How do you Measure Your Best?

People always tell you to do your best - your parents said it, your teachers said it, your friends said it. We tell our friends and our children. It's encouraging, right? But how do you know when we are really doing our best?

Here's the thing: We are often our worst enemy. We try our hardest only to measure that effort to our own standard and fall short of the outrageous standard we created for ourselves. That's when we fail or simply give up because trying to reach our bogus ideal isn't feasible. It's why diets often fail. It's why we stop exercising after one week because we just can't work to the point we think we should. 

It's why we don't reach a goal that we think is really important to us. We are, in fact, our worst enemy. 

So, how do we actually measure what our best is? It all starts with goal setting. We have written many posts on it (read

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), but before you commit to a change in your life, take a moment to walk through the steps you will have to accomplish to make that change. Even if it's taking part in an event - it's a change from your norm. 

Mentally or Physically Map out the Steps to Meeting Your Ultimate Life Change/Task/Goal

Set Small Goals Pertaining to Each Step

Determine a Reward Structure to Reinforce Completion of Each or a Few Steps at a Time

Reach Your Ultimate Goal and Do your Best!

Tiffany

Our Top 5 Crockpot Recipes!

It's the time of year when everyone wants to dust off the crockpot to make soups and chili! We do the same thing. Some of our favorite (and most popular) recipes are crockpot recipes! We wanted to share with you our top 5 most popular crockpot recipes (in order of popularity). Also, be sure to follow us on Pinterest - we just added a new fall board!

1. Salsa Chicken

P.S. We have a {Revamped} Salsa Chicken recipe too!

2. Italian Stallion Crockpot Chicken

3. Black Bean & Sweet Potato Turkey Chili

4. Apple Cinnamon Steel Cut Oats

5. Chicken Tortilla Soup

Visit our Slow Cooker/Crockpot page for more recipes! Have some leftover chili? Make these easy Chili Smothered Baked Sweet Potatoes!

Which recipe is your favorite?

- Whitney

Printable Guide to Split Any Recipe in Half

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Split a recipe in half. No-brainer! It sounds super simple, right? Well, it might be easy and straight forward, but simple guides that speed up our time in the kitchen is what we are all about lately! We all love doing Sunday Food Prep, but anything that gives us even 5 minutes more in our day is totally worth printing out a little cheat sheet!

Use this handy and simple little guide to cut your favorite recipes in half in no time!

You can print this guide out! Just save it as a picture to your desktop and print! Try taping it to the inside door of your spice cabinet or laminating so that it will last longer.