Finally, a moment to post something! After a harrowing end of semester followed by a two-week trip to Florida to visit the parents, we are settling back into a routine (I hope).
My life management skills are in need of renewal. I cannot have another semester like this past fall. I’m going over some of Stephen R. Covey’s material, including his new book, “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness” (got it for Christmas; so far, I like it) and trying to figure how to improve my ability to manage my activities better.
Anyway, I’m hoping to finally and fully adopt the 7 Habits. I’ve always felt they held a great deal of promise, and I think it’s time to see if that’s the case. As a (somewhat modest) start, I make the following New Year’s Resolutions:
1. Get to bed by 10 each weeknight, up by 6 every weekday (this will be the hardest — I am by nature not a morning person, but I know I’ll be able to get a lot more done if I get up earlier than if I stay up later).
2. Post something of significance to this website at least twice a week.
3. Do 20 minutes of aerobic exercise at least three times a week.
4. Learn a new skill, take up a new hobby, or develop some as yet unknown talent (I’m considering learning to play the mandolin — what do you think of that?).
And I’m asking you to hold me accountable.
Feel free to share your own resolutions. Fellow Daily Briefers?
And of course, have a great and prosperous 2005!
From Lt Col Sage and the whole Sage family.
I LOVE the mandolin. I’ve threatened to get one for a few years now but my husband has (so far) been able to talk me out of it.
We bought an elliptical trainer today, wait, no yesterady now, so my resolution is to use it and our weights and get back my Air Force body. I would love to have my 18-year-old body back, but that would take surgery.
Happy New Year!
Comment by DragonLady — 20041231 @ 2304
I jog for an hour and 15 minutes every morning— I’ll raise you your twenty minutes three times a week. And I have a Pilates tape I want to start doing at least four times a week…
I would very much like to fit back into certain items of clothing that I bought when I was working retail; and by way of reassurance that I am making progress, my daughter handed off a pair of her jeans to me, while she was home, with the comment that I could have them, if they fit.
They did.
And as my daughter (while an inch or so taller than me) is 25 and a Marine, which means “complusively fit” I find the fact that I can fit into a pair of her cast-off Ralph Lauren jeans to be curiously reassuring…
Comment by Sgt. Mom — 20050101 @ 1921