in keeping in line with my new years resolutions, today i am continuing my practice of cultivating an attitude of gratitude in all things, as well as adding on “carve out an hour of solitude every day”.
This condition may occur at any age of males. cheapest tadalafil india 3. The active ingredient of this medication is Vardenafil, vardenafil generic which is also a PDE-5 inhibitor. It can be levitra professional online no accident that the Aztecs called them ‘Ahuacuatl’ or ‘testicle tree’. The weakness of nerves is mainly responsible for buy tadalafil 20mg this men sexual disorder.
i must admit when i saw this next up on the agenda, i was excited but also a little skeptical. i mean who really has time for an hour of solitude every day, especially when you have a two year old? of course then i thought, “oh but how nice would that be? pure heaven is what it would be!”
my mind started thinking of all the things i could do with an hour of solitude: take a nice long bath, give myself a manicure (and actually let it dry), finally finish a novel i started 3 weeks ago, actually think & ponder, meditate, etc. etc. i could go on and on.
then i got lost in my day and didn’t give it another thought until later in the day when i had to fill in my daily points for a “better u challenge” i’m doing with some family & friends. the main premise of the challenge is you get 1 point each day for each daily task you complete. tasks include:
- dressed and ready by 10:30 am
- 30 minutes of exercise
- 15 minutes of spiritual time
- know your dinner plan by noon
- eat 5 fruits/veggies a day
- drink 8 glasses of water a day
- 15 min. of decluttering
- no snacking after 9 pm
- completing your self designed pm routine
- a personal daily challenge (mine is 30 min. of “tot time” with ti a day)
- complete the health & happiness challenge (last week this was make sure your car is empty every night!)
- complete the relationship challenge (this includes weekly tasks to help better your relationships)
when i first signed up for the challenge i thought, oh this will be a piece of cake, but then the first few days i realized how bad i really am at some of these things. the hardest have been the water, eating 5 fruits/veggies & funny enough the two that i had complete control over, the pm routine and the daily challenge. there have literally been nights i’ve sat down at 8:50 pm and chugged 6 glasses of water, as well as consumed 4 servings of fruits and veggies.
back to entering my points though, as i was entering in my points i thought, how am i going to do all this & carve out an hour of solitude every day, as well as remember to write thank you notes & keep working on getting our budget, and work, and take care of ti guy….i need another 5 hours in the day… i just don’t think it can happen.
i didn’t think it could all happen that is…until i read this post over at the jones design company. here is an excerpt from that post:
“… so many things in life will never get done if I am not intentional about doing them. Handwriting notes of encouragement to friends, spending one-on-one time with each of my children, putting the laundry away – these all take a conscious effort.
But even more so, if I am not intentional about loving others the way God wants us to, I will spend all of my days doing my own thing in my own home forgetting that there are so many unmet needs right outside my door.
To wake each morning with the phrase be intentional staring right at me is probably just the reminder I need to live my day with purpose – accomplishing important tasks, making the most of the time that I have and truly loving those around me. ” ~ emily from the jones design company
is that not exactly what i needed to read? see this, is why i love blogland so so much. i needed an answer, some inspiration if you will and it came. i need to live my life intentionally. i need to be intentional when making all my decisions. i need to live my days on purpose. i need to live according to my priorities and decide if that new episode on hulu really is worth it.
be intentional.
i love it. am planning on framing it later this week and putting it on my desk. that is the answer to getting my hour of solitude in every day & to getting everything done for the better u challenge. so simple.
