Let’s flip the script. If a goal without a plan is just a wish- let’s make a plan! These are all these things that you thought just automatically came with life as an adult and they don't, those are like our new year's resolutions. It sounds really depressing in a way, especially when they don't stick. So let's flip that script. Let's create a goal with a plan. So let's not be wishing that we could do something different in the new year or ever. We don't have to wait until the first day of the year to make a new plan but it's okay if we did. It's okay if it's the middle of the year and we're making a plan it doesn't matter. The point is to make a plan that is totally stickwithable. What do you have to lose? You can join the FREE New Year, New Mom Challenge, and create a great foundation of a system that works for you and your family. Or you can skip it and do what you do every year when the calendar rolls over to the 1st.

I can’t honestly I aspired to become a mother. I pushed myself to finish graduate school directly following a double major and double minor in undergrad. It wasn’t that 👶 🍼 didn’t appeal to me but I had been told not to bother that my body wouldn’t work. When the surprise baby was born, I couldn’t imagine a life without her (and now her two sisters too!). And now, I balance my mom life with my career life by working from home and homeschooling. My kids and husband mean everything to me but the passion to have a career and build things will always burn. I’m so thankful for the opportunity to have it all while still being a Productively Present Parent™.

Becoming a mom is usually surrounded with joy, right?  But it's also easy to use your motherhood as justification for putting all of your life goals and dreams on the back burner. You tell yourself that you're just going to spend these few years with your little one and then eventually you'll go back to work and eventually you'll resume your "normal" life, right? You'll get back to the gym, catch up on your scrapbooks, read all those books. You'll go back to college or grad school or get a new certification, maybe start a new business. You know... all those things, all those goals and dreams that you had before you became a mother. You tell yourself to just live in the moment, enjoy your kiddos, and someday you will have the opportunity to bring back those goals. While all of those thoughts are true, what I have found after being a mother for a decade is that the right time to get yourself back on track for your goals never comes.

There Is No One Right Way to Be a Mother Because there is no one right way to be a Super Mom, it's all about your vision of what you want your life to be. Everyone else's vision is going to be different. You must reject the outside pressures to strive for something that you don't want to do or to be. Pinterest is not my favorite place to hang out. Heading to Pinterest to look at decor is one great way to tempt yourself to judge yourself or compare yourself.  Hard stuff happens and will continue happening but life has to go on. Instead of focusing on how things used to be and wishing to go back I want to encourage you to start digging your heels in and developing a “grit” mindset of “stuff's got to get done”. It's just got to get done. You’ve got to be a mom, you’ve got to get up and you have to feed your kids. Listen to Strategy #3 on Mindset in the Shifting Focus Series.

Let’s look at shifting your focus by looking at your priorities. Going back in history, there's this thing they call the “American Dream”. It's existed since the beginning of America and I assume it wasn't labeled that but everybody had a dream of what they wanted in life. This evolved into one “generally understood” description of what that ideal life would look like.

Let's talk about life after the pandemic for a minute. Will we ever experience that? Maybe. Maybe not. Either way- life has to go on. It's time to shift our focus. Shift into living life in spite of the pandemic and all the crazy that comes with it. I challenge you to take my 7 day series on shifting focus and prepare yourself for the normal that you create and are in charge of. What goes on inside your mind, your house, and your heart is 100% in your hands to decide. Let's do this together...Shift Focus to our new normal that brings us joy and makes us thankful for the opportunity. Focus Shift 1: Homeschooling. Get my key points on choosing curricula, adjusting your expectations, and setting yourself up so you can succeed.

My goal is to teach you that our bodies are made to detoxify and cleanse themselves but that they also need support because we live in a modern world where the bad influences can outweigh the good. There are so many ways to support our bodies. Some things are highly expensive- like home saunas and other things are absolutely free - like breathwork. I am going to cover some of the most effective and most affordable ways to open your detox pathways.

In this episode we're going to spend some time talking about marriage. It's not a topic I cover often because marriage is one of those tricky subjects that none of us are really experts in. And however, I have a friend named Cindy Maxwell, who's on this episode with me today and I want to have her share her wisdom because she was the one who pointed me in the direction of a book called love and respect. By Dr. Emerson Eggeret. I hope I said his name correctly. So I just want to tell you a little bit about Cindy. She has been a you've been married for 17 years. And then you have she has six kids and she's been homeschooling them for seven years and she's like she's a Crunchy SuperMom Sarah Harding run a babywearing group.  The reason I reached out to Cindy is that I really believe that when a husband and wife are having, you know, issues, going and talking to your friends seems like the logical first step, but it's actually not I feel like you need to have permission of your spouse to really talk to someone about marital issues. 

Have you ever had something that changed your life so much that you were so grateful words couldn’t express it? Have you ever not shared that life-changing thing with others? I found myself keeping it to myself and that felt selfish. Dreaming of Being a Stay-at-Home Mom All I wanted was to stay-at-home with my baby but now I’m leading a team of other moms who want the same but they also want something more- better health, more money, more time, and some just want to be a part of something exciting. When my first daughter was born, I had a hard time imagining myself working outside the home and leaving her at daycare but I also loved working. I tried working outside the home but it just didn't work for me. I cried all the time. So I started searching for work-at-home jobs that weren't scams. GET YOUR FREE MORE THAN JUST A MOM ACTION PLAN HERE https://www.crunchysupermom.com/mtjamom-actionplan

Prior to the onset of my affliction, I had all the perfect systems and routines in place in our lives. A bout with vestibular neuritis left me unable to maintain my normal life--and that meant SuperMom had died. During my struggle there were many days where I wasn’t able to carry my 5-month-old from the bedroom to the nursery, standing upright long enough to play with my kids outside made me sick and I couldn’t get the rest I needed because my room wouldn’t stop spinning day after day, night after night. A condition that should have lasted a few days, maybe a week or two at most, plagued me for months and left me with permanent damage that continued to impact my life for years. As the condition persisted and the reality that this was the new normal for me set in, my inner voice turned on me. https://www.crunchysupermom.com/3-secrets-2020 More on Mastering Mom Life - One Minute at a Time https://www.crunchysupermom.com/blog/031 Join the community https://www.facebook.com/groups/crunchysupermoms