I took 3 of my 4 kids to see Wild Robot last weekend, and it was a hit.

It had humor, it made my 9 year old son cry (in the best way) and most of all, the messages really hit home. During a particular scene, I opened the notes app on my phone to jot down a line that has now been living rent free in my head for 7 days now.

It was this:

Here’s the thing... I’m not trying to just survive. I want to impact people. I need to thrive… Not just survive.

If you are reading this, you probably want some of those same things. If you answered yes, that’s amazing. AND you really will have to fight to be more than you were programmed to be.

Program (verb):

To predetermine thinking, behavior, or operations of as if by computer programming.

To cause to absorb or incorporate automatic responses, attitudes, or the like; condition.

To set, regulate or modify so as to produce a specific response or reaction.

95% of people are programmed or conditioned to believe that the weekends are to be different than the weekdays.

A time to unwind, decompress, indulge in different food, drink alcohol, and stay extremely busy.  It is so automatic that you don’t question it.

What you may not know is that your weekend habits could be the very thing keeping you from living the life you were meant for… the very thing keeping you from the health and the wealth you desire.

I want to offer you a different perspective.

I want to offer you a world that just 5% of women live in.

A world where you feel calm at dinner time even when your toddlers are going crazy after a long day of work. A world where your work gets done in less time because your brain is sharper than ever. A world in which you set boundaries, feel truly rested and restored come Sunday night. A world in which you are fully confident as a mother, making tons of money AND feeling amazing in your body because you take care of it.

Luckily, I wrote a book to guide you through action steps on this very topic.

Even luckier for you, it launches today on Amazon. You can grab the Kindle version for just .99 cents TODAY ONLY (buying the kindle version specifically is the best way to support me, but feel free to grab a paperback copy too).

Here is a sneak peek of what you are in for when you read The Weekenders Club, exclusively for Salesgirl Social subscribers:

I must warn you before you start reading this book. I think differently than most. I actually don’t believe that happiness comes from margaritas and chips and queso on a summer Friday night. I believe that a lot of people cut a lot of corners in life. “But it’s the weekend.” “It’s vacation.” “It’s summer.” “It’s just a Frappuccino(that’s 400+ cals).” “It’s just the leftover pizza.” “It’s just another party with one bottle of wine later.” “It’s just finishing the quart of ice cream because I am starting over

on Monday.” “It’s just staying up ’til midnight to watch three more episodes of the newest Bravo binge.” You underestimate the way the little things add up. And what I want to point out in this book is that all those little things are not making your life feel happy. They are actually false pleasures that are distracting you. They are making you feel shame and guilt and are not getting you to your goals. Those things are the exact things that are making your life feel HARD. They aren’t helping you show up as the mom and high-achieving woman you want to be. It doesn’t mean you should feel shame or guilt or embarrassment about them. You are just unaware of what lies on the other side.

Phrases like Freedom Friday, TGIF, Monday Mood, and Sunday Scaries are used far too much and are far too normalized. In my close circles, my routines are viewed as intense. Yeah, I might be intense. But I’m not a legalist. I’m not saying never have queso again. Or never watch Bravo. What I am saying is you haven’t met yourself until you’ve stopped using the weekends to distract and escape from your life. You haven’t met yourself until you’ve made promises to yourself and actually (finally) followed through with them to reach your goals. You haven’t met yourself until you’ve filled your body with food the way it was meant to be fed. You haven’t met yourself until you’ve really learned how to take care of your whole-person health instead of using coping mechanisms everyday to distract from emotions unless they are good ones. 

Most people look at me and think, “She has her life together. She has four kids and a tidy(ish) house; she eats healthy, works out, has a successful career, spends time with her kids, wakes up early and goes to bed early; and she’s dressed to the nines at drop off wearing her lipstick.”

But it hasn’t always been this way, and I have had multiple identity crises over the years to get where I am. I want to help you take a shortcut straight to the solution. Join The Weekender’s Club. Come to the dark side. I dare you to question and get curious about your beliefs around what makes the weekends fun and what brings true happiness in life. But I will caution you. Be ready to do hard things. It is a prerequisite. What got you here won’t get you there. Who got you here won’t get you there.

An extraordinary life awaits you. Are you ready?