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Day 194: 30 Days of Exercise

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Eep! Happy February! I meant to start 30 days of exercise on the 1st, but I had to get to work early (and worked late) so it threw off my whole schedule. It’s hard to do things when you work overtime. (Also it’s hard to do things when you don’t work overtime because work is tiring.) So I’m starting today! Because it’s only the 3rd and it seems nice and neat to start 30 day challenges on the first of the month, but really you can start anytime!

The Plan: For the next thirty days I’m going to exercise every day

The Mechanics: The original plan was to do 30 Days of Yoga with True Yoga with Adrienne. BUT I already have a yoga class I go to on Sundays and I try to go to ballet several days a week so I don’t want to add on more things to do if I’m already exercising. So the days I don’t have class, I’ll do Yoga with Adrienne. And maybe I’ll finish the whole series even though I’m only exercising for 30 days. We’ll see.

Check-ins: Every goal needs an accountability system! So I’ll check in on Saturday of every week to see how things are going.

Let me know if you also have goals for February! And if your New Year’s Resolutions are going well! I need an 18 in 2018 check in soon.

Until tomorrow.

171 Days to go.

Progress Not Perfection

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Progress Not Perfection

It’s my word of the year! More like a phrase, but close enough. I am always, always trying to be the best person I can be. It can be exhausting and daunting at times. I get discouraged easily because I’m always trying to do the very best I can. And sometimes I get intimidated because I know I’ve slacked off or haven’t done the work I need to do and then instead of pushing through, I just stop. But stopping is the real problem. Stopping means no progress at all. Even if I only wrote a sentence a day, by the end of the year I would have a fair amount of words, maybe even a short story.

It’s easy for me to remember this year Progress not perfection. Submit my story to agents. If it fails then at least I tried. Go to ballet and yoga. If I’m terrible, at least I’m getting exercise and trying my best. Pay off my credit cards no matter how slowly. And bumble or ok cupid away. I’m not going to meet anyone if I don’t try to meet anyone.

Progress not Perfection.

Until tomorrow.

185 days to go.

Day 174: Gratitude 14

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Gratitude of the Day: Exercise!

Yesterday, I wrote about the knot in my stomach of anxiety and stress. Not good. I haven’t found much to combat it yet except maybe less work (Ha!). Meditation made me aware of it, but I discovered today that exercise can keep it at bay (predictably). I went to ballet class yesterday (yay!) and yoga today(double yay!) and while I could still sense the bubble of stress, I was focused on something else, so it felt diminished. Another reason for me to go to ballet and yoga. Not only do I feel great after I go, but now it’s also helping dissipate my stress knot.

Until tomorrow.

191 days to go.

Day 48: Another Challenge

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Of all the goals I set for myself the one I have the most trouble with is EXERCISING. I have no idea why except that I have never really had an exercise routine, but I can barely even start one before it falls apart. Also, I do all my exercise alone, which means accountability is really, really hard.

This week I’m going to try my best do exercise EVERY SINGLE DAY (except Thursday because I have my art class and I paid a lot of money for that and could not possibly bring myself to skip it). I’m exhausting already thinking about it, but if I do it for at least three or four days, that’s better than nothing and if I do it all the days, then I’ll know what it feels like to lead the exercise level life I wish I did. That’s all for now. Starting tomorrow I’ll be a fit, but fatigued machine.

Until tomorrow.