Well I would like to firmly say that I accomplished my goal in October to start the new year off with a set of life affirming habits but not entirely. Between work and some lovely surgical side effects, I’ve been in maintenance mode, just focusing on getting through the day to day. When I looked back on that post in the process of setting my goals and resolutions for 2017, I realized that I have at least settled on the habits that I feel I need to either make a priority or get in place – things that I should be doing regularly, either on a daily, weekly or monthly basis
Which brings me to January.
This month my goals is simply to get my schedule under control, finding the time I need to do those habits that positively support my goals.
For health, the one thing that I really miss the most about my life since my Cushing’s diagnosis is running. Running every day just got painful as I got heavier and once I stopped my stamina took a nose dive. I picked up a slow start program off of the Runner’s World site that focuses on deliberate progression from walking to running in about 21 weeks. That combined with all of the other activities on my list should help me ease back into running without injury. I’d like to say that it’ll help me get the weight off but I don’t think I’m there yet, at least it’ll halt the gaining (I’m up about 18 pounds since my surgery in late September).
Relationships are a little more difficult to tie directly to a specific habit, I’m thinking that is really more pf a priority shift, spending more quality time with the folks’ I am closest to, making room for new activities and connections and taking time to make sure everyone in my life knows how much I appreciate them.
Creativity, I’m a little ashamed to say, has been put on the schedule. I know if I don’t make the time for it, it just isn’t going to happen. It’s not spontaneous at all but I am going for habits. I have a couple of nights a week to work the craft projects, regular time than I’ve blocked off to spend on writing and some ‘free’ blocks that I hope will turn into more focused expression times… where I can go with my mood or inspirations.
I used to be so tied to my calendar, if it didn’t make it on their it just didn’t get done, and was very disciplined about sticking to it. This last couple of months, I shifted over to just having a to do list and have found that I’m far more likely to put things off that way, or start procrastinating.
So, there you have it, my only real goal for January is to stick to my schedule with priorities in place should I have a conflict. Easy enough!
Vibrant Thing 