Happy 2014!
When the new year is here, it’s a wonderful time to make changes in your life! Positive changes that will help you become a more productive, efficient, consistent, healthier new you!
For a few years, we have personally taken baby steps that we have called “being intentional” in everyday life. Little things that add up to a big, bigger, biggest changes in our lives.
Last year, we introduced our “Be Intentional” baby steps and it was a HUGE success! We received so many emails about lives that were changed from these simple steps!
There was big positive financial changes for many of you…
Big weight-loss goals met…..
More family time and personal time discovered…….
And productivity through the roof…….
All things that we have experienced in our years of having a personal goal of doing these things ourselves!
It was so inspirational to see all of the testimonies and positive changes that happened in our readers over that 30-day challenge.
So…… we have had requests to do this again this year and so we are going to move forward and do it again!
This time, will be sharing 30-Baby Steps To Be Intentional.
We will be sharing a step a few times per week to add into your daily routine and start making it a habit.
We will be starting our Be Intentional 30 -Baby Step Challenges on Wednesday, January 15th, 2014! So be sure that you are subscribed to our free email newsletter HERE (that is sent almost each day of the business week – so 4-5 emails per week) because that is the email that the challenges will be coming through on, along with all of our other new content for that week.
So just what is a 30-Baby Steps to Be Intentional Challenges all about??
Well, we aren’t really a resolution-type of couple as we seem to make resolutions and then dive in both feet first and then seem to set ourselves up for failure and break our resolutions just a few weeks later. We tried the “jump all in feet first” approach with our debt and we kept crashing and failing. It wasn’t until we finally planned to take baby steps that BIG changes happened!
So we have adopted that same idea in all areas of life: finances, routines, organization, healthy life living, etc.
Over the years, we noted that there are many things we do each week, month and year to help us stay on track in all of those areas and in total it was Be Intentional – Taking Baby Steps for Whole Life Change.
Here’s how we break it down:
We are going to start with those baby steps to increase your energy, efficiency and organization which will propel you into a life that is able to develop an overall financially smart, happy and frugal home. And by frugal, we’re not meaning cheap! You can be frugal with no matter how little or how much money you have. It is just being good with the money you have.
In our many years of attempted thriftiness, one thing that we have determined is that you can save a buck here and there and grab deals left and right, but for a truly frugal lifestyle, it requires time and organization. If you do not have those things, then frugality is very frustrating.
So this year’s 3-Baby Steps are very simple and very easy to implement so that you can implement several each week.
Most of the challenges build on themselves, which means it is best to start at the beginning for the results to take full effect.
Some of the challenges you may already be doing – that’s great, keep doing it and watch for the next days’ challenges to add to it.
We encourage couples and families to do these challenges together so the whole house can function well!
As the 30 baby steps go along, we will be focusing on 5 areas for the Be Intentional Month:
- Self
- Home
- Budget
- Schedule
- Frugality
And, if you get off track, don’t worry…. pick yourself up where you left off, or start all over. It doesn’t matter, just do it 🙂
Again, we are starting on Wednesday, January 15th, BUT, these challenges are designed to start any day, any time of year – you just start on whatever day you are ready!
In addition, just like last year, we have a dedicated small group on Facebook for those of you that want to communicate with us and other members working through the same steps – with the goal to make it easier, more personal and to encourage everyone in their challenges and to keep moving forward. It is intended to be a small and intimate group as we develop relationships with our readers! We loved this group last year and hope that you will be there with us this year too!
Head to the Be Intentional with The Thrifty Couple Facebook Page HERE and ask to join us there!
Come join us as we make 2014 the year of positive changes!
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