Habit Building

I joined some online friends in a 60 day challenge to build some new great habits, replacing some old ones that Need To Go!

So, here's my list:

New Habits I Desire
Love the Lord
Daily bible/journal/prayer before morning chores/computer time

Weekly letter sharing God's word with someone.

Love my husband
Daily pray a psalm for/over him

Greet him with a smile each time he comes home from being away

Love my children
Daily Prayer Hands

No social media during lessons, choring, or project/group time

Daily 15-30 minutes One/Two-on-One time (school days) with each child

Speak to the Heart Challenge: add a piece of scripture to our day visually, auditorally, or another creative way. At least one *new* thing each week.

Tend my temple (body)
10-30 minutes of exercise before each meal

Bed by 10pm
So, my list has categories. That's how my brain works. Everything neatly on it's own shelf.  However, that's not how life really works.  None of these shelves is separate. They all work together to bring me into balance and strength.  In fact, while I was making my list, I struggled a bit on which shelf to put some goals on (and, yes, I did trim this list down from it's original. I was trying to keep it short and simple.)

I am thrilled to report that, today, my first day, I accomplished all my goals!  I am ending the day exhausted, mentally, but completely overjoyed that the Lord enabled me to push myself to Do Good Things. :)

The scale dropped 1.5 this morning! I gotta think that was a hiccup with the wii board, but I left it be.  We'll see tomorrow what it says. I ate very little today, so I'll see how that affects it. I just wasn't feeling hungry for much of what I made.  I did build a huge pot of vegetable soup this morning for lunch and then had it again at dinner.  I didn't want to eat the pasta the children were eating. 

I'm sort of in the weird place where nothing sounds very good to me and I'd rather just not eat.  I'm thinking that's not a great place to be, but with keeping up with school and building a new routine, I think I'm letting the food go and this is better than eating what I shouldn't eat, maybe.

I got in at least 10 minutes of activity before each meal. That was one of my hardest goals to meet today. I was really excited I did it, but, wow, is that hard to get in to the routine.

We had a lovely time at the park tonight enjoying some live big band music.  I hung out at the playground with the girls and tossed the football around a bit with them too. I worked at doing some squatting, bending, and just overall using my body in ways that I could tell I'm getting stronger.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow and another day of building good habits to replace old ones.