Showing posts with label wellness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wellness. Show all posts

23 January 2019

a year of good habits challenges

Do you know Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies framework, which explores how different personality types form (and keep) habits? My personality type of "upholder" puts me in a category of person who rather likes habits and routine, along with checklists having to do with them (or checklists having to do with anything, really). Not that I'm perfect with keeping good habits - but I do get excited about the idea of them.


And so when I heard Kelsey's idea of doing a 2019 personal challenge of taking on one new healthy habit each day for a month, I was immediately on board, especially because I already started on January 1 of tackling my 19 in 2019 goal of doing a 30-day yoga challenge. Now, I think I'm a fairly healthy person - I already exercise regularly and eat pretty well - but there are plenty of minor things that could add to overall health and wellness and happiness that are sort of easy to ignore in one's busy daily life, and just taking a few minutes to work on adding one of them per month on a daily basis.

So now to think of the categories! I'm thinking of things having to do with health and wellness, but also overall mental health and happiness/satisfaction, so that involves things in my home as well as body. Definitely I am up for trying these each for a month:
  1. doing 10+ minutes of yoga/day
  2. flossing every evening 
  3. eating a vegetable with breakfast every morning
  4. crushing 10 pushups/day
  5. washing my face every night before bed 
  6. meditating 5 minutes each morning 
  7. spending $0 on clothing or makeup or decor 
  8. getting rid of one thing/day
  9. writing in a gratitude journal daily
  10. putting away my phone for the day at 7:00pm
Got a couple more to think up - I was also contemplating a "30 days of zero added sugars" but it's still sounding rather scary to commit to. I'm open to suggestions for the rest...what would you do for a month-long good habits challenge?



I have a pretty good track record of adding these things to my life when I decide to commit to them (here's looking at you, foam roller), but it's the actually deciding to commit, and there's nothing like a fun bullet journal tracker to get one on board with that. I created a couple of grids to fill in - the full year one doesn't look super exciting yet, but my yoga one is well on its way (was up-to-date as of the day I took the photo!)