Daily reporting for 1 January

Day 3. Wrote again for much longer than 10 mins, so not going to beat myself up that I missed yesterday!

I just did my 10 minutes of instrumental playing, on my 5-string acoustic viola. I got a LOT of other things done today while procrastinating about doing this :) I'm still trying to work out a suitable "Trigger", because my days vary so much.

This is Day 4 of my 30-day challenge. My schedule was completely off today after a late night ringing in the New Year. I just did 10 minutes of sitting meditation. I was completely distracted by a text message alert on my cell phone, so starting tomorrow I'll turn off my cell and landline before I sit for meditation.

This is my day one and I joined just minutes ago. My habit change will be to attend an AA meeting for 30 straight days with the accompanying abstention from beer.

Day 4. I did 10 minutes of strength training. 10 minutes is less than I want to do on an average day but meeting the minimum is all that counts. I did situps, pushups, back extensions and lunges. Boring. And my abs are so weak, I don't think I did more than 30 situps! But day 4 is done. Happy New Year everyone.

I spent 10 minutes doing several different exercises with 8lb dumbbells, then did about 5 minutes of abs (with a bit of help from my dogs).

Just completed my objective for today. 4 days in a row! This just keeps getting better and better.

I sat down and rewrote a chapter of my novel that I had originally written 4 years ago. If you're interested, I blogged about it here:
http://www.worthlessgenius.com/2009/01/01/the-challenge-of-rewriting/

I've decided over the next few days to go back and re-read what I have, and make changes for continuity so that I can have a better flow in place when I go to finish out the overall timeline of the story.

Today was great.
I didn't have a single piece of candy, and I even trashed a few snack food items I knew would be tempting me.
Had a healthy breakfast and dinner.

Reaching my goal calories every day isn't nearly as hard as I thought it might be. The past few days, I've actually come up short.

I cheated and weighed myself and I've already lost a pound or so. Yay! :D haha

Hope everyone else has been met with success, and if not - keep at it :)

I walked for at 15 minutes today - despite black ice and snow STILL being around instead of our usual rainy weather. Then I shovelled our front walk to get rid of the last 2 cm of snow...

Even though my trigger was about 5 hours ago, I decided to do my exercises right here in my little office. I got all of them done, but now I remember why I don't work out in here--about 90% of the available floor space squeaks:) But I am glad I did the exercises anyway. Now I'm off to find that heating pad.

I spent about 1 1/2 hour going through a 9" high (atleast 11+ years) collection of recipes that i have torn out of various magazines, downloaded from the internet etc...I weeded through them, threw out any that didnt sound amazing. I wittled it down to about 5". Then I sorted them by desserts, side dishes, main dishes, appetizers. Yes......

Tomorrow I think I going to scan the recipes into my computer and set up folder system, so that when i need a recipe, i can search by filename to decide what i want to make...

Happy new year everyone!
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Success! Menu set and ready to go for tomorrow.

Day 4 Stretching done. Great start for the new year.

woke up this morning, stretched and meditated for 20min this morning and it feels great.

Its really good to see so many people working hard to keep on top of their habits....good job everyone!

We were home most of the day today, so not a lot of spending to track, but started a mint.com account and will start to use cards for everything and just take out a cash amount each week and then divide those up. It should make it much easier to track spending. When I looked at how much we spent last month from our accounts I almost fainted. Gotta make some cuts! Tracking will help immensely though! Good luck all!

I did 10 minutes voice work. Some anxiety was involved because I felt like I needed to cram what should be done in an hour into 10 minutes, so I'll have to remind myself that I don't have to every voice exercise right away.

Day One: I just did my 10 minutes of writing, despite really not wanting to and not following the original trigger. Oh well, I did it, and I'm excited!

Day one, and I far exceeded my time limit. I found some things that needed further organizing (office boxes, take-out menus and coupons). I'm finishing up the office tonight, then I'll do the other two the next two evenings. Then I should have no problem sticking to my less than 30 minutes time frame.

Happy 2009!