For Game On! I hope to achieve 9 points at least 5 days each week. The 9 areas in which I can earn one point daily are:
- Get at least7 hours of sleep each night (this will be a tough one for me! Damn, puppy!)
- Drink at least 64 ounces of water (no problem, I usually follow this with at least 32 oz. of green tea.)
- Get my heart rate up for at least 30 minutes each day (easy 6 days a week, hard on Sundays!)
- 1 serving or LESS of junk food, sweets or dessert (not too hard, unless you count Rosemary and Olive Oil Triscuts as junk food!)
- 12 ounces or less of pop each day (EASY!)
- Give up a bad habit! (Harder than getting a lot of sleep, more details below!)
- Develop a good habit! (hmmm... possibly harder than it at first appears. More details below as well!)
- Contacting a team member with positive encouragement/support. (Easy!)
- Contacting an opposing team member to "talk smack" (pretty easy, text, email, in person) Eat twinkies!!
The bad habit that I would like to give up is allowing my irritation to show to my son and my husband. I would love to take this a step further and let go of my control-freak issues and actually decrease the amount of time that I feel irritated not just practice hiding it better! But we will see! I think that I can practice relaxing and stay focused on the loveand great feelings that I have for my family, perhaps I can increase my use of patience and tolerance! This is not really a new habit; it is just using my existing ability to be patient, kind, caring, non-judgemental, non-critical and supportive. I will yell less, complain less, boss less and criticize less. Instead I will be patient, tolerant and will allow my son to experience natural consequents. For whatever reason, I suspect it comes naturally to my personality, (I have also observed some similar behavior from my parents) I have developed the bad habit of being a stickler, critic and control freak with Marek and Marcus (this translates into evident irritation). Now, sometimes my feelings of irritation are justified. They just don't move fast enought! However, expressing it in my current fashion causes hurt feelings and defensiveness in the ones that I love the most. I would love to make use of the skills that I currently ahve to solve this bad habit so I am not counting the replacement behavior as the "developing a good habit" challenge. Instead I will cultivate a completely new good habit.
I would actually like to build two new good habits. The first good habit that I would like to develop is concrete; it is to read the bible at least 5 days a week. I will do this with the help of different devotionals or short contemplative guided readings or bible study curriculums. I thnk that this is a good habit for me to develop for many reasons. The least of which is that it will increase my knowledge of the bible, other reasons are that it will help build my faith and will support my letting go of the irritation and control issues which are troubling my life. I think that this will be a be a positive source of support for alleviating my aforementioned bad habit!!
The second good habit is to support changing my bad habit as well as meeting my overall life goals through use of positive, informative reading, discussiong and self reflection. I will start a blog and will attempt to keep it up. I will also do more reading of diverse materials, including blogs that support my changes and goals for this year. This reading will include learning about others who are working on similar challenges or who are already engaging in inspirational behaviours that I can emulate. I think I might actually do some reading about parenting and relationship building! I will develop this habit as a technique to keep my goals and plans in front of me daily.
Sooo..... There we have it! I will keep thinking and writing about my overall life goals!
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