 1.For yesterday’s VEDA submission, I showed you my current journals that are in progress. Youtube Link Here’s a link to a post I did a couple of years ago regarding the kinds of journals I keep and how I keep them. 2.During today’s VEDA submission, I talked turn ons and turn offs. 3.My social calendar this year has been stressing me out. Last year I worked on pulling away from a lot of my relationships to tend to a very tired and confused soul. Now that I’ve recuperated, I can feel the dangers of burning out again as I try to maintain friendships. I sometimes wish I could consolidate all my friends so that I can meet them all at once, catch up all at once, and then have 3 nights a week I can just be on my own. I’ve always been a flaming extrovert, but 2010 has cultivated a small introverted side to me. I get overstimulated easily now. 4.After much thought on how to deal with the stresses of my calendar, I’m now trying to book lunches, dinners, and outings 3 weeks out, and leaving 2-3 nights a week free for spontaneous events, date nights with the boy, and nights to myself. Hell, that girls’ weekend trip I took last week was actually planned out months ago. I have a lunch next week that was planned 3 weeks ago. I hope this new approach brings more peace in my life. 5. I started doing Morning Pages again last weekend and today is the first day I haven’t and it feels weird. Morning Pages is when you wake up in the morning and before you do anything else, write three pages. I think it’s first credited to Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, which is an awesome guide to unearthing your creativity. Anyway, I’ve grown to love writing and dumping out my feelings and extraneous thoughts first thing in the morning. I feel it kind of cleanses me of a lot of mind chatter and I get to approach the day with a clean(er) emotional and mental slate. You should try it out! 6.Leo at Zen Habits is putting together a course on habits and I was one of the lucky souls who secured a spot in his beta version. It’s due to start next week and the habit I picked is to eat vegetables every day. I just suddenly came to the conclusion that my lack of healthy habits is a flag of immaturity. I’m pushing 28. An unhealthy diet, lack of sleep, and drinking more coffee than I do water are unacceptable at my age and I am embarrassed. So uh… Veggie Power?! 7.This week’s moments of bliss: ♥ laid back nights at Thursday karaoke ♥ late night eats at Chilantro’s ♥ catch up phone call with Kimmy ♥ catch up phone call with Jamie ♥ catch up couch time with Brandi ♥ great parking spots Question: What areas in your life need improvement? |