Day two: #inspire14
(Each day of 2014 I have committed to drawing in my visual diary and posting it online in my social pages and here.)
This morning I woke knowing my husband was home from work and so any excuse I could come up with to negate my morning walk would be void.
I just don’t know why it takes me so long to get out of the door.
Exercise, what is it?
We all have a demon habit that refuses to submit to our yearly resolutions will. Prayer, chocolate, coffee, smoking, drinking too much, eating carbs…You know the vice as soon as you read these sentences, it screams out pridefully ‘That’s me!, that’s me!’.
Anyway, back to my morning walk. We live 20 metres from the beach and you’d think I’d skip out of our front door every morning and frolic in the ocean with the penguins and dolphins, but honestly it is a major effort to get my body moving.
This year, after doing my new year reflection pages rather than setting New Years resolutions I decided I would set a daily routine rather than set goals.
See my goals have been quite similar for the last few years and I just don’t get around to making them a part of my everyday life.
Goals to:
Exercise more
Eat Healthier
Pray more
Read more
So I made myself up a routine daily that helps me achieve these goals.
7am- wake up (not with my phone and check online forums)
7.30am- play worship music in the house, not tv etc
8am- go for a walk/ exercise
9am- online time
12pm- lunch
1pm- Phone goes offline and no carbs after lunchtime
6pm- dinner
9pm- prayer and reading to go to sleep (online blackout)
I have realised, that radical bans from the foods and the habits, don’t work for me, but a routine with balance around it everyday, not just on special days, changes my personal culture and allows the resolutions that I have to become a reality.
As I walked the beach this morning, I smelt the smells of summer. I saw families, getting ready to ride the ferry, I smelt fish cooking, I saw colours and life, the wind exposed my fears and my heart refilled again ready for a new day of resolve.
Are you struggling already with the New Year commitments you have made?
Maybe you need to change your daily routine to make change not negotiable for this new year.
All my summer love
Amanda
Like the idea of a daily routine. I don’t do structure well but I need it. Was doing well until this virus hit. Back on track when all better. I have my visual diary out from year 12 and I using it everyday day too. Whether it be notes from podcasts, doodles, thoughts from the day…….something. Love being creative too. Must get passed my thinking perfection is needed!!
Oh no that’s not great if you’ve been sick it’s always harder to stay motivated and keep all the plates spinning. Get well soon. Xxoo
Love that you’ve pulled your visual diary out. I write so often that I neglect the drawing/ artistic side, that’s why I’m doing a visual journal everyday to try and spark new imaginations in that discipline. A few years back I did an art course at the fremantle museum and it was so nice to go and do something that was just for me. Might have to look into something like that again.