Part II has nothing to do with pigs!

So to continue with my thought of the last post because I am REALLY good at rambling on and on...

Here is where I now see that the change began to take place. I made a commitment to something. (just commit to something, anything)  It sounds silly but I wanted and needed to lose the baby weight I had been carrying for a few months too long. What did I commit  to? This crazy thing I had heard about called AdvoCare and their 24 Day Challenge.

So that is why, besides all the million things I now know and love about the company, I fell in love with AdvoCare. It was how i finally decided to take ACTION on an area of my life that I was unhappy with.

Is AdvoCare for everyone? NO. Will it do for others what it has done for me? Maybe. And thats all I needed to see.
AdvoCare is not magic, its not a diet, its not a hoax. Its a company. And like all companies they make products. And like all other companies they sell their products. And instead of selling them in a store, they sell them to people. People get results, improve their overall wellness, feel better, look better, perform better and in return people want some of what they found. Its not crazy or hard to understand. They have high quality nutrition products that can help any and everyone. But here is the deal...its not magic...you have to actually COMMIT to the process.  Not some specific "AdvoCare process" but the process of bettering yourself.

If you want to lost weight, the 24 Day Challenge is a launch pad- it helps you create better eating habits, and fuels your body with top notch nutrition and energy.  Our lives demand us do more with less time and that requires energy of which most of us run on empty all day long. Thus my love for Spark! On those days when I hit the wall and wanna crash, I have a healthy nutritious option to get me energized and productive.

So do I love AdvoCare? Yes! Why? Because it gave me a tangible process that I could commit to and know I would see a positive outcome. I lost 8lbs and felt better than ever! I gained confidience and a new outlook on many different areas of my life.  Not only that, but it gave me tool to help others. That is what drives me. I LOVE helping people and always have.

SO back to the pigs...although I said it had nothing to do with pigs..opps

What is it in your life that you are not willing to give up for what you know is better? These people  (read part 1 if you haven't) are mad and complaining because they lost their pigs. They missed the fact that Jesus literally healed the demon possessed men and saved/protected them from these crazy men that had been terrorizing them. Instead, they want their crazy pigs back.  And it might be a stretch of an analogy but it makes me think..
What am I not willing to give up that is holding me back from freedom.

Here is where I will go back to this awesome book and what John Maxwell says much better than I can:
"Tragically, our world is full of what I would call mundane me, people who see only what is immediate. They only reach for things they can tangibly put in their hands...They never look beyond themselves and they never look at what they could be...The poorest person in the world is not the person who doesn't have a nickel. The poorest person in the world is the one who does not have a vision. If you don't have a dream- a goal and a purpose in life- you're never going to become what you could become. There is a distinguishable difference between successful and unsuccessful people: Successful people are motivated by a dream beyond them. Unsuccessful people are only motivated by today."

So I would challenge you to look deep and search deep. Who do you want to be? Do you want to be a great wife, great mother? Want to lose weight to improve your health and feel better about yourself? Want to get control of your horrible money behaviors and change the financial future of your family?

Only you can make the change. No one else can do it for you. When you begin to improve you, and have a purpose in life and look at each day as an opportunity to better yourself, things will begin to change.