7.31.14

Rise and Shine Challenge: Night of Day 4

Complete nightly todos- most of them..

In bed by- 9:30

Asleep by- 10:00

Awake by- 8:30*

*After being up so early the past few days my body completely rejected my alarm today! Did not hear any of my alarms to my surprise but 8:30 is better then 10!

Daily Thought: Take Risks

The road we travel on called life can have many twists and turns, ups and downs, and sharp rights or rigged lefts but we all have to make decisions and take risks. Right now I am making the big decision to go to collage, the first person in my family to go. I'm diving head first into unknown water when know one who cares about me has been. As I was signing up for classes and paying for my books I realized that my decisions that I make now not only effect myself but others around me, especially my parents. Although I know they are proud of my I also know that they are scared for me because they don't know what or who I will come across but they trust me and the choices I make on my path of life. I have a dream to become an elementary teacher and if I want to reach that dream I have to take risks. Most of us have to take risks because, "through great risk can come greater success." Some risks are greater then others and some may seem small to some but grand to others and that is why we should not judge because we don't know where most people are in their path or how you could effect their big decision in a negative way. Treat others how you want to be treated and don't forget to weigh out your big decisions so you have a greater chance in making the right ones.

Daily Motivation: 

7.30.14

Rise and Shine Challenge: Morning of Day 3

 

Complete nightly todos?- No

In bed at- 9:30

Asleep by- 10:45

Wake up time- 5:00

 

Daily Thought: Outlook

 

The outlook we have of things maybe very different from one person to another even though we are all mostly physically the same. Most of us have two eyes, ears, arms, legs, and hands. Most of us can all physically feel by touch, hear, see, smell, and taste. Even with all the similarities we may have its quite strange how different we truly are. Not different by our height, weight, or hair color but by the way we see things, our own personal outlook on life. Many things can contribute to how your day goes but ultimately how you want to feel and how you let yourself feel are all up to you. You can try and find something good in a bad thing or you can think of all the negative things that can happen if you question your daily routine or try to go outside the box. What I'm trying to say is no one but yourself can make you happy first. You have to make yourself happy and running sufficient in order for anyone to truly love loving you and for you to truly love loving someone else and that you can change the mood of a problem, situation, or task by the way you look at it.

 

Daily Motivation 

 

7.29.2014



Its only day 2 and I'm already having a hard time..

 

I started the day off good yesterday with waking up on time and doing my morning todos but when it came to night time I failed. After being stressed out all day that I waited to long to register for college classes, running around doing wedding stuff, and studding for my math placement test I didn't do my nightly todos and just as I thought, I didn't wake up on time this morning because I didn't set up my night for my day.

 

Rise and Shine Challenge: Day 2

 

Completed nightly todos?- No

In bed by- 9

Fell asleep by- 10:30

Wake up time- 8:30

 

Daily Motivation:

 

 

Daily Motivation

See where your day stresses you out and change it. If you really want something to change you will do it, no ifs, ans, of buts about it. Your life is all up to what you make it you can change whenever you want.

Rise an Shine Challang Day 1: The snooze button..

We all know the dreaded snooze button, and I don't know about you but I hate it. I always press it thinking that I will get up in a few minutes but that 9 minutes is just enough time to fall back asleep and wake up to press it again! So you know what I did, I turned them off. I set two alarms, one fore 6:50 and one for 7:00. No more snoozing for me! 

Another thing I did to make myself get up is write why I was getting up and put it on my night stand so it is the first thing I see. I am lucky enough to not have to get up for work or school just yet but I get up for myself. That is the reason I want to wake, for me. Not a job, not school, not a stupid boss, for myself and if I don't get up then I am only failing myself.

 

Day 1 update:

Complete nightly todos?- Yes!

Bed time- in bed by 9 I fell asleep around 10:30

Wake up time- 4:20... After my fiancé left for work I never fell back to sleep. After laying in bed for an hour I finally got up and started my todo list!

 

***my original post got deleted somehow yesterday so I'm reposting it

 

 

 

Rise and Shine Challenge!

I've noticed that my mornings as slow going and not very useful; but I could go all night doing different things if I had to, the only problem is I can't. My fiance has to get up for work at 4 a.m. so he tries to go to bed at 9 p.m. and normally I get in bed with him because all the stuff I would like to do (workout, clean, organize, etc.) is too loud and would wake him up. To help solve my problem I want to start a morning routine of getting up and getting stuff done! However I don't want to be alone on my journey so I would like you to join me and update everyday no matter if you start today or 5 years down the road I want to know that this is helping someone other then myself! I am going to break it down into steps of how I am getting started if some of the steps don't pertain to you skip them or adjust as needed.

Step 1: Set goals

Set 3 to 5 things that you want to do or get done during your new morning routine. I wrote them on a colored post-it note where I can see them everyday to remind myself why I am making a change to my lifestyle. My goals are, 1. Get more physical fit 2. Read the bible 3. Start my day with healthy choices 4. Blog more. I am starting small and as these become the new normal I will add other goals and cross off ones that have become routine.

Step 2: Wake up time 

Determine what time you will need to get up to complete your new goals every morning and count back 8 to 9 hours to figure out what time you need to go to bed. I want to wake up at 7 a.m.; to most people they would think i'm crazy because that isn't even hard  to get up that early, but for me it is because I am not a morning person and never have I been but I am working on changing myself! To get up at 7 a.m. I would need to go to bed at 9 p.m. ( I added an extra hour because I have a hard time falling asleep).

Step 3: Setting up your day the night before

If you don't go to bed in a good mood most likely you wont wake up in a good one either! Take an hour before bed to complete 5 tasks to help lessen the stress in the morning and to wind down a bit before bed. My biggest stress-er is waking up to a dirty house and I have discovered if my house is a mess before bed I hit the snooze button because I don't want to get up and look at the mess and reading tends to wind me down so I have added these things to my list of stuff to do before bed. Here is my list, 1. 15 minute pick up kitchen 2. 15 minute pick up room 3. get ready for bed 4. write tomorrow's todo list 5. read for 30 minutes . I start my nightly tasks at around 7:45 so I can have a little time to spare if I need it.

Step 4: Putting it all together by making a todo list

My todo list goes through my whole day and helps me get through the day even. Here is how my todo list lays out.

As you can see it is more then a todo list but that is the best thing I can think of to call it. This is how I have broken down my todo list.

Part 1: Water

I have a problem getting in enough water on a daily basis so I track how many bottles of water I drink throughout the day.

Part 2: My daily goals and daily todos

make bed

exercise  

read one section of the bible

eat breakfast

shower 

blog

do task off of master todo

do task off of master cleaning list 

do task off of weekly todo list

15 minute pick up kitchen

15 minute pick up room

get ready for bed ( wash face, brush teeth, take pills, that kind of stuff)

make tomorrows todo list

read for 30 minutes

Part 3: Other things todo 

This is for stuff like appointments, errands, studding, or taking kids to and from sports. 

Part 4: Exercise

As of right now and am working through Kayla Itsines's Bikini Body Guide that has 2 circuits that you repeat twice  so I am tracking myself on how far I get in the seven minutes per circuit so if I want to restart the workouts I can see how far I have come. If I am just doing cardio I write the workout or how fast I am.

Part 5: Gratitude list

Everyday I wright 3 things i am thankful for, sometimes I will repeat thing like people but I try to write different things every day

Part 6: Food intake

It is exactly what it sounds like, all the food I stuff in my face throughout the day and the times I do it at.

Wow that was a lot more then I though it was going to be but I promise it will all be worth it! Take the weekend to come up with your goals and comment them on this post because I want to see what you guys want to work on and don't forget to make a good todo list and lets report in on Mondays post on how our first day is going!