So it’s been a week. Back to a routine and time to see how well or badly I’ve been doing with January’s goals. Although I didn’t tell you about them until the 5th, I’ve been doing them since the 1st so the scores reflect that.
After half arsing the Countdown to Christmas goals, I headed into January determined to work really hard on my January goals I want to have a perfect score this month, the theme of the year is build and that’s really helped, when I’ve been wavering with some of these things, I’ve been asking myself how doing or not doing the thing I’ve committed to will help me build the life I want and so far that’s been keeping me on the straight and narrow!
1. Drinking. There 31 days in January and aside from the New Year’s Day champagne, I’m not going to drink in any of them.
11/11. Although, I miss the taste of alcohol, I’m sleeping better and waking up more refreshed so it’s fine. I did really want a glass of wine with last night’s pizza though!
2. Food. I will take a packed lunch to work every day and I will eat 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day.
Lunches 8/8 – I’ve made an effort to plan my lunches and make them a bit more varied, also it’s January and money is tight as a consequence of Christmas spending so I really haven’t been able to afford spending £5 on lunch! I’ve really made the effort to prepare my lunch the night before and then in the morning I can grab and go!
Five a day 12/12 – Eating five a day is much easier in the week, I’ve had to make a really effort at the weekend when my eating is less structured.
3. Coffee. I’ll drink it three days a week for January (probably Friday, Saturday and Sunday!). The other 4 days of the week I’ll drink herbal tea!
7/7 – This has been harder than giving up alcohol, on non coffee days, I drink redbush (rooibos) in the morning instead. It’s not as enlivening as coffee but it’s ok and I really enjoyed my first cup of coffee of the week on Friday, which I also really needed because I had a bad night with a migraine.
4. The messy cupboard. By the end of January it will be tidy. It will have new shelves, I will be able to find things in it!
1/1 – Done. The new shelves came from Ma’s old kitchen (but before that they were in my kitchen at St Leonards Road, it’s the Dempsey furniture recycling co-op), it’s tidy and I know where everything is. Yay!
5. Sleep hygiene. Sunday to Thursday sleep rules are. No computers after 9pm. In bed and ready for sleep at 10pm.
7/7 – After a couple of dreadful nights, (which also could have been the coffee and alcohol leaving my system), I’m feeling much better for the regular bedtime and whilst I’m not exactly leaping out of bed with joy every morning at 6am. I am out of bed by 6.10am and ready to face the day. The hardest thing for me has been putting away the computer and phone at 9pm. That hour of no screen time, gives me time to properly ready myself for bed, I use some of it to have a quick tidy of the house and the rest of the time to read or write or plan. Last night I even got my cross stitch out!
6. Self Care. I will moisturise every day, I will remove hair weekly and I will look after my feet!
12/12 – My skin hasn’t been this soft in ages and my legs and feet look significantly better!
Nic Dempsey 
I award you an A+ this week 🙂
(ps) don’t tell anyone, but in addition to my crocheting I quite enjoy a bit of cross stitching!
Have a great weekend.
I’m a solid B to C student so it’s the first A+ I think I’ve ever had!
I might have to get you to teach me to crochet, it’s something I completely failed to do last year!
Congrats on sticking to your goals! mine are very similar but I’m not doing half as well as you! reading this has inspired me to do better next week!
No-one is more surprised than me, i really didn’t want to start the year half arsed though! You can do it, just think of a small reward for each day and then another for the week and a bigger one for the month! It’s cheesy but breaking it down into a day at a time really helps. Good luck!