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Welcome to 2023

 Time: 6:58AM

Weather: -9C
Sunrise @ 8:50AM
Sunset @ 4:25PM

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

I love waking up on New Year's day, it is a fresh start.  I am always so full of hope and excitement for the year to come.  This year I have decided that I really need to work on my goals and get them down so that I can work on them.  When I first started working on them I didn't think I would have an actual weight loss goal.  This morning I decide that yes I will have a weight loss goal.   I need to be accountable to myself this year.  My word of the year for 2023 is ACCOUNTABILITY.  I need to be accountable to myself for all my decisions. 

This morning I am thankful for

  1. A new year, new start, the first day of the new journey
  2. that I don't have to drive to Lethbridge today (trip postponed)
  3. That Farley (puppy) slept in till 6 this morning

Question of the day

What do I feel like my life is missing and how can I get more of what I need?  I feel that right now the only thing missing from my life is a direction or purpose.  I mean lately I have been getting up, and get busy doing things and completing things but not really living my best life or working on my health.  I have been very passive this past year.  I read about how I should be doing things, I take notes on what I am doing but I haven't been pushing myself to change.  I haven't had any real goals for a long time, just those pie in the sky goals.  I need to make and start working on my goals.  This past few days I have been working on my annual goals and then breaking them down to a monthly goal, today I will also break it down to a weekly goal.

Daily Diary

So this last week I have been working on getting my goals for the year written down.  Here they are.  It's going to be a challenging year but i am looking forward to it.

Health and Fitness

  1. 10,000 steps a day
  2. Walk dog every day
  3. Workout 3 times a week
  4. Attend Aquafit 1 time a week
  5. Get 7 hours of sleep
  6. Use CPAP machine nightly
  7. Drink 64oz of water daily

 

Work

  1. Move into a management position
  2. Read a book on management
  3. Increase my income

 

Family and Home

  1. Start eating together at the table
  2. Call my mom every day
  3. Call my sister once a week
  4. Clean out storage area
  5. Cook together 1 time a week

 

 

Personal Growth and Self-Care

  1. Record my daily gratitude
  2. Journal daily
  3. Read 1 nonfiction book a month
  4. Learn a new skill
  5. Follow a skin care routine
  6. Find a volunteer position
  7. Pay off 2 credit cards
  8. Dress better, take more care in my personal appearance
  9. Spend less time on Social Media

Weight loss

 

I want to lose 50lbs this year.  That is a little less than a pound a week.  My starting weight as of January 1, 2023 is 188.0lbs.  My goal weight for December 31 2023 is 138

Yesterday's Stats

Steps: 5,842
Floors: 7
Zone Minutes: 33

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