Morrrrrning!
My “Life Reset” week ‘officially’ ends today, but I’ve made a promise to myself that I’ll continue to make a conscious effort to fill my weeks up with positivity and things that make me feel good. I’m as Sagittarian as they come and living optimistically has always been my “thing” but it was so nice to set the intention and raise the bar this past week – and even though I wasn’t feeling fabulous with my flu (which is now gone, hooray!), I got a lot out of focusing my attention on the areas of my life that needed a bit o’ lovin.’
I mentioned in my About page for this website that the name In Spaces Between is “a reminder to take pause in the spaces between doing “stuff,” to consciously do the things that make us smile from the inside out. Creative stuff. Heart-opening stuff” and that’s just what I did this week! I have this feeling that my life is shifting quite a bit at the moment, and in the most enchanting way. I’ll explain that further once I delve into it a bit more myself, but I just feel the momentum is really increasing and that I’m steering my ship in the right direction. Which is radder than words.
This is what I’ve been doing for the past few days to get my heart-racing and feet tapping:
Exercise
Friday: I go to a group training sesh every Friday and we either do an hour of hill sprinting (plus some ab-killers!) or, like this Friday, we hit the beach and do a circuit with squats, abs, push ups, ladder runs, hurdles and so on. The weather has been super chilly here but ridiculously clear, and the mornings, while icy, have been just stunning. The workout definitely sparked me up for my last day of the working week (well, kinda… I do work weekends now with my new love, In Spaces Between!)
Saturday: Braved the cold again and hit the walking track with a beautiful friend of mine for a 1 hour 45 minute walk/ chat catch up. Best start to the weekend, loved it. I actually had pretty sore abs later that day, does anyone get that from “power walking” or is it just me? Must have been tensing them like a maniac!
Sunday: My man and I got up early and did a 6km “race pace” run which was fantastic. It made me realise how much I miss the feeling that comes after a good run; this time last year I’d just completed my first half marathon, so I’ve gone from running 17-20kms each Sunday to… err… feeling it after 6kms!
Monday: I must have been keen to get into today because I woke up at 5.05 am even though my alarm was set for 5:30am. Okay body, I’m hearing you! I trotted off to spin class at my gym and must say that I’m feeling pretty damn amazing. Just as an aside, my lucky/ favourite numbers are 11 and 7 and today’s date is 11.7.11 – how could it not be an awesome day?! Hello, Monday, what have you got in store for me, because I. AM. READY!
Eating
I discovered this recipe on an awesome blog I found via one of my fave writers, Sarah Wilson (thanks Sarah!) and we made a loose version of the raw tacos for dinner last night. We didn’t go totally raw, as we needed to use up some food we had in the fridge, but supplementing tortillas for the lettuce was DELICIOUS! Apart from that, I’m still on a strawberry kick and have been trying to eat lots of vegetables and unprocessed foods (well, except for Saturday night’s dinner at the football game I went to with Ramai which consisted of M & M’s and hot chips, which is definitely questionable. Eek!)
Quality Time
I really wanted to have some quality time with good friends and my amazing fiance this weekend. Beautiful friends spoiled us with dinner Friday night and I went out to breakfast yesterday with my fave girls. Ramai and I also had a spontaneous, last minute trip to the football on Saturday night and some good hanging out time over the weekend which was totally soul-warming. Love energy flowing like mad!
Words of Wisdom
These articles resonated with me like crazy:
1. Do you have high expectations of other people?
2. “Genius is the offspring of the in between.” Kinda what In Spaces Between is all about, right?! (PS: I so needed to read this one!)
+ Of course, the other big news this week was that we are in the Top 21 for The Lane’s Dream Wedding competition, so I hope you don’t mind me asking you to vote for us (pretty please!) I’ll give you the details later today and for those that are interested, you’ll also get a bit of an insight into our love story on The Lane’s blog. So exciting, we feel truly blessed to have even made it into the Top 21 considering there were thousands of entries from across Australia. To win would be an absolute dream come true!
+ And, finally, how did you go this week? Did you feel a little more “on track?” If life was a tad crazy and you weren’t able to squeeze in your mini-life transformation, that’s totally fine – but why not make this week the week that you give yourself the gift of clarity and get inspired to live more magically? Go out there and grab life with two hands, sunshine!
Images: 1. Lenubar 2.My New Roots 3. Cherry Blossom Girl via Flickr 4. Etsy
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