What's in your fourteen40?

You have 1,440 minutes in a day.  While we can feel overwhelmed, overworked, and overbooked, it is absolutely critical to take time each day to pause, connect with our soul, and refocus on what is important in life.  Unfortunately, that doesn't happen very often.  When life gets in the way, the first thing we can push aside is time spent on self-care.  The fourteen40 project is trying to change that.  

As a 40-year-old wife and mother, I realize how "off" I feel when I don't take time to focus on me.  My family gets a lesser me, my work gets a scattered me, and I don't feel like me.  Yes, I take time in the morning to go to the gym or run, but that is still active and busy time; not really time I get to do things that are nurturing to my spirit and soul.  You know the feeling you get after you have an amazing dinner with close (girl)friends?  You know the relaxing, almost euphoric, feelings you have when you disconnect and spend time at the beach, on the mountain or in nature?  That's what I'm talking about.  When your spirit and mind are alive and full.  When you have filled your cup you feel it.  You know you are recentered and renewed.  

So let's do this.  Let's put ourselves first on a regular basis, even if for just a few moments.  It is amazing what happens when you do this regularly.  I have been working on this change for a few years now and I want to help encourage others to do the same.  You have 1,440 minutes in a day.  I'm sure, if you try, you can find 10 minutes in there to focus on YOU.  After all, there's still 1,430 minutes left to focus on everything else. 

As I mention in the first blog post, this is all new territory for me.  I'm excited but nervous to share this vision.  The site will grow and change as I learn and grow from our community, and I'm hopeful that I'll get better as we go!  Thanks for being here for the exceptionally vulnerable beginning stages, and for sharing in the journey. Have feedback?  Please send me an email!