Good Lord... reality hit me upside the head today. Vacation over. Lack of sleep. Maybe staying up until midnight wasn't such a great idea, huh? Especially not when I did it because I was playing in the skateboard arena on Wii fit plus because I just HAD to beat Benjamin's score. Seriously, how pathetic is that??! I am competitive to a fault... always have been. *sigh* One of those things that I try to squash in my boys, but I'm not exactly a good example of "it's more important to have fun than to win" sometimes! :) Of course, I did have fun though.... especially because I DID beat his score! :)
Happiness Project update
I have been thinking the last couple of days about some other ways I can measure how well I "Treat Myself with Care and Respect." I realized that I left out one of the biggies..... which of course is eating healthy foods. Duh. The more attention I pay to including healthy foods in my diet, the better I feel. Drinking plenty of water goes hand in hand with this, especially during the winter, when the air is drier and we tend to be indoors a lot more often (at least I do... I am SO not a winter person!)
So in addition to my previous list, here are the additions:
- Follow the Zone diet/eating plan at least 80% of the time. (I have followed this diet, at least in part, for a couple of years now... when I follow it strictly, I have great success!)
- Drink at least 64 oz. of water per day.
- Try to "let go" of stuff that I don't need to worry about.... I don't need any more stress than I've got already! (This is my "I can't and don't need to control everything and everyone" attitude).
- Similarly, deal with things as quickly as possible to avoid nagging stresses... whether it's as simple as picking up a sock off of the floor the FIRST time that I notice it rather than walking past it 57 times and having it bother me every time (geez!) or planning out my 3rd grade health units well ahead of time so that I'm not trying to figure out what I'm teaching the day before I have to teach it. (This is what happens when I am making up the curriculum as I go along.... ugh.)
Admittedly, yesterday was not a super day in the self care and respect department.... only 5 hours of sleep last night, and the diet wasn't as good as it could have been, but I did get some nagging tasks done (like folding and putting away laundry, which I despise....). Today has been a great day overall, despite the fact that I had to go back to work AND I am still suffering the effects of the lack of sleep. My students were quite cooperative, and I came home this afternoon and took care of some planning for health classes.
Onward to tomorrow... looking for the positives every day!
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