Tishia Lee

Menu Plan Monday

Tish — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:00:55 +0000

It’s 1am Friday morning. I’m wide awake and after reading a recent post on a mastermind forum I’m a part of (yes, we talk about things that are ‘off topic’ from business too) about meal planning I decided to give it a try again so I figured I might as well plan out next week’s menu since I’m wide awake!

My Weekly Menu

Monday – Cheesy Meatball Subs with cottage cheese as a side dish
Tuesday – Tuna Melts with fruit as side dish
Wednesday – Leftovers
Thursday – Chicken Alfredo-Pesto Pasta with cottage cheese as side dish
Friday – Leftovers
Saturday – Pulled Pork Sandwiches with cooked vegetables as side dish
Sunday – Leftovers

Now that my son lives with his dad and step mom and there’s just me to “cook” (I say cook in quotes because…well let’s just say I don’t know the first thing abut cooking! lol) for I think 2-3 meals a week can get me through because of all the leftovers!

So, my menu is all planned out for 5/7 – 5/13. Now I just have to wait to publish this until Monday (gotta love being able to pre-schedule things for publishing!)

Describe Yourself

Tish — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:14:19 +0000

Without going into a whole lot of detail, I had an appointment recently that I was given some “homework” (even as a grown woman the word homework makes me anxious!). This week’s homework:

What words would you use to describe yourself?

So, here we go…below are the words that come into my mind (I’m not supposed to over think this – I’m supposed to answer quickly, jotting down whatever pops into my head).

sad (not always)
lost
unsure
scared
emotional
mom
woman
smart
goofy
athlete (I use that word ‘loosely’ – I haven’t been an athlete since high school but I enjoy playing volleyball and softball!)
good listener
lonely
introvert
shy (until I get to know someone)
kind
caring
single
worrier
‘backseat’ driver (ask my mom she’ll tell ya! lol)
doubter
perfectionist
dreamer
pessimistic (not always)
quirky (I’m unique and certainly have some quirky things about me – like how I can’t stand bread crumbs in my butter or how the toilet paper has to go on the roll a specific way!)

Hmmm…I’m not sure I like a lot of this list! Kind of funny how so many words that popped into my head were ‘negative’. But, I did the assignment. Now I’m curious to see where we’re going to go with this at my next appointment. And I really hope that some day we’ll revisit this list after I make a new list that’s full of positives!

So, if you had to describe yourself to someone what words would you use?

Limiting Beliefs

Tish — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:12:27 +0000

Limiting beliefs kind of suck. Ok, there’s no kind of to it, they just plain ole suck. I didn’t realize how bad I had them until recently. I mean I’ve always known that I get in my own way with my mind and doubting everything and negative self-talk. But it was just last week as I was working on a client project that my eyes were opened wide to how bad my limiting beliefs really are. Not in just one area of my life, but everywhere – my business, my love life (lack there of I should say), my relationships with family/friends, my weight loss/healthy lifestyle, etc.

It’s totally counterproductive for me to say/think that I want things in my life but to doubt everything and tell myself ‘that’s not possible, how do you think you can have that, yeah right, you don’t deserve that’, etc. For example here are things I want in my life and how I limit them with doubt (my limiting beliefs are in parenthesis).

I want to live in Florida on the beach. Ok, so I’m not 100% sure I want to live there but I do want to vacation that (or Myrtle Beach) for one month a year – that I’m 100% certain about! (you can’t afford to live on the beach or Florida for that matter, you can’t leave Michigan unless you can afford to fly your son to Florida every summer and you definitely can’t afford that)
I want a VW Bug. (you can’t afford to buy a car especially this one, you’ve never had a car with less than 100,000 miles so what makes you think you can now?)
I want a relationship with a man that likes to travel and can afford to travel. (good luck finding that around here)
I want a relationship with a man that respects me and treats me with kindness. (95% of the relationships you’ve had have been with men that hurt you physically or emotionally so there must be something wrong with you that you can’t date a nice man, you don’t deserve to have a good man, you have to settle for whatever man comes along because you don’t deserve better than a ‘mr. right now’ guy…the list for this one goes on & on).
and many more

That’s not even 1/4th of my list! There are so many things I truly do want in my life but it’s my limiting beliefs and self-doubt and negative self-talk that keep from living the life I want. It amazes me how easily it is to doubt myself so much. I believe that anyone can have the life they want but yet I don’t believe it for myself…that’s so messed up!

So, it’s time to start working on getting rid of these limiting beliefs and start working on believing in myself and creating the life I want!

Until next time…

Happy Birthday to Me

Tish — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:00:30 +0000

photo credit: Ale Paiva

I can’t believe today I’m 37. 37 years old…wowsers. That means I’m only three years away from 40.

Getting older kind of stinks. I know age is just a number and I certainly don’t feel 37…at least most of the time I don’t. But there’s definitely lots of times when I do – like when I’m ready for bed by 10pm! lol

I think the reason I always have an issue when another birthday rolls around is because I still remember back to high school when I ‘planned’ out my life. I planned out everything I wanted to achieve by the time I hit 30. And well here I am at 37 and I’m still not living the life I had planned.

For the most part I’m totally ok with not having everything I planned because most of it was superficial stuff like a new car and a nice new big house. What I struggle with is the fact that I had a few things ‘planned’ for life that I had my heart set on and I still want – being a wife and a couple more kids.

It’s hard to have your heart so set on something (being a wife) for so long and still not having it. And I always wanted 3 kids. I love my son more than anything and if I don’t ever have the opportunity to have any more kids (at my age and being single there’s certainly no way I will have 2 more) I’m so thankful and blessed to have him.

I don’t know I guess every year on my birthday it’s always a little emotional to admit I’m getting older and to think about the things that haven’t happened yet. But this year, I’m trying to not spend so much negative energy and time focusing on those things I don’t have and instead spending time thinking about all that I do have and all the blessings in my life because there’s a lot.

So, happy birthday to me and here’s to a wonderful year of being 37! Looking forward to seeing what this year has in store for me…

You’re Too Old To Blog

Tish — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:15:10 +0000

Since I’ve been blogging I’ve been called a lot of things…but I’ve never been called ‘too old’ until recently.

It was kind of funny the way it happened because lately I haven’t been blogging about much of anything. I was going through this phase where I was feeling like I was in a blogging identity crisis…like I just didn’t know what to do with this blog anymore.

After the “You’re too Old to Blog” comment, I’m really feeling confused about this blog. I guess maybe I’m just not in tune with blogging anymore…who knows? For right now I don’t know what I’m going to do here anymore…if anything!