Get To the Root with Rachel Logan

Good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I'm so happy to be with you today. Cadre I am Rachel Logan. I am the get to the root counselor. I work with men and women struggling and wanting to get to the root so they can thrive and heal and live an abundant life. And so I'm so excited to be with you today. Happy Wednesday. Welcome to a new day and welcome to a new hour that you are able to do great things, amazing things. Most importantly, you get to reset. So welcome. Come on in. Please give me some hearts as you come on in as I know that you are with me and we can connect this beautiful morning.

I am excited. I am excited. Guess what? I just came from you guys. I just came back from one of my dream vacations. I had a chance to go with my family to a place that literally I've been dreaming about. If you are a dreamer. I dream often. My dreams, they tell me things to come, things to look out for and just things that are amazing and beautiful. And one of my dreams is, one of my dreams was being in the midst of mountains. I will literally, in the dreams, I'm driving and then there's like this, this massive wall of rock and mountain.

And this past weekend I had an opportunity to go to Arizona with my family and you guys. Mountains literally are breathtaking. When I saw them, I was driving and I had an opportunity to drive up into the mountains and I just began to cry because they are just so beautiful and to see them in real life was amazing. So if you like mountains, if you like to hike, if you like nature or outdoors, let me know because as I am, you know, getting wiser and more graceful in my age, I am learning to enjoy the beauty of nature.

I'm learning to enjoy the stillness and the consistency that I see all around through nature. And so I'm so excited to share this with you because I'll share a picture with you too in the chat later of me just jumping for joy, just literally being in the presence of mountains. And so if you like mountains, if you like to hike, let me know and let me know where you've been. What are some places that you've been that you enjoy hiking? One of the my dreams is to go to whole rainforest and I believe that's that is in Washington state.

And so that is on my bucket list. I hope to go next year 2025, as it will be an amazing year. It's going to be an amazing year. I'm declaring that already for you and for me, it's going to Be an amazing year. So I'm excited because, you know, Kadra, we've been talking about moving forward in planning ahead for 2025. Like, we're not starting at J1 with mapping out our vision. We're not starting off wondering what we're going to do. We're going to start off the year knowing what we're going to do.

And we're going to start off the year, listen, implementing, executing, and walking into that space called maintenance. And that's what I want us to hit on. So we've been talking about the five stages. Change. And we are allowed to change. I'm gonna say that again. We are allowed to change. I know sometimes our family members and our co workers, maybe our bosses, people around us, maybe our children just think that we are the same. But we are allowed to change. We are allowed to evolve. We are allowed to change our minds and to create new goals for ourselves and to carry them out.

And so we. We've been talking about it. We've been talking about. We've been using the story of taking a road trip and getting lost in the forest, Right. If you've been following me, we've been talking about getting lost in the forest and how last week we talked about mapping a plan, creating a plan of how we're going to get out this forest. And so today we're talking about the maintenance. And this is a very important part. This is a very important part of our journey of healing, our journey of thriving, and our journey of executing.

And so maintenance, I want to give you the definition. When we know the root and we understand the foundation of a thing, we're more likely to thrive. So that's just a nugget for you already. If you want to know the root, go to the dictionary. Gotta go to the dictionary or go to Google. Whatever's your flavor, just go get to the root of it. Okay? The definition of maintenance means the process of maintaining or preserving someone or something or the state of being maintained. The process of maintaining.

It's a process. Maintenance is a process of preserving someone or something. So let's break this down. The process of maintenance. So when we think about our goal setting, we have something in mind. Things that we want to accomplish in 2025, we've talked about, hey, we've been pre contemplating, we talked about contemplation. Now we are executing, right? This week, we are learning how to maintain the execution. So say, for instance, you know, one of the goals that I have for myself is maintaining my money and growing my money, right?

Because I want to have savings and definitely create a legacy for my children. So one of the things that we have to do at home is to monitor our money. What is monitoring our money look like, how much. What is our budget for the week? Are we staying within the parameters of our budget? Well, if I'm in the maintenance stage, that means I've already been executing the plan, right. Of checking my money, checking my balance, staying within range with my maintenance means I'm going to maintain that goal, that outcome that I've reached.

Okay? So if I'm here to maintain, this process of maintaining, it's about being consistent or continuation of something. Okay? So if you with me, I want you to think about what is it that I want to maintain. Think about this. I'm gonna pause with you for a moment. Think about what is it that I want to maintain, Something that I want to continue. What is it some. What is something that I want to continue doing that will continue to give me the results that I deserve? I like to look at this idea as I sit with this right here, right now with you, I'm thinking about my car.

Every day I get in my car, I just expect my car to run, but my car is able to run because of the maintenance that I give to it. Every four months, I get my oil change. Or if before I'm going on a road trip, I get my oil change, I pull in to Valvoline, shout out to Valvoline, and I sit there and they. They run all this test. I make sure my blinkers are working, my brake lights are working. Listen, they change my windshield wiper fluids. They change the. They drain out the old oil and put in new oil.

That's maintenance to my car. So what do we need to do to maintain our goals? What does a service stop look like for us to maintain our goals? And I'm processing this with you here now, because I want this to hit home for me. As much as I pray and hope that it hits home for you, is that we have to pause and really look at the tools that we're going to use to maintain. Okay? So, for instance, some of my notes. If I'm thinking about a car and maintenance, we have to clean our car, we have to take it in for service, we have to pay to get serviced, and we have to do it regularly.

So in order to maintain our outcomes, this may mean that we may need to go check in with someone. This may mean that we might need to invest in a coach or a counselor that, hey, they can hold me Accountable. It may mean that I might need to invest in a planner or some. Some form of an app or scheduler to maintain my goals or outcome. It may mean that I may need to invest in a chart or create a chart or a log, something to invest in. So, for instance, I've been working on my mate, on my income and maintenance things of that nature for a while.

Well, this year, I bought this for everyone. Like in my family. It is my budget planner. So I wrote out my goals for the year and every month, literally every month. What's so cool is I get to see my progress every month. I wrote out my. My month and year and my monthly budget, and then I wrote out my expense reports, and every month I wrote out my bills, and then I crossed them out. So here we are. This is a whole year later. This is called maintenance, y'all, where we've. We've invested in a tool to help us maintain the goal.

And so I'm curious to know, as you think about your goal, the thing that you want to improve, and you think about, every four months, I need to pull into a shop to get my oil change. I may need to get serviced, or I may need a new pipe, or I might need a new windshield wiper. I might need a new light bulb for my headlight. What. What is it that you may need to help you maintain your energy, your focus, to help you maintain your consistency to reaching your goal? As I'm. As I'm processing this with you in real time, you guys, I am kind of blown away because I didn't think of it this way.

I just saw, like, maintenance, like, you go in for your oil change, but no Cadre. We have to think about what will need to maintain this desired outcome. If my desired outcome is to be better with money, I had to invest in this. I had to invest in a cpa. I have to invest in a biller, like, all these things to run my business, to run my house. Those are the things I had to invest in to run to maintain the. The outcome, the goal, right In. In addition to that, I also had to invest, and I needed someone to hold me accountable to maintain.

Hey, this goal of managing my money well. So I want you to sit back and think before 2025 even gets here, right before the new year arrives, I want you to plan ahead. I want to. I'm encouraging you and inviting you to plan ahead. What will be my maintenance routine? Think about our teeth, right? Every six months, we have to go get our teeth clean. Why? To maintain the Health of our gums and teeth. Am I right about it? Let's even break this down even more. I have children. They have parent teacher conference twice a year.

Why? To make sure that we have good communication. We're talking about the children's education as maintenance. They have tests to maintain to make sure that they're learning. So I'm encouraging you. As we are processing the stages of change and we are changing day by day, you are allowed to change, you are allowed to improve, right? This process of maintaining, what is it going to look like for you? What scheduling app will you use? What fitness app will you use? What career coach, what book, what group or organization will you join to maintain the likelihood of your success?

Hey, I'm encouraging you to talk about it and put it in the chat because I told you last time, iron sharpens iron and you are valuable. And when you share, listen, someone will read your comment. So as we are almost wrapping up to an amazing year, you've had highs and we've had some lows. But as we are concluding, I want you to sit back and think about what tools will help me to continue my success. What groups, what service, what organization, what book, what coaching program, what counselor, which counselor, who, how, when and where will help you maintain your.

Your maintenance, your growth, your progress. It's a continuation. So in order for me to continue my money health and to have positive outcomes with managing money, I had to invest in a budget planner. What will you invest in? Every four months we go get our oil change. What were you investing to make sure that your car, your goals, your desired outcome will continue to flourish in 2025? I know you may be like Rachel, I'm just trying to get through this holiday season. Yes, we, we do this every year, but we're going to do something different.

We're planning ahead. So when J1 hits, we are running and we have a plan and execution. All right, Cadre, it's been lovely. I enjoy sitting with you today as we process the five stages of change. If you like this video, put a heart in there in the comment section. If you got something from this video, let me know. Post, I'll read it. It'll come back up. I'll get a ding that you made a post. So comment, let me know. And I'm curious, I'm curious to know what, what would I use this year? Well, I use the same thing or should I use something different?

If you have a budget plan, if you have something that you've been using, let me know. I want to know I'm always open. All right, Cadre, I will see you next Wednesday. Is that Christmas? Is that Christmas? I don't know. I have to go look. But either way, I will be back here. As we are wrapping up 2024, we're processing the stages of change. I'll share a good nugget with you next week. All right, Peace out.