I think my last update got sucked into cyber space.  Hopefully this isn't a repeat
 
@ ceg130- thank you !!  how true that quote is
 
@ crispinhay- keep up the good work on your habits during the selling/buying time.  It will be worth it in the long run if you can stick with them.  I have both a friend and sister in the similar buying/selling situations and they are definitely stressed. I would be too.  I'm impressed you've stuck with the majority of your habits during this time.
 
MITs 1/2
Activity-none
Tech skills- done
 
Good luck all.  Have a great day

crispinhay - good luck - selling and buying a home would stress me out

1)     30+ min/D Read book or listen to TTC Lecture:  Listen to TTC 48, 49, 50

2)    15+ min/D Declutter / Organize: YES

3)    Stretch: YES

4)    30+ min/D Exercise – Aerobics, Strength, Flexibility, Balance:  Walk 60

5)    Track Food / Supplement / Exercise: YES

6)    15+ min/D Study Spanish: Spanish Conversation

7)    Daily TODO List with Fillers: YES

8)    Work in 4+ 1-hr intervals with Outcome & Focus: 0

9)    On time, Prepared, Dressed Appropriately:  YES

10)  Reflect & Report: YES

sat 10

workout ten sets 12 reps

evening routine inc sat 10

14 item list, cv

not a lot of mindful eating today! will try to relax a bit over supper

trying to stay cool while selling one home and buying another - haven't been quite up to scratch with my habits, but quite pleased to be keeping them going at all!

have a good day!

Good luck kramerjo - My favorite quote from Dan Littleman is "A little bit of something is better than a whole lot of nothing"  I try to remember this like when I think "if I can't go to the gym for 2 hours I may as well not go at all" etc

YIKES Here is my day --- I have to regroup for tomorrow 

EXCUSES – Attended Retirement Seminar with Husband PLUS took visiting college room-mate for dinner – tomorrow we are going to split shifts so I can go to Muscle Blast Class and Spanish Conversation 

1)     30+ min/D Read book or listen to TTC Lecture:  Nada

2)    15+ min/D Declutter / Organize: YES

3)    Stretch: YES

4)    30+ min/D Exercise – Aerobics, Strength, Flexibility, Balance:  Nada

5)    Track Food / Supplement / Exercise: YES

6)    15+ min/D Study Spanish: Nada

7)    Daily TODO List with Fillers: YES

8)    Work in 4+ 1-hr intervals with Outcome & Focus: 0

9)    On time, Prepared, Dressed Appropriately:  YES

10)  Reflect & Report: YES

MITs 2/2
Activity- run/walk
Tech skills done

I'm finding I just have to find a way to do my activity and tech skills in the morning even if I have to do very abbreviated versions.  Once the day gets going it just doesn't happen.  I'm also working on rereading power of less and trying to figure out things to drop or at least put low on the  list.

1)     30+ min/D Read book or listen to TTC Lecture:  Nada

2)    15+ min/D Declutter / Organize: YES

3)    Stretch: YES

4)    30+ min/D Exercise – Aerobics, Strength, Flexibility, Balance:  Muscle Blast Class

5)    Track Food / Supplement / Exercise: YES

6)    15+ min/D Study Spanish: YES All Day Class plus ordering food and drink at a restaurant then bar

7)    Daily TODO List with Fillers: YES

8)    Work in 4+ 1-hr intervals with Outcome & Focus: 2

9)    On time, Prepared, Dressed Appropriately:  YES

10)  Reflect & Report: YES

MITs 1/2
Activity -none
Tech Skills-done

Have a great day all

sat 10

mindful-ish breakfast and snack

workout 10 x 11

evening routine inc sat10, 14 item list, cv

have a good day!

1)     30+ min/D Read book or listen to TTC Lecture:  Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb 15 min

2)    15+ min/D Declutter / Organize: YES

3)    Stretch: YES

4)    30+ min/D Exercise – Aerobics, Strength, Flexibility, Balance:  Spin Class

5)    Track Food / Supplement / Exercise: YES

6)    15+ min/D Study Spanish: YES

7)    Daily TODO List with Fillers: YES

8)    Work in 4+ 1-hr intervals with Outcome & Focus: 2

9)    On time, Prepared, Dressed Appropriately:  YES

10)  Reflect & Report: YES

MITs 2/2
Activity- walking 25 mn
Tech skills done

@ceg130- congrats on the blog progress

Have a great day all.  Keep up the consistent work

sat 10

mindful-ish lunch and snack

evening routine inc sat 10 12 item list, cv

1)     30+ min/D Read book or listen to TTC Lecture:  Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb

2)    15+ min/D Declutter / Organize: YES

3)    Stretch: YES

4)    30+ min/D Exercise – Aerobics, Strength, Flexibility, Balance:  30 min walk

5)    Track Food / Supplement / Exercise: YES

6)    15+ min/D Study Spanish: YES

7)    Daily TODO List with Fillers: YES

8)    Work in 4+ 1-hr intervals with Outcome & Focus: 4+ (Blogged my little heart out)

9)     On time, Prepared, Dressed Appropriately:  YES

10)    Reflect & Report: YES

@kramerjo, it can't hurt to go back and check it out!

Very productive and restorative weekend -- did walks both days, and spent a bunch of time decluttering (home alone for the weekend.

Now am sitting down with a pile of mending, glass of wine and the oscars...

MITs 2/2
Activity- Running/walking
Tech skills done

I'm thinking I need to reread power of less as I feel like I'm getting ovewhelmed with to do lists/tasks.  For now I'm just trying to take each day and no matter what get my activity and tech skill habit done. 

Hope things are going well for all.  Have a great day.

MITs 2/2
Activity- running
Tech skills 15 minutes

Have a great weekend

1)     30+ min/D Read book or listen to TTC Lecture:  Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb

2)    15+ min/D Declutter / Organize: Yes

3)    Stretch: YES

4)    30+ min/D Exercise – Aerobics, Strength, Flexibility, Balance:  3 mile mutt strutt

5)    Track Food / Supplement / Exercise: YES

6)    15+ min/D Study Spanish: YES

7)    Daily TODO List with Fillers: YES

8)    Work in 4+ 1-hr intervals with Outcome & Focus: 1

9)    On time, Prepared, Dressed Appropriately:  YES

10)  Reflect & Report: Yes

MITs 1/2
Activity- none- plan is to get this back on track tomorrow
Tech skills- 15 minutes

Have a great day all.  Keep up the good work.

1)     30+ min/D Read book or listen to TTC Lecture:  Linchpin – finished!!!

2)    15+ min/D Declutter / Organize: Yes

3)    Stretch: YES

4)    30+ min/D Exercise – Aerobics, Strength, Flexibility, Balance:  Spin class + 60 min brisk walk

5)    Track Food / Supplement / Exercise: YES

6)    15+ min/D Study Spanish: YES

7)    Daily TODO List with Fillers: YES

8)    Work in 4+ 1-hr intervals with Outcome & Focus: 1

9)    On time, Prepared, Dressed Appropriately:  YES

10)  Reflect & Report: Yes

Many thanks for the feedback, @kramerjo + @bugalooski. You and the other good people on here keep me coming back too!

It's great when you realise something's got better, bit by bit, without you hardly even noticing it, isn't it, @kramerjo!?

In the middle of trying to sell one property and buy another, in super quick time. There's a lot of different things to think about! This is the sort of occasion when I'd drop all my habits in the past, but they seem more important than ever. The give and take on this forum helps so very much.

sat 10

mindful-ish breakfast

mindful-ish snack lunch

evening routine inc 13 item list, sat 10, cv

Hi all, sorry I have been offline. I am still hit and miss on my habits, and am doing them at about 60%.  So, I'm walking every other day, decluttering as well. 

Today:
Walking:  30 mn this AM outside, no decluttering yet. 

I am trying to reduce my screen time, so I may not report in again until Monday!   This inspired by Leo's post today on zenhabits.net about finding peace. 

 @ceg, @crispinhay, @kramerjo -- way to go on your habits and continuing your hard work.  You keep me coming back. 

Have a great weekend.

kramerjo - Congratulations on your breakthrough and insights

1)     30+ min/D Read book or listen to TTC Lecture:  Linchpin

2)    15+ min/D Declutter / Organize: Yes

3)    Stretch: YES

4)    30+ min/D Exercise – Aerobics, Strength, Flexibility, Balance:  Muscle Blast class

5)    Track Food / Supplement / Exercise: YES

6)    15+ min/D Study Spanish: YES

7)    Daily TODO List with Fillers: YES

8)    Work in 4+ 1-hr intervals with Outcome & Focus: 1

9)    On time, Prepared, Dressed Appropriately:  YES

10)  Reflect & Report: Yes

Crispinhay- congrats on your week of mindful eating progress.  Definitely an important but not nec easy goal to work on. 

MITs 1.5/2
Activity- walking
Tech skills- plan to do  10 min right after reporting

I'm going to try again to have tues and thur be focus days for my activity habit.  I let things slip mostly out of lack of convenience and not wanting to get up earlier on those days.  I think over the next couple of weeks I'll fall back into a better routine.  Definitely want to improve on the activity habit but am hoping the sheer consistency of it will help even if I don't increase the intensity.

Yesterday I noticed that a skill I had been working on for a while in small time increments was suddenly fairly easy.  I was pretty excited as I was losing faith that I would ever get it.  Of course I'll have to see how it goes the next time to know for certain but it definitely renewed my faith in small things consistently add up.

Have a great day all

sat 10

mindful-ish lunch

workout 10 x 11

evening routine inc 11 item list, sat 10, cv

going out tonight: will eat starter mindfully

MITs- 1/2
Activity- none
Tech skills- done

Have a great day all

1)     30+ min/D Read book or listen to TTC Lecture:  Linchpin

2)    15+ min/D Declutter / Organize: Yes

3)    Stretch: YES

4)    30+ min/D Exercise – Aerobics, Strength, Flexibility, Balance:  Spin Class, Walk 70 min

5)    Track Food / Supplement / Exercise:

6)    15+ min/D Study Spanish: YES

7)    Daily TODO List with Fillers: YES

8)    Work in 4+ 1-hr intervals with Outcome & Focus: 1

9)    On time, Prepared, Dressed Appropriately:  YES

10)  Reflect & Report: Yes

sat 10

mindful snack: that completes week one of this habit

workout 10 x 10

evening routine inc 11 item list, sat 10, cv

have a nice day!

My (new) challenge is to work fitness into my daily life. I usually want to do it @ 6:30 am, but lately I've fretted when I couldn't get to the gym that early, and if I don't do it then, I just don't do it, although I love working out. So now I will look at it as something I can do after I do a more trying task (writing), and that is how I will reward myself (w/a workout). Every time I work out, I feel so much better that I think to myself that I never want to miss it!  My triggers are to have my bag ready to go OR to workout at home. But my bad triggers are the internet and email. I know you said 1 challenge a week, but I'm wasting so much time on the internet that I miss working out-so I am trying to drastically cut down, and after this message-I'm off for a while!

MITs  2/2
Activity run walk- 3 mi
Tech skills 15 min

Going to hold off on adding a March habit so I can work on these two.  April I'll add something new. 

Have a great day all.

1)     30+ min/D Read book or listen to TTC Lecture:  45, 46, 47

2)    15+ min/D Declutter / Organize: Yes

3)    Stretch: YES

4)    30+ min/D Exercise – Aerobics, Strength, Flexibility, Balance:  Muscle Blast Class

5)    Track Food / Supplement / Exercise:

6)    15+ min/D Study Spanish: YES YES

7)    Daily TODO List with Fillers: YES

8)    Work in 4+ 1-hr intervals with Outcome & Focus: 4

9)    On time, Prepared, Dressed Appropriately:  YES

10)  Reflect & Report: Yes

sat 10

workout 10 x 10

evening routine inc 8 item list, 10 min sit, cv

going out tonight: will eat starter mindfully!

@pmcknight, 17 years on I can say that quitting the smokes is so worthwhile. you start to notice the benefits right from the start, including psychological ones, and they keep on accruing.