TRUTH.

I turned a year older this last week. Contemplating my life, goals, and parenting is on my mind daily. It is especially exacerbated when my birthday rolls around. If you don’t know me well I will let you in on a little secret. I AM A PLANNER! I have gotten better at living freely and not planning as I have aged. Mainly because I don’t have the energy I once did to plan every little detail. Now I just hit the big stuff and the details fall where they may. I preface this blog with all this to get to my main point. The one thing that I have learned as I get older is that life should be FUN! I have spent too much of my life being the planner… being serious…being responsible…etc. The older I get the more I want to experience life outside of my comfort zone. I want to challenge my body. I want to challenge my mind. I want to show my kids that mom is fun too..not just dad. So let’s get down to the nitty gritty… how is this accomplished? Well, for those of us who were born focused on accomplishing daily goals and being serious, we have to retrain our brains. I get up every morning and workout. It gives me a time to be physical and not have to think. All I do is jam to some rap.. specifically NOTORIOUS B.I.G. (Who doesn’t love Biggie Smalls?) Seriously, he has some good beats..besides the language…he was a genius. Back to my point..I get up early and it gives me time to work out some energy and start my day right. Then I read my bible app for the day… right now I’m reading through the book of Isaiah. God put it on my heart a few years ago to read Isaiah and focus on what he wanted me to learn from it. I keep re-reading it because I haven’t found yet what I am meant to get from it…but I will one day. After this, I have time to actually fix my hair and put makeup on. (The public is thankful for that one) Anyway, this time every morning gets me set for the day. I am ready to face the world and enjoy the day. I find myself, throughout the day, resorting back to my task mentality and getting lost in the things that don’t matter. For example, when I come home for lunch and I get 3o minutes with my husband to connect without kids around. I start to see dishes, sweeping, and laundry loads dancing in my mind. That is the devil keeping me from my time with my husband. So, I have to catch myself and focus on what matters. What matters is my dead sexy husband wanting to spend his lunch with me. Man…I’m a lucky girl! So the point of this blog is to learn how to get away from the things that we make a priority that shouldn’t be. That’s brain training and thought training. Just like we train our muscles to do an exercise or workout, we slowly become better at that exercise. We become stronger. The same concept applies here. Get up everyday and train your brain to focus on what is important not the details that won’t matter later. Eventually, it becomes habit to think the way you want. I am currently training my brain to have fun in every thought. Do you know how interesting it is to think about how to have fun in every moment? It seriously makes the world look so much different. I don’t come off as the responsible type in this scenario, but I don’t care. I am enjoying getting out of my own head and living life for my happiness. My goal one day is for my children to remember how goofy mom was and how I could have fun in any situation with them. I am not perfect at it, “progress not perfection.” I will leave you with this. What is your brain training that you need to work on? Think about it and set your mind to changing it!