by AngelaMoore on September 1, 2010
Well, here we are. September 1. Time to kick off the Happiness Project. When we last left off, I was telling you about my goals for this adventure. So, it’s month one. It’s time to focus on Health.
First, I chose this focus because I figured I’d need the extra boost to get going. I’ve never been someone I would call “health conscious.” Well, perhaps here and there, but not anything that stuck around for a while. In the past few weeks days hours I’ve been paying a little more attention, but clearly it isn’t enough.
So, it’s time for me to get serious. And not just for month 1. I’m not interested in a diet. I want, no I need a lifestyle change. So, here is how I’m going to approach it:
Goal 1: Develop a healthy eating plan and include the family. Track our progress.
Goal 2: Get more rest. In bed by 10 so I can get an actual 7 or 8 hours of sleep and get up early enough to get things done before the family makes.
Goal 3: Exercise (and I’m cringing as I write this) at least three times a week.
Goal 4: Get back to journaling (mental health, you know). Blogging = journaling in my book
Goal 5: Get back into the habit of meditating
Goal 6: Develop a general awareness of my health
Goal 7: Drink at least 64 oz of water every day.
Let the games begin.
by AngelaMoore on July 19, 2010
I love (and to be honest, I’m completely obsessed with) notebooks. It’s to the point where my husband visibly cringes when we walk past the school supply aisle in a drug store. I worked for several years in an Office Max and I’m one of the few kids I know who, at the age of 17, could spend their entire paycheck in an office supply store.
Why do I like them so much? To be honest (and at the rest of sounding like a mega-geek) there is something exciting about a blank notebook. That this could turn into anything. This notebook could save me from deadline disasters. This could hold my first completed novel. This could be the notebook that records my ideas for my next big project.
The sky is truly the limit.
I realize that some of my characteristics give me away as being old-fashioned. I prefer pen and paper to technology a lot of times and I’m completely ok with this. I don’t hide my old-fashioned ways. I embrace them. I dig it. So, once I get those new notebooks, what do I do with them? Sometimes I let them sit on my shelf for a while until I find a good use for them. Sometimes I already have something in mind when I purchase them. It just depends on where I’m at and what I’m working on at that moment. But regardless of what the outcome is, notebooks make me happy.
