Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Resolving to get my life together

So I'm going to start logging my progress with the resolutions I've picked out to help me get my life together -- get myself into a routine where I don't feel like I'm fighting myself all the time. Since I feel like I took a giant step back when I moved to Spain, this is starting out with some very simple, basic things that most people find very easy to do. I'm going to try to blog each day about how I've done with each of these resolutions -- hopefully I'll start to see an improvement. My current resolutions are as follows:
  • Keep a bedtime: 12:30 on school nights, 2:00 on weekends
  • Exercise: running on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, yoga on Tuesdays and Thursdays
  • Accomplish one thing off of my to-do list per day (not including homework -- that needs to get done regardless)
  • Eat 3 meals per day
  • Blog about my progress daily
  • Paint my nails every Sunday
The first few seem pretty basic, but like I said, I've been having a hard time even keeping to those. The last one is because I need a way to start feeling more like myself again, and painting my nails used to be one of my favorite hobbies. One of the lessons I'm trying to take to heart that I read on Real Simple's website is that I need to control the tiny little things I can control. That's kind of what all this is about. There are a lot of things that I can't easily change -- the fact that I'm lonely, homesick, and miss my family, friends, and boyfriend -- but these are the things I can take control of.

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