Building Habits and New Year’s Resolutions
So, I never did get around to making any new year’s resolutions. I’m still thinking about it, actually. I thought about doing monthly resolutions instead of yearly, which I may still do, but I had an idea that may be more manageable for my limited attention span and still get results.
I’m going to add a new habit to my life and do it daily for two weeks. Once those two weeks are up, I’ll add another. I won’t be as strict on the original habit once I’ve moved on to another one, but I’m hoping I’ll have seen the benefit to it and keep it up (at least most days).
For the next two weeks (starting yesterday), I decided to add two habits since I skipped the first two weeks of January. These are the habits:
1) Take my vitamins daily. I bought a bunch of vitamins to help with my health issues, but I’ve been terrible about taking them regularly. When I was taking them every day, they seemed to help with the weight loss. I’m hoping that will be the case and incentive to continue taking them.
2) Eat breakfast daily. I hardly ever eat until a few hours after I’ve woken up, sometimes just snacking instead of eating a healthy meal. This will be a challenge because I have a few early mornings this month, so I may need to bring breakfast with me when I leave the house.
I don’t have a calendar for this year, so I created a two week calendar on scrap paper and I’m checking off these two habits each day (and writing down what I ate for breakfast). I’m sure I’ll have a stack of these two week calendars if I keep this up.
What are your new year’s resolutions or non-new year’s changes for this month?