So it’s January 1st and everyone is writing about their New Year’s resolutions and goals for the year. I found some new blogs this week that I’ve been reading and they inspired me to approach the start of this new year differently.
The first step was to pick the 4-5 things that are the most important to me. This is from a post on the Zen Habits blog called Simple Living Manifesto. It didn’t occur to me right away but I soon realized that I had been writing them in my bio on social media sites:
- good food
- good wine
- good friends
- good health
The goal is to make time in your life for these things.
Next I stumbled onto another of Leo’s blogs where he describes the 6 Changes Method as an alternative to New Year’s resolutions and goal setting. Basically you choose 6 new habits that you want to form and cement in your life over the next year. So my 6 habits for 2010 are:
- waking early
- reading
- listening to hypnotherapy CD’s
- daily exercise
- being present
- having FUN
You work on each one of the habits for 2 months before working on another habit. I have chosen waking early as my first habit. I’m declaring it publicly to you, my readers, so you can hold me accountable.
What does waking early mean? Ultimately my goal is to wake early so I can exercise in the morning before I go to work, rather than in the evening after dinner. I’ve tried exercising in the evening before and my schedule was sporadic.
Since I’m not working now, waking early won’t mean o-dark-thirty… but it will mean earlier than I have been lately. My intention is 7:00 a.m. tomorrow. Haven’t been up that early on a Saturday in years.
I’ll be logging my progress here as well. So hold me accountable… and maybe get inspired yourself along the way.
Happy New Year’s!
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