For November, I’m setting some personal goals that may help me keep everything else under control.
1. I want to do 750 words every day.
2. I want to do affirmations every day. It’s just ten minutes and it needs doing.
3. I want to do the Grow Soul Beautiful #yogaaday for November.
4. Healthy posts every day!
Doing all of that seems like a lot to me, but the truth is that all of those things are the sorts of things that will help me to keep everything else in check. If I’m MAKING time for myself in those small ways (be honest, all of this put together will probably take about twenty minutes) it will put me in a better head space so that I can manage my training plan, my work load, my family responsibilities. Centering myself will go a long way toward making things easier, even though it seems counterproductive to add more to my to-do list.
I’ll be interested to see how it works. I’m torn between doubt that I’ll follow through with it, and excitement at the possibility that this could really work. I could turn this into a MUCH NEEDED interior sea change that will change the tone of everything else that I do. I spend too much time living small, worrying about the minor stuff. It’s time that I turn some attention inside, set a new routine for myself that includes focused time just… being. I don’t do that now. I’m always multi-tasking. I’m always doing twelve things and thinking about twelve more, which means that I’m never really giving my best to any one thing. Even with the kidlet, I’m now as focused on HER sometimes as I ought to be. I need to work on that, because she is the MOST important thing. And again, if I focus on ME for a while, it will mean being a better mother for her too. It’s not just ME that benefits from these self-focused habits.
Write more, move more, eat cleaner… all of these things are truly small, achievable things, but only if I’m centered, focused, and taking the time out of my day to give myself some ME time, both in movement and in mental focus. It will take pressure off of me, and once I’ve developed the habits, I believe it will actually make my schedule feel lighter instead of busier.
