Juice avocado. It’s so nice and I am realy realy like this yo!

Good day at home, didn’t made all I was expecting, but I indeed finished to watch a serie from 2 years ago. That made me very happy!

Awesome day, started a project for a friend that I was stalling for at least four months.

Very good day, did a lot of things I was avoinding doing, pretty productive.

Not much weight loss for the month but hit that big milestone so I’m happy!

Shortened weeks are weird on this thing.

Cleaned house and did yardwork in the morning, All afternoon the girls and I played in the pool, rode bikes and played outside. Then the evening routine.

I’ll be ending this month on a very high note. I hit quite the milestone this morning. Since starting Health Month I have lost 40 pounds. I am at my lowest weight since getting married almost 8 years ago. I am so incredibly proud of myself! And very thankful for all the support I receive from this great team. :)

Basically any day I do a Freedom Trail tour, I hit all of my rules.

I had a great morning – did meditation, then went to read/write in a quiet bookstore cafe. Meandered through a small local flea market just enjoying the compasses and plates and old screwdrivers and such. Spent the afternoon doing chores, which was less fun but necessary. Rising anxiety as the afternoon seemed to evaporate. Went to the gym even though I really didn’t want to, was glad I did (funny how I am always glad I did).

April has felt like an arduous month. Looking forward to May.

Semi-productive day. I managed to write up my very first choreography (for a 2 minute song, heh) and so now I need to work on drilling the shit out of that so it might be ready for the June performance. Then I came home and worked on ripping out the seams I made hastily in this velvet fabric that I was going to use for ritual robes (until I found out that they had to be 100% cotton, argh) and that is now going to become my dance costume coverup. It’s slow going, but I managed to watch the last episode of the season 1 of The Tudors.
I hope my electric bill arrives soon. It used to be Comcast that was the slackers on sending the bills, but now it’s BGE. I like to pay everything all at once. (Especially since my credit card has a lot of charges on it at the moment, eek!)

Hey Happy Habiteers,

April has passed by kind of unconsciously, so for May I did a bit of thinking and planning about my habits.

1) Exercising, my Habit Course Habit

Have been doing this ever since, more or less consistently, giving myself a lot of space for the interpretation of “yes, I did it!”. Although I think that it is crucial to be nice and gentle to myself I still want to re-establish my trigger-habit connection, hitting the trampoline as soon as I get out of bed, having a nice cup of coffee as my reward afterwards.

2) Doing at least one MIT

Do you remember I was a bit under pressure at the beginning of the year because of my logbooks? Well I didn’t finish. As soon as I heard that the focus of this year’s audition was bonus flight programs, the pressure was gone. Since then my MIT has been any urgent topic that I had difficulties taking care of, or writing 750words, which is indeed a pleasure and I’d like my MIT to be more of a frog…. So in May I could go on with those logbooks, as end of year is coming closer ;-) there WILL be a final day for handing them in. I really hate to do this, but I may hate NOT doing it even more!

3) Giving up a bad habit

Ok so now it’s time to confess a really ugly habit – I am a nail biter (oh, yes, there IS something I hate more than logbooks!). I’ve been wanting to stop for ever, so when I came across the Habit Course I thought this could be a good way to get rid of it. Then Leo told us not to start with a bad habit which apparently was absolutely right – and then I lost focus. But now in May I feel I wanna try.

As I am preparing for my habit change I am paying close attention to the situations when I do it:
- while reading,
- when stressed out,
- when indecisive,
- when procrastinating.

I have to find a better occupation for my hands (just do something! is a way…) or sit on them while reading.

This is going to be tough – various triggers throughout the day, possibly overcoming some deep and crazy reasons why I’ve been having this bad habit for such a long time, no direct reward because I have to wait until the end of the day to see if I was successful – so, your encouragement is highly appreciated!

And I need to focus on the positive results:

I would no longer feel embarrassed for my hands any more.
I would leave the grubby child behind in favor of a healthy and tidy look.
I would be SO proud for overcoming this long-living flaw!

I am looking forward to sharing my joy with you for every day that I didn’t touch my hands from now on! :-)))

Good luck for your new and old habits
Julia

Walk to comic book store for a magic prelease

HONEST MONTH/CURRENT CHECK IT:
I must prioritize my health and generally gain more structure in my life. I was very structured and busy last year, however I have lost that hugely this year. Although I do have some challenging things happening outside of myself, I must still ensure that I get myself in order. Otherwise I will not be much benefit to others!

So key learnings from Health Month:
1) Ensure Targets are obviously visible. Poster or wall, written on mirror etc.
2) Simplify, simplify and simplify! I often waste to much time trying to set the perfect goal and then I have already lost momentum. As much as they do need to be specific my challenge is to more so focus on regular attainable goals. E.g. next month I want to do at least 5 fitness sessions a week. (Swimming, Yoga, Run etc.)
3) Celebrate and analyse the value added. I am still not reflecting or celebrating my journeys enough. I must focus on realising the value these habits have in my life, and celebrate that!!! I.e. I MUST meditate daily. This is a non negotiable as I know how much I need this is I want to overcome my personal challenges. I MUST review my day, so ensure my brain has clarity before the next day.
I will do my final update of the last 2 weeks of health month now. Although it has not been the most successful month of maintaining these habits. Next month I must maintain these to increase my quality of well being!!!

So in summary:

For May:
1) 5 fitness session per week
2) Meditate at least 30 mins – daily
3) Write or record a daily review. Either as I go during the day or at bed. CELEBRATE DAILY SUCCESS!
4) Continue to track spending daily – Reflect on this weekly/set goals.
5) Lumosity training – daily
6) Read/practice public speaking/facilitation 30 mins 5X a week
7) Read/Study the power of now – daily.

Personal Outcomes I will to achieve:

More personal clarity and acceptance of my path this year, and future en-devours. Continue searching for the acceptance that life is a journey. (Read The power of now)
Strive to continually grow and gain opportunities to become a high quality facilitator and presenter. Have a bit of a loose action plan on how to achieve this!
Increase personal self confidence/efficacy to be backing myself further in my life challenges.
Feel more fit and healthy!

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If anyone has any spare fruit leftover, could do with a few points healing (even though I’ll make it into the next month no problem)…

Had a beautiful walk in the Arboretum in the morning. Did us good!

I did more than 120000 steps on Sunday. Napped a bit, battled in backyard with ivy and won a bit. Went to movie last night and made official commitments for May with Tom. iPad here I come! Will write new team goals today too! See you all next month!

Had a bit of a rocky evening, but otherwise a fantastic day. I worked out in the morning, finally learning some routines on the balance ball, and in the afternoon I started writing a new novel!

My co-author has been working on her part nearly all month and I finally found the angle for starting my part. Things are working out quite differently than I’d imagined, but in a very good way. I drafted the first scene and made notes about some things I missed in the first draft, so later this week I’l go back to insert those few things and then move on to my next part. We’ve been planning this novel on and off for the last three years—I’m so glad to finally be writing it!

Lots of spinach & an apple today.

da’i mo

I’m not sure why HM hasn’t taken a life point off me for not running. Maybe they felt sorry for me and my sore foot (which is still slowly improving).

If I’m up this early I’d better have gone to bed before midnight!

Hopefully my shins will start to feel better today.

A cool, but sunny day where I took a couple of long walks which were very nice.