- daily gratitude journal - I'm not a good journaler, but I'm so forgetful! I think if I can just jot a line or two, I'm more likely to DO it, and it would be nice to look back at and remember how blessed I really am.
- exercise. Blech. You can see if you look at my fitness attempt page (but you probably shouldn't because it's PATHETIC!) that I am not so good at this. Part of my problem is that I don't actually have weight to lose (I know, I know, woe is me) so it's hard for me to actually see results. I DO want to tone up though....I have virtually no muscle definition. I'm basically skinny-fat which isn't really that healthy. I wonder if there is some sort of fine or punishment I can impose on myself, or a way I can motivate myself to actually do the work??
- dishes. NO MORE GOING TO BED WITH DIRTY DISHES IN THE SINK!! This is a huge pet peeve of mine...and I do it to myself! We don't have a dishwasher, so it's a bit of an additional challenge for me than for most people, but it's a really bad habit. Must. Change.
- drinking. Now before you get the wrong idea, I don't have a drinking problem. Sure, I may overindulge when faced with an open bar....but I digress. I'm talking about the nightly glass of wine, and it's half money related. A bottle or two a week isn't much, but it adds up! Do I NEED that glass every night? Do I need it without dinner? Do I need it when no one else is around? Nope. I'm going to try to go for a glass of water instead, and limit my imbibing for social events, or a purposeful drink at the dinner table with my husband.
I may edit or add to this list...I may or may not track them publicly...I may throw in the towel by mid-January. :)
I keep a daily journal (not necessarily gratitude) -- each day has its own page and at the beginning of the year, I start the book over an write the new year under the previous years entries. I've only been doing it for 2.5years but I love reading basically a "what happened on this day in years past" every day. Good luck keeping your journal! Writing exercises always seem so much more rewarding than you expect them to be.......see: blogging..... :)
ReplyDeleteThat's a very cool idea to be able to compare this year to last!
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