Hello monday ;)

well, ive been neglecting this blog. so bad, but the truth is i can never think of new goals
:( really, im just trying to get through the next two weeks until school is out for summer without having a complete mental breakdown. i know i can do it, but i am just to excited for summer!

the only goal i have been attempting to keep up is the no starbucks, or chipotle... and exercising often. And i have to say, i've been doing pretty good! Bikram yoga is so addicting and completely what i've been looking for. I always want more of it. i hope i can keep doing it after this month!

besides that everything is going so well, i have been so happy lately which is why i think i find it so hard to come up with goals. so that might be a good thing, right?

IM BACK!

well, i've been gone for a while now... my apologies. but im back with a big goal! so, here we go

today is april 9th, that means summer is right around the corner. that means my lifestyle needs to change NOW. I am putting some restrictions on myself for the next monthish. until May 14th. aka the day i will for sure be in a swimsuit. publicly. but don't worry, im super excited.

1. no carbonated beverages aka soda.
2. no Starbucks. (super sad face)
3. no Chipotle.
4. no fast food of any sort.
5. fruits / vegetables with every meal.
6. eat 3 meals every day.
7. pretend like i have enough money to go to yoga.

by doing these things, I will be much healthier than i am now. i will have more money than i have now. both of these things make me happy Becky. Who thinks i can make it?

My goals this week

Here we are, back at Monday. I've been trying to think of goals for this week, but its been rather hard. I still don't exactly know what i am going to decide, maybe i'll just write until i think of something? Here we go...

exercise
I have been slacking the past few weeks. Exercise. every. day. this. week. i need to do it. and along with this i should be drinking more water. 8 cups of water every day. (eeer excuse me while i go fill up my water cup...twice) This week is technically spring break from school, so i have no excuse to not make exercise a priority.

this weekend
keep myself busy

Hi my name is Becky, and I have OCD.

SO, I've been thinking lately (that might be the first problem) that maybe my obsession with patterns, and numbers, and routine might not be as helpful as I thought.

What initially triggered my awareness of this compulsion is my invoices. Everyday at work i invoice all the tickets, and then staple them. I staple these tickets in groups of 4 in between my fingers, cute i know. My favorite thing is when the invoices are in multiples of 4, so the last group fills my finger gaps perfectly. amazing. Every time this happens, it puts a smile on my face! but, obviously, this doesn't always happen, so when it doesn't i feel like i need to fix it. It now bothers me if the invoices are uneven. silly right?

Ever since i recognized this invoice trend, i started to see other habits i have. For example, i check websites in the same order after my work is finished, and it bugs me if i disrupt that order. Or, as i awkwardly found out, i want the dishes to be done in a specific way... or just cleaning the house in general. I have to search my radio presets from 1-6 and can't go back to 1 before i click the rest (only sometimes on this one) im sure everyone has things they do like this that make them feel comfortable.

Basically, my question is at what point are these routines helpful, and when do they become a burden on myself and others. Am i creating a routine that my creative, spontaneous self is afraid to break? Is my need for these things affecting others, negatively?

am i overthinking the way i overthink things? lol opinions?

today i will be productive

I have decided that this blog shouldn't just be about goals, but also i will talk about my day to day life. are you excited? lol

so this weekend was exactly what i needed. i didn't work Saturday so the entire weekend was mine, to do whatever i wanted. After a fabulously relaxing weekend im back at work and fully charged. i feel so alert and mentally prepared.

i read an interesting article this morning about how busy is a state of mind, and a very broad term used for many things. mostly busy is a cop-out. people don't usually want less things, they want the right things. i thought this post was very insightful and found that i often use the term busy, when i really don't have much to do, but instead i just want to get out of doing something. i need to be honest and organized, not make excuses for myself.

this week in "becky has goals"

my first and only goal of the week i think will be the hardest goal yet. i have been pushing the idea around in my head for a while, but knew that today it needed to be done. this week i am going to avoid all office gossip. i will not talk about anyone, i will not engage in listening to latest updates. Working for a small business creates a lot of gossip, everyone knows everything about everyone else. and its pretty annoying. so starting right now i will not be the cause, but instead the solution ;)

HELLO!

i missed last week, oops! but last week was a little hectic... so i don't feel too bad ;)

goal one
this one might sound a little random but my goal is to make Cory coffee every morning. For some reason i was so busy last week i think i only made it one day, and it kind of bugged me. This week he will have coffee everyday :)

goal two
our current laundry situation is getting under my skin, but laundry is so time consuming and i just can't seem to accept that it wont all get done at once. My goal is to not stress about the laundry, but focus on getting one load done every day. Nothing more, Nothing less. By the weekend it should be almost finished.

goal three
don't sweat the small stuff. Learn to accept the few dishes in the sink or the laundry. Enjoy my life.

week two

this week I have two goals:

exercise every day
i have been extremely lazy lately, and need to get back into the habit of exercising regularly. I want to begin exercising every day. Some days will just be a short run, others might be a long workout, it doesn't matter as long as I am doing some sort of physical activity. i believe that doing this will help relieve stress, and just make me a happier person. I'm not intending to lose a certain amount of weight, just live a healthier, happier lifestyle, obviously looking better will be a plus too. oh yeah, and if i do succeed in this, I'm buying myself a purse, or new shoes, or an outfit, basically something exciting.

go to sleep with a clean house
Having clutter around the house seems to get under my skin, but for some reason I still let it pile up. Yesterday the house was clean, my goal for this week is to always go to sleep with a decluttered house. it will only take a few moments before going to bed to pick up the things that haven't been put away and load the dishes into the dishwasher, but it will make me less consumed with the sink full of dishes and more able to enjoy my night with my wonderful boyfriend ;)

week one

February 1st, 2010

This week I have three goals.

Slow down and concentrate on one thing at a time.
I love multitasking. I like to believe that I can multitask very well. In fact I find myself multitasking all the time, even when I don't really need to be. I have ample time to complete my tasks everyday, and by ample I really mean way too much. So why do I rush through my work every morning only to have hours of nothing to do at the end of the day? Who knows. I think that if I slow down and enjoy whatever I am doing at the moment, it will make me a more peaceful and level minded person. I will not run out of time, and I need to remember that a lot of times. Not only in the workplace but also while driving, while cleaning the house, and while relaxing for a few moments. This week I will slow down.

Be more positive.
Lately, I find myself making very negative comments. Usually its towards a stranger passing by, or concerning myself, but also about various others things. I have no clue where this subconscious negative energy is coming from, but I am going to stop it. This week I want to steer clear of negative comments. I will do this by consciously stopping any negative comment that I begin to say. If I am able to establish this habit I believe that I will be a happier person, and other people will find me more pleasant to be around.


Get organized and motivated for school.
I was very excited for this semester to begin, but also very unprepared. I went to my first class without paper, because I honestly didn't think to bring some. Now, two weeks into the semester I still haven't completely organized my school supplies. My goal is to have all the supplies I need for this semester in hand, organized, and in a backpack by Friday. No more putting this off. I need to stay focused on school now. If I can get this done by Friday I know that it will help me to be more prepared for all school assignments and make me feel more confident about this semester.

Why "Becky has goals"?

well, hello!

I'm beginning this blog to help myself create and document goals. Lately I have been feeling like I'm not making a lot of progress, as a person. This fact has been bothering me but, until this morning, I wasn't able to see what the problem actually was.

I'm the kind of person who always wants stability in my life. I feel like I have become so comfortable with where I am, and who I am, that I haven't taken the time to think about what I can improve in my life. There are many aspects in my life that could improve, but don't necessarily seem like they need improvement. I want to train myself to always strive to be a bigger and better person than I was yesterday.

So my first goal is to actually use this blog to implement goals and follow through with them. I am going to start off small with just a few goals each week and when I can get the hang of that, maybe I'll progress to bigger, longer goals :O I know, I know, lets not get too ahead of ourselves.

-Becky