Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Light Bulb Moment #1

After having trouble sticking to a yoga routine since finishing my 40 day challenge two months ago (i'm still not doing yoga every day), I came to a sudden realization the other day, a light bulb moment, if you will.

I realized that my personality is such that if I do not have small, surmountable goals, I do not get things done. Unlike my friend, Brittany, who feels that setting a goal makes it a chore (which I totally understand), I need small goals to move myself forward! I guess this makes me a master procrastinator! haha

In having this realization, I finally understood my lifelong affinity to... no.... need for lists! I absolutely love crossing things off lists. It's just about my favourite past-time! There's just such an amazing sense of accomplishment when you can cross something off physically!

I write lists almost daily for things I need or want to do. I often even include things i've already done that day, just so I can cross them off! Weird? Sightly obsessive compulsive? I know. I accept that. This is how I do things, how I get things done. And I find so much joy in it!

This whole thing was a real eye opener for me, though. I've always known understood my lists as a way to keep my very over-active brain organized, but this whole light bulb moment made me realize that for me to get things done, or stay in a routine, I need to have small goals.

So i've been doing that lately, with yoga, because that's the thing i'm having trouble sticking with at the moment.

A couple weeks ago, I decided to set a small goal that I would do yoga regularly until we went to BC for a friend's wedding (next week!). It really helped! Having this goal forced me to set aside time every day for myself in this way (well, I was good until this past weekend when I got a virus and felt like the top of my head was throbbing up and outwards in the shape of a light bulb!). I found that doing this made it easier for me to stick with it!

I do think that New Years Resolutions are hard because setting a year long goal is virtually impossible to maintain. But setting small, monthly goals is not!

So that's my new goal now. I'm going to set small, achievable, monthly goals for yoga, and anything else I want to do. This month, my goal was until this weekend - up until we leave for wedding on March 20th.

When we get back from BC, my new goal will be to do yoga (or some sort of activity as it's FINALLY starting to turn into Spring! Yay sun and plus weather!) every day until Jaxson's birthday on the 27th of April. After that, we'll see. I'll take it as it comes.

How do you stay motivated?

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