#igniteyourlife

Apr 1, 2018
1 min

Make a Daily Difference

Point to Ponder: What can you do to inspire, love and encourage? One of my favorite Bible verses is “Let us consider how to inspire each other to greater love and to righteous deeds, not forgetting to gather as a community and encourage one another.” Hebrews 10: 24-25, To inspire, love and encourage one another sums up how to effectively live a great life and allows us make a daily difference in the lives of others, which I know we all want. It's a reminder that eliminating

Mar 26, 2018
3 min

Choose An Exciting Life

Point to Ponder: Do you wake up each day excited? Last week a dear friend and I shared our disdain for Mondays. Although we are both self-proclaimed optimists and we don’t have a single legitimate reason to complain or dread, Mondays can be mentally, emotionally and physically difficult. As we talked and tried to make sense of why Mondays are often times so hard, I concluded it's because unlike the flexible, spontaneous and less structured weekends, Monday comes with routine

Mar 18, 2018
4 min

Winter's Gifts and Spring's Inspiring Promise

Point to Ponder: What gifts did the Winter season bring you and excites you about Spring? I feel like I blinked and it's Spring. In fact, the first day of Spring is this Tuesday, March 20 and it seems as though the timing from one season to the next is perfect. I'm pretty sure that's part of God's perfect plan in giving us what we need, just when we need it. Can you imagine not having changing seasons?! Ugh, life would be stagnant and boring, as each season brings authentic

Mar 12, 2018
3 min

Bypass Things & Invest in Memory-Making Experiences

Point to Ponder: What do you invest in more? Things or experiences? I don't know about you, but starting Daylight Savings is brutal. I find it to be confusing and losing an hour of sleep is the pits! Despite these unpleasant aspects, I love that Daylight Savings comes with the spring season, more sunlight and longer days, which equates to more time for outdoor activity and experiences in general. With the start of Daylight Savings, Spring Break, longer days and summer right

Mar 11, 2018
3 min

Bypass Things & Invest in Memory-Making Experiences

Mar 5, 2018
3 min

Why We Need White Space in Our Lives

Point to Ponder: Where in your life do you need to "de-crapify" and add more white space? Have you ever heard of "white space"? As of last Tuesday I was completely unaware this was a thing until I stumbled upon it while listening to my favorite podcast called Live Inspired by John O'leary. John O'leary's incredibly inspiring life could be a blog post in and of itself, but for the sake of following the white space rule of having a reductive mindset (less is more), I'll keep

Feb 25, 2018
3 min

The Love Yourself Dare: Part IV Be Yourself, Share Yourself, Stand Out

Point to Ponder: Do your words, actions, and choices represent your best you and self-love. Throughout the month of February the journal focus has been to love yourself, which comes in many forms. From receiving a compliment, identifying what you need and giving it to yourself, to confidently acknowledging, claiming and using your unique qualities and gifts—these are all ways that allow us to love others, share exactly who we are and be more joyful, grateful and effective in

Feb 19, 2018
5 min

The Love Yourself Dare: Part III Confidently Claim and Use What Is Uniquely Yours

Point to Ponder: How quickly can you identify and list the things you love about yourself? Last week a dear friend sent me a post that was being tossed around on Instagram. The post read, “And if I asked you to name all of the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?” This question blew my socks off, because honestly, if asked this question, naming myself would never come to mind. This is not because I don’t love myself, because I really do (at l

Feb 12, 2018
3 min

The Love Yourself Dare: Part II Give Yourself What You Need

Point to Ponder: How well do you love, appreciate and value yourself and the important roles you play within your universe? Last weekend during our San Diego Retreat we welcomed a guest yoga instructor from San Diego. His name is Dat Nugyn. I have taken Dat's yoga classes for over two years and not only is his yoga instruction unique, challenging, rejuvenating, and inspiring, but he’s incredibly funny, intuitive and wise. His timing is impeccable too, as just when I begin tak

Feb 5, 2018
2 min

The Love Yourself Dare: Part I Receiving Compliments

Point to Ponder: How well do you receive compliments? When I sat down in January to plan what to write this month, the obvious thought was love. As I contemplated different actions we could take to demonstrate love, the one that continued to stir in my head was the ability to receive love, in the way of fully embracing and receiving a verbal compliment. Over the past eleven years I've written about and encouraged receiving and believing a verbal compliment, so this is not a n

Jan 29, 2018
4 min

What Are Your iGnite Goals & Why?

Point to Ponder: What are your specific first Quarter iGnite goals? Since moving to San Diego two and a half years ago I have not purged, and last week I did just that! It wasn’t a full purge, as that will take several weekends, however it was two trash cans full of headless Barbie dolls, broken trucks, and a random assortment of used and abused toys. As you can imagine, it felt incredible! While going through the kids toys and sorting through their Mt. Everest size pile of s

Jan 21, 2018
2 min

Create a Life of Enjoyment

Point to Ponder: How are you enjoying life? Create a life of enjoyment. I'm certain 'enjoying everyday life' is something everyone, including myself wants to experience. What a beautiful thought and ongoing mission, ambition and goal for 2018. But how, in the midst of difficult times, frustrating moments, daily struggles, failure, deadlines, delays, illness, traffic, unmet expectations, divorce, betrayal, loss of friendship, challenge and even death do we do that? Accordin

Jan 14, 2018
2 min

Pace Yourself Forward

Point to Ponder: In determining what you want in 2018, are you letting your past hold you back or inspire you? Are you pacing yourself or are you going full-throttle? Once upon a time I ran a marathon and several half-marathons and, once upon a time I could run five, seven and ten miles with ease. Now, two children and at least seven years later, running three miles is a challenge. Because I love the serenity of a jog, one of my 2018 goals is to run three miles with ease. So,

Jan 7, 2018
3 min

Why You Should Sift Through the Unnecessary and Prepare Your Soil

Point to Ponder: Overtime, what unnecessary habits, attitudes, thoughts, relationships and words have you formed that are not in alignment with your 2018 desires, and therefore are preventing you from being your best? I love the New Year, but to be honest I get very overwhelmed by everything I want to change and accomplish. In my pre-children and idealistic twenties (and even early-thirties), I thought that in order to achieve my desires and goals, it was as simple as writing

Dec 31, 2017
2 min

Celebrate 2017 First!

Point to Ponder: What successes, accomplishments and blessings did you experience in 2017? A few days ago while driving on 5th street in Austin I found myself laughing at El Arroyo's (a long-standing and popular Tex-Mex restaurant) always comical outdoor sign, which read, "All I gained in 2017 was weight". While fortunately I didn't gain weight, I felt the similar sentiments--that 2017 was just an "okay" year and I'm eager to give it a swift kick good-bye. Then, as I thought

Dec 17, 2017
2 min

It's Never too Late to Start a New Holiday Tradition

Point to Ponder: What are your holiday traditions? We love holiday traditions! They warm our hearts, make us all giddy inside and feel like a kid again. In the event you're looking to add more festivities to your holiday or maybe even start a new holiday tradition with your family and friends, here are some San Diego favorites, with some within minutes of Del Sur! Merry Christmas and Happy Traditions! Living Nativity at Horizon Church Be transported back in time and experienc

Dec 17, 2017
2 min

Our Favorite Austin Holiday Traditions

Point to Ponder: What are your holiday traditions? We love holiday traditions! They warm our hearts, make us all giddy inside and feel like a kid again. Recently, iGnite Team Leader, Sarah Hamilton collected our favorite and local holiday traditions and we want to share them with you. So, in the event you're looking to add more festivities to your holiday or maybe even start a new holiday tradition with your family and friends, we want to share our favorite and local Christma

Dec 8, 2017
4 min

"Simple 7 &" Total Body, Body Weight Circuit

Despite the time of year, having a quick and simple total body, body weight workout that can be done at home, in a hotel room or at a the park is always handy to have in your back pocket. iGnite Founder, Neissa Springmann, shows us just how simple that circuit can be in beautiful Mission Bay Park. All you need is a bench and some playground bars…and a bay breeze doesn’t hurt either! Following a 3-5 minute warm-up (brisk power walk or jogging, jumping jacks, jump rope — anyth

Dec 4, 2017
4 min

Sugar Cookies, Hot Chocolate & the Secret to Christmas Success

Point to Ponder: Is love for yourself and others your guide and focus throughout the Christmas season or does stress, frustration and fatigue take over? On Wednesday evening the kids (6 and 4 yrs) and I attended a “Kick-off to Christmas” church event. The night began with filling shoe boxes with children’s toys, school supplies and hygiene items for an organization called Samaritan’s Purse, followed with eating sugar cookies, drinking hot chocolate, eating sugar cookies and

Nov 27, 2017
4 min

Lateral to the Top

Point to Ponder: Do you appreciate your lateral moving moments or are you trying to fast forward and push past them? Last week I watched an inspiring television show called Running Wild with Bear Grylls. If you are unfamiliar, Bear is a British adventurer known for his TV series called Man vs Wild as well as other wilderness survival shows. As it relates to Running Wild with Bear Grylls, Bear takes celebrities and athletes out and into the wilderness where he relocates them i