Welcome to Day 20 of the Wellbeing 9-a-Day blog! It’s time to have our second review of our progress so far and look ahead to what we want to achieve in the next ten days. In today’s blog, I am going to show you how I approach these 10-day reviews to ensure that my goals continue to serve me.
Looking Back
Now that I am 20 days into my journey with The Wellbeing 9-a-Day Journal, I get to look back on the habits I have been building so far.
During my review, the first thing I look at is my Journey. Each day I have been Setting Goals, ranging from household tasks to completing projects for work. For Being Mindful, I have done 4 x 1 minutes of box breathing. I have also been Letting Go of two bad habits, something made easier by the fact that succumbing to temptation now would break a 20-day streak.
Next, I consider my Fitness. Though I started well, I have missed my Exercising goal of walking 5,000+ steps four times in the past 10 days. However, I have been Learning by reading or listening to a chapter and Appreciating someone I love and something new each day.
Finally, I reflect on my Relationships. I have been Nourishing myself most days by drinking at least two litres of water and eating four portions of Nature’s Candy. My Self-caring has been daily qigong and static stretching routines and I have been actively Connecting with people I care about.
So far, I have been pleased with my progress. Though I have missed some habits on some days, I am overall going to give myself a big ‘Well done!’
Looking Forward
Now that I have reflected on the past 10 days, it is time for me to look forward.
For Setting Goals, Learning, Appreciating, Nourishing and Self-caring, I am happy with how things are going, and I plan on keeping the same intentions for the next 10 days. These habits are building well, and I don’t think I need to increase my aims just yet.
For Being Mindful and Connecting, I plan on increasing my goals. Box breathing for 4 x 1 minute each day has been a good start, helping me to connect with the present regularly over the course of the day. My goal now is to do 3 x 2 minutes of box breathing to increase my overall mindfulness practice. I also plan on increasing my connecting by ensuring that I connect with my girlfriend at home and with someone outside of my household too.
I am also going to tweak a couple of habits. Since Letting Go of some bad habits, I have found that I have not been sleeping as well as I would like. After a good meeting with Dylan and Magda at Karma Coast, I am going to introduce CBD into my daily rituals to help ease the process.
As I have been missing my Exercising goal of walking 5,000+ steps each day, I am going to introduce a new system. Now, I have the option to do 5,000+ steps or sets of a full body weight routine at home. I have equated 1,000 steps with one set of my routine, meaning I can walk, lift weights, or do a combination of the two moving forward.
Call to Action!
Take the chance to reflect on your progress so far. In situations where you are hitting your goal every day, look at ways that you can increase or improve your habits. In situations where you are missing your goals, consider methods of tweaking the goal so that you can start building the habits that will serve you well going forward. Last of all, well done!
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