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| Me. Circa 2000 in Austin, Texas. Pre-CJ. Water damage destroyed my other pics. |
Heck, I even read an essay this morning on a very influential website that said we fail because we split our goals into categories like I just did instead of looking at the end goal and stepping toward that.
Thing is, last year I made a decision to step up, grab life by the horns, and make my life the life of my dreams. Except I couldn't decide what to do first, second, or third if I was just looking at the big picture. I needed smaller goals I could track progress on.
That's why this year I am doing the New Year's Resolution thing. Even if I'm posting this toward the end of January. LOL
1a. Faith & Spirituality
The no religion, soul-deep faith thing seems to be working for me and I plan to continue down that path. The biggest changes will be to step up and be more consistent with it.
- Daily Prayer Walk - 9:00 AM Central every day.
- Family Empowerment Call - 11:00 AM Central on Sundays.
One of the prayers I always seem to fall back on is a request to be blessed with a heart like King David's, a mind like King Solomon's, and faith like Job's.
Technically, it should be the 'patience' of Job but oh my. If you've ever prayed for that particular trait, you know what happens: all kinds of stuff starts going wrong! You know, to build your faith. O. M. G.
Asking for faith is sort of similar to patience but different in perceived ease. To build faith, be consistent with gratitude. Consistent gratitude builds expectation that things will go well - faith.
Try This: Write down 3 things you are sincerely grateful for each night before bed for a week. At the end of the week, think about something that has been bugging you and compare your emotional/mental/spiritual/physical reaction to the reaction you had before this experiment.It may sound odd but I find it easier to build faith than to build patience and the faith helps with the patience because I'm already thinking differently, more positively about a situation.
Oh yeah, I'm planning to continue the Saturday as Shabbat and therefore my day off thing.
1b. Health & Wellness
For months I've been wondering why I wasn't losing weight. Mom is a toothpick, a nervous little woman who can't eat when stressed. I am the opposite, I binge under stress but I've been working to keep that in check so what the heck?
After I installed the MyFitnessPal app, I realized what was going on: I had no real concept of what my calories/carbs injested vs. burned ratio was!
It was shocking to enter foods and snacks into the app and see just how much was in that small meal. It really hit home that just because something is 'healthy' doesn't mean it is automatically okay to chow down on.
In addition to MyFitnessPal, I installed the RunDouble Couch to 5K Tracker app, dusted off my DDP Yoga DVD's, and dug out my yoga mat.
The plan so far is to workout Sunday through Friday, alternating DDP Yoga on Sun-Tue-Thu and running on Mon-Wed-Fri. At some point, if my formerly active self gets into the swing of things, I might decide to double up and do both daily. One in the morning, one in the evening.
It may sound kind of intense but at the volunteer firefighter's meeting, I couldn't lift the jaws of life over my chest. I'm 5'3" and live in an area with a lot of big dudes in souped up, raised trucks and oil field transport trucks (tankers). If someone's life is going to depend on me, I owe them my best effort.
If something happened and I failed someone because I was out of shape, I don't know how I'd forgive myself.
My major reason - other than the lives of others potentially being in my hands - is CJ. My 'baby' doesn't know who I was before. He doesn't know me as the active, healthy, and more outdoorsy person I was. I am. Inside somewhere.
No way do I want my son to feel like he 'ruined my life' and made me unhappy or unhealthy. That wasn't him. That was me not taking care of me.
Have fun, stay safe, and G-d bless,
I never do resolutions, but this year it is different. Eat healhier and enjoy life to the fullest.
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