Does it matter what day it is? - ok...Day 25

Well, this would have been day 25 had I really stuck to the process I had started, getting up an hour earlier, using that hour to do 6 things (Silence, Affirmations, Vision, Exercise, Read, Scribe).  Well, the last part of the 25 days I have been counting I have only done 1, maybe 2. Think it's time to get my bum back in gear and push myself to get back to all 6.  I really did love the book and I really need to get myself on the path to bettering myself and to do so I have got to stick to a routine.  So, here is to getting back in my routine.

I must say that even just the journaling, or blogging, has become something I really do enjoy doing.  It is kind of like a release, allowing thoughts in my head to go somewhere to make space for more thoughts.  Seeing the words on the screen is, I guess, kind of therapeutic.  Think about it.  What do you do to release things from your mind?  I have gone back and read a few of my blog posts in the past few days and it was kind of like looking back in time. I can feel exactly how I felt when I wrote them. I must push myself to continue this and do more.  I must make sure tho not to dwell too much in what was already done.  The past is the past, it cannot be undone or changed. It is only there to help us realize what we did and how to do it better in the future.  Learn from your past but don't dwell in it or wallow in self pity over what cannot be changed.

So, today is the eve of my last vacation day for this 2 week stint I have been away from my daily grind job.  I want to get a few more things done before the end of this blissful release from the 7-5.  Today will be focused more on seeing family and friends.  I am really looking forward to this day.  Might even take a few minutes to put paint to canvas.  I have missed painting recently and really would love to do more of that too...and review my photos from the past week's adventures.  There were really some beauties.

Not much else to say except my goal for the day.  Today my goal will be to prepare myself mentally and physically to get back into routines that will better my mind and spirit.

Til tomorrow. Blessed be.

Early to rise - Day 3 - Rough start

Hmmm...it's day 3, Wednesday, and honestly I am struggling a bit.  Not so sure it is because it's early but more because I woke with a sore throat.  Kind of feels like someone choked me in my sleep...but not going to dive into that here.  That will be for a totally different blog. LOL

So, this morning in my first hour slot I changed it up.  Didn't get the glass of water as I was supposed to...went straight to coffee after letting the dogs out.  I also didn't follow my own instructions and jumped right into work.  Just a little, starting an online party for one of my hosts as I kind of forgot to do a few things yesterday.  Oh well.  now I can focus on my morning even though it got off to a rocky start.  

Positive thinking is the way to go.  Well, today I am positive that I hate alarm clocks.  My mind woke me a lot too early this morning as I rolled over to see 2:22 AM on the clock.  I growled and rolled back over and went back to sleep only to have my weird dream rudely interrupted by the noise at 5:25 AM.  UGH, I really hate alarm clocks.  Must make a mental note to change that ringer to something more pleasant.  I thought Morning Glory would be ok, the gentle chiming of bells in a rhythmic fashion but as I found when it started this morning, I wanted to throw my phone across the room.  Yes, I really do hate alarm clocks!!! 

I am only 3 days into this Miracle Morning routine I am trying to build but as mentioned above, only took 3 days to fail at it.  Not that I am giving up, just realizing that my mind and body are going to fight me a bit on this.  I am still doing my journaling (this blog), and I will do my exercises (later when I'm awake) and I will meditate when I am a little more awake too (probably my hypnosis which sounds kind of good right now because I am pretty sure I kind of sleep thru it...ha).  Promise myself I will try better tomorrow.  After all, it does take about 30 days to make a habit and 30 days to break one too, so I will do this.  Just having to break habits I have been forming now for 49 years and recreate the wheel in my mind.  That in itself sounds exhausting.  Can that be my exercise for the day?  Probably not, that's probably cheating.  Oh well, off to get another cup-o-joe.  Will be here, hopefully earlier tomorrow. 

Early rise Day 2, Yoga Day 1

Today in my journey to self improvement I started my day with a glass of water, before coffee of course, then listened to a bit of my audio book of The Miracle Morning, which I highly recommend.  I then moved on to a hypnosis that I have been doing as meditation.

After that, feeling ready to add a new routine to my morning power hour I set my TV to Session 1 of the 30 Days of Yoga to a New You.  Well, I made it through about 15 minutes of the 24 minute session before deciding I was done.  I sure hope that in 30 days I can bend like that woman on the video.  Of course, I would have to lose a lot of my gut and ass and find my abs before that will happen too.  That is one of my goals.  However, I didn't know that on my first attempt at yoga, I would become nauseous.  Not good...not good at all.

So, now here I sit doing the next part of my morning routine, writing down my thoughts and feelings.  Maybe I should postpone my morning coffee until after my yoga session.  Maybe I should not try to put my head into my knees on the first attempt.  Maybe my body isn't supposed to bend like that pencil-shaped woman on the TV screen does.  Hmmm...all the things that went through my mind trying that yoga thing.  Oh, and let's not forget the plank.  Seriously?  On the first session you try to introduce me to plank?  Are you insane?  My idea of plank is laying flat on my belly, not standing on my toes and palms.  My plank probably looked more like one half of the McDonald's arches.  Maybe we should forget plank on the first session. Oh well, maybe some day my body will do that too...when I become a pencil.

Goal:  Become a pencil.

Early rise Day 1 - Butterfly confusion

This is my early rise day 1.  I started The Miracle Morning audio book last week and have decided that I would try to implement the things I am learning to improve myself.  One thing that I have found is that my sub conscience hates alarm clocks.  My brain wakes me 5-15 minutes before the alarm, I assume so I don't have to hear it.  How funny is that.

Well, after dawning on my gym clothes (work attire...I do love working from home), I head down stairs, grab a glass of water (another new thing), then make my first cup of heaven (yes, that's coffee for those who don't know me yet).  I then sat down to start putting into practice some of the things I have been learning.  This morning...Journaling.  So here goes.

I went to Powell Gardens in Missouri this past weekend and wanted to share this beautiful yet adorably confused blue butterfly. The reason I say adorably confused is that the fabulously large, pink flower with which it came to rest and tried to dine on was actually a poster of a flower.  It sat there for quite sometime trying to drink the nectar, allowing me to capture this and a few other gorgeous photos of it and all it's beauty.  Thank you to the person who decided they needed a poster of a big pink flower.  It worked great for me.