What matters most to you these days? Is it wealth? Is it family? Is it rediscovering yourself? Is it inner peace? Is it something altogether different? Have you sat down recently and rethought what really matters to make you feel fulfilled in life?
I recently discovered that in mine. Family of course is a top priority but more importantly self-fulfillment is very important. If you’re not happy, how can you be all that you can be for your family? If you lose who you are as an individual (remember, we weren’t always “mommy” or “honey”) can you really be happy?
I tried being a stay at home mom for almost 2 years. In the beginning I loved it! I loved sleeping in, having a clean home, playing with the kids, enjoying the sun by the pool during the summers, making breakfast and healthy dinners, taking kids to and from school/practice. The list goes on. But then it happened…I felt like my brain was going to mush, days were filled with cartoon characters and Miley Cyrus (it gets old quick), and I was grumpy by the time my husband came home. I decided to blog more, connect with others online, network with businesses and individuals. Life started to regain more, then I wanted more. I realized that I needed more, needed more recognition, needed more intellectual challenge. Then my husband was laid off the week before Thanksgiving and though I had been looking for work for a year at that point, I went into high gear. The week before Christmas I was finally offered a job in a member marketing group where I felt more at home. Roles have switched at home until work picks up for him; he’s cleaning/organizing these days while I work and cook dinner when I get home.
As I was looking into mineral makeup at Bare Escentuals, visiting RethinkWhatMatters.com helped me in rethinking what matters to me. There are still things I’m working on to get that complete harmony in my life. Spiritual growth, academic achievement, physical/mental activity, etc.. Do you know what matters the most for balance in your life?
Born from employees rethinking makeup itself – the beauty brand found looking good is not about using artificial gunk to cover imperfections, but about enhancing what you’ve got.
Rethink What Matters invites women nationwide to shake up their foundation and sound off on topics that are more than just skin-deep—from going bare in public to discussing what freedom really feels like.
Each week at RethinkWhatMatters.com, a new discussion topic has been featured with five questions for all to answer, share with their friends and have the chance to instantly win free products and other fantastic goodies. New topics and products will be featured weekly, posted each Friday to the site. This week’s topic is “Rethink The Need to Find Yourself”!
HOW TO BUY…For about $15 you can buy it at a Bare Escentuals Boutiques, Sephora and Sephora.com, Ulta and select Nordstrom & Macy’s
THE GIVEAWAY…Thanks to Bare Escentuals I’m getting a shade (Sugar Plum…the shade you see below) to try out AND I get to give away a shade to one of my lucky readers! This giveaway ends on February 28th and a winner will be randomly selected via Random.org.

(1) Lucky reader will get to chose one of the following lip gloss shades (view the shades here):
- Cassis (Golden Rose)
- Chiffon (Nude Sand)
- Cupcake (Rose Pink)
- Iced Coffee (Java Cream)
- Sugar Plum (Purple Plum)
- Sugar Cookie (Pink Peach)
- Wild Honey (Golden Peach)
HERE’S HOW TO ENTER…Create a comment for each action as I use random.org to randomly select winners.
- MANDATORY: Become an RSS or E-mail Subscriber (add email address to subscribe box; look right)
- MANDATORY: What’s important to you and which shade would you pick if you win?
EXTRA ENTRIES…
- Follow me on Twitter (@farrah1230), tweet this and add “@farrah1230 #flpitb” in the tweet.
- Post this giveaway (your blog, facebook, etc) and leave the url. (You must leave the post up at least through the month of February)
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Kelly Deaton – secrets_girl23(at)yahoo(dot)com (aka) dkad23(at)gmail(dot)com
My family is important to me. I would choose the (Cupcake) Rose Pink. Thanks for the chance!
Kelly Deaton – secrets_girl23(at)yahoo(dot)com (aka) dkad23(at)gmail(dot)com
I am a email subscriber sweetone624 at hotmail.com
My husband is important to me and the color I would choose would be Chiffon. Thanks for giveaway
I tweeted http://twitter.com/sweetone624/status/9802265252
I follow you on twitter (dkad23) and tweeted.
Kelly Deaton – secrets_girl23(at)yahoo(dot)com (aka) dkad23(at)gmail(dot)com
http://twitter.com/dkad23/status/9807449921
I posted on facebook. (Kelly Deaton)
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