For Christmas last year, the kids bought me a spendy dream book workbook. It starts out heavy, with deep, thoughtful question right from the first page. I actually yelped and put it away. Apparently for a year.
..the spiral notebook, I lost it! Great, just what I want, the kids coming across it. I do, however, get the start a new notebook, which I love to do. *cheers* That new paper smell.
I read an article, long ago, about new habit building. It argued that to build a new habit, you must first reconcile with the fact that you must give something up to gain something. After all, there was something you were doing with your time that must be given up to make room for new.
I greatly enjoy looking at other people’s task list for their own 30 day challenge. I have task A nailed, (online blog/journal), a work in progress with task B (logging).
I log a multitude of variables in an excel spreadsheet. I have also used many of the calorie and exercise apps and websites designed for tracking. My Fitness Pal, Cronometer, Fitday, Lose It, to name more than a few. I am far more successful when I track.
Currently we are almost out of grape jelly. I have some blackberry jelly I am not currently using, as right now I am on a guava jelly kick. So I scooped the purple blackberry jelly into the grape jelly bottle, wiped it down and told the boys I bought new grape jelly.
I listen to the winds making my very warm home creak in protest, the same winds that will keep me up, as I sleep in a very warm comfortable house, surrounded by people I love and who love me back.
Santa is gonna have chit-chat with me about those tootsie rolls. The cookies I made, I gave most away, but the few I reserved for myself? Gone. Five no bake chocolate-oatmeal-peanut butter cookies, down the zero. My World’s Best lemon sugar cookies went from three to zero. My one sparkle cookie? Currently digesting.
I did the work! Had a deep convo with someone very important to me. I have come a long way in the past decade. Holistic therapy works too.
First time I saw one of James Prigioni’s videos, I found James a touch extra. Yet when he or anyone else teaches me something new, and important, I become a fan. I am even a cheerleader for his high energy, and honestly, we fast talkers should support each other.