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The Journey to Magnificence: Week Three

Good morning everyone! Welcome to week three of the Journey to Magnificence – February 25-March 3, 2018. Last week’s installment can be found here. Last week didn’t really go the way I thought it would. A bunch of webinars and free but time-limited video trainings popped up to take over the time I would have otherwise spent on paid-but-access-whenever courses. This isn’t a bad thing, by any means, but it goes to show how sometimes (all the times) the best-laid plans get tossed around like confetti and candy at a kid’s piñata party.

JTM Week Three Instagram

 

Courses of the Week

  • 21 Day Self-Care Challenge (still going…finishing on 3/4/18)
  • Jonathan Milligan’s Fast Track Lab 7 day free trial
  • Ruth Soukup’s Blogging Made Simple free video course
  • A while back, I signed up for Mariah Coz’s 5-Day Email Course Challenge, where you create a 5-day email course in – unsurprisingly – 5 days. I did a basic outline during the challenge, but then kinda just forgot about it. Well, this week I’m picking it up again to create a free 5-day email course for subscribers on managing stress!

It looks a little more focused this week. At least, that’s the plan. Keeping in mind what I just said about plans and confetti.

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The Journey to Magnificence: Week Two

All right! Welcome to week two of the Journey to Magnificence- February 18-24, 2018. If you missed last week’s, you can find it here. Last week was a bit of a whirlwind of information and scheduling. Honestly, it was a little exhausting. That might be a sign to slow down!

 

Courses of the Week:

  • 21 Day Self-Care Challenge (continued)
  • 10 Day Mind Reset Challenge (finished)
  • Job Fit Crash Course (mostly finished)
  • Mindset University
  • Zero-to-60 with Evernote, Module 1
  • Webinars and other free videos/resources to digest

Okay, so I’m not slowing down, apparently.

Surprise!

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The Journey to Magnificence: Week One

All right. Week one of my journey to magnificence. For those keeping track (me!) week one was from 11-17 February 2018. I’m able to keep track of what I’m doing by keeping an “accomplishment journal” in Evernote. It’s pretty slick if I do say so myself.

Journey Week One Instagram

I paid money for a lot of stuff. I invested in the Work at Home School ($497), Asana for Bloggers ($25), Scrivener for Windows ($49.50), and six books that were recommended by Caitlin or others or that looked good while I was browsing Half-Price Books ($56).

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What I’m Doing to Make My Life Magnificent

I’m going to spend this year doing a thing. It’s going to be a thing I’ve never done before, a thing I’m scared to do, but a thing I’m committing myself to doing anyway. So far it’s day nine of the thing. And so far, I’m proud and terrified and excited about the thing. I’m going to make my life magnificent.

(Disclaimer that the thing is building a side hustle, and I’m not going to quit my day job, which I love.)

 

Make Life Magnificent Instagram

I lost motivation to keep writing for this site last April (which is ironic, I know) and so I just…stopped. I was never proud of it, I hated myself for it, and I knew in the back of my mind that if I just started doing something for it again, I’d feel better.

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Why Implementing Strong Boundaries is the Key to Sanity

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Imagine for a moment that you have built a fence around yourself to protect your feelings and sense of sanity.  This fence is sturdy and represents strong boundaries.  This fence is meant to keep people from hurting you, but unfortunately, many people seem to believe that implementing strong boundaries, personal outward-facing stop signs, means that they’re being rude. This could not be further from the truth. 

strong boundaries 2What are Boundaries?

Boundaries, especially strong ones, represent the line that cannot be crossed by other people without consequences.  Depending on circumstances, these consequences might include leaving the immediate vicinity, standing up for yourself without backing down, putting someone on an “information diet,” or informing the boundary-crosser that they have overstepped and you are going to take some time to yourself because of it.  This list is by no means exhaustive.

Living without boundaries can be an acute source of stress. It was for me. Click To Tweet

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