Drink eight glasses of water, meditate for twenty minutes a day, spend quality time with your spouse and family, do aerobic exercise, lift weights, do yoga, read, keep up on the news....
Recently I wrote about "
having it all". What about "doing it all"? If we added up all of the recommended items out there it would add up to a week, rather than a day. It has only been in the last few years that I became OK with not doing it all. That doesn't mean I have given up completely, I've just set more reasonable goals, and made broader categories.
Reasonable Goals - Gretchen Rubin who wrote
The Happiness Project helped me with this a lot. She suggests setting small, meaningful goals and tracking them. The tracking really helps. My teacher friends will understand this. It is similar to having students keep a reading log. Here is an example of my goal log:
Breathe/Meditate 10
minutes day
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Yoga at least two
times week.
Other workout two
times week.
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Read – three times
week.
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Relationships
Activity two times per week
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Broader Categories - You will notice that I don't do yoga everyday. I do try to do something mind/body everyday, however. For example, if it is a day that I am walking or working with weights, I try to meditate longer. Sometimes meditating is just cuddling with the cat and listening to her purr. For the sake of full disclosure, meditating ten minutes a day has been the hardest goal to keep up with.
Weekly goals work best for me, but I just found this great infographic that I may try out:
