New Year, New You?
For the last four+ years I've always declared that the next year was going to be my BEST YEAR EVER! It was going to be the year where I ate perfectly, exercised daily, saved all of my money, bought nothing, read everything, journaled daily, spent quality time each day with each of my kids INDIVIDUALLY, basically I was becoming perfection.
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By the second week of January, I'm literally hanging on by a string, and in an effort to not completely lose all of my marbles I'll say "F it", pour myself a HUGE glass of wine, order a pizza, breadsticks and some cookies and go to town. The next morning, I wake up angry with myself that I had one little misstep and slowly I'm spiraling out of control.
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The truth is all of goals are crazy vague, "I want to lose weight." "I want to eat better." "I want to save more money"
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Nothing is concrete, nothing is tangible. And the super obvious is I'm trying to do it ALL at once. Like I want to get skinny and save the world all on the same day in less than five minutes. My expectations are completely unreasonable.
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So this year I'm not doing it. I'm not setting myself up for the mounting pressure followed by the inevitable failure.
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Instead, I've decided I'm going to develop a daily schedule for myself that I stick to. My life is 100% winging it. Everything I do is winging it. I roll out of bed at all times of the day. Some days I workout in the morning, some days I work out at 10PM, a lot of days I just don't. Some days I find time to journal, some days I don't. My to do list is a floating list in my head & my schedule is all based on memory. Sometimes I remember, but most of the time I completely forget.
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I'm hopeful by developing a schedule that it will basically turn into a routine and that that routine will bring a little bit of peace and order into my life.
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So tell me, who's got a schedule that works? Who has tips for better time management? Who's got the tools to keep me organized? I need all of the help I can get!
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