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So…Grateful for the opportunities that were bestowed or given to me (us as a family) in 2018. I am embracing this thought…each day will bring new challenges, and new opportunities…for anything we choose.
I am searching for my heart and mind for choices of opportunities. What are you looking forward to in 2019?
Blessings.
Mid Year Check Up -Just typing this bothers me…Mid year check up…MID YEAR! How are we already passed the first week of July? Has the year flown for y’all?
Going over some of the goals for my year, and I seriously need to get a handle on my weight gain, and wine intake. It’s been two years since my Gastric Sleeve Surgery, and while I have maintained over a hundred pound weight loss, I have gained back over 15 pounds from my lowest. I am not eating like I should, and not exercising— so here I am.
There are several other items that I need to get a handle on, and decided that I need to write them down to be more accountable.
#1: Take breaks from social media
I don’t know about you, but I have such a hard time stepping away from social media. As a blogger, I always feel like I have to be posting, so it’s difficult for me to make time for a digital detox. HOWEVER, my hope is that I’ll find some time this month to just unplug and live. Being online is fun, but I think we can all agree there comes a time when we need some separation from the internet. I like to blog for several days and pre-post them. This gives me the opportunity to disconnect without really being disconnected from my goal of posting daily on my blog.
#2: Spend more time at the beach
This goes back to goal #1 (disconnecting). Summertime is my favorite time to go to the beach. I live at on the some of the most beautiful beaches, yet it seems as those I hardly go. I need to make more of an effort to go, even if it is for just a hour or so.
#3: Exercise more
I need to get back into my morning habit of waking up and walking. I started out great about doing this every morning. I just need to do it again. And, that brings me to my routines in general…
#4: Update my routines
Routines will be changing soon with my morning commute becoming longer again. I am so excited about this. I will be able to think and plan out my day before I get to work. I plan to be pack my lunch for the next day, organize my items to take to work (gather them and place them where I can find them), and not be in a hurried, unorganized rush. At least this is my plan.
After my first week, I want to begin my exercise regimen again (goal #3). Getting up earlier, and kick starting my metabolism I believe really helped with my weight loss and overall health.
The afternoon commute is something I look forward to as well. Now I almost get home too quickly. It is as though I don’t have enough time to decompress before I got home so it was though I was even more anxious. I do like being able to just to sit in silence and talk to myself and God about my day. It will be good to be able to do this again. I have a lot rolled into this last goal, but it is really about being less cluttered and more organized.
Four items doesn’t seem like a lot, but truly are huge. At least they will make a huge impact on my everyday life. Do you evaluate your goals mid-year? How do you self check up?
Blessings.
“You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old, whatever ‘the old’ means for you.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
This can mean so many things for me: staring a diet, a savings, or purging of stuff. Every day I have to make a conscious decision to exercise, eat healthy, and not have chocolate. Every day I have to remind myself not to get anxious. So many “old” me’s most of the time I don’t know where to begin.
So today I will begin a new day with new opportunities to shed part of the old me. Relying on God to guide my path. (Psalm 119:105 – Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.)
What does ‘the old’ mean to you?
Blessings!
Have my desk heros….all is well.
Have finally settled in to my new location for work. Two weeks in and will need more time to get used to everything. So far the change has been good.
Blessings.
Last Saturday, David and I participated in the Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers Mud Bug 5k. It is a great fund raiser, and got in another try at a 5k. It was hot, and I hadn’t been working on my time or walking in general.
I finished at 52:35 which was a minute less than the Lucky Leprechaun 5k that we did in March. Again, just to be able to complete it is so much more than what I would have thought a year ago.
So only one more to do for the year to reach my 5k goal (3 this year total). I think we will end up doing 5, but not going to jinx it.
Blessings!!
NoBloPoMo 2012 -Day 5
New routines. The experts (whoever they are!) say that it takes 30 days to form new habits, or new routines. I think I am swaying to their side on this one.
I have been on a lifestyle change for 2 weeks with a reduced caloric intake (Prism Diet). So far it is working on shedding some pounds, and my attitude towards food in general. These are huge for me, and I am going to stick to it this time! =)
Today is a new routine for me because I am physically going out to a gym to walk/workout. Ugh. I hate both of these in a confined setting, but with the weather turning colder if I prepare my attitude to the gym now by the time winter is here I will be used it. ???? Well, that is the plan anyway.
I am starting out slow, only 30 minutes of walking, but it is a beginning. I apparently need to do this for 30 days to make it a new habit.
So what habits have you changed to make your life better?
Blessings,
Jerry Ann
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