Why is it so much easier for us to take a look at our lives and realize we need to simplify at the beginning of a new year? It’s as if January 1st signifies this need to purge. We cut back our food intake and focus our schedules. And that’s me, like a lot of you — longing for the simple,… Read More

Jen Hatmaker, how did you follow through with 7 for 7 months? Following your experiments for just weeks at a time, I have to say I’m already tired of this mutiny. Tired. Tired. Tired. This post should have been done Friday. Urgh! If I didn’t want to let you all down (like you are even caring), I would quit and… Read More

I cheat. I confess. Darn this Summer of 7 experiment! While Amy in Wanderland is out wandering around California and Katrina of The Poorganic Life is enjoying the beach, I’m left here being jealous and kicking myself! Possessions week rolled in when I had just returned from youth camp. I was tired and convinced myself that I had dealt with… Read More

What are you craving and missing at the moment? If you’re joining in Summer of 7, it could easily be food, clothing, or media. Thanks to my friend Katrina for letting me cheat during my media mutiny week. She allowed me to handwrite a note and she posted it. You can check it out HERE or it is posted below…. Read More

I love the show Biggest Loser! Seeing people transform over the course of 7-8 months is inspiring. You know their success doesn’t come easily. It took hours and days of sacrificing and staying true to the goals they had regardless of how they woke up feeling. Focus is of the utmost importance. That’s life, peeps! One of the coolest things Biggest… Read More

Here I am in the middle of my week on the media mutiny. Well, actually if you read my first post you know that I’m writing these ahead of time and scheduling them to post. I have no idea if that’s against the rules, but I’m feeling pretty creepy either way! It feels as if Positively Alene is gorging herself… Read More