Are you just preaching and lecturing your kid, but not actually living your life that way? Get honest with yourself. We need to become aware, and grow as a person as well. Our kids need to see us learn from mistakes, make better choices, and own it when we are wrong. If you really want to influence your kids, pay attention to what you are giving them an example of.

Challenge: Be the example you want your kids to be.

Resource: Grow up: Becoming the parent your kids deserve.

I do believe that every challenge, mishap, mistake, or resistance that we experience, its a test for us. We decide if we are going to grow and learn, or if we are going to react with negativity. Will you adapt, shift, solve the problem, and keep going? Or will you complain, blame, and remain in the circle of self-doubt, and wanting to give up?

This is the point where life can completely begin to change, if you decide to grow, pivot, and learn from what is going on.

Challenge: Pay attention to your challenges this week. How are you responding?

Quote: "Every excuse buys you another moment in your lifelong commitment to the victim club." - Gary John Bishop

Angela Chapman, founder of Age On Purpose, is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner and a ReCODE 2.0-certified practitioner dedicated to helping others with the prevention, reversal or better management of Mild Cognitive Impairment and early Alzheimer's disease. Genetically at risk for Alzheimer’s herself, Angela opened her Direct Access community in 2020 to provide the education, peer support, Q/A and access to lab testing needed to successfully implement a proven protocol.

Angela opens our minds to how our everyday choices can impact our brain, and that a holistic approach is actually finding the root cause of our symptoms, and improving them, rather than masking them. You can’t miss this.

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Suzi is the green blogger behind the blog Gurl Gone Green. She's a wife and mom to three girls and one boy. After eating healthy for several years, she realized eating real food was only a small part of the healthy living equation. As a hairstylist and esthetician, she became aware of all the harmful chemicals she was constantly being exposed to. She went on a journey to transform her conventional products over to clean products. This led her to start sharing with others what she had learned. Fast forward 10 years later, and her mission to help others live out a clean lifestyle has only grown!

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When we get in the vicious cycle of letting unhealthy thoughts and feelings control our lives and our choices, we have to break the cycle and choose differently. This is possible. Let us choose this week to be bold and believe in ourselves and know that we are capable of anything.

Challenge: Pay attention to your thoughts and feelings this week and break the cycle if needed.

Quote: "Recall that thoughts lead to feelings, feelings lead to actions, and actions lead to results. Everything begins with your thoughts—which are produced by your mind." -T. Harv Eker

Resource: Break the Cycle

Grace is the most underused superpower we can have. Grace gives us permission to move on. The ability to let go, forgive yourself, and move on quickly seems to be one of the most underused super powers. I can do all the things, but if I can't give myself grace when I mess up, I won't be able to bounce back and start again. I won't be able to get back up, when I fall down. I won't be able to laugh at myself when I make mistakes.

**Challenge: **This week work on your grace muscle, for you and others. We need grace for the rest of our lives. Give yourself and others more grace this week.

**Quote: **One of the best game changing habits you can develop is getting back up when life gets you down, and for that you need the superpower of GRACE.

Resource: The Daily Surrender Journal

You are more likely to stick to something that is not extreme. Anything extreme isn’t a sustainable lifestyle. We want a more enjoyable lifestyle, and it is possible with healthy, balanced choices. This is also a perspective, and a mindset. Let us find the goldilocks zone, as Jillian Michaels says.

Challenge: What are you getting too much of and not enough of? Figure out where you could adjust and get a better balance.

Resource: The 6 Keys, by Jillian Michaels

Let us become aware this week and work to shift our mindset little by little to a more positive, hopeful, abundant, and grateful mindset.

Challenge: Become aware of your mindset this week and make small shifts to make it more positive.

Quote: “You can’t feel stressed and blessed at the same time.” Jon Gordon

Don’t give up. Get rest, pause, and take a step back. Then start again. When something is so important to your soul, you will feel much resistance as you pursue it. Take a new perspective. Try something new. Step back and pause. Then…start again. Take action.

**Challenge: **Whatever you have given up on, or have thought about giving up on, I want you to step back, pause, rest and then, start again. Do not give up.

*Quote: *“The more important an activity is to your soul’s evolution, the more resistance you will feel.” Steven Pressfield

**Resource: **The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield

Taking care of our health is overwhelming. Too many options, opinions, fads, diets, gadgets, and advice from everyone. This can leave us stuck, and not doing anything to improve our health. Just start. Start with what seems easy and possible. Take the walk. Drink more water. Get up earlier. Pick the one thing that you think you can accomplish and start.

Challenge: Start one new habit this week. Whatever seems easiest.

*Quote: * "Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the right moment to make an improvement.” James Clear

Resource: Atomic Habit, by James Clear