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<\/p>Happy February! While I was getting a pedicure yesterday, I reviewed\u00a0the month of January. It was a fun, full month but overall January\u2019s theme in my life seemed to be the humorous \u201cHurry up and wait\u201d. The breakdown:\n

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Faith:<\/strong>\u00a0This area was great overall. The campus ministry that we work with and a few new couples came over for dinner in our home. (Local entertainment is one of the main reasons that we switched from a Manhattan ministry to a local Queens one.) In addition, the women that I\u2019m mentoring are growing by leaps and bounds. They call me higher in my walk with God.
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\nHurry up and wait: A project that my husband and I want to do has been pushed back to March.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fitness:<\/strong>\u00a0This was definitely the highlight of the month. Everything went well. I worked out every day and stuck to my eating plan 99% of the time. For that other 1%, I chose<\/u><\/b> to taste the mac and cheese<\/a> that I cooked for visiting guests before baking it. I just don\u2019t \u201cget\u201d how people can cook without tasting their food to see if the flavor is right!\u00a0I lost 8 pounds. <\/strong><\/em>Yay! Now, that I\u2019ve hit (actually surpassed) my quarterly fitness achievement goal, I can just focus on the daily fitness actions. I decided that 90% clean eating (which leaves 2 meals a week with some flexibility) and exercising 6 days a week will be the fitness habits that I maintain for the rest of the year. If anyone has a favorite 30-minute workout DVD that combines cardio and a little weight-training, please let me know. I need one for the next quarter of 2018.<\/p>\n

Family:\u00a0<\/strong>Overall this area was great too. A couple of extended family members have had some health challenges this month but so far, so good.<\/p>\n

Finances:\u00a0<\/strong>Yesterday (the last day of January) brought some unexpected expenses when our car broke down. Thankfully, my husband was able to safely get off the highway and drive to a gas station. I still don\u2019t understand how $300 in parts comes up to an almost $1,500 bill. Actually, I do \u2013 knowing where<\/span> to put the parts is where the value is!<\/p>\n

Hurry up and wait: I had 3 scheduled work projects that were postponed until February. Also, my family\u00a0created 3 collections for our t-shirt business (Women\u2019s March, Black Panther-inspired, and Loving Yourself<\/em> Valentines)<\/em> but\u00a0we\u00a0couldn\u2019t\u00a0sell\u00a0them through our\u00a0Amazon\u00a0partner\u00a0because\u00a0Amazon has been throttling its Merch program tees since December<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lessons in waiting<\/strong><\/em>:<\/strong> It was good to have the flexibility in my schedule to nail down my work-flow for the rest of the year. Although I love (and will continue doing) these posts every school day, I realized that I spend entirely too much time on them. In my mind, I thought, \u201cOh, I\u2019ll record a little 5-minute mini-podcast every day. It will take me an hour of time at the most.\u201d Wrong!<\/strong>\u00a0In reality, when I looked at my estimated versus actual time,\u00a0it takes me 2 to 4 hours to write a post(?!) Why?<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0The reason why is because I haven\u2019t adjusted to the reality that blogging on this site is not my main work thing anymore. I let my \u201cpaid work first\u201d mentality slip. I will still write posts every school day until the end of June as I committed. I\u2019m just going to cut out all of the extended research and other systems for each post. (It\u2019s a helpful system though and I\u2019ll share it in a post next week.)<\/p>\n

As for the tee project, it was a good lesson for the boys (and a good reminder for me). Don\u2019t build your house on someone else\u2019s land!\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>The platform owner gets to set the rules \u2013 whether it\u2019s an e-commerce site like Amazon or a social media site like Facebook. Doing Amazon\u2019s Merch program is fine for right now (the boys\u2019 main \u201cjob\u201d is school!) but if we ever want to have more control, we would have to focus more on building out our own brand and website.<\/p>\n

Fun: <\/strong>This month was filled with entertaining activities. Visiting\u00a0Medieval Times<\/a> with my family, having a group and couples over at our home and sending \u201cmy guys\u201d to see a live Knicks game (the Knicks won!) were\u00a0all especially enjoyable. Another thing that I appreciated \u2013 even more than I thought that I would \u2013 was attending The New York Times Travel Show<\/a>. I think that it just opened up my mind to all of the amazing places that are available to visit. On the topic of travel, we booked a 5-night\/4-day stay at a villa in Orlando, Florida. Operation \u201cGraduation Celebration\u201d is underway. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I hope that your January was amazing and I look forward to us all having a fabulous, love-filled February!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"