Spiritual
A chapter of peaceful scripture study every day. Something I've never really been good at keeping up. It takes about 30 days to create a habit right?
Physical
Ah, I'm having trouble narrowing it down. Sleep, nutrition, and regular exercise are all coming to mind. Hmm, just because I don't list it doesn't mean I can't do it right? Better start with regular exercise because that's whats been really suffering ever since I moved home. It's hard not having a gym just an apartment building away. Not that I really have an excuse since there's a gym just three blocks from my house. It is harder to workout when you have no one to go with you. At school I have Biggest Winner contestants and gym classes to work with. Here, while I'm off-track, I have no one. But if I plan on accomplishing my goal of becoming a personal trainer I need to get used to the idea of working out whether I feel like it or not. At least its not forever. Next Spring I'll be back at school and into the old routine.
Intellectual
Study about bones. Review notes taken during Anatomy. Re-memorize parts of the bones. Purpose? Kinesthesiology class this Spring.
Social
Talk to former band mate. I have always had trouble talking to guys, recently its narrowed down to just guys I knew when I was in High School. I still have yet to say hi to this guy since I've been back. We were never really friends, but we sat in the same section for seven years. I really aught to stop ignoring him. It's an awful talent I have that gives people the wrong idea. I'm not snooty. I'm just shy around certain people. And it's not like I have a crush on him or anything, it's just awkward for some reason. So this month I'm going to say hi to him and anyone else like him who make me act like a scared deer in the head lights!
Emotional
Write the 5 things I like about myself everyday. Hey, it's harder than you think.
Daily Summary
Today I slept in. I think I'm still making up for lack of sleep during school and then holiday travel stress. Then I helped my sister with her babies this afternoon and then read the news and got the idea for this blog from a girl's video journal. She filmed a bit of her life everyday for a year and then made a video of it that consisted of only two seconds of each day. Went shopping with mom and got to spill my guts a little about what I was doing on here and words that we should avoid until I get further from my dark place. Words like, "you should be able" and "why can't you." It's only sensitive because those were the words I was repeating to myself when I was in my dark place. Give me a few more months of blog therapy and then maybe I'll be able to hear those words without cringing.
Goals Update
Well, since I started this whole thing at 7, the only thing to report is that I made the goals.
5 things I like about how I look
I like my eyes
I like my legs (thanks mom!)
I like how my hair curls
I like that I just got my ears pierced (It only took me 21 years to work up the nerve)
I like my mouth (again, thanks mom for the lips and the $2,000 worth of orthodontist appointments.)
Who Have I Served Today?
I guess the librarians. I returned some books and CD's today and accidentally dropped the CD's into a puddle. Instead of just returning the wet cases into the drop box I sheepishly walked in and handed them straight to the librarians so they could take care of the damage right away.
God's Divine Signature (totally stealing this from the book of the same title by Gerald Lund. It's a good read)
Ouch, this is hard. It rained and snowed today. Something that's been kinda freaking me out since it's so late in the season.
Man, I don't know how people do this. There are people in my faith who can list out places where they've seen God within just the past hour! I know that God is everywhere and always calling out to us in the littlest things, but we have to be ready and reaching back in order to see him. Unless of course He really really needed you to hear then it's kinda difficult to ignore Him. He's been known to do things like, oh I don't know, shake the earth, send angels, have a whale swallow you, that kind of thing. But that's not the purpose of this segment. Becoming simply better implies finding happiness, and even God, in the simplest of life's moments. Today I'm having trouble, maybe it's because I've started this so late? Tomorrow I will try harder to see Him.
There's Always Tomorrow
Tomorrow I'll make the official workout plan for myself. It hasn't really worked out with training mom so if I do go to workouts with her it will have to be in addition to what I do alone.
Plan a time to work on manuscript
Get out of the house at least once
Call temp agency
How's that for day one? After the first year I'll decide if I want to continue or just make this a journal blog. For now this will be my crutch, but once I get better, I'll see if I can do this naturally and on my own.
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