A healthy new year and a healthy new you!

When we roll over to 2014, I will have been a hairstylist for 30 years. Wow! Where did the time go? For me, success is measured in many ways but financial success has never been my measuring stick. I have been a beginning stylist that worked two jobs to make ends meet, I have been an educator within the industry and I have taught private hair cutting classes. I have been a rock star stylist that earned $175,000 a year and four years ago we gave all that up. 

We started over with nothing but time. Free time to be a better wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend has been my success story. I went from working 6 days a week/12-14 hours a day to working on average 4 days a week with no hours posted. 

Recently, a great friend said "it must be nice to be a Griffin!"  You know I have to say, "It is nice to be a Griffin!"  We are so blessed that it is beyond measure. 

We have given up a lot to be this happy and I encourage you in the new year to give up your "lot". Anything excess is too much and could be shared with others. 

We volunteer three days a week with Blessings in a Backpack, in which we are currently feeding 782 children a weekend. Find your gifts and share them. Do what you love to do and then find a way to make a living doing it. 

Live intentionally. Make a friend that keeps you accountable to your christian walk. Always date your spouse. Get a babysitter at least once a month if not more often. Find a church that you can give of yourself instead of being served. Stop making campgrounds out of your memories and make new ones. Love who God created you to be.....,