Nine and a Half Months Later....
Oh hey! So yeah....it's been a really long time since I wrote about anything. About nine and a half months. Yeah, I suck at staying on task and finishing things. Someday I'll get better at it 😆
So it's the second day of the new year now. 2018 wasn't our greatest year here at Fort GrizzlyBeans. Lots of challenges, but also some pretty great changes.
Sabastian graduated from high school, then he moved and started college. It was a really hard transition for me, but I am so proud of him!
I built a business, and that's been very rewarding. I've made money, built a team, and made some new friendships that I am so grateful for. I learned more than I could have ever imagined about every aspect of hemp and CBD. The plant, the science, and all of the medical journals about all of the success using cannabis to help with health. I was able to keep myself busy for most of the year just doing events and helping educate other people about CBD.
I've also been able to live a relatively normal life because most of my daily symptoms went away. I've used 15mg of pure CBD oil sublingually, twice a day, for almost eleven months. I've felt amazing compared to the last six years. I gained all of my strength and flexibility back and was able to do almost everything that I used to be able to do. Run, walk, climb, kneel, squat, bend, stand, sit...everything a normal body should be able to do. I even had a really pretty garden that I was able to do all by myself! My anxiety got better, I wasn't depressed at all. I was even able to stop getting iron infusions because all of a sudden I started absorbing iron again. I had an upper endoscopy done at the beginning of June, and all of the damage in my gut was completely healed for the first time in six years. Pretty amazing, I know. Now I'm not a doctor, but I'd say that's as close as a variety of incurable diseases can get to being cured. No, I'm not claiming CBD cured me, and I will post a disclaimer at the end of this because I have to. However, I have forgotten to use it, and I've run out a few times. Once was for a few weeks after our product launch...let me tell you what a difference I feel when I don't use it. Not a good difference either. The oil is definitely helping me live a normal life. I am so grateful.
We won't go over the bad stuff that happened through the year, because why dwell? It's a new year, and it's time to make some goals. Everyone's starting on their resolutions, but I never make those. I would break them. So, I'm just going to set three super simple, short-term goals for myself ....because I have enough projects hahaha
*Goal #1 - Stay on task. I suck at staying on task (as you can see from the amount of times I've stuck to this blog). I always have, and likely always will. I procrastinate and am really easily sidetracked. I'm also non-medicated mild bipolar, and my mania manifests in a crazy amount of energy and excitability, "fantastic" ideas, and obsession with those ideas. The problem is that the mania ends, and then the project is half finished, or I lose interest, and then other things that were supposed to be done have to be squeezed in or saved for another day.
Now that the mania is a little more manageable, I'm going to really try to pay more attention to what I'm doing and just do it. Just making a list of things I need to do, and doing them. Not thinking about 500 other things at the same time, no more whimsical ideas that need to be ironed out right this second, and definitely not sitting and contemplating what I should do each day and getting overwhelmed and then sitting on the couch and harassing the dogs. Just focus
*Goal #2 - Be more present. I spend so much time doing ALL THE THINGS to keep my mind occupied, that I don't take any time to connect with other people unless it's something scheduled. Then I feel isolated and alone, and I hide from the world....and it's totally self-inflicted because I can't stay out of my own head. So, I'm going to connect with people as much as I can. I will be more present on social media and in my friends and family's lives. I will also schedule and do more things outside the house and be around people more.
*Goal #3 - Think of myself. I rarely take any time for myself. I feel guilty relaxing during the day, and I usually wear myself out with all of my daily tasks. I always put everyone's needs before mine. I don't pay as much attention to my health as I should because I get too busy or something comes up that's more important. So, I'm going to really try to pay more attention to my own needs. Take days to relax once in a while. Do something for myself that's good for me. Stop trying to do it all, because it's not that important. I think some de-stressing every week would probably do me a lot of good.
So yeah, those are my goals. Super simple goals that I should be able to get to, which will also help with my long-term goals, which are for another day. If I can get all three accomplished, I'll be unstoppable.
Now they've been published for the world to see, so I have to at least try to hold myself accountable.
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So it's the second day of the new year now. 2018 wasn't our greatest year here at Fort GrizzlyBeans. Lots of challenges, but also some pretty great changes.
Sabastian graduated from high school, then he moved and started college. It was a really hard transition for me, but I am so proud of him!
I built a business, and that's been very rewarding. I've made money, built a team, and made some new friendships that I am so grateful for. I learned more than I could have ever imagined about every aspect of hemp and CBD. The plant, the science, and all of the medical journals about all of the success using cannabis to help with health. I was able to keep myself busy for most of the year just doing events and helping educate other people about CBD.
I've also been able to live a relatively normal life because most of my daily symptoms went away. I've used 15mg of pure CBD oil sublingually, twice a day, for almost eleven months. I've felt amazing compared to the last six years. I gained all of my strength and flexibility back and was able to do almost everything that I used to be able to do. Run, walk, climb, kneel, squat, bend, stand, sit...everything a normal body should be able to do. I even had a really pretty garden that I was able to do all by myself! My anxiety got better, I wasn't depressed at all. I was even able to stop getting iron infusions because all of a sudden I started absorbing iron again. I had an upper endoscopy done at the beginning of June, and all of the damage in my gut was completely healed for the first time in six years. Pretty amazing, I know. Now I'm not a doctor, but I'd say that's as close as a variety of incurable diseases can get to being cured. No, I'm not claiming CBD cured me, and I will post a disclaimer at the end of this because I have to. However, I have forgotten to use it, and I've run out a few times. Once was for a few weeks after our product launch...let me tell you what a difference I feel when I don't use it. Not a good difference either. The oil is definitely helping me live a normal life. I am so grateful.
We won't go over the bad stuff that happened through the year, because why dwell? It's a new year, and it's time to make some goals. Everyone's starting on their resolutions, but I never make those. I would break them. So, I'm just going to set three super simple, short-term goals for myself ....because I have enough projects hahaha
*Goal #1 - Stay on task. I suck at staying on task (as you can see from the amount of times I've stuck to this blog). I always have, and likely always will. I procrastinate and am really easily sidetracked. I'm also non-medicated mild bipolar, and my mania manifests in a crazy amount of energy and excitability, "fantastic" ideas, and obsession with those ideas. The problem is that the mania ends, and then the project is half finished, or I lose interest, and then other things that were supposed to be done have to be squeezed in or saved for another day.
Now that the mania is a little more manageable, I'm going to really try to pay more attention to what I'm doing and just do it. Just making a list of things I need to do, and doing them. Not thinking about 500 other things at the same time, no more whimsical ideas that need to be ironed out right this second, and definitely not sitting and contemplating what I should do each day and getting overwhelmed and then sitting on the couch and harassing the dogs. Just focus
*Goal #2 - Be more present. I spend so much time doing ALL THE THINGS to keep my mind occupied, that I don't take any time to connect with other people unless it's something scheduled. Then I feel isolated and alone, and I hide from the world....and it's totally self-inflicted because I can't stay out of my own head. So, I'm going to connect with people as much as I can. I will be more present on social media and in my friends and family's lives. I will also schedule and do more things outside the house and be around people more.
*Goal #3 - Think of myself. I rarely take any time for myself. I feel guilty relaxing during the day, and I usually wear myself out with all of my daily tasks. I always put everyone's needs before mine. I don't pay as much attention to my health as I should because I get too busy or something comes up that's more important. So, I'm going to really try to pay more attention to my own needs. Take days to relax once in a while. Do something for myself that's good for me. Stop trying to do it all, because it's not that important. I think some de-stressing every week would probably do me a lot of good.
So yeah, those are my goals. Super simple goals that I should be able to get to, which will also help with my long-term goals, which are for another day. If I can get all three accomplished, I'll be unstoppable.
Now they've been published for the world to see, so I have to at least try to hold myself accountable.
Read. Share. Repeat
Statements made on this product, website or sales materials have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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