Happy September everyone! Oh my goodness, sorry for the lack of posts the past few months. Believe me when I say they have been so busy, and exciting, and I didn't have much of a chance to just sit and be with my words - so that is why I am getting to this now. So much has changed since my last post, most importantly I am now a wife, a Mrs, a married women. I can't even begin to explain how incredible the wedding was - it was the happiest day of my life, so far and Adam and I were surrounded by so much love it warmed our hearts. I will do a proper post on the wedding as soon as we get our pictures back from our photographer and the wedding video. Yipee. Can't wait to show you all!
Since getting home from our perfect wedding vacation in England, I have had the intense urge to have a HUGE clearout, a cleanse if you will. Not in the dramatic sense of getting rid of everything I own, but to uncover a more simple way of living, eating and being. Adam and I both love simplicity, and find having too much 'stuff' to be very stressful. Unfortunately, I am good at collecting 'stuff' so this is a vicious cycle.
I would like to take a journey to simplify our life in 4 ways.
- Capsule closet of clothes
- Healthy eating
- Yoga/Working out
- Work / life balance
The first is a mountain for me. I own SO MANY clothes, but only wear a handful of them. I am weirdly sentimental about clothing (I wore this on such and such day awwwwww). But I feel like I need to separate the emotion from the reality, and have a massive clothing overhaul. I know that I could donate 80% of my clothing and that way I would be able to create a capsule closet of go-to clothes.
Healthy eating is incredibly important to Adam and I and we are constantly striving to balance living a very busy lifestyle, with spending the time on cooking good and healthy meals. I want to find some 'go-to' recipes, and to hold eating right at the top of our priority list. I would love to spend more time on cooking delicious meals, and reap the way it will make us both feel.
I am keen to set aside time to workout everyday - especially now I am working from home full time it's difficult to pry myself away from my work. I think it's incredibly important to be active everyday and it helps me so much with boosting my energy. For a while I was following the T25 workout program and I was honestly feeling amazing and so motivated...but I got a bit bored of it and it fizzled out. I am not really into the gym, but I really like 'routine' workouts so I would like to get back into yoga and have some amazing youtube videos bookmarked, and in the winter i plan to sign up for some dance classes.
Work/life balance is a tricky one when both me and my husband own small businesses. But we are both determined to set aside time to dedicate to each other and our family and friends. We operate our small businesses from home, so it's especially difficult to 'shut the door' on it. We are both working on dedicating 'work hours' to our businesses and taking some time off in-between for fun and adventures!!
I will keep you up to date with how these things are all going for me, and I would love to hear from you and your journey to cleanse your lifestyle!
Chat soon,
Leanne
