My New Year's Resolutions
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I wasn't going to do it, but I can feel I am on the cusp of making them even if I don't directly acknowledge that's what I'm doing.
Here goes:
1. Lose 6 g. That's probably realistic. At one point in my life I would have been a bit annoyed to weigh that but now I can't be bothered to make the effort to lose more than I really need to. And more importantly, I think those 6 kg are a sign of some lifestyle changes I need to make. I used to love working out and now it doesn't fill me with the same joy it used to.
In order to lose that 6 kg I will...
a) stop eating toast and butter in the morning for breakfast and the occasional lunch. (Bye bye tasty but calorie laden Danish bread
)
get back into going to the gym to lift weights and do some cardio
c) keep doing the running program I started and stick to it rather than jumping ahead and hurting my knees again (my cardio fitness is there but my knees really don't like it so I'm going back into it with a walk/run combo I got from Runner's World )
d) Yoga in the morning if I don't have a sub job (this helps the knees)
2. Finish three portfolios of work. I have a lot of stuff done but need to sit down and pull it together
In order to do this I will...
a) do a lesson from my photoshop book once a day
finish my proofs
3. Organize my slides, prints and disks
I've just got to figure out in what order I am going to do this! Yikers.
4. Finish my book and submit it to a publisher or an agent. I had some friends read my partial mss again and got some really encouraging and inspiring feedback.
In order to do this I will...
a) take spider solitaire off my computer. That game is killing my time management.
set a more solid writing routine for myself. I seem to be doing not to badly with my photography work habits. I think because I hated my characters for a bit and didn't know how to get through a certain part for a bit.
5. Do the fly-lady routine for household management. Locamama had an article and a link to it and I checked it out. It's got a lot of good ideas.
In order to do this I will...
follow the fly-lady baby steps and purge my closests and cupboards to make best use of my very limited space.
6. Get my earthquake preparedness kit together. I have a list I downloaded (from Flylady).
In order to do this I will...
a) get stuff from the list or locate it in my household and put it in that nasty huge backpack of my husband's.
let my husband just get more stuff from this security company called Secom.
7. Figure out a timeline for this stuff to get done. The earthquake kit is going to get done this weekend, unless Hubby decides to get everything from Secom. I'd prefer to at least try to use any extra stuff I have lying around the house first.
Okay. Just haven't been able to think of 10 but some of these are HUGE and enough on the plate is enough on the plate.
Here goes:
1. Lose 6 g. That's probably realistic. At one point in my life I would have been a bit annoyed to weigh that but now I can't be bothered to make the effort to lose more than I really need to. And more importantly, I think those 6 kg are a sign of some lifestyle changes I need to make. I used to love working out and now it doesn't fill me with the same joy it used to.
In order to lose that 6 kg I will...
a) stop eating toast and butter in the morning for breakfast and the occasional lunch. (Bye bye tasty but calorie laden Danish bread
)
get back into going to the gym to lift weights and do some cardioc) keep doing the running program I started and stick to it rather than jumping ahead and hurting my knees again (my cardio fitness is there but my knees really don't like it so I'm going back into it with a walk/run combo I got from Runner's World )
d) Yoga in the morning if I don't have a sub job (this helps the knees)
2. Finish three portfolios of work. I have a lot of stuff done but need to sit down and pull it together
In order to do this I will...
a) do a lesson from my photoshop book once a day
finish my proofs3. Organize my slides, prints and disks
I've just got to figure out in what order I am going to do this! Yikers.
4. Finish my book and submit it to a publisher or an agent. I had some friends read my partial mss again and got some really encouraging and inspiring feedback.
In order to do this I will...
a) take spider solitaire off my computer. That game is killing my time management.
set a more solid writing routine for myself. I seem to be doing not to badly with my photography work habits. I think because I hated my characters for a bit and didn't know how to get through a certain part for a bit.5. Do the fly-lady routine for household management. Locamama had an article and a link to it and I checked it out. It's got a lot of good ideas.
In order to do this I will...
follow the fly-lady baby steps and purge my closests and cupboards to make best use of my very limited space.
6. Get my earthquake preparedness kit together. I have a list I downloaded (from Flylady).
In order to do this I will...
a) get stuff from the list or locate it in my household and put it in that nasty huge backpack of my husband's.
let my husband just get more stuff from this security company called Secom.7. Figure out a timeline for this stuff to get done. The earthquake kit is going to get done this weekend, unless Hubby decides to get everything from Secom. I'd prefer to at least try to use any extra stuff I have lying around the house first.
Okay. Just haven't been able to think of 10 but some of these are HUGE and enough on the plate is enough on the plate.
