Moving Forward By Putting the Pieces Together

Over the past nine months I have been learning the tools to have a happy, healthy, successful life and now I feel it is time to put what I've learned together and progress.

What do I want to achieve?

Short term my one focus is  to turn my good weeks into a good month. I can be productive, positive, and focused but it only seems to last a couple of weeks until I lose focus so I want to build that into a month.

What have I learned that will help me achieve this goal?

The big thing I've learned is that I have to be proactive in making sure my mood stays positive and I do that through my actions. The specific things I need to do to achieve this goal are:

1. Read the scriptures - the scriptures calm me when I'm anxious and overwhelmed
2. Pray - Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
3. Think positive - finding and posting positive quotes helps me with this as does listening to christian music
4. Set daily goals
5. ACCOMPLISH daily goals
6. Remember that it's ok not to be perfect. I'm human, I'm going to screw up. I'm going to make mistakes. That is ok. It's what I do with those mistakes. I can't let little mistakes derail my progress.
7. Cook - this one is a big struggle for me. It's not my favorite thing to do and I tend to get lazy and start eating out. This causes me to get down on myself and starts that downward spiral. When I cook I feel better because I'm eating better.
8. Clean - mess stresses me out. My mind feels free when everything is clean.
9. Be productive at work and at home. This is one part setting goals and one part accomplishing those goals.
10. Take things one step at a time. I do well when I take things as they come by day. I need to not get ahead of myself. I need to set the goals I want to accomplish the night before because I know the ultimate goal is to have a good productive, positive, progressive month - these are the steps that are going to achieve that goal.
11. Food Log - I need to write down what I'm eating so I can keep myself in check.
12. Eat every three hours
13. Reach my water daily. I achieve this by hitting my water goals during the day.
14. Exercise but don't over do it
15. Work on stretching.
16. Recognize and write down my successes. Let go of my failures.

If I'm diligent and do these things daily I can achieve my goal of putting together a good month. I'm not going to over think this and write down what comes after this. For now this is my goal, this is my focus.