adding juice...

Today is day four of my juice fest.

My amazing husband got me an amazing new juicer, replacing Old Faithful, without me even having to ask for it! I love him so.

Ta da!

But back to the juice...

For the past few days, I have been adding one big, huge green juice into my daily diet, usually right after my morning lemon water.

Now don't get me wrong, I still follow it up with a coffee, sometimes even with eggnog (albeit it's organic eggnog) and I've been proudly polishing off every last Christmas truffle I can find in the house (there are a lot!)...

The juice is simply my healthy treat for my cells. No drama. No cleanses. Just pure juice love.

It tasted (and looked!) much better than this sad pic...

Here's this morning's juice:

• Handful of romaine.
• Handful of kale.
• Big handful of parsley.
• Half of a cucumber (peeled as it wasn't organic).
• One apple.
• 1 inch piece of ginger.
• Lemon juice to squeeze on top when it's all done.

To quote one of my favourite ladies, Ms. Kris Carr, "Make juice, not war."

Much love,
mxo

love life...

mxo

wagons...

Here's the thing about wagons: they are notoriously difficult to stay on. Especially when they look like this:

No thank you!

Lord knows I've had a hard time staying on them. My usual strategy is to get on and speed so quickly that I go flying off. My wounded ego (and sometimes broken bones) then take awhile to heal before I get back on.

It's not a good stragedy. So I'm trying something new: go slow/ be kind (I couldn't decide which one to go with, so I'm going with both).

In my many years of yoga-ing and exercising and dieting and cleansing and otherwise being a happy, healthy yogi, I've come to learn this: the secret to success is to start slow, to incorporate your new goal into your life, because when you try to rework your life to meet your new goal, it often doesn't stick (this is why the vast majority of New Year's resolutions flop a couple of weeks later).

So when you're planning your New Years resolutions, I would suggest this: write your resolutions, then write your plan for how to arrive there. Break it down. Be detailed. Think of your resolutions as where you want to be in 12 months, your end goal and not where you must be immediately.

Example:

• I will go to the gym five times per week. Unless you're already going four times every week, I suggest this modification: I will go the gym five times per week by December. In January, I will start with one day a week and I'll find the time that works best for me (i.e. maybe you're a morning gym rat). In February, I'll go two times per week. Etc.

I say all of this to myself first and foremost because I need to hear read it.

I'll post my 2013 goals soon to keep myself accountable. Yikes!

Hope you're all having a Happy Happy Holly-day! And please indulge now. Live a little! That's what the holidays are for. January is for dealing with the aftermath. :)

Much, much love.
mxo

passion muscle...

I've been feeling very introspective lately. Pages and pages of my journal have been filled with random musings.

And it helps that I was able to completely unplug for a whole week, soaking up sunshine, yoga and surf in Nica.  :)

Me, learning to rip it!

Today's musings have to do with passion.

A lot of my friends (myself included at times) are really struggling with this idea of passion - not only living it, but even just finding it.

It's hard.

Many of us aren't born with one clear, driving passion to be a doctor, musician, artist or poet.  Many of us have to figure out what our passions might be (I'm using the plural here intentionally).

We can get lost and quite frustrated by the hunt.

But here's the thing - what if we have it all backwards? What if the point isn't to find passion but to bring passion instead. What if passion is like a muscle that you have to exercise?

I bet a lot of it would feel like fakery BUT some of it wouldn't, and through the exercise, you'd find the thing(s) that really make you tick.

Here are two of my favourite ladies discussing the subject:



Food for thought.
Much love,
mxo