Ok! Week two!
My water goal worked pretty well. I did have to remember most mornings, but I did it! 100% Some mornings I missed breakfast, but I always got my water. I measured it out and it was around 24 ounces of water, so about a third of how much water I should be drinking every day already taken care of!
Am I feeling more inclination to drink water? Honestly... Not really. I still fell a little sick when I drink water, but I have been finding myself thirsty once or twice later on during the day, so maybe it is actually doing something.
The point is that I feel comfortable drinking water in the morning, which was my goal.
Yay! Go me!
So, the big question: What's next?
This is actually an interesting question, because I have a long list of things I wish I was better at. It actually caused me to have a melt down this week because I could just feel how much I wasn't measuring up to what I thought I was suppose to do.
I was considering the idea of picking something that I needed to get done - like actually make a plan for dinners during the week or keeping my living room toy free. But then I was talking to a friend last night about some stuff that I was going through and she gave me my new goal.
Instead of attacking the outer things that are bringing me down, I'm going to try and attack the inner issues of worthlessness I have.
I'm going to try and meditate every day for the next two weeks (yeah, I'm already behind, but whatever). I've always believed that meditation is a form of prayer - in fact it is just what we call the listening part of when we pray. When we're done talking and instead quite our own voice and reach out to Christ.
I'll try five minutes the first week (until Thursday I guess) then I'll try and bump it up to ten minutes. As far as do-ability, this fits with the criteria of my illness, but I don't have a specific time of day. I could do it right after I do my morning prayers, but that is kind of out of my control most days with my kids. I'll just have to be proactive about scheduling it.
My water goal worked pretty well. I did have to remember most mornings, but I did it! 100% Some mornings I missed breakfast, but I always got my water. I measured it out and it was around 24 ounces of water, so about a third of how much water I should be drinking every day already taken care of!
Am I feeling more inclination to drink water? Honestly... Not really. I still fell a little sick when I drink water, but I have been finding myself thirsty once or twice later on during the day, so maybe it is actually doing something.
The point is that I feel comfortable drinking water in the morning, which was my goal.
Yay! Go me!
So, the big question: What's next?
This is actually an interesting question, because I have a long list of things I wish I was better at. It actually caused me to have a melt down this week because I could just feel how much I wasn't measuring up to what I thought I was suppose to do.
I was considering the idea of picking something that I needed to get done - like actually make a plan for dinners during the week or keeping my living room toy free. But then I was talking to a friend last night about some stuff that I was going through and she gave me my new goal.
Instead of attacking the outer things that are bringing me down, I'm going to try and attack the inner issues of worthlessness I have.
I'm going to try and meditate every day for the next two weeks (yeah, I'm already behind, but whatever). I've always believed that meditation is a form of prayer - in fact it is just what we call the listening part of when we pray. When we're done talking and instead quite our own voice and reach out to Christ.
I'll try five minutes the first week (until Thursday I guess) then I'll try and bump it up to ten minutes. As far as do-ability, this fits with the criteria of my illness, but I don't have a specific time of day. I could do it right after I do my morning prayers, but that is kind of out of my control most days with my kids. I'll just have to be proactive about scheduling it.
Nice goal Marinda! Sounds like a really wise idea ;)
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