The Power of Specific Goals

In 2013, Dan and I got together with amazing friends and decided to make it an incredible year. We set goals with the idea of helping each other reach them. I set 10 rather lofty goals. I don't recommend setting so many, I haven't before or since set so many. However, that year was incredible. I reached all of them, even the ones I wasn't sure about when I set them. One of my goals was to figure out how to freeze dry food. I didn't know what a crazy goal that was. Freeze drying is really complicated. The first home freeze dryer happened to come out that same year, and somehow, we acquired one. I didn't know anything about Harvest Right when I set that goal. I didn't even know much about freeze drying, I just knew I wanted to be able to do it!

This year, I set some lofty, quirky, and random goals as well. I shared them with Dan so I would be more accountable. I wanted to loose 15 pounds, be able to climb a rope, swim a mile, and do 2 pull ups. That tells you how out of shape I was. The first few months didn't go well. I tried intermittent fasting, and didn't loose a pound. I started swimming and was enjoying it, but I had to swim 100 yard intervals. I heard Sally Fallon speak in January, and recommitted to following her ideas: bone broth, high quality fish oils, healthy fats, no processed foods...

Then in the middle of march our water polo coach introduced us to some amazing super food supplements. I started to be able to do things I couldn't before and it started this crazy domino effect. I lost 6 pounds, started running 3 miles day, could swim 2000 yards without stopping, and felt so much stronger. Then just when I'm feeling good about how things are going I learned about an arial silks class for adults. I didn't know when I set the goal to be able to climb a rope where in the world I was going to be able to do that. Well, there we go! I learned just how weak I was the first day! But, I will get there. I am confident that I can do it.

Goals I had set last year but didn't accomplish have even started happening: massage therapy school.  This is opening even more doors for health and wellness for my whole family. I am amazed at the power of setting goals and sharing them with people to hold you accountable. I can honestly say that it has not been me that is accomplishing these things. It is as if Heaven and Earth have moved to bring them about. All I have to do is be a willing participant. This year hasn't been the easiest of years in many ways. We have had a few set backs. But the goals I made will be accomplished.  I am so grateful! What is the difference? I don't totally know the answer this this except there must be a natural law that very specific goals, shared with others for accountability set things in motion. I look forward to the rest of this year and the changes I will make.

No More Adjustments!

For the last eight years I have gone to my physical therapist and chiropractor to set my SI joint regularly. So often if fact, that the physical therapist taught my husband how to set it. My body could not hold the adjustment. I did exercises and was careful about my activities, but even then I would have those days where I had to limp around through the day.

After discovering our new supplements, I wasn't having this joint pain and I stopped going. This week I decided to go to the chiropractor for a tune up since there is a great one in the same building as my massage therapy school. He did some adjustments to my neck and upper back, nothing major, and then I asked about my SI joint. He did some measuring of my legs and reported that it did not need adjusting. What?! Never in 8 years has it not needed adjusting. It had been 4 months since my last adjustment, and I still didn't need one. That is nothing short of miraculous to me.

Now, I can shovel and run all I want, and my SI joint feels no pain. I am feeling so grateful. Life is good. Not perfect, my hammock broke yesterday and my basement flooded, but my body is healthy and strong and I am grateful.