Well, I am sure you all agree. 2020 sucked!! I not sorry to see it go. It was filled with health, personal and professional challenges that started January 1st and continued right up until December 31st. These challenges have allowed me to lose focus on my goals and my personal growth. I have lost myself and gained weight. Again!
I hate to start on January 1st. But this is not a resolution. This is a promise so I won’t start then. It is a promise that this year is the year to focus on me. It is my year of personal growth. I promise myself right now this is my year to focus on health, finance and balance. I will ease in starting January 4th. So many people try to change to much too fast and they get burned out. I am not going to limit myself. I am not going to deprive myself too much. I am not going to hold myself to something I am just going to quit in a week. If I do so, I am just going to chalk it up to another crappy year.
What I am going to do is try to incorporate a new healthy habit every week or so. I am still doing Noom. I will draw inspiration from the articles and tasks and quizzes I get on a daily basis. I want get back into the habit of tracking all food and water that gets put in my mouth. I think that is the first healthy habit to focus on. Do that for a week and then slowly change eating habits.
I have also joined a fitness challenge my sister-in-law administers via Facebook and it is perfect. It is easing me in and is not time consuming. The other member are very motivating and I love that. It is the perfect way to reintroduce exercise without much commitment right now.
Personal growth is more than health. It is my year to really work on my finances as well. I really want to eliminate all of my debt. I have really been interested in Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover for a while. There have been times where I have wanted to start the process. I began making budgets last year and have made great progress there. But I have also learned to move money around in that budget when I want something. What I really need to work on is going without in order to pay debt off quicker. The sooner I can master this habit the quicker I can achieve this goal. If I can, I can pay everything off in about 2 years or so.
The last thing I really want to learn to have more balance in my life. If I can work on this, I believe it will help the other areas. What I mean by balance is to not focus so much on work and kids and to make sure I have time for myself. I find I focus on and spend too much time at work. When that happens, the rest of my life is stressful. I struggle with where my attention should be at any given time. My hope is that when I find that balance, I can control my stress, work out, cook meals and focus on my family more. I also want to read more. I find that reading a good book reduces stress and takes my mind away of all of the worries of the moment. I have entered a reading challenge on good reads and have pledged to read 15 books. I did the same thing last year and read 14 out of the 15. I came close but this year I will do it. That should help with stress and balance.
Here is what I am focusing on right now. I will log all meals and water for the next week. I will continue to work on the January fitness challenge. I will continue to work within my budget the meet the goal I have to put toward my first debt. I will set a time that I need to be out of the office everyday this week. This will give me time to work on my goals. Hello 2021! This is my year!!
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