End of the Year Goals

Four Simple Goals ... Before 2014

I discovered the Four Simple Goals ... Before 2014 on Positively Present blog. There's some really good stuff there - all of it inspirational.

Stuff like this:

So I quickly came up w/my four little goals:

1. eat two pieces of fresh fruit each day
2. no email before 11a on non-teaching days
3. 15-minute weight workout daily 
4. go to bed by 10:45 p.m. Good luck to me

For me these are simple and doable. I'll try to keep the blog updated with my progress.

If I can form these habits, then that will alter my outlook on some things and rev up the positivity all around, right?

Good luck to me. Very excited!

Who's complaining?

So I finally got around to watching Tuesday's Oprah show on Wednesday evening. It was a good show; she covered a lot of topics and it was called the good news show. For the record, I like Oprah and I DVR the show daily.

Well, one segment really intrigued me and that was the 'Stop Whining/Complaining' segment. There was a pastor on who talked about a challenge to rid the world of complaints and complainers ... wow ...

It is an interesting concept. The plan is based on wearing a purple bracelet and the goal is to not complain for 21 consecutive days (it seems that research shows that it takes about 21 days to form a habit). If you do find yourself complaining, you should take the bracelet and put it on the other wrist. You do this until you've worn the bracelet for 21 days and picked up a new and positive habit of not complaining.

I have already put in my request for a bracelet (I also ordered some to pass along to others) ... and I think I will complain until it arrives. No, really, I've been consciously working on this endeavor since I saw the Tuesday show. If you, too, are traveling down this complaint-free road, all the best! It seems a bit 'secret-like' to me. So it should be a bit easier to think of the positive in what may appear as a negative situation.