Your Year Not Off to a Great Start? It's Not too Late!

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I absolutely love this program and I want to share it with you again because my January so far has been in the dumps. I started out January 2nd being sick and have dealt with sick kids (heard of influenza?) since right after Christmas. So I wondered if maybe some of you hadn't been able to start your year out exactly as you had planned.
If so, it's not too late to jump into this fantastic program and start feeling fabulous!


Faithful, Fit & Fabulous

Filled with humor and “I can relate” life experiences, Faithful, Fit, and Fabulous is the ideal 8-week life boost that will refresh any woman's life. Create a personal and effective life plan, and learn how to readily apply it in your busy daily life. Establish holy habits, feel fit and fabulous, and get organized. Just one goal a week for eight weeks—it's simple and fun.


Message from Connie


Hi Ladies,


This is the moment. This is the year. You can be your best self, your most beautiful self, your most faithful, fit, and fabulous self. Ever. Twelve months are before you-what will you do with them?

Years ago, after bearing several children and feeling overwhelmed, I created and lived my “Year of the Change.” During twelve months of taking life by the horns, I lost weight, got organized, and discovered more joy. Since then I’ve tweaked and taught the principles I have learned and now share them with you.

So make this your year of fabulous change by joining us on the “8-week Challenge” starting on January 8th! The 8-week Challenge is an online success program of “8 goals in 8 weeks in 8 areas of your life,” including fit and fabulous, get organized, balance womanhood and motherhood, and more. Using the Faithful, Fit and Fabulous book, each week you set and achieve a goal, with help from my podcasts, video segments, blog posts, and motivational emails!

Simple, fun, and productive. This program works (see testimonials below). And this year, we’re giving our new 2013 Fit & Fabulous podcast series FREE to those who sign up with a friend! Both of you receive weekly podcasts and posts on weight loss/energy gain tips and strategies. Jill Holmes, our online marketing director, has lost and kept off 50 POUNDS! She'll share her personal tips and secrets to make weight loss work for you, even eating chocolate daily.

Here's what women have said about the 8-week Challenge:

“I have learned so many things about who I am and what I want to do in my life. I have also gained a new sense of happiness. My husband and girls have noticed just in the last week the change in my attitude and they have told me that it is nice to hear me laugh again.” C.Adams

“Thank you so much for giving me the needed push to do something I've wanted to do for months & never completed. That has never happened for me with goal setting. THANK YOU!” B.Bird

“If I wouldn't have been doing the challenge I never would have thought to [accomplish this goal]. I am so glad I did this 8 week challenge! I want to continue these small goals for the rest of my life.” C. Rose


So join us now and jumpstart your ideal life. Get that closet organized, start that exercise program going, find that joy in daily living!

Join now! It's not too late. We'll send you all the details and catch you up so that you can get this year rolling in the right direction.

http://8basics.com/store/books/start-the-8-week-challenge-refer-a-friend-discount.

Sign up a friend and BOTH receive the 8 podcast series of “Fit & Fabulous”.
Email us for more information at connie@8basics.com.

Learn more here: http://8basics.com/b2b-life-coaching-support

So what are you waiting for? Join us for a fun and fabulous life-changing experience!



Author Connie Sokol
Connie Sokol is a mother of seven, a national and local presenter, and a regular speaker at Education Week. She is a monthly contributor on KSL TV “Studio 5,” and regular blogger for KSL "Motherhood Matters." She is a former TV and radio host for Bonneville Communications, and columnist for Deseret News and Utah Valley Magazine. Mrs. Sokol is the author of several books including the award-nominated romance Caribbean Crossroads, the 8-week Challenge program of Faithful, Fit & Fabulous, Life is Too Short for One Hair Color Series, as well as talk CDs and podcasts. Mrs. Sokol marinates in time spent with her family and eating decadent treats.

Website * Facebook

Connie also has a blog tour starting up for a brand new book! Click here to find out more and enter a fabulous giveaway!

Don't Miss These Great Reads

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If you've visited my blog very often, then you know I love to talk about books and share great reads with you. So here's a few books I've read lately that I have something to say about.
You definitely don't want to miss The False Prince by Jennifer NielsenI dare you to pick this book up and then try to put it down! I was so consumed by Sage's story that I read most of this book in one day.
I'm pretty excited that book #2 in this series will be coming out soon!



For What It's Worth by Karey White is another book that I read in just a couple sittings.This book was delicious from start to finish! A great romance, interesting career, and the biggest reason I enjoyed this book--it made me think about some important things. I love books that do that, but the best part is I didn't feel like the author was trying to give me a message, it was just the storyline was so engaging and the character experienced some great moments that really resonated with me.

Karey visited my blog for an interview, and shared some fun things. See it here http://www.rachellewrites.blogspot.com/2012/12/author-interview-with-karey-white.html 

And here are a few books that are coming up fast on my To-Read list:


and these are the books I'm currently reading to my daughters, age 9 and 7. They love Harry Potter and the Ginnie West Adventures! 
How about you? What is on your reading list? Have you read any of these books? If so, what did you think?

Happy Valentine's Day

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If you've visited my blog this month, you might have noticed that I've been MIA, so I wanted to pop in real quick to say Happy Valentine's Day!
My family and I took a wonderful vacation to California last week where our kids saw the ocean for the first time, stayed in their first hotel, and made their first visit to Disneyland! It was an incredible vacation and the kids were so good. We did leave our two-year-old son with his grandparents in Idaho and he had a great time (and every time we saw a crying two-year-old in Disneyland, my husband and I were thankful we made that choice.)

I love my family! And I love each of my wonderful blogging friends/readers. Thanks for your support and I hope that you have a fantastic day!

This week's food coupons were not very good :-(

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After a few weeks of great deals after Christmas, I was disappointed to find just one measly little insert in this week's paper. .....

Also, at Meijer this week their main sale was the '10 for $10' sale that they do every couple months. Usually there are at least  a few items in this sale that make it worthwhile to use your coupons, but this week all the items are Meijer brand items.

Hopefully the food deals pick up again next week!

Back from vacation........Back to coupbloggin'!

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CVS has some great deals this week on paper products and razors. Check out the ad HERE!


Colgate Sensitive Pro Relief is on sale for $4.99 (Yowzers!)
--After a $4.00 ECB reward, the final price is 99 cents. If you use the 75 cents off colgate coupon from this weeks paper, it can be yours for only TWENTY FIVE CENTS! There is a limit off 2 per household for this deal, so if you use two coupons you can double your savings.




Glade air freshener spray is on sale, at half off, for $1.00 a can. I couldn't find any coupons for it, but it is still a great price even without the coupon.



Schick Hydro products are ALL on sale, AND there are mega savings to be found in this week's Sunday paper. Check out page three of the CVS sale's ad......see how they tell you exactly which coupons to use? How convenient......


However, the ad failed to mention that there are also $4.00 coupons available to save on Schick Hydro Silk women's razors and carteridges, as well as $4.00 coupons to save on men's Schick Hydro 5 Power Select razors -------> ------->

Meaning that after ECB reward reimbursement AND $4.00 coupon application, both items can be yours for only $1.99!

The best part is that there is a SIX item limit in this sale. Buy multiple papers and cash in on this great deal!

Your Year Not Off to a Great Start? It's Not too Late!

To contact us Click HERE
I absolutely love this program and I want to share it with you again because my January so far has been in the dumps. I started out January 2nd being sick and have dealt with sick kids (heard of influenza?) since right after Christmas. So I wondered if maybe some of you hadn't been able to start your year out exactly as you had planned.
If so, it's not too late to jump into this fantastic program and start feeling fabulous!


Faithful, Fit & Fabulous

Filled with humor and “I can relate” life experiences, Faithful, Fit, and Fabulous is the ideal 8-week life boost that will refresh any woman's life. Create a personal and effective life plan, and learn how to readily apply it in your busy daily life. Establish holy habits, feel fit and fabulous, and get organized. Just one goal a week for eight weeks—it's simple and fun.


Message from Connie


Hi Ladies,


This is the moment. This is the year. You can be your best self, your most beautiful self, your most faithful, fit, and fabulous self. Ever. Twelve months are before you-what will you do with them?

Years ago, after bearing several children and feeling overwhelmed, I created and lived my “Year of the Change.” During twelve months of taking life by the horns, I lost weight, got organized, and discovered more joy. Since then I’ve tweaked and taught the principles I have learned and now share them with you.

So make this your year of fabulous change by joining us on the “8-week Challenge” starting on January 8th! The 8-week Challenge is an online success program of “8 goals in 8 weeks in 8 areas of your life,” including fit and fabulous, get organized, balance womanhood and motherhood, and more. Using the Faithful, Fit and Fabulous book, each week you set and achieve a goal, with help from my podcasts, video segments, blog posts, and motivational emails!

Simple, fun, and productive. This program works (see testimonials below). And this year, we’re giving our new 2013 Fit & Fabulous podcast series FREE to those who sign up with a friend! Both of you receive weekly podcasts and posts on weight loss/energy gain tips and strategies. Jill Holmes, our online marketing director, has lost and kept off 50 POUNDS! She'll share her personal tips and secrets to make weight loss work for you, even eating chocolate daily.

Here's what women have said about the 8-week Challenge:

“I have learned so many things about who I am and what I want to do in my life. I have also gained a new sense of happiness. My husband and girls have noticed just in the last week the change in my attitude and they have told me that it is nice to hear me laugh again.” C.Adams

“Thank you so much for giving me the needed push to do something I've wanted to do for months & never completed. That has never happened for me with goal setting. THANK YOU!” B.Bird

“If I wouldn't have been doing the challenge I never would have thought to [accomplish this goal]. I am so glad I did this 8 week challenge! I want to continue these small goals for the rest of my life.” C. Rose


So join us now and jumpstart your ideal life. Get that closet organized, start that exercise program going, find that joy in daily living!

Join now! It's not too late. We'll send you all the details and catch you up so that you can get this year rolling in the right direction.

http://8basics.com/store/books/start-the-8-week-challenge-refer-a-friend-discount.

Sign up a friend and BOTH receive the 8 podcast series of “Fit & Fabulous”.
Email us for more information at connie@8basics.com.

Learn more here: http://8basics.com/b2b-life-coaching-support

So what are you waiting for? Join us for a fun and fabulous life-changing experience!



Author Connie Sokol
Connie Sokol is a mother of seven, a national and local presenter, and a regular speaker at Education Week. She is a monthly contributor on KSL TV “Studio 5,” and regular blogger for KSL "Motherhood Matters." She is a former TV and radio host for Bonneville Communications, and columnist for Deseret News and Utah Valley Magazine. Mrs. Sokol is the author of several books including the award-nominated romance Caribbean Crossroads, the 8-week Challenge program of Faithful, Fit & Fabulous, Life is Too Short for One Hair Color Series, as well as talk CDs and podcasts. Mrs. Sokol marinates in time spent with her family and eating decadent treats.

Website * Facebook

Connie also has a blog tour starting up for a brand new book! Click here to find out more and enter a fabulous giveaway!

Don't Miss These Great Reads

To contact us Click HERE
If you've visited my blog very often, then you know I love to talk about books and share great reads with you. So here's a few books I've read lately that I have something to say about.
You definitely don't want to miss The False Prince by Jennifer NielsenI dare you to pick this book up and then try to put it down! I was so consumed by Sage's story that I read most of this book in one day.
I'm pretty excited that book #2 in this series will be coming out soon!



For What It's Worth by Karey White is another book that I read in just a couple sittings.This book was delicious from start to finish! A great romance, interesting career, and the biggest reason I enjoyed this book--it made me think about some important things. I love books that do that, but the best part is I didn't feel like the author was trying to give me a message, it was just the storyline was so engaging and the character experienced some great moments that really resonated with me.

Karey visited my blog for an interview, and shared some fun things. See it here http://www.rachellewrites.blogspot.com/2012/12/author-interview-with-karey-white.html 

And here are a few books that are coming up fast on my To-Read list:


and these are the books I'm currently reading to my daughters, age 9 and 7. They love Harry Potter and the Ginnie West Adventures! 
How about you? What is on your reading list? Have you read any of these books? If so, what did you think?