Just a Motivating Monday – Blueprint Your Days



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I’m one that wakes up and goes with the flow.  I don’t know why, but I haven’t been mapping out my days.  I know what things need to get done and kinda wing it.  Not a smart thing to do when I have a household to take care of, a job I do at home to stay on top of, and a company I am building so I can accomplish all of my dreams.

The logical thing to do is to make a blueprint of my day the night before.  I have weekly goals that I know need to be done, so I am looking at my week and decide which days I need to do what.  Tonight I sat down and did a blueprint for each day of this week so that I can wake up and know what needs to be done.

I know that this might be something that most people do, but I don’t. Working at home can sometimes be challenging and I need to find a new way to reach the goals I NEED to reach.  

It feels good when you accomplish something.  I’ve been reading this amazing book called The Power of Focus and received this idea from them.  We need to map out everything in our lives and focus on the blueprints that we make. If we aren’t making blue prints then how the heck to we intend to arrive on the ending result?

I’m starting this tomorrow, not only for my immediate goals, but my long term goals and dreams.  I hope that this will motivate you to do the same.   



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Probably the worst Halloween EVER… we survived though

Our Halloween DEFINITELY did not go as planned. It was just a straight up catastrophe from the get go. I woke up feeling absolutely HORRIBLE. That’s the first bad thing, then….


I got moody. Moody Amanda is no good. Especially on a holiday! Gino was scheduled to get off at 6, so my job was to get the kids ready. I couldn’t even do that right. Orginally Ella was going to be a lady bug, since she already had the ladybug fairy dress. Well, the in-laws bought her a really cute Witch outfit, so I figured I go with that. She wore that to Jayden’s school party, then for Halloween I couldn’t find where I put the dress. UGH! I had just seen it and btw, it’s still MIA. So, I thought… okay… she can go back to being the lady bug. NOPE! We could only find 1 ladybug boot… WHAT THE HECK?!?!??!?! I thought they were both in the car, but only one was there…. GREAT. So, I can’t believe I did this, but I grabbed leggings, a tutu & her wings that she wore for her 1st birthday and put glitter on her face and told her she was a butterfly. Problem SOLVED.

Weather sucked and was all rainy, so we decided to head over to the mall for some safe, warm trick or treating.  Ella caught on to Mommy’s nasty attitude of the day (honestly it was only because I FELT LIKE CRAP!) and decided to adopt it as her own attitude.  She was actually kicking people that were in front of us in line!  I couldn’t believe it my precious, cute little butterfly was going around kicking people.  She did say thank you after she got her candy though… made me so proud.


And for the record… we didn’t carve pumpkins, we didn’t decorate, and all in all it was a crappy Halloween…. next year I am promising myself and my kids that it will be a GOOD Halloween to remember 🙂


Life isn’t always about roses.

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