Healthy, Happy List

I need a reminder of what was working -- My Happiness Project.  This is the list in no particular order - just as I think of things - and I might edit it as more things come to mind today.

Remember to be HAPPY.  Sometime I forget and just get grumpy in my head for no particular reason.  It's simple and obvious, yet (for me) it's not my default.  It needs to be a conscience decision.

Eat healthy.  I feel so much better - ridiculously better.  And when my pants fit, all is okay in my universe.  Petty, but it's my reality.  This is the hard one for me.  This is the most important one for me.  That's why it occupies most of this journal.  It's a daily effort and often a struggle.  Ugh and double ugh!

Get crap off my plate.  I have a list of things that I need to work on.  Resume update, reviewing nursing notes, looking for job openings, figuring out what I want to do.  Having these linger creates stress -- stress is the antithesis to HAPPY and HEALTHY.

Have goals.  Be productive.  Rosetta Stone comes to mind.  I want to work on Spanish and I will work on it for short bursts.  Nothing consistent long term though.  I have plenty of time - no excuses.  I love when I do it, yet I let it go a lot.  I make some progress and then I stop.

Meditate.  It continues to "pester" me at every turn.  I think about giving up on it and it comes back and smacks me in the face.  I think the universe is sending a message.  (BTW headspace.com is going well.)  Meditating must be important.  I want to give up, but the dang universe won't let me. I guess I need to give in and just figure it out.

Variety.  But maybe better called BALANCE.  I need to push myself outside of my routines, do something exciting, something beyond CERTAINTY.  That makes for an interesting life, an interesting day ... puts some zip in the old step.  But ... too much variety sends me over the edge.  I like routine, need routine.  CERTAINTY is my default and who I am.  I'll take a cup of CERTAINTY with a slash of VARIETY and I'm a HAPPY gal.

Exercise.  I put this on my list for a win lol.  No matter my situation in life, no matter my size (even 75+ lbs heavier), no matter how busy -- I workout.  I guess it's burned in my DNA.  It's a good win to have in my back pocket.  I've tried to figure out the "why" so I can apply it to other thing (particularly the healthy eating) but there is some magical element that I can't explain.  I have my theories, but they don't work when I apply them elsewhere.  But a win is a win.  Yea ME on this one.

Reviewing My Happiness Project, I have a lot of wins ("wins" was originally a typo of "wine" ... that too) and lots of good learning about ME.  I need to take what I've learned and continue forward.  It's funny how easy it is to slip back into "less-than" default settings.  Even if the new setting is AWESOME.

My INTENTION today is to take steps to return to the AWESOME setting.  Baby steps, but the direction is forward.  Later gators.