Reinvention Day 1 - Make An Affirmation & Some Moves

From time to time I find myself needing to step my game up a notch in order to stay current as an artist. Well, this season, I'm finding myself challenged to take on the rest of 2012 with added goals that include recording projects, increased public interaction and brand expansion.

Taking on any new thing, now that Tuki is a toddler, is going to require new daily routines so I can manage my time more effectively in order to fit more tasks into my schedule without causing me to be overwhelmed.

In order to accomplish this, I'm going to do it starting from the inside out.  My first step is creating an affirmation so my mindset can be on GO!

As a Messianic Jew, I use faith to sustain me during transitional periods of my life. I turn to scriptures for jewels to solidify my foundations.

Proverbs 6:9-11

New International Version (NIV)

⁹ How long will you lie there, you sluggard? 
    When will you get up from your sleep?
¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest —
¹¹ and poverty will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.

Proverbs 28:19

Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹⁹ He who cultivates his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless people and pursuits will have poverty enough.

From these scriptures I am making this affirmation for myself:

"I am fully refreshed, full of profitable ideas and so are the people around me. My goals are attainable, lethargy is far from me and there is increase with everything I vigorously put my hands to."

Now to put my affirmation on my mirror where I can see it, recite it and live it!

Now for the outside, for this first day I'm incorporating an exercise that is already working wonders on my lower back and core.  Carrying Tuki until 39 weeks put my back and core muscles through some changes. It took my body a full 7 months to heal due to my having an emergency cesarean birth resulting in both a bikini line and vertical cut.  

I used to do these exercises to maintain my waistline before my pregnancy and they have once again become favorites for me, giving me back that hourglass shape by tightening my obliques and lower abs for a flatter tummy.  Here is fitness guru Jeanette Jenkins showing exactly how to do them: 

Exercise of the day! Love Handles Side Crunch: youtu.be/vwVXJKqWGpg via @youtube #Abs #Obliques #Core

— Jeanette Jenkins (@JeanetteJenkins) June 29, 2012

Be sure to follow Jeanette on Twitter & YouTube, she's the real deal! 

situations are shakers or stabilizers of your foundation

— Lady Legacy (@LadyLegacy) July 9, 2012

Purpose...

Purpose...

Blogger Points: Swaddled Up: 6 Days Old - Always take time to daydream about what you have accomplished. You can learn alot simply from observing your own life experiences. In most cases, you will see something you didn't before, thus allowing Wisdom to build inside yourself.  6-20-11



i read over my journal entries from this time in 2009 and last year in 2010.

6-2-2009:
(Laying in bed at home)
"God's GRACE - His unmerited favore, power to do and be what I was created to do and be. Ephesians 2:8-9"

6-13-10:
(Laying in the grass alongside Barton Springs Pool)
"Tho many folly in youthfulness and rate good/bad by it - they, too will face it's escape and die by the lack of it if not in it. I know who I am and whose I am. Thankful for Your protection, Father. The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy - You come to bring everlasting life.  Life is beautiful - I am beautiful. I AM LIFE!"

6-10-11:
(Laying in Pre Antum room bed)
"Been admitted to hospital. Effaced at 50%. Braxton-Hicks are painful. I had a Dr's appt at 10am - seen at 10:50, admitted into St. David's at 12:30pm. The Braxtons are referred to as 'irritation' and can be measured by the monitor now. Nice room. Nurses cool. Was given an anti-anxiety med. About to take an Ambien for peaceful sleep. I'm actually quite tired and ready. Won't be home until after Vicki is born. God is Good. Amen. :-)"

from my journal recordings, during this season i am well aware of who I AM and what my PURPOSE is. i remind myself to stay focused and not let the things of this world distract me from those facts. in looking at the previous two years of what i was thinking, i know today, my purpose He had all planned out, included bringing forth life. whats really interesting is there were no other entries between the 2009 and 2010 dates. they were back to back entries almost to the date.

its good for me to look at my journals and note my mentality and accomplishments. i gain so much wisdom from recording my life cycles and revisiting them. i encourage you to do the same.