Mental Cleanse Challenge - Day 1 & Yesterday's Prep!

So I did some prep yesterday (blending greens, finding a journal and such) and gave it a slight run through to prepare myself for the challenge and to see if the challenge fully meet my needs plus I had to have my initiation smoothie LOL! I did find I had to make some slight alterations to the way the steps were written in my challenge these are:

1. A Daily Green Smoothie and Eating for my body & mind
2. Keeping a Journal for clear thoughts and emotional release
3. Me Time - Art, Gardening or Cooking
4. Exercise for physical and mental health.. 30 min Yoga, Walking or Fitclub
5. Appreciation & Mindful Meditation to help Relaxation
6. Letting go of stresses and moving on for peaceful sleep

I still will not tick it off for the day until I have spent at least 15 focused min on that task
I dare say that during the course of the month I will add to these steps and fine tune them!

It's 8pm now strike that now 9:30pm and so far I have had my green smoothie and eaten lunch and dinner (I had my smoothie for breaky) I will definitely feel better adding breaky and having the smoothie as a snack but feel I can tick that off for the day :)
I tested out 15 min of kids yoga with the kids but Amelia kept interrupting me and it was more suited to kids. I think that it is something I will put on in the morning for the kids, while I organise breaky. They really enjoyed it but I will find one to do on my own. Even though fitclub was on today I couldn't go as the kids had bad attitudes and I didn't want to take them anywhere! So I felt that, after that, today I needed an easy on myself day and relax into this challenge.
I did some gardening with Amelia we transfered some plants and I finally planted my roses. Then we had our lunch and went for a snooze...
When we woke I jotted down in the book I am going to use for my release journal (these blog posts are my main journal) dot points of what I had to do and what I would like to do and gave time frames that I would spend on them before moving on these included my tasks for the challenge.
I have managed to be able to tick off all but the last 2 which I am about to do now! I am going to let go of the fact that this post is not as filled in as I would like (I can always come back and add links later) and I did not fully complete everything that I would have liked to today I will just move on to relax for tomorrow. I will now go and start my new routine to finalise my day step 5 and 6 also adding todays appreciation photo on instagram :)

♡ Mummy Madness

The Mental Cleanse Challenge

I NEED to clear my mind, I am not where I want to be and am not able to get the things I would like to do done due to my current lack in being able to focus my mind, which is also draining my energy! Just doing My Soul Journey is not working alone I need to give it a kick start first. I came across the Green smoothie challenge and thought that it might help my energy levels but I wanted to take it one step further to really help cleanse my mind..
So I joined the green smoothie challenge and I am setting myself a added mental cleanse challenge to go along with it...

I believe that clearing my mind involves also improving my physical health through food and exercise which should also improve my energy. Starting on the 1st of July I am going to be working through my checklist below on a daily basis:

1. A Daily Green Smoothie and Eating for my body & mind
2. Keeping a Journal for clear thoughts and emotional release
3. Meditation for relaxation
4. Exercise for physical health.. 15 to 30 min Yoga and walking
5. Appreciation
6. Letting go of stresses and moving on for peaceful sleep

A snap shot of this post is my phones background to keep reminding me and keep me accountable.
I will not tick it off for the day until I have spent at least 15 focused min on that task

It is actually quite fitting as the challenge itself will end just before my birthday!
♡ Mummy Madness

A Love Letter (of sorts)

To my wonderful loving caring partner AJ ♡ this is a love letter, of sorts.. well my version at least. I think that it is well and truly over due to show you and the world how much I love you and appreciate you. I have never been very good at expressing myself verbally but I feel that especially now you need it..
We are now blessed with 3 wonderful children but in saying that it does limit even more the amount of alone time we do have together (or even the opportunity to be in the same room apparently) however, I don't want you to think that we never have time together or to ourselves because the kids won't allow it and instead know that I always love you, you are my soul mate and I could not imagine life without you!
It is about quality not quantity, I really want to take every small chance of time together and appreciate it alone and with the kids and make it count so at the end of the day when one or the other kids need us we don't feel like we have had any time to connect in the day... Take that 5 min in the morning before work, the 10 min that all the kids are asleep (I know rare but hey) the small moments when the kids are getting along without us, the silly little messages we send each other through the day. I am aware it is something I need to be more conscious of too.. I realise I have a very different way of showing love, doing the things I do to make everyone happy, but just know I am trying to be aware of the other ways that show love. Such as simple things like holding hands and sitting together on our make shift couch as well as actually saying I LOVE YOU.. ♡ rather than just thinking it and doing something I feel shows it.
I want to see you do more for you too, and getting the things you would like for yourself (because honestly I don't know) especially since you are working most of the day, you really do deserve to have the things that you want too! I'd love to see you pick up a guitar and start playing just because you want too, and see you think about things in the sense of 'does it have to be done or can it wait?' & 'What will I remember later in life? Doing tasks that I think need to be done or doing something that makes me feel happy and connected to my family' Take some time to do something extra that you enjoy. I know that lately you feel unappreciated or that the kids make me feel happier than you. But it is YOU that makes me the happiest I have ever been and being able to share everything with you! I want to share with you all of the things the kids have done with you and others because the truth is that I wouldn't have these wonderful moments with our little family to share at all if it wasn't for you! Whenever I share what the kids have been doing I hope that it makes you happy and proud of not only them but youself because it wouldn't be possible without you. We all love you more then we can ever really tell you or show you, but just know we are always thinking about you and what we can do for you..

♡ everything I have Breanna
And our three little cheeky kids!