Shut the front door.

I had a vulnerability hangover so I put my yoga pants on and went down to the beach.

My little miss nearly 4 months old, decided sleeping wasn’t on the agenda last night and I asked my body builder for some help this morning.

I asked him to personal train me.

Yes I did.

It just got real.

Monday morning real.

Let’s be honest. I had the most amazing time, boxing on the beach, until I felt a little overwhelmed, a little vulnerable, a little ashamed and then I self sabotaged.

I picked a silly little fight and I walked away.

Sitting here, thinking, saying sorry and realising, this is why this goal has never stuck.

In some areas of my life I am like a dog with a bone. If I want to do something I will drive that baby all the way home. But in this area of wellness, exercise, eating, I self sabotage.

I say it is too hard.

If my exercise companion doesn’t show up, I am secretly stoked.

If we go out and the menu options are limited, I have a wry smile.

No more.

Little great choices, everyday.

2015 is just around the corner, but I needed a little head start in this area so I have begun already. I don’t need January 1 to tell me what I want change in my life. At the beginning of the year, I filled in these Change Pages, something I have done for the last ten years and there is a reoccurring theme. Enter my goals for this coming New Year.

Out of this reflection, I have decided to run some one on one day creative retreats, to help people fill in these pages and find their goals for the coming year.

My two goals for next year are this;

1) Loose the 30 kgs I have put on since having my two babes, over the last 3 years.

2) Get ‘The Summer of Love; single, over 25 and exhausted’ published.

What is it that you want to do next year?

Follow my hashtag #inspire15 and let’s do something worthy together.

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I sat on the floor of my friends kitchen this morning feeding my soon to be 4 month old, chatting, thinking, smiling and enjoying the company of wildly creative women.

There is something that is released when women create.

Inspiration.

Innovation.

A sense of self.

A uniqueness that reflects women of old.

A beauty that pervades, even as I sat and noticed one of my legs was half shaved and was impressed I had remembered to put on deodorant as I rushed my gaggle out the door.

This Christmas my body builder and I have decided to keep things simple, even though my christmas obsessed heart wants to race to the shops and buy every possible fire engine, truck and helicopter available.

This is what we have decided for each of our brood to buy.

Something made by Mum

Something to wear

Something to read

Something you want

Something you need.

Five simple presents each with a little tag to match. Which I have made as a PDF for you to download and print out if you like the idea. Click the link below for the printable version.

something

Last year I made a simple Ebook called ’30 merry days’ with 30 different Homemade Christmas ideas, from presents, to recipes, to ideas, to simple links to websites.

For the next few days, anyone who signs up for my blog via subscription will get an email from me with a code to download the book for free.

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You will get an email to confirm the subscription. (make sure it’s not in junk mail.)

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Have a fabulous week my creative friends.