Skip to main content

Hello February!!

So the first month of the year is in the books! It was an up and down month for me! I have so many things that I want to do and be good at! I spent the last 2 weeks of January re-evaluating my priorities and what I really want to do in my life! 

I have re-discovered my love for long distance running! I am getting more and more excited about running 26.2 this year! I have had some really great long runs outside! I ran my first ever outdoor 15 miles last weekend! I even tried peanut butter GU for the first time!! Delicious by the way!  My treadmill long runs have been difficult to say the least but my mileage is increasing and I am happy about that!

I love this quote! There are so many storms in our lives that we go through and this month has been a challenge! 

I found out a few weeks ago that my grandpa who lives in Florida is not doing so well. It's been very hard for me to handle since he is my only living grandparent and he lives so far away! With all my family and career requirements it's hard to just pick up and leave. I am dealing with some guilt with this but I also have to realize that God is in control and only He knows what's to come. So I will say my prayers and let God handle it! 

I have been working on increasing my faith and walk with God this month also. I know I have fallen away a bit and I think that is in part why this month has been so challenging. I have turned away from my true purpose which is to help people! I have been doing too many things to sell myself and that is not what I am about! I am here to help others in any way that I can! I love Beachbody and I love being a coach, and as much as I love it when clients want to buy one of the new programs from me, I love it so much more when they ask for my personal help with meal plans, meal prep, recipes,  water check ins, and personal motivation! I love celebrating victories with them! It's why I love teaching! And why I love the one on one teaching I do with students daily! I am their personal coach daily! I build them up and give them strategies they can go back and use right away in the classroom! That's what I want to do with adults! That's what I hope to do with my PiYo teaching! I hope to one day expand that enough to go into personal training!! I know God put me on this earth to help others! I know He is working through me to help my students and clients! I know I need to take it one step at a time and continue to let God guide my path! 

As I look to February, I am going to continue to push myself with my running mileage and focus on helping my students and clients! I can see big things in my future but only by the grace of God! As long as I put Him first, there is nothing I can't do! 

So here's to pushing forward and following God! 

As always, Be Strong, You Never Know Who You Are Inspiring!!

Run on!! 

Laura 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

When Life Throws You Lemons--My Comeback

I know I haven't’ been the best blogger as of late.  Honestly, I haven’t felt like sharing much of what I’ve been going through the past year.  Maybe I felt ashamed for struggling so much and wanted to continue to give off the persona that everything was perfect.  I’m not perfect. Far from it. But that’s what makes me real and human. I think that’s what people want to see and read about.  Not everyone is a fitness model or perfect wife and mother. So here it is! My comeback to blogging. It’s going to be real and raw and everything I’ve kept inside.   Last year when we returned from our Disney vacation (June 2017), I started back into training for my 3rd Madison Marathon.  I wanted a PR so badly for this race. I wanted so badly to be under 5 hours. My training sucked! With EJ starting peewee football and my class load at work (I’ll get into that later), every time I thought about this race, I dreaded it.  Honestly, I was falling more and mo...
Post a Comment
Read more

Spring Break Fun!!!

Spring Break was sure fun and interesting!!  Carpet cleaning, a trip to Ikea, egg coloring, Easter Egg Scramble, and all the fun of Easter morning have made this a memorable spring break for sure. I have truly loved being home with my kiddos but there were times, especially Sunday afternoon after too much Easter candy, that I was definitely ready to head back to work and for them to head back to school. Monday was the only day my hubby had to work as he took vacation the rest of the week.  So the kids and I did some random stuff around the house and ran some errands.  Maddie went to Menards to pick out paint for her desk so she could paint it with Poppa.  While they were doing that, I took EJ to get his haircut and then to Shopko to get some totes for under the bed storage, the kids’ projects and their photo albums.  I have recently switched from using photo albums to using photo boxes.  You can fit in so many more photos and still have the ability to wr...
Post a Comment
Read more

2 Weeks of March Reflections

Well it’s been an interesting start to March.  I apologize for no blog last week.  It was a stressful week for me and didn’t have anything positive to say so I knew that would be reflected in my blog.  And that’s not how I want my blog to come across.   So let me recap what happened that first week of March.  The week started out just fine until I decided to check on the status of my license renewal through DPI.  Because I have 2 licenses; one as a teacher and one as a reading specialist, I had to renew both of them.  Well my teaching license is fine and will most likely be approved and renewed based on my teaching experience and my PDP (professional development plan).  My reading specialist license is another story.  It is not being approved right now as I didn’t complete the correct PDP as DPI classifies reading specialist as an administrative license.  I knew this, I just didn’t realize that my PDP would be any different.  I ...
Post a Comment
Read more