To Your Health: Basic Schedule

We all have things that need to be done.  Trash to take out, laundry to wash before it stands up on it’s own, bills to pay – DARN! – taxes to file or the IRS man chases you down and there’s always life to live.

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When life gets busier and busier our to-do list grows and tend to forget things.  A doctor’s appointment here, a vet visit there, buying an ingredient for tonight’s dinner or even cooking dinner at all.  Soon your to-do list is out of control and and it’s more of a stressor than a help.

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To keep things in check everyone needs a back schedule.  What is the minimum you need for each day?  Most days start with…

  • Wake up.
  • Get dressed.
  • Pack bags for work.
  • Eat meals.
  • Sleep.

Just the basics…just the basics, ma’am.  From there add the daily tasks you HAVE to do.  Remember we’re still talking have to.  For me each work day has a different set of required tasks.  The work tasks are a must added to my calendar before I fill in other tasks.

  • Email
  • Phone Calls
  • Meetings
  • Errands
  • etc.

Don’t forget other responsibilities like family dinners, date night, grocery shopping, cleaning, etc.  Add those in on specific dates (if they have them) or where they best fit.

This is the guts of your 24 hours.  The things that must be finished before all else.  From there everything else needs to fit within that basic schedule. 

  • Workouts
  • Time with friends
  • Television watching
  • Medical visits
  • Personal Errands
  • Household cleaning
  • And MUCH MORE!

I love of Google Calendar and separate personal/home tasks, work task, gym workouts, meetings and even shared tasks with Hunni by color.  Even better now that it’s baseball season Google fills in all the Red Sox Games for me. Smile

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Having a basic schedule makes it easy to say yes or no to invitations or requests.  A basic schedule makes it easy – or at least easier – to fit in workouts on a regular basis.  A basic schedule puts everything out in the open.

Looking at the basic schedule with “have tos” and the free space helps organize my to-do list.  My to-do list never quits.  The tasks just shift as I add more to the list.  But with my basic schedule I can see how much I accomplish each week and the time to fit in more tasks from the list. 

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Holding Back

Life continues to change and I’ve learned to accept most.  Yet some things still hold me back.  Back from enjoying the life I have instead of longing for a life of my childhood dreams.  Back from pride in my accomplishments instead of anger in my faults. 

I’ve learned what holds me back most of all is me.  My fear of failure and success.  My fear of pain and even still some changes.  Ongoing work on me helps to accept more changes and not hold back on being proud of who I am and how far I’ve come and will go.  It’s not just about changes…it’s about growth.

 

*The flu bug hit our house this weekend and after lots of Gatorade, soup and toast it’s on it’s way out the door.  Lots of rest didn’t hurt either.  Now back to my semi-normal.*

Last Week’s Goals

  • Holy Week Celebrations.  Despite our illness this week everything went over amazing.  Our services were a blessing and we truly enjoy the worship.  It’s one of my favorite times of the year.
  • Visit with old friends.  Darn illness.  In order to do my job I had to cancel spending time with friends this week.  So sad.  But rescheduling has begun.  I need sanity.
  • Set health goals. Simple goals were key.  I can keep these goals.  And my friends are very helpful.
  • Stock the fridge.  At the beginning of the week we did amazing and enjoyed the fruit.  Now I need to restock.
  • Kick my butt.  Last week I was queen of the calorie burn.  I am loving my new app for workouts when I’m not at Zumba.  The fantastic sore feeling was great. 
  • Read and relax.  I read but not as much as I would like and did not start my reward book.  Hunni is still reading The Hunger Games on my Nook.  But the local library had a great book in the new selection I picked up to read.

This Week’s Goals

  • Read  and relax.  Yes again! My new book is getting good.  Instead of spending time watching random TV I’m spending time reading my book.  I already started while resting.
  • Pack it away.  It’s warm and my sweaters and sweat shirts take up too much space.  Now that I’ve cleaned out my closet I’m ready to pack away the things I’m keeping.
  • New uniforms.  The good and bad.  I need smaller uniforms finally and have to order them.  The bad is they aren’t cheap.  But I bit the bullet and ordered them so I don’t look like a schlep.
  • Tax time.  Time to finally send off all the paper work and payments.  I have them done but everything has been nuts.  Don’t want Uncle Sam chasing me down.
  • Ease into workouts.  After illness I tend to jump into workouts.  This week I’m easing into the workouts.  I don’t want to kill myself and be out of commission for another few days.
  • Menu planning.  I came to the realization last week my goals were set too high for menus.  I don’t eat at home every evening with my work schedule.  Instead if I plan a simple menu that can be adapted and am more lenient on the changes I’ll eat at home more often.
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