Finally had a year without school and a solid amount of friendships that went well and did some hiking and some other things and gained a partner and traveled almost every week. 2018 was a good year overall and 2019 will be even better. I feel like there are things I need to be better at and things I do well here are the things I need to be better at first:
1. snacking: I can get ice cream (Halo Top at this point), chips, and candy as rewards and that is a terrible thing to do. I can sometimes snack up to a few times a day and not eat as well. I have lost some weight but why I sometimes can't keep it off is snacking. I am going to try something to when my chips and protein bars are gone no snacks in my apartment for three months and try to get low-sugar protein bars and fruit and vegetables. That way I can have something in my mouth without gaining too much weight and to help me with my sugar sensitivity.
2. alcohol: during the summer I drink a few times in the weekend and a couple times during the weekday. sometimes in the rest of the year it is almost as bad. I want to try to not drink until the summer starting the end of this month and then once September starts detox for three months. I know that I can do that it's just a matter of working on it and having friends that support it. I think as with coffee for years I am ianfluenced by my friends and most of my friends like to drink so creating boundaries with them would be helpful. Not drinking will help me lose the waistline and my wallet will be richer as well.
3. late night carousing: it's fine in the summer but during the fall and the spring and definitely the winter it's not really safe. I need to be better about communicating that some nights don't work as well because of my work schedule and some nights I have too much to where I just can't do that. It will help with my sleep, with my time management and with my overall health.
4. social media: I scroll for sometimes an hour when I am alone at night and sometimes overuse my phone when I am at the laundromat for something to do and to fill in time. it needs to stop. I need to be able to do yoga, meditation, reading, and journaling on a regular basis for my health to be the best it can be and scrolling for hours stops that from happening. also I need to be more consistent with putting on pajamas so that I can gain people's trust that I am able to do well.
5. communication: I can go on a wild tangent about this but let's just say for all the times I am with people and for my field of study it's not a strong point. next
Five things I do well at:
1. exercise: part of the reason why I have been healthy is because I exercise almost daily even when it's hard to get to the gym I am able to find other ways that make myself have at least 20 minutes a day. There are a lot of workout classes I enjoy and a lot of power and therapy workouts I do and a lot more stamina with snowshoeing and hiking that I have gained and swimming as well. I will be able to do even better this year because I have goals at exercising real well.
2. good friends: I won't spend too long on this one but I feel blessed to say that the friends I have are some of the best friends I have ever had they are like family to me and I continue to see them as being a true asset in my life. I have friends from everything I do and that is such a blessing in my life.
3. finding work: A few internships that fell into my lap, a few committees, Albertsons', church, my ministry, some volunteering- I'd say that it is not a problem for me to find work and hasn't been for a while. I am a very personable human and I care about what I need to do to be better.
4. perseverance: I could find many examples but the biggest one that says everything you need to know about why it's a strength is my college itinerary: three times in basic algebra, four times in lab sciences, fourteen and a half years plus summers to graduate, and two times taking communication classes that I either withdrew from or failed again and passing well. I think that says it all. next
5. always having the will to get better: whether it's activism, health goals, self-help books and motivational videos, making great friends in my life, making great connections that are better as time goes on, listening to others as a sounding board, or coming up for ideas to make things work I have a desire to get better. I don't want to be good I want to be great and I'm not satisfied with the status quo.
Next blog coming up in a couple weeks: part one of the what if section what if I never went to Boise State stay tuned.
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