Cara Harvey 00:00:03 Welcome to the Purpose Driven Moms show here at A Purpose Driven Mom, we believe that it’s possible to manage your home, work on your personal goals, and grow and scale an online business. Most productivity tips out there tell you to hustle more and make you feel shame about not being motivated enough. And we’re here to dispel this myth. I’m Kara Harvey and I am on a mission to help work at home. Moms realize that they have the power to go after their dreams, take care of themselves, and manage their home without perfectionism, guilt, or having to sacrifice their sleep. If you’re ready to shift your thinking around productivity and get some practical tips to help you manage your mom life. Toss your earbuds in while you fold the laundry. And let’s do this! Welcome to the Super Mom Show at 447 today. It’s two months into 2025 and I wanted to do a goal update, a life update, and talk to you about how I’m going to audit some of my goals that have gotten off track.

Cara Harvey 00:00:56 I don’t know about you, but 2020, I feel like every year let’s not even play every single year. I feel like I’m like, what kind of dumpster fire are we getting? And I think this was my biggest lesson so far these past two months, is that reminder that things are just unpredictable. I’ve shared this before, that I feel like sometimes I’ve been waiting. Waiting for the perfect week, waiting for my kids to go to school. They had a two hour delay today. I live in Philly. No school Friday for the parade. When I’m recording this, it’s right after the Super Bowl, right? I’m waiting and instead of waiting for life to be perfect, I needed that reminder that I can make moves today. Now, you’re probably like, care. That’s what you talk about all the time. But sometimes I forget. You know, I talked to my husband about it, and whenever I’m in a state of any sort, he’ll say, well, what would you tell one of your moms? And I’m like, that’s annoying advice, but true, right? And so when I’m starting to get flustered, overwhelmed, unsure of what to do, I like to pause and ask myself if I was not me.

Cara Harvey 00:01:56 Like, take myself out of the equation. How would I coach myself through? And that’s the first piece of advice. And as I give you, I’m going to give a personal life update. I’m going to share my personal goals and things like that with you so far this year. But I’m going to give you some little nuggets that I want you to start to use in this episode to kind of adapt and listen. Show notes are at a Purpose Driven mom.com/podcast 447 almost at 450 episodes, which is incredible. And you can check all the things out. So my first, you know, little tip for you today is I want you when you’re starting to get catastrophic about your goals. Nothing is working. I can’t do anything. Everything is a mess. What I would like you to do is take yourself out of the equation and ask yourself, how would I talk to a friend about the situation? How would I help someone who is struggling with this? What would I tell them? And I think that is really important because it allows you to take the drama out of it, and it allows you to say, okay, let’s be neutral here and look at what’s actually going on.

Cara Harvey 00:02:56 So that’s what I did when I did this kind of analysis. I’ve got some notes here As I kind of go through my goals, I’m actually going to pull up my Trello board to make sure I have them all here, so I can give you a check in. I’m going to start with the life update, and the reason I do this is because I think a lot of times it’s very easy for us to say that nothing is working when we don’t often pause and ask ourselves, what are the circumstances around that? And that is so key. We do a reflection in the purpose of a mom club every single month, where we pause and we reflect, and we think what’s been going on for us because it allows us to pause. It allows us to say, okay, this is why maybe this didn’t go not like I’m a victim, not I can’t get anything done. Not oh, well, I you know, the world is awful and I can’t do things in a way of saying, okay, this is the reality, so how can I adjust around it? So the first thing I’m going to recommend you do, if you’re doing your own goal audit, is to to do that reflect what went well.

Cara Harvey 00:03:55 I have a five step process. It’s five highlights, four struggles. Three pieces of gratitude. Two places you’re proud of yourself and one lesson you’ve learned. It’s my reflection pyramid. I teach in the book, and I teach in my program. By doing this, you’re going to allow yourself to pause. So this is what this first part of the episode is going to be, is me reflecting and kind of sharing what’s been going on. So January started like probably for most families with illness, right? We have the stomach bug and the flu. And it was like back to back. Somebody was getting sick. Okay. So that threw everything off on top of it. In between all of that, it’s Girl Scout cookie season, which I’m a Girl Scout leader, so it’s like the busiest time. And it’s also cheer com season. So in January in particular, we had three weeks straight back to back to back where we were traveling for cheer. Somehow, miraculously though, I’ll say all the illnesses happened like in between that.

Cara Harvey 00:04:45 Like my daughter got sick and was done like Thursday. And then we had to travel Saturday for cheer, you know, like, and it just so happened to work out, thank God for us in that way that like it was hard, but it wasn’t. We couldn’t do it. So not only has it been busy in January and February, but everyone’s been sick. So we’ve not had consistency because someone’s been home sick. And because of the unpredictable weather. And my husband and I talked about this because I used to be a teacher. He was a principal. And now with virtual learning days, I don’t know about your district, but he was like, it’s just so easy for the school to say, let’s just do asynchronous day. It counts, right? It doesn’t give them the day off and then they can be home and we don’t have to worry about it. We had a two hour day to delay. You know, today there’s a lot of holidays in January, Mondays off. My school, my kids school in particular, they head off the day after the Super Bowl, like all those things.

Cara Harvey 00:05:34 And so when I reflected, I was like, wow, there’s been a lot of inconsistency. Take a quick second because I wanna invite you to join. One of my new favorite apps is called Brand Club. I am all about trying to get my side hustle on right? And one of the things I hate doing is taking money out of my pre-planned budget for tiny things that pop up, like the snack stand during football season, or the $10 you have to Venmo somewhere else because you need it for school. And I found Brand Club to literally fill that gap for me. Here’s what I do with it. Every single day I go in, I earn between a dollar and $1.50. It takes me two minutes and I just fill in some surveys. Super simple. Very easy. I also will link it to my Amazon, my Walmart and my target account. So when I buy things anyway, I get cash back. Takes me about ten days, but I earn $10 and when I get my $10, I cash it to my Venmo girl math.

Cara Harvey 00:06:18 I’m using it all the places I want to share with you a $3 code to get started, because you need $10 to cash out. So let me give you $3. I’ll get $3 if you sign up. I really appreciate it. Go to a purpose driven romcoms brand club. Do it on your phone because it’s going to bring you up to the app so you can download it. It’s a really easy way to just get some side money going, so you don’t have to take it out of your regular budget and make some money for yourself. That’s a purpose driven, romcom slash brand club. On top of all of that, the last week of January I had surgery, so I had surgery in my sinuses. I have been struggling with my health for the past couple of years. Honestly, ever since I got Covid, I don’t know if it’s Covid symptoms or long Covid or whatever. I don’t know what it is. My body’s been through a lot of like trauma and immune issues. Right? So there’s I got Covid and then I was like in a car accident.

Cara Harvey 00:07:11 So just when my immune system got better, I was in a car accident. Then after that I got mono. Then after that I hurt my arm. I sprained my trap. I don’t know if anyone if you’ve been around, you remember the story. Like my health has taken hit after hit after hit. Because my immune system’s been low. I get chronic sinus infections like I was on an antibiotic or a steroid in August, September, October, November, off for December and then back in like. And it’s been like that for two years. So finally my doctor and I were like, let’s do the surgery to help the drainage in my nose so that I don’t get so sick. And and then I had my deviated septum fixed. So that was and by the time I’m recording, you might be able to hear I am still in recovery. So I am still congested and pretty stuffy. That was the last week of January, and I didn’t realize, like I knew I’d have recovery. My doctor said 1 to 2 weeks, you know, she explained how it was going to feel, but I did not prepare myself for the pain.

Cara Harvey 00:08:04 I also didn’t prepare myself for like the headaches because the types of headaches I got after the surgery for recovery were not the types of headaches I’m used to getting with my sinuses. So it’s been super interesting. It’s officially two weeks out tomorrow, so I’m at the point where my stitches are dissolving so my nose is itchy. I still have headaches, but I’m like starting to move forward in my life. Okay? And I and I say this to say like I was so thrown off. And I’m going to share with you some strategies today of how I got myself back on track because of the struggles of all the things that happen. So not only was personally January hard the world, you know, if you live in the United States, I know we have international people here, but I’m sure you’re you’re privy to you know, what’s going on over here in America. It’s exhausting. You know, my husband sent me a TikTok the other day and it said, I don’t know if it’s perimenopause or the fall of democracy.

Cara Harvey 00:08:54 That’s stressing me out today. And I was like, that’s how I feel. Like we, you know, we joke about it because every day I’m like, it’s my perimenopause. He’s like, Will you stop saying that? I’m like, it is. I’m definitely feeling like I’m probably entering perimenopause. So anyway, the world is exhausting. My anxiety is incredibly high. Thinking about where things are going with the state of this country. And so it also threw me off. I feel like I definitely had some days where I just, like, stared at a wall or like doom scrolled or just really struggled to move forward in a positive way. So that reflection is really helpful when it comes to my goals, because it allows me to be like, yeah, there’s a lot you didn’t do, there’s a lot, and these are probably the reasons why. But here’s the thing, there’s also a lot I did do. And so if you don’t keep a list of your wins, I highly recommend it.

Cara Harvey 00:09:40 I’m looking through my list here. I have probably 50 small tasks. And again these are small right. Like schedule my therapy appointments. Let’s see. Materials for my Girl Scout meeting. Finished a book I read two books. Three books I think make a sign up genius for something, right? These are all small things I worked on, my goals, binder, etc. but I’m taking the win. So if you don’t have a system for your wins versus your areas of growth, I recommend it. And then every single week you can go in and edit it, and then at the end of the month you can look and say, hey, where am I at right now? So that helped me. While I didn’t do everything I wanted to do, I did have some major wins and I have had some major wins so far this year, and those were just small tasks I did in January. Now I want to go through a couple of my goals. I’m going to give you some lessons I learned in the goals and which ones I’m kind of blessed in releasing for this last month of the quarter, because we are still in the first quarter of the year, if you can even believe that.

Cara Harvey 00:10:33 I love a 12 week system, because the 12 week system allows me to kind of pause and look at things with shorter urgency, but enough flexibility to stretch them out. So here’s where I’m at for my quarter one goals. And here’s an update and a lesson learned with each of them. Okay, so my first quarter one goal was around my family’s nutrition. I was like, I know that we can all be healthier and I want to make some steps towards this. I don’t want to completely change everything and then nobody eats anything. But I wanted to make some steps. So that was one of my is my main quarter. One of my main quarter one goals is focusing on that. So what that looked like was I picked a focus for each month. So in January the focus was every meal has a fruit and a veggie or a veggie, right? That’s what was January’s focus, just to help my kids get the nutrients. And especially my son who’s a picky or eater. And February’s goal is eliminating the food dyes, right.

Cara Harvey 00:11:21 And so I wanted to make sure that nothing we bought and brought into the house had food. Now we went to Disney on Ice last week. I let my daughter get an icy. She also got cotton candy. Bad move on my part because I was like oh, that’s way too much food. I could see it. She was like kicking my seat the entire time because I sat in front of her because she was with her friends. I was like, nope, this is I see it. So those were the two goals. I actually am not sure what I’m going to do for March. I haven’t determined it yet. It’s part of my March planning and that’s been going great. And one of the tips I want to give here is I enrolled my family in that we talked as a family. We picked some healthy options. We discussed why, like, you know, why do companies add food dyes? What is the negative like effects of this? How does this impact your body? Why do we not want to do this now? What we learned was we shop at Aldi.

Cara Harvey 00:12:06 Aldi does not use food dyes in their brands, so it actually has been very easy. It’s two weeks into the month so far when I’m recording this and we’ve had nothing. There’s literally nothing in our house that has food dyes. And I was like, that’s awesome. Now again, we went out and I let my kid have the cotton candy. I let my kid out of the Icee. It’s not like, you know, I’m giving her a Valentine’s Day candy, which, you know, I already bought the Valentine’s Day candy in January. If I had waited to February, I would have found a non-food dyed brand. But I didn’t, and I already bought it, so I’m not going to waste it. So that’s going great. Now, the other piece of this was I’m in my like low spend, low consumption, homemade era. Right now I’m just feeling like I want to become self-sufficient. That’s part of my goal this year. I want to do as much as I can. I just want to equip myself with skills that I always told myself I can never have.

Cara Harvey 00:12:48 I always said, like I’m not going to clean and cooking the homemaking skills. That’s not for me. Well, one of the positives coming out of my surgery was that, like, I couldn’t stare at the computer very long. It hurt my head and it still does, so I have to take more breaks. So instead of like watching TV, which also kind of hurt me, I did watch TV. Mob Wives, you all remember the show Mob Wives? I found it on Paramount. I was like, this is great, great recovery TV. But I baked and I cooked and I did things. So I want to tell you how I chose to add in my cleaning up family nutrition plan without feeling overwhelmed because I very, very much would like to have less processed foods in my home. Like that’s a number one, but I always thought it was just so much so overwhelming I could never. I don’t know how to make anything. I don’t know how to cook. Like those were the limiting beliefs in my head.

Cara Harvey 00:13:34 Maybe you’ve said the same rate. And so I made a plan for myself. So the plan for myself is not I’m going to overhaul everything to be the most nutritious thing in the world. Because not only that, my kids palates are not set for super quote unquote healthy. Like if we think of like less sugar type of if we’re considering healthy, like less sugar, more whole foods like my kids palates are more like set up for some Oreos, you know what I’m saying? So I was like, what can we do for this? So my plan was and I have a chart that I made that I’m going to take food and I want to transition it by the end of the year kind of over to column three. Right. So column one is what is the food like? What is the thing that I buy from the grocery store. And it, you know, included things like I would buy my son like Aldi’s version of like Hostess cupcakes because he liked them in his lunch or chocolate chip chewy Chips Ahoy.

Cara Harvey 00:14:20 But Aldi version cookies like those things. So what are we buying from the store? Column two is what is a homemade version of it? Maybe not. Quote healthy. Now it’s healthier than column A in column A is bought from the store, processed the most processed. You know, column B is homemade again, still has the sugar and stuff like that. So it’s not the healthiest in that terms. But it’s better. So good. Better best. And then column C is a healthier version of homemade. So for example chocolate chip cookies I am not buying them anymore. I have a recipe I learned how to do it. Cool. Done. I freeze them, I’ll prep them, I’ll stick them in the freezer. So when my kids want them, we can just make them. It’s fab. Right now I’m making them a very sugar filled version of chocolate chip cookies. Right? There’s like I think there’s like a cup of brown sugar, a cup of regular sugar, chocolate chips, like it’s not, quote, healthy.

Cara Harvey 00:15:09 If you were to say like line up whole wheat something, something cookies with mine. Right. But it’s better. And that’s the thing that I want you to think about. Are you moving your goalposts like a little bit. Are you, like moving towards that goalpost, not moving the goalposts? Are you moving towards the goalpost? It’s better. Right? This option is a little bit better. I’m getting there slowly now. My goal eventually is to take that recipe and either tweak it or try a healthier version with maybe a different type of flour and less sugar for them as well. But that’s not where we’re at right now, and I had to let that be enough, because if I didn’t let that be enough, I would beat myself up over and over and over about not having healthy choices for my kids. So I want you to think about that instead of everything has to be healthy or whatever black and white statement about your goals. You’re saying, can you make a little bit of an objective that’s like, can I move closer? If you are a mom who wants to start a business and you need help and you want to go from chaos to clarity, I want you to go over to a purpose driven romcoms business planner and get my new ultimate digital planner for business owners.

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Cara Harvey 00:17:11 So by the end of February to be eight, I’ve already made eight homemade items that I’m like, I don’t want to ever buy again and again. I say never, but like, I’m sure I will, but like very limited. Okay, so bread I figured out bread. No not sourdough. I like am not ready, just white sandwich bread. I figured out the recipe like I found the right recipe. We’re good. Brett ice cream friend I make homemade ice cream now and it’s so easy. And chocolate syrup and I’ve never been prouder. I was spending when I did my audit for the finances, I found that I was spending like 10 to $15 a week on like, frozen treats for my kids at the grocery store, and I was like, why? That’s ridiculous. So that was beautiful. Chick-Fil-A sauce. I learned how to make that good for the nugs, chocolate chip cookies, bagels, brownies, pickles, and pizza crust. So the pickles are still pickling. So the first recipe we tried wasn’t great.

Cara Harvey 00:17:55 My kids didn’t like it, so we tried a different, less spicy version. They’re still doing their thing in the fridge, so I’ll report back on if I found the pickle recipe. But I was like, I feel so good providing my kids with this. Now. The other thing I had to get over and that you might have to, like, not get over. And it was harsh, but I had to come to terms with, if you will, is the fact that while what I love to have like four hours every day to put, I told my husband I was like, listen, I don’t even want to work anymore. Like, just let me make some bread and put on an apron, right? Like, I like, I volunteer, I want to be a professional volunteer. I was like, I would volunteer every day. Like, I have so many things I’d love to do, but like, I kind of didn’t hate just making things. So I don’t have all that time to make things because I’m working and I’m doing life.

Cara Harvey 00:18:37 So I made up a different plan. And so instead of, oh, I’m going to make all these things, what I’ve got is this rotating list of things. On the side of my fridge is the weekly meal prep. Those are the things that we make in order to like, have lunch and stuff for the week. So like, I hard boiled eggs for my son. He likes those us in his lunch. I’ll roast veggies from for me to have. I will air fry some potatoes, will grill up some chicken. Make sure we have pancakes and waffles a waffles. I’m gonna add waffles to my list. Waffles is my is my next. I do now make waffles from scratch. Nine things but any is so I have my mains. That takes me about an hour on Sundays. I take an hour to prep for the week and that makes my week faster and easier. Okay, got a good system, my kids can help, etc. now I also have my list of miscellaneous things like the chocolate chip cookies or the brownies or whatever else is extra.

Cara Harvey 00:19:23 The ice cream. I don’t always make those on Sundays if I don’t have time. And so what I’ll do instead is I have a list of them. And my plan, now that I’ve been working on the past couple of weeks, is that like after I drop my kids off at school, I’ll come home and have breakfast, I’ll do some journaling, and then I’ll just cook something like, I’ll just prep something to put in my freezer. So this morning my kids had a two hour delay, so we had time. So I was like, well, we have waffles in the freezer, but we only have like two left, so I’m just going to make a whole bunch. So I just made two weeks worth of waffles and they’re in my freezer, so now I don’t have to worry about it. Tomorrow I’ll go to something next. We don’t have any brownies. It’d be a nice snack. Okay, cool. we don’t have pancakes made. Whatever. So every day I’m just going to make something different.

Cara Harvey 00:19:59 And I’ll just go down my list of the things that I make homemade now. And if we have it and we have enough, I’m just going to go to the next thing. And then then I’ll just keep looping so that I’m filling my freezer with things so that it doesn’t become cool. Another thing. So this is the lesson I want you to remember. Everything doesn’t have to be another thing if you create a system, every single thing is a system. So I’ve created this system that allows me to make homemade things without feeling overwhelmed. What systems are missing for you? I want you to audit a little bit what systems are missing so that you can make things smooth. Now, my other goal for the quarter was I’m in this low spend year and I will say yesterday I did not follow any of my rules. So I made some rules for myself. No PayPal. I have to like go get my card, look before buying thrift or marketplace before buying, use up what I have before buying and just sticking to my budget.

Cara Harvey 00:20:45 I’m also not buying jewelry this year because I was like, I just want one thing I’m not buying. And I was like, I have so much jewelry I never wear. So I was like, no more jewelry. But sometimes I’ll go on like Sheehan and like, see something and be like, oh, I need this, but I’m not going to wear it. It’s not my style. Whatever. So I did great with this. In January, I tracked all my spending, I started investing. That was another one. I got my Roth open. My goal is to max it out at seven grand this year. Ladies, friends. Anybody listening? Go, Max out your Roth. Do your best. And I’m gonna tell you, I was scared of investing. I didn’t do it. And I just started in January with $30 a day. And this is, like, embarrassing to admit, but I was like, all I have to work with right now because money’s tight. Is is a dollar a day, not $30 a day.

Cara Harvey 00:21:21 I’m sorry, $30 from a dollar a day. So I just did 30 and then in February I did 60. And next month I’m going to double it to 120. And like my goal is to slowly double it to a place where I’m investing that money so that I can retire like so. Anyway, open your Roth. That’s what I’m gonna say. I stayed on my budget, I did my low spend, I did my project pan where you kind of use all your things up. I have a whole box here. I’m going to do another. I’m not going to. Maybe I’ll do it for a separate YouTube video or where I go through and review, I think. I think I’ll do that. And if we have the YouTube video up and done by the time this podcast airs at the end of the month, we’ll link it in the show notes so you can come watch and I’ll go through. I well, I think I’ll do it separately and I’ll go through everything that I bought, whether I’d buy it again or everything I finished.

Cara Harvey 00:21:59 I have a huge shoe box filled with stuff that I used in January, which felt really great. So my low spend is going great. My other thing that I was working on this month is summer planning. So I did that a little bit. I signed my kids up for camps. My daughter is going to two weeks of overnight girls going to camp. My son and my daughter are going to nature camp for two weeks and then my daughter’s done with camp. They’ll do a VBS, and then my son does two weeks of basketball camp that’s just not opened yet. So I did that. And then I kind of looked at vacations for the summer. Some of our trips are different. We’re going away in May for one of our trips for cheer, so we’re counting that as one of our summer trips, we’re going to go camping. So I kind of have dates on the calendar and that feels good with me. I also been working on my health, so me and my friend Marissa, she’s like my soul sister.

Cara Harvey 00:22:35 We talk on Marco Polo every day. We keep each other accountable. I’ve been working on it now. It’s been very challenging and this is one where I want to beat myself up. Now. I wanted to lose £30 this year. I’ve lost four at this moment, maybe five. I feel okay about it. My goal was a pound a week. We made a bunch of other markers though around getting it enough fiber and enough water and enough exercise, so I actually feel really great. Now this is also in between my surgery. So this is why the reflection matters. I was like, I haven’t hit my goals, but I’ve had so much happen to throw me off. I’m proud of myself that I haven’t quit yet, so I’m still working on that. I want to run A5K this quarter, so I’m doing a couch to five K program. All those things are going well. What’s not going well I’m gonna tell you is my cleaning routines. I’m trying friends. And I think I figured out what I have to do.

Cara Harvey 00:23:16 I’m good at my dailies, I’m good at unloading my dishes. And I follow the clean mama plan. So I’m going to unloading my dishes, folding my laundry, cleaning up at night, making lunches like doing a pickup, running my vacuum, my robot vacuum. Like the dailies done. So bed’s made were good. It’s the other stuff. It’s the weeklies. And I realized what was happening was I just haven’t found the right time of day. So I want you to audit the goals that aren’t working and ask yourself, are you just not in the right time of day? I was like, trying to squeeze in my cleaning from 3 to 6 during my home block, but my kids are home and it’s just too busy for us, so I’ve actually made a change in my schedule. Starting next week, I’m going to start it because I realized this might be it. And on Mondays I have a 930 call. But every other day I don’t start any calls until the earliest is 12. So I have some flexibility in my morning.

Cara Harvey 00:24:01 Like I drop my kids off. I’m home by nine. So what I’ve decided to do is take that 9 to 10:00 thing where I was immediately like, I got to go work. I got to go do the stuff. The task will expand to the time I give it. So if I take an hour out of my workday to do personal things, which is what I’m going to talk about in a second, I will use the rest of that time better because I have less time. It’s just how it’s going to work, so how I hope it’s going to work and the principles back that up. And so what I’m going to do is from 9 to 10 is my personal time, and that’s where I’m going to run any errands, make the phone calls, and that’s where I’m going to start adding my daily cleaning. I’m going to do it right away first thing or it will not happen. That is what I’ve learned. So cleaning is not going great, but I’m trying a new system. Other things that I wanted to work on is getting to church.

Cara Harvey 00:24:38 If we’re in town on Sundays, we’re here now. I only went twice in January and once in February because we’ve traveled for cheer so much. But if we’re here, we’re here. Family devotionals, which we do at dinnertime, have been going great. I want to add money to my emergency savings. We’ve not been able to do that because of other financial things, but we just paid our last payment for private school. For my oldest, he’s a senior. He actually has gotten more house, so he’s going to go there for college. But now we don’t have to pay for private school. I’m so excited. So I think that’ll be great. That’ll be helpful. I did want to start working on Bible studies. I finished the one I was doing in 2024. I’ve not started a new one. So this is where I’m like, all right, I want to add this into that personal hour from 9 to 10. I’m going to try that for March and my learning plan. So I have a membership.

Cara Harvey 00:25:16 Joyful home. Her name, Jamie Baum. I love her stuff, and I’ve been doing one of her classes every single month, so that’s been helpful. On my home improvement stuff I added in. I didn’t share this one a home improvement goal, and that is that I want to do one quarterly home project. I don’t know how to do anything around my home, I literally don’t. And I say that like not. I’m not even joking. Like, I mean, I could figure it out, but I just don’t. I’m not handy. I’ve never had to be handy. But I want to be. I want to learn how to change a tire and my windshield wipers and paint stuff, like I’m again self-sufficient era this year, right? So I made a goal of my baseboards are going to get painted and I took it through the dream learn plan due process to learn because I don’t know how to do it. So last week I was in the dream phase. I thought about it. Why do I want to do it? What is it going to look like? I then moved to the learning phase.

Cara Harvey 00:26:00 So this week I’ve watched a bunch of YouTube videos. I think I know how the steps. I think I know what to do next week. I’m going to plan out when I’m going to do everything, and the week after I’m going to start doing it. So my goal is to get them baseboards painted. So follow me on Instagram at A Purpose Driven Mom. If you want to see the behind the scenes as we start working on that project now, those were the goals I set for myself for the quarter. They’re going okay, and I’m glad I did this audit with you because I started saying how hard everything was and maybe you do the same. It’s so hard. It’s so challenging. I can’t get anything done. Everything’s throwing me off. But when I actually go through an audit, while yes, there are other goals, we didn’t talk about every nitty little nitty gritty thing that I’m behind on. Overall, I’m actually not doing terrible and I needed that reminder as I went in because now I’m just trying to get back on track after surgery.

Cara Harvey 00:26:42 Now, what I want you to do today is go to Sarah Notes, a purpose driven romcoms podcast for 47. You can check that secondary YouTube video out, where I’m going to go through all my products and my product plan for January. I’m a little behind on it, so you can see what I liked, what I did, and I want you to audit your goals. I want you to ask yourself what’s not working, why it might not be working, what you might need to change. And you’ve got this. Check out Jonas at a Purpose Driven Mom com slash podcast 447. Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Purpose Driven Mom Show. If this episode served you in any way, we would really appreciate it if you headed over to wherever you listen to podcast, hit that five star and leave a review and a rating. That’s how more moms can find us and we can grow our community. If you had a tip or an make sure you come over and tag me at a Purpose Driven Mom on Instagram and share it with your friends.

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