Hello 2014!
It's resolution time. Ok, I know it's a little early but I have the time now so I'm knocking this off the list while I have the chance!
I've decided to really challenge myself with resolutions this year. Rather than just doing one resolution, I'm going to do 14. 14 in '14. FOURTEEN! Not all our ongoing, habit changing, all improving resolutions. Some are more goals than resolutions. But setting a time frame within which to accomplish the goals will hopefully help me complete some goals I've had on my list for a while.
1. Read 14 books. I've been spending more time reading lately. I've noticed it keeps me off the internet and it is helping me sleep more. With a goal of reading fourteen books, it should keep me reading all year long!
2. Pay off my student loans. This is the one last financial goal from my single days. I need to focus on this goal the same way I focused on paying off my second mortgage a few years ago. Totally doable.
3. Exercise for a total of 2014 miles. I honestly have no clue if this is even feasible. But I'm going to try. Whether this is walking the dog, running, swimming, or cycling... I want to do a better of job of tracking my distances. I did a pretty good job at the start of last year but kind of stop tracking my runs in about July. This averages out to 5.5 miles of moving per day.
4. Do Project Life for the entire year. Rather than daily or weekly spreads, I'm going to do monthly. It will be a first calendar year of living in our house and being married. With any luck, it will come easily enough that I will not fall so terribly behind in scrapbooking current events.
5. Complete the blue room transformation to guest room!! This will require coming to terms with more and more junk. And it will require painting. And I'm not yet sure I'm over all of the condo painting from this past summer.
6. Rebuild my mountain bike. I've decided that rather than sell it for $20, I'm going to do my best to rebuild it. This may be a monumental failure or it may not. I think it's a good opportunity to tinker with a bike without fear of screwing it up as it's already in poor shape.
7. Give up coffee shop lattes. This is a frequent challenge of mine. I've gone months without them but I always end up going back. I'm going to start the streak all over again to try and reign in the extra calories and the extra spending. This may be a little easier to accomplish if we buy a small latte maker with one of our many gift cards from the wedding. Limiting caffeine all together would be a good thing too. Maybe tea after noon would be a good distraction.
8. Go fresh/whole. I had a nice streak early last year of eating just fresh food or natural food. I tried to stay away from prepackaged and processed foods and it made a big difference in how I felt. I had more energy and felt leaner and stronger. I want to try doing this again and get it to stick. Lots of vegetables and lean meats!!
9. Stay hydrated. I do an incredibly poor job at staying hydrating. So poor. I'm going to try and down four Nalgene bottles a day. This will be a huge improvement from one that I may get down during the day now.
10. Turn my thumb greener. Last year we had so much going on that the only thing I managed to do was mow the yard, rip out some bushes, and plant some bulbs. I really want to work on growing some food. We have a huge backyard, there is no reason why it can't be used to grow us some food.
11. Bulletjournaling. Video is here. I usually have about five hundred lists going in five hundred different places and a dozen different formats. I'm going to try one and only one location/format for the entire year...with some modifications along the way probably. And I'm going to use a cute plaid journal Santa brought me in my stocking. This should also help with #3 and #4. Completed workouts with distances will be tracked with one color. And events/notes to remember for Project Life will be tracked with a highlighter.
12. Make my office functional. My office/scrap room is a complete disaster when it comes being functional. The floor is one big shelf with piles all over it. My desktop is barely visible. My scrap stuff is all over making searching for what I'm looking for the thing I do most. Papers will be files. Books will be organized. Junk will be removed. Walls will be decorated. I will not longer have to move something to find something.
13. Support the Post Office. I always say I need to do better about sending birthday cards, anniversary cards, holiday cards, etc. We receive a lot of cards from Brent's side of the family and it's about time we returned the favor.
14. Clean more. This seems like a resolution to be avoided but it's a necessary one. Our house is huge. And there are way too many days where I do absolutely nothing around to maintain it's cleanliness. So I'm going to aim for doing at least one thing a day to keep a clean. Whether it's wiping down a window, vacuuming one room, wiping down a sink, or scrubbing a floor, I'm hoping one thing a day will help prevent those times where an entire three day weekend is spent cleaning in heated frustration.
So there you have it. A very lengthy of list of things for me to work. I guess one thing is for certain, I should never be bored this year! Ah, but where to begin first...
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