- lights out at 10:30
- exercise for at least 30 minutes
- eat healthfully
- eat three meals
- drink 64 oz of water
- spend 10 minutes tidying up before bed
- tackle a nagging task
- act energetic
Exercise...yikes. I have only 19 days left to get 12 gym visits in. This tends to get away from me every month. I hate going to the gym on Monday mornings and then I usually have a meeting on Tuesday. That just sets me up for a bad week. I think I am going to have to bite the bullet and make Monday happen. I am also going to have to spend time at the beginning of each month highlighting available gym mornings in my resolution chart.
My eating habits are a subject for an entry of their own. More to come on that this week.
Finally, we get to "Tackle a Nagging Task." I wasn't joking about the fact that my first nagging task was to create the list...something I haven't gotten to yet. However, I feel as though I have spent the last two days tackling a big one. While it isn't yet down for the count, it is on the ropes.
I manage a small non-profit organization and have been struggling with some personnel issues lately. It has been amazing to me how quickly an upbeat and productive day can turn into a day of ineffectiveness because of someone else's issues. To back up, I took a lot of time off in December (vacation time...use it or lose it), including an entire week between Christmas and New Year's. I came back in January but was not in the office much due to the death of my husband's amazing Grandmother.
When I finally came back to work this week, prepared for my first full week of work since mid-November, I was ready to roll...to make things happen. Within three hours, I had to deal with an issue between two employees. It was as though my energy balloon had been completely deflated (phhhhhhhht). In the past, I would have listened, given them both advice for how to deal with one another, and resolved to take care of the issue once and for all...as soon I got to a place where I was caught up enough to deal with their seemingly never-ending childish squabbles (I mean, really...am I actually the principal of an all-girls middle school?).
This week was different. Happy Mommy Boss Lady looked it square in the face. I am not going to tolerate it any more, and told them so...in no uncertain terms. Formal warnings and everything. And, most importantly, I did it with a smile on my face.
First nagging task completed.
