Month: January 2019

Measuring Monday: Purpose

As I have previously stated, I have long been one for New Years resolutions, but in 2018 I set an intention or the year and that was BALANCE. Of course I have goals, but what I truly intended to do was regain and maintain balance. Which I was pretty successful at and will always be a work in progress, but I learned a lot in 2018. When it came to 2019 I had a lot of ideas of what I wanted my intention for the year to be, but when I boil it down the word is PURPOSE.

I’m fine with being random at times, but I don’t want to be aimless or worse, wasteful. As Newton’s third law of motion tells us, “every action has an equal and opposite reaction.” Therefore I want my actions to have purpose, meaning, thought, and intention. It’s becoming a daily habit when it comes to choices especially when choosing between things I am actively trying to choose the option that will bring me closer to my goals and my life’s purpose. It could be a choice between what I eat, who I spent my free time with, what time I wake up, how to best use my money, and more.

I want to the choices I make to get me closer to or achieve the following which – is far from complete and in no particular order:

  • Reaching a healthy BMI for the first time ever as an adult
  • Getting 7-9 hours of sleep each night
  • Becoming debt free before the end of 2020 (student loans and renovation loan)
  • Regularly teach fitness class
  • Growing my website/blog/social media following
  • Starting a podcast
  • Consuming content that feeds my soul or teaches me something
  • Healing my inner child
  • Writing more including a manuscript
  • Working only the hours absolutely required of me at my day job
  • Spending more time outside
  • Phasing out toxic relationships
  • Attending regular live theatre performances and/or concerts
  • Going on more dates with my fiance
  • Reaching other financial goals and milestones
  • Practicing regular self care
  • Being kinder and gentler to myself and others
  • Harnessing my creative side

Walk & Talk

Exercise + Friend Time = Winning Combination

My friend M and I have gotten in the a nice habit of scheduling monthly get togethers that often involve exercise. Invite a friend to walk with you outside or next to you on a treadmill it’s a great way to stay connected and catch up while moving your body and burning calories.

I’m always looking for more walk and talk buddies as I’ve dubbed it, so if your in the area let me know!

Decluttering

I’m in a Winter Decluttering Facebook group and we had a challenge this week to declutter paperwork. I chose my files including papers and mailed tucked in various places around the house.

I condensed a lot of old/historical stuff into the green bin with labeled folders.

The smaller front maroon file with labeled sections is for active files. The bigger red file behind it is empty now!

I have all the cards held in a file folder – still need to figure out a permanent home for them. The pile on the right is TRASH, esp tons on envelopes from items filed away!

Lots of fun stuff in here, but going through some items were tough, like coming across my Dad’s death certificate and equality upsetting paperwork related to him.

However having done this project in 90 minutes while listening to a podcast was very fulfilling!

Get Those Zzzs

Sleep is the 4th aspect of getting on track.

6-8 hours a night is a must for your body.

I had some chronic sleep issues due to high stress and my workaholism (more on that in a future post). I was running off no sleep and felt like garbage. I spent a year working on my workaholic sobriety and starting to notice my phone was becoming a replacement addiction, especially in bed at night.

Since September I charge my phone across the room/in another room and its done wonders for my sleep.

I decided to start 2019 by taking off my Fitbit at night. I was also become too addicting to my sleep analysis. So much so that if I work up feeling well rested and refreshed, but the saw results that didn’t exactly mirror that I would not let myself feel as rested or refreshed.

I have issues I know, a whole giant mountain of them, but this is really the year about putting it all out there.

Getting more sleep each night in a must as well as understanding more about sleep hygiene.