I'm sitting here in my newly redesigned and cleaned living room, and I'm thinking that life, is good. I mean, it's really good. I've having a great summer, my credit score is well in the 700s (just found that out a couple of days ago and I'm still excited :)), I'm meeting new people, and reconnecting with lost friends, I'm planning travel, and I'm relaxing. I dunno, it's just been really good. I'm steadily cutting drama out of my life and giving negative, down people less time. I'm taking a lot of time for me, and I think I've found a good balance.
The only thing missing to be honest--is a firm, trusted group of friends of the same faith as me. That community is something that I miss on occasion. The last small group I was in was ok, but not exactly what I think I want for the long term--it doesn't hurt to try though right? I'm glad I met those people, and it's only confirmed what I need/want/desire in life.
Anyway, so I made (and devoured) a really yummy breakfast sandwich (mmmmm bacon) with cherries and now I'm sipping on tea, wondering a)how I'm going to tie up loose ends and responsibilities today, and b)how I'm going to keep going and achieve my goals.
Today--
I'm going to get a whiteboard for my door so I can have visual reminders of things I want to do everyday--such as take my vitamins, drink a least 27 oz of water before I leave, eat breakfast, make lunch, exercise, and as a weekly goal--have a relatively clean house. I like the idea of checking that stuff off and for things like vitamins, the visual reminder is exactly what I need.
As far as the cleaning, I find that when my apartment is picked up, I feel much less stressed out and relaxed. I wanna make a little "chore list" so I can spread out my housecleaning stuff over the week so it doesn't get overwhelming after I don't do them for weeks at a time. I also want to have one for THE apartments so I'm keeping up with maintaining the common areas in a responsible way. So...yea. A white board.
I also need to go through ALL of my mail, hang up ALL of my clothes, do as much laundry as possible, and sweep, mop, and vacuum THE apartments.
New exercise goals:
I was talking with Alisha and she was saying how your body needs time to repair itself between workouts and breaks help it repair better so you come back stronger. I've had a goal of working out 6 days a week and doing running, ddr, and strength training intensely. Well I think I'm going to change things around with my workouts (shocking I know...I change things pretty regularly ;) ) So anyway, I think I'm going to do my running on MWF--still right after work, but it doesn't kick itself into the weekends. I'm going to do a combination of DDR/strength training on Tues/Thurs, and on the weekends--I'm going to make sure I walk and get 10,000 steps in, but I'm not going to necessarily do a strict workout. That way, over the weekend my body can repair and get ready for the week again.
So, I think I'm going to also change my weigh in day to Saturday. I'm really loathe to do this as I'm a creature of habit and feel like it's "cheating" to change my weigh in day for some reason (Monday just seems to be the beginning of the week and so it means I should begin with my new weight...I dunno I'm weird). Anyway, I think with the new workout routine it'll just be better. I'm sure whatever day I weigh myself on, as long as it's consistent, will work, but for some reason I feel like weighing myself AFTER my "rest days" might result in a higher weight...ugh I gotta stop being so WEIGHT focused.
Anyway, that's the new plan. The eating healthy/not eating out/cooking at home thing is staying the same. I'm just tweaking the exercise a bit :) Ok, time to get going with my day!
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