Accountability
I told myself I would make no resolutions until after my father passed away. I knew that the week I would be gone would be disastrous for anything I would try to do.
But now the time of resolutions has come. I’m making resolutions this year because I feel like I have stopped caring about many things. I have become lazy about myself and my life and I owe myself more than that.
Because I’ve read that it takes 30 days to form a new habit, I will only work on one resolution a month (or per 30 day period starting on or around the 18th of each month as I am a little late at this whole resolution/habit thing this year).
Part of being successful with a new habit is telling others your intention. So here is this month’s intention:
Exercise at least 10 minutes a day, every day. I’ll tell you how that goes.
hmm, that sounds like a pretty good approach. i’m going to have to give that a try; a new resolution a month. that might be more realistic than the 10,000 i set for one year and then get frustrated when i don’t meet my goal.
J
January 17, 2009 at 2:27 pm
check out http://thepowerofless.com/new-years-challenge/
I read zenhabits.net and the guy who blogs there has a few steps on how to form a new (good) habit.
justbecause81
January 17, 2009 at 4:26 pm