Hello friends! I’m coming to you from an
interesting place.
I have decided to change my life. I have
decided that I want to make my life more of what I imagine it to be.
Hear me out. For so long, I’ve known that there
are certain parts of my life that need to be changed.
I’m tired of looking in the mirror and
knowing I can fix something but choosing not to. It’s getting frustrating.
I’m the one who needs to be accountable for
me. I’m entering a really cool phase of my life, and if I keep going down the
same path, I’m going to burn out.
I
refuse to let myself be that way. I want to be better.
I didn’t set out to follow this plan, but
this is how it has taken shape so far.
1. I deleted the 14,000
emails sitting in my Gmail account.
Yup, you read that right.
I am subscribed to so many
blogs that I’m genuinely interested in.
The problem? I had emails
backed up from three years ago. I couldn’t keep up with it for a while.
And so, I deleted all of
them. I started at email ground zero. I didn’t want that clutter in my life
anymore.
2. I figured out what kind of
life I want.
The next part was figuring
out how I really want to live my life. What do I want for myself?
I want to be the kind of person that doesn’t
leave things until the last minute.
I want to be able to stay
on track with things like blog posts and marking and reading books for a book
club.
I want to prioritise
myself with things like working out but also being able to get life things done
like vacuuming my room and cleaning the bathrooms (laundry, I’m good at).
I want to be the kind of
person who goes for walks every weekend (weather permitting) and remembers to
take vitamins every day.
This ideal life is
extensive and a lot more than I can write now, but you get the gist.
4. I determined three
achievable goals to work on right now.
No one can change
overnight. I identified three, simple things I want to incorporate into my
everyday life. It’s on my whiteboard now so I have a daily reminder of it.
The first thing on my list
is a reading schedule. I love reading, and it’s a massive part of who I am.
Soon, I’m going to be
receiving a lot of books as I am judging the UKLA book competition this year.
I am also in an online
book club, and I still have that to finish. Reading is so easy to me, and it’s
the way I shut my brain down. I need to make sure it’s a part of my everyday
routine.
The second thing on my
list is keeping my emails at zero at the end of the day. That’s pretty
straightforward, I think.
The last thing is working
out every day. My sister sent me a seven-minute arm workout video that we’re
going to do every day. We have to text each other when we do it so we know it’s
done.
I also want to try and do
yoga, but that may be pushing it. My bare minimum is the arm workout.
5. I started doing yoga.
“Take a cleansing breath”
is an instruction that my favourite YouTube yoga instructor often gives.
I have done Yoga With
Adriene before (see my previous post about yoga here),
and I’m back at it.
Lately, I’ve been dealing with some rather
negative thoughts and need to get out of that mindset.
I did an amazing Detox Flow that sounded
like exactly what I needed and I’ve been trying to get back into it.
Yoga has been great at
resetting my mind and body.
It also definitely helps
with the sore back and neck issues that come with carrying heavy bags full of
books for school.
Basically, this needs to
be part of a mindfulness practice.
There it is. We’ll see how it works out I
guess.
I’m still in the “cleansing” phases where I’m
setting myself up by cleaning and getting through a to-do list for all of my
work.
I think I may make this a bi-monthly
catch-up post so I can update you on my newest goals and achievements (because let’s
face it – that’s the “real” part of “real, not ideal”).
Has anyone else done something like this?
Please share any tips or advice below (I need it).
-
Daniella
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