I am contemplative. I like early mornings. I like to have time to myself and for prayer/reflection before the busyness of the day.
Get up at 6am, ready, prayer time, journal, sing a few songs

I can do more than before; I can be on time and finish daily tasks. I am learning to be a good homemaker.
Finish washing dishes after dinner, play music during task.

Having a wind-down routine is important to me.
Devices off 9:30pm; get ready bed, prayers, read, read to DH, crochet in bed with earbuds (peaceful music).

Loved this opening post @themedalist and all your contributions so far team! I want to do some reading and thinking before making my commitment 📖🤔🙇🏼‍♀️

I've never heard of Identity-Based Habits before...always outcome based. It makes sense to me after reading through the articles. I would like to be more active for the month of February so I will make an appointment with myself (since appointments are hard to break) to do a workout of my choosing. Small win: walk/yoga/stretch/etc. every Thurs, Sun, and Monday.

Love the identity info @themedalist it really hit home... me? Well I am a runner, I am healthy, I am a calm cool collected woman, mother, wife & friend who proves myself only to me!

This Feb I will........................
* Continue to wake up at 4.20am to do weights, run, and  stretching 5 times a week.
* Be out the door for workout no later than 4:50am
*Meditate 5 min in morning
* Look at my habit list in the morning
*Beach swim after workout if weather permits
* Pray and gratitude with bub wen he wakes up daily.
* Limit phone usage, turn phone off as much as possible.
* Be present with bub
* Track every BLT honestly even wen i
graze.
* Make bub laugh at least once a day
* Talk bub and hubby up not down to ppl
* Wen bub has a tantrum in public pull him away and give him the attention he needs.
* Aim for no pass days in Feb instead eat at maintaince or use exersice calories.
* Listen more, talk less and refrain from over explaining myself.
*Journal daily
* Take my vitiman daily
* Read at least 1 page a day, 5 times a week.
* Do 20 min of intentional exercise on w/e
*Play with cat at least once a day
* Ask hubby how he's day was
*Meditate 5 min eveining
*Floss daily
* Monitor sugar intake 5 days a week
*Pretrack  calories for next day
* Be in bed at 9.00pm 4 nights a week.

THIS FEBRUARY I Will:

Lower my 30 day average caloric intake to on or around 1900.
I've been tracking my calories and changing my habits for 60 days now - habits like eating breakfast at home and bringing my lunches. I've gone from the first 30 days averaging 2469 and the last 30 days averaging 2021.
A couple years ago, I would have said, I am a runner - but I can't anymore due to injury, so I am going to say that I am a healthy eater. I love veggies, so increasing them will be pretty easy.

I was reading Nuts and Bolts and happened upon the section on supermarkets. I was reminded of how I decided to circumvent the Psychology of Supermarkets many years ago.

Supermarkets are specifically designed to encourage us to buy as much as possible. It’s one of the reasons that so many adopt similar layouts.

How many times have you walked in for a couple of necessary items and come out with a lot of extras?

We have all fallen foul of being manipulated by big business in this way. Bright colours; special offers; essentials at the back of the premises so that we have to travel past tempting goods to get to them! All these and many more are specifically designed to fleece customers of their hard-earned cash.

It’s a case of BUYER BEWARE!!! when we enter those doors.

What I did was create a new shopping habit which used the layout of the supermarkets to create a print-out shopping list of items I normally buy which avoided all the items I didn’t.
🔹The list has tick boxes, and is arranged to follow my route through the supermarket which optimises my choices.
🔹It groups items into categories.
🔹There are spaces to accommodate
occasional purchases.
Yesterday’s list:
This habit has been invaluable. The list has gradually changed over the last seven years to accommodate my ‘new’ fit/healthy lifestyle changes.

And an added advantage is that my list loving hubby can go off on his own and do our shopping if I am otherwise engaged.
🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

Here is the 4 step plan I mentioned in a previous post.

My 4 Step Plan for goal setting success
(AKA Jurgen Wolff, 'My Writing Coach')

Step 1.
Imagine you are at the end of the year. Think of the one thing that you would like to be able to look back at, at the end of the year, and say 'I did that!'
Write:
"At the end of this year I would like to look back and be able to say ....................."
This becomes your primary goal. (If you have an unused note book use the first page to do this.)

Step 2.

Underneath that write:
"Today, to help me achieve my primary goal, I am going to do............... (Write in one or two small things that you can do now to start you off.)
Now go and do them! You are taking the first step towards success!

Step 3.
Now that you have taken the first step write out and complete the following sentences
Tomorrow I will ....................... to help me achieve my primary goal.
This week I will ....................... to help me achieve my primary goal.
Next week I will ...................... to help me achieve my primary goal.
Next month I will .................... to help me achieve my primary goal.
Please take the time to write these out. It reinforces your commitment to the goal.

Step 4.

Review your progress daily, weekly, monthly.
Adjust the steps as you progress.
CELEBRATE EVERY SINGLE STEP YOU TAKE!

This is what I wrote on the first page of my notebook:

At the end of the year I would like to be able to look back and say that I had lost 1lb for every week of 2015.

Today, to help me achieve my primary goal, I will:
1. start logging my calories on MFP.
I had been putting this off for far too long. I got the shock of my life when I realised how many calories I was eating. My dietician had said I should be eating between 1200 and 1500.
2. Walk to the local shops: This was a 2 mile walk. It took me over an hour, but I felt great afterwards.

This week, to help me achieve my primary goal, I will:
1. Park on the other side of the town park and walk to and from the activity centre instead of parking outside it. This was a twenty minute walk each way as I took a roundabout route through the park.
2. weigh my food and log it on MFP and stay under goal. I have done this every day now since I started logging.
3. do a minimum of 30 minutes exercise every day and log it on MFP. I started walking around the neighbourhood after dinner if I hadn't done this earlier in the day. Now I 'Walk with Lesley' several times a day as well as doing my out and about stuff.

Next week, to help me achieve my primary goal, I will:
1. weigh and log foods
2. increase my walking to a minimum of 60 minutes a day
3. do a minimum of 3 X 30 minute aerobics sessions
4. do 30 minutes of Tai Chi each morning

Next month, to help me achieve my primary goal, I will:
1. weigh and log food
2. Join challenges on MFP
3. increase my aerobics sessions to 45 minutes
4. Extend my yoga/tai chi using YouTube vids
5. increase my walking to 90 minutes a day
6. Keep a diary of my progress.
8. Add other goals as the months pass, but never lose sight of my primary goal for the year.