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3935 Winning the Wrong Race

Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

Release Date: 01/07/2026

3958 Make Your Last Word Good show art 3958 Make Your Last Word Good

Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

Parenting is a relentless hustle. Sleepless nights blur into days of heartache, frustration, and moments when it feels like your efforts go unnoticed. In the chaos of discipline, schedules, and tears, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that you are the constant in your child’s world—their anchor and their guide. The truth is, what you say last in any interaction leaves a lasting imprint. That’s why it’s crucial: make your last word good. What does that mean? It means shifting focus from reaction to reflection. It means choosing the lasting message you want your child to take...

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Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

Life doesn’t wait for you to be ready. It hits hard, fast, and often without warning. When the storms roll in, they can scar your days and steal the peace from your nights. It’s raw. It’s real. And frankly, it’s not fun. Life has never been easy for anyone who’s ever done more than just exist. If you want to stand tall—if you want to break past the pain—you have to dig a little deeper. Digging deeper means rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands and heart a little dirty, diving headfirst into the mess that life throws your way. Desire to be supported and encouraged by...

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Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

Healthy living rarely feels easy. We say we want to be healthier, but when faced with salads that seem like lawn clippings or bland steamed veggies, we ask ourselves: Why does everything healthy taste so bad? The frustration isn’t just about flavor; it’s a symptom of a deeper battle between what our bodies crave and what our minds resist. Your taste buds and your body are often on two different pages, and that disconnect trips up even the most committed. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . When we say “healthy,” we’re really talking...

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Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

It’s easy to hide behind a mask — the carefully crafted image of who you think you should be or what you don’t want anyone to see. Behind this disguise, you might feel safer, less vulnerable. But you cannot move forward or live the life you were meant to live with God’s divine purpose in mind if you’re trapped behind that mask. So, put down your mask. Please put down your mask. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . Be bold enough to show up with your flaws, your imperfections, your raw and real self. You don’t have to be perfect to...

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Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

Life isn’t a straight path. It’s a wild mix of flavors, textures, highs, lows, wins, and setbacks. You grind to reach certain milestones, but just when you think you’ve arrived, reality reminds you there’s more hustle, more growth, more shifting to do. So how do you shift in real time when life throws you curveballs? Are you the kind of person who acts like you’ve already done the hard work—like you’ve ticked the box—only to wash your hands of responsibility? Then you lean back, waiting for the next step to come to you. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded...

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Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

Have you ever paused to consider how God truly wants you to show up each day? It’s easy to walk into church on Sunday with a smile and a heart full of joy—or at least a glimpse of it. But ask yourself: how genuine is that moment? Is it real and life-giving? Or is it just a performance, a mask worn for the crowd, for appearances? God doesn’t need the mask. He sees behind it. He knows the truth that we often try to hide, even from ourselves. No more words. Jesus said it plainly in Matthew 5, in the Beatitudes—a blueprint for living “God’s way.” It’s a call to something deeper...

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Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

Marriage. A word that conjures images of bliss, partnership, and forever—but also confusion, frustration, and unexpected challenges. When two people say, “I do,” it isn’t just a promise to love; it’s an entry into a complicated dance of needs, expectations, and realities. And somewhere along the way, you might find yourself wondering: Are you chasing the wrong part of the heart? Let’s be real—too many people step into marriage thinking it’s all about them. They want their partner’s role to serve their needs, validate their feelings, and eliminate inconveniences. Desire to be...

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Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

When your children are little, parenting feels all-consuming. Overwhelm doesn't even seem like a fitting word, yet you’re hands-on from feeding to teaching to fixing. Every day is full of immediate needs,  constant crisis management, and unconditional love sprinkled throughout. It’s easy to believe that how you prepare the way means just getting them through those early years. But then, they grow. They move into adolescence, young adulthood, and beyond—and suddenly the kind of parenting required shifts. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the...

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Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

So much in life is left in the trenches of what we lost or what didn't make it. Success can leave scars as much as failures. But the sting is always greater when something does not go your way. Yet, that's not how your story gets to end. There is joy in the morning, and you get to choose what you carry forward. That choice isn’t because of how much you know or the wit you’ve picked up along the way—though those add richness to your journey.  Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . It’s because your power lies in what you decide to hold...

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Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

If you have a life where everything is perfectly aligned—ideal schedule, boundless energy, and endless resources—great. This isn’t for you. But for the rest of us? Especially when it comes to healthy living, the reality is messier, more complicated, and rarely perfect. So, instead of getting caught up in the magnitude of all the things 'health,' maybe it's all about how you lean into leverage. And not the leverage you are probably thinking of. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . That’s why chasing some ideal “health” picture rarely...

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Every New Year, millions write down the same resolution: lose weight, get healthy, finally take control of their lives. Yet, by spring, those goals often wilt like forgotten gym memberships. Why? Because too often, we’re winning the wrong race.

Bad habits are the easy path. They require no thought, no discomfort, no extra effort.

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You don’t have to wrestle with tough choices or push through resistance. You just do what you’ve always done — reach for convenience, skip the workout, indulge the craving. And as a result, everything you say you want slips further from reach.

That’s the wrong race. Racing toward temporary fixes while ignoring what really drives lasting change.

Living fully alive isn’t about hitting some number on a scale or squeezing into last year’s jeans. It demands deliberate, confident decisions and pulling your weight in the long haul. That hard work is exactly where most stumble. Life’s daily chaos throws distractions your way, and it’s tempting to retreat to what’s easy.

But what if you could refuse the easy path? What if you could break free from the habitual trap and live fully alive — on your terms?

The K.I.S.S. ~ Live fully alive!

Ultimately, isn't that what it's all about — feeling fully alive?

Because if you continue self-sabotaging your efforts or making excuses for your bad habits, you are going to stay confined within the old habitual habits that cause you to fail more.

You can do better!!

However, you must make some changes to live fully alive.

Here are three moves to reset your race and claim real health beyond the scale:

  1. Define health as vitality, not just weight.
    Stop obsessing about pounds lost or calories burned. Instead, zero in on how you feel: more energy, clearer mind, stronger body, better sleep. When your focus shifts from a number to a state of being, motivation deepens. You want to feel alive, not just lighter. You're gaining what matters and losing what doesn't in the long run.

  2. Choose one habit to master before adding more.
    Trying to overhaul your entire life overnight is a surefire shortcut to burnout. Pick the one habit that will move the needle most — drinking more water, walking 15 minutes a day, cutting out sugary drinks — and nail it with stubborn consistency. Once that becomes automatic, layer the next. Success builds momentum. But remember, success comes in little steps with greater impact.

  3. Own your why, daily.
    Why do you want health? For your kids, your career, your confidence, your future? Keep that reason front and center every single day. When your why is bigger than your cravings or excuses, your hard work feels purposeful instead of painful.

Remember, the race you want to win isn’t against some external standard or the scale — it’s against the old habits that keep you stuck. It’s about gaining your health back in a way that sticks. You want the sticky stuff to be the right stuff. The right race demands patience, persistence, and a refusal to settle for “good enough.”

This year, don’t just write down a resolution. Choose to win the right race. Make every choice count toward feeling fully alive, no matter what the scale says. Because now, you're ready to win the right race!

"Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!"

 

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Music by Mandisa - Overcomer

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Song ID: 68209
Song Title: Overcomer
Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia
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