Are You Leaving a Healthy Legacy?

What comes to mind when you think of leaving a legacy behind?

• Physical possessions? 
• Financial assets? 
• Healthy work ethic?  
• Healthy patterns of behavior/living?

Green Cleaning as a Summer Activity for Kids!

I don’t know about you, but if you’re anything like me, you may find it challenging at times to keep up with your home cleaning regiment in the summer –agree?  There are so many activities I would rather be engaged in, so many projects that can only be done in warmer months.  Living in the Midwest equates to a shorter summer season so I try to get in as many outdoor projects done as possible. 

This all leads back to my original question:  How do you stay on top of green cleaning routines in the summer?  If you have children, they can be a great asset in helping you keep up with the housework. 

ASSIGNING CHORES TO CHILDREN IS HEALTHY!

Could Your RV be a Toxin for the Environment?

We are five days away from the official start-up of the vacation season!  is the good 'ole RV up and ready for adventure?  Considering the very close proximity your RV will have to nature, how safe is your camper for the environment? The products used to clean an RV before, during, and after use can have a direct effect on the environment you are taking it out to enjoy.

Three Must Have Safe, Non-Toxic, Green Cleaners for RV's:

Harmony Has Raving Eco-friendly Stain Removers

What do pets and kids have in common?  Stains!  From muddy paws, spilt ice cream cones and grass-stained baseball uniforms—stains abound!

Kids and pets are prone to accidents.  Those mishaps are inevitable.  The market is loaded with stain cleaning remedies of all sorts.  Don’t fall prey to believing those are your only options.  You don’t have to compromise your eco-clean environment with un-natural & toxic stain removers.

What choice do you have? 

Minimal Solutions for Overburdened Entryways

Maintaining a welcoming clean and neat entryway is not easy to do when you are daily wrestling with a mountain of shoes. 

The solution may not be the need for more cute shoe storage units, but a paring down of the family stockpile of shoes.  You will attain instant gratification as you see clear floor space and organized shoe shelves!

Oh, to be able to regain square footage in your home!

Five Stepping Stones for a Successful 2017

In what sequence of importance would you put the following words: 

Time             Space              Order              Routine           A Plan

Would you agree that some of these words unlock the potential of the others?

What benefit do they have for your life?

The sequence of importance you would place the words may depend in part on your behavioral/personality traits.  Some individuals would need to have “A Plan” established before setting out to create the others.  On the other hand, some people could not create “A Plan” without having “Order” and “Space” lined out.

Understanding yourself and your natural behavioral tendencies will help you be more successful in 2017!  Perhaps as you look at these stepping stones, one or two of them pop out in your mind.  Why did that “stone” come so quickly to mind? 

Take some time to reflect on why it came to mind and what you need to do with it, then determine what you will do with the other stones?  Stepping stones have a job to do.  They are meant to help us get from one point to another. Where is it you want to go in 2017? 

For further reflection, consider the following representational ideas…

Time:

Time for more productivity.

Time for building relationships.

Time for hobbies/recreation.

Space:

Space for mental margin.

Space for renewal.

Space for creativity.

A Plan:

A plan for business endeavors/goals.

A plan for family adventures.

A plan for personal pursuits.

Order:

Order for the freeing up of time.

Order for the better utilization of space.

Order for intentional, simple green clean living.

Routine:

Routines keep the “cogs” (other stepping stones) running smoothly. 

Routines help you live purposefully in the ways you want.

Routines help set your weekends free!

Next week we will delve into unpacking the bedrock stepping stones; “Order” and “Routine.”

These two stones can quick-set potential for achieving what you desire to achieve in this new year!

New Year's Resolutions on Repeat

It’s the time of year when we set up what we resolve to do in the new year.  Many commercials and talk shows always seem to begin with the “healthier you” mantra and quickly point out the fact that this is the number one New Year’s Resolution that has a perpetual “repeat” button.

We should all be encouraged by those who have gone before us who hit the “repeat button” time and time again—never giving up.   They lead the way! 

Take for example Thomas Edison, most noted for his invention of the light bulb.  In reply to his numerous attempts on various experiments regarding electricity, Thomas Edison said, “I know several thousand things that won’t work.”

Abraham Lincoln had his own set of perceived failures before becoming our nation’s sixteenth president through the most trying time of our nation’s history.

What can be learned from these men?  In a word –Perseverance.

So what if your New Year’s Resolution(s) is or are the same as last years; you know what did not work and can build on that!

Take a week or two for thoughtful reflection on what resolutions you want this New Year—even if some are repeat resolutions.

Make those resolutions specific enough to be measured but not so easy as they do not stretch you in a healthy way.  If they are too vague, you’re let off the hook.

As the year progresses you more than likely will come along roadblocks.  Don’t let those stop you!  Persevere.  You just found one way that does not work, now keep moving.

I am sure by the end of 2017, you’ll have grown to understand new things about yourself, others, and will have developed a greater sense of who you are and what you are to be about!

HG Labs’ Harmony Aromatherapy Cleaners wish you much success as you persevere in your resolutions for this New Year! 

Later this week: “Stepping Stones for a Successful 2017”