Yesterday, I shared with my accountability buddy how I did for the week for my goals and habits. Initially, I felt like a failure because I only got to 80% of the things and missed a few days for daily habits until it hit me that perfection was never the goal. The goal was to do something about the things that bother me. It is very easy to get caught up in failure and beat oneself up, but really the entire point was that I tried, not every day, but it was still 1000 times better than not doing anything at all.
It is not an easy transformation to make from being content to say there is nothing I can do about my goals, habits and results to still giving it a shot. Fear rules that state of mind, but a good fear where I become more comfortable being uncomfortable. It is easy to criticize and point out what I am not going and to see that in others, but much harder to put things into practice. Too often, I look at what I missed rather than what I accomplished. It is a habit I intent to change because while being critical is good, it does me no good to make into a self-worth issue. That said, I am extremely proud of my progress. Just for some perspective, here are my January goals which touch upon New Year resolutions, but are geared towards creating habits. What are yours?
1)Drink 64 oz to gallon of Water Daily
2)Meditate Daily
3)Write Morning Pages Daily
4)Write 300 words daily
5)Date Night Weekly
6)Connect with 2 people Weekly
7)Work on Improving Memory
8)Work on Improving Handwriting
9)Work out 5 days a week
10) One Hike and/or physical outing
11) Drink no more than 2 drinks on weekdays
12) Try a new activity/place this month
13) 2 Legal Blog Posts
14) Begin Learning on how to do a podcast
15) Begin learning on how to get more readers for blog
16) One Boys Night
17) One Friends Night at least (ideal 2)
18) Hug and Kiss Daily
19) Take one Weekday off a month,
20) Lose 5 pounds
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