Fixer Upper

I just finished reading The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines (with Mark Dagostino). If you haven’t heard of them, check them out on the interweb…they seem like a real cool couple.

One of the things they are known for is ‘flipping’ houses…aka renovating old run down houses to sell them off at a profit. Without spoiling their story for other people, Chip and Jo have gone on to create a highly successful business and an even more successful TV show called Fixer Upper because of their vision and determination to make good of a disaster when it’s staring them in the face. But I am not here to write a book review (as good as the book was to read).

As the new year has rolls around, it dawned upon me that every year, most of us want to ‘fixer upper’ something about our lives just like Chip and Jo do with houses. It might be the finances, the ever protruding waistline. Maybe even the relationship status on Facebook. Why is it that a date in the calendar causes us to want to fix something that may have been crying out to be fixed all year?

I couldn’t give you an exact answer to that question other than to say that if that is the only time you seek to change something in your life, better that one time than never at all!

You see, we are all guilty of letting life pass us by…getting used to the comfortable or the easy or lets just be real, being lazy. I am the first person to put my hand up there.

Lots of guru’s will give you all the tools under the sun to achieve your dreams, stick to your goals, pursue your calling. But at the end of the day, those tools are only useful when there is a change in heart in YOU. There has to be something that shifts inside of your core being that says “enough is enough”. As someone else out there said “nothing changes unless something changes”.

A fixer upper has two letters in it that made me chuckle when I thought about this blog – the letter’s ER. The dictionary defines these two letters side by side as ‘expressing hesitation’. In every fixer upper, there will be moments of hesitation.

Can I do this?
What will happen if I fail (again)?
Will I disappoint someone?
What will it cost me?

Welcome to the beginning of something amazing…it’s called CHANGE!

Whenever you embark upon fixing something or changing something up, there will always be an element of hesitation. Now that you know that, take that as a sign that your moments of doubt, your trepidation and sweat glands swelling a bit is only normal.

In 2017, let the ER’s (the moment’s of hesitation) be the catalyst for you accepting the grace that is afforded to you when we stuff up but also the catalyst for you overcoming the thing that you need to FIX so you can go UP!

Cheering you on from the sidelines peeps! You can do it in 2017!

Anna x