Daily encouragement and a challenge!

Every morn­ing, no mat­ter what else my email brings, I know there’ll be an uplift­ing mes­sage from Brook Noel. I’m hon­estly not a big fan of most generic affir­ma­tions or inspi­ra­tional newslet­ters, but some­how Brook’s daily Good Morn­ings don’t annoy me. They avoid glurge, and I fre­quently add her quotes and affir­ma­tions to my PopUp Wis­dom file.

I first “met” Brooke through her book, The Change Your Life Chal­lenge, which I found at a local book­store a few months ago. I learned that the book is actu­ally based on a suc­cess­ful online pro­gram, looked it up, and was intrigued. It promises to teach:

  • A step-by-step sys­tem for con­quer­ing clut­ter and keep­ing your home clean
  • How to recre­ate the din­ner hour and man­age mealtimes
  • How to make time work for you —instead of against you
  • How to dis­cover and live by your core val­ues and beliefs
  • How to imple­ment the sim­plest “diet” in the world
  • The “key” to never for­get­ting anything
  • How to improve your rela­tion­ships with the “5-Minute Miracle”
  • How to end procrastination
  • How to imple­ment a bud­get and man­age your money
  • And much more!

I was wor­ried because of the “70 day” part, though. What busi­ness did I have sign­ing myself up for yet another calendar-bound thing that I’d end up hav­ing trou­ble with?

Well, I listed to Brooke’s pod­cast last Mon­day, and she hap­pened to say that if she could go back and change any­thing, she would reti­tle the pro­gram as “A 70 STEP Life Makeover Pro­gram” and toss out the idea of tying it to the cal­en­dar. For­ward motion is impor­tant, but mak­ing it fit your life is more important.

So yes, the Chal­lenge is very much doable for us, my friends. And it’ll be even more so in a group of women who under­stand each other’s issues.

So here’s my chal­lenge: I’m going to begin the 70 Step Chal­lenge on July 15. I’ll set up a pri­vate group for any­one who joins up to do it with me. You’ll have all the nor­mal (exten­sive!) sup­port of the orga­ni­za­tion — there are thou­sands of peo­ple on her lists! — as well as a chance to build friend­ships within a smaller group of peo­ple in my group. We’ll do some chats, match up bud­dies, and use other tech­niques to help each other suc­ceed. We won’t get tied up in rush­ing through the chal­lenge as much as in work­ing it with a sense of balance.

Won’t you join me? I’d love to get to know you bet­ter, and it’s always good to have more friends and a bet­ter sup­port network.

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If you join through this link, I’ll be informed and will invite you to the pri­vate sup­port group within 24 hours. I do hope to hear from you soon!

July 2, 2006   Posted in: Support

2 Responses

  1. Heather - July 2, 2006

    I am inter­ested in this pro­gram. I ordered the pro­gram but not sure if it was still through your link. Sorry. It looks like some­thing that may really help my piece meal life, lol! Thanks for intro­duc­ing it!

  2. cyn - July 3, 2006

    You’ll be with us! We’ve got a nice lit­tle group form­ing up so far :-)

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