Monthly Habit Preparation
First off, one more reminder to submit your health tips articles by April 30. I’m running this as a blog carnival, so I’ll do a post with links to everyone’s submissions. Please submit yours and pass the word along as well.
I’m also prepping for my May monthly habit — exercising daily. My goal is to establish the habit of exercising every day, not necessarily get in lots of workout time. So, I’m setting a low daily goal of 10 minutes. My thought behind that is that if the goal is easy enough to achieve, I’ll experience less resistance in doing it. After all, anyone should be able to do 10 minutes of exercise, right?
I’m hoping that the habit will “stick” after doing it for a month. Only then will I work on increasing the amount of time I spend working out. For now, I’ll work out for 10 minutes and then let myself off the hook if I want to. Knowing that I can quit, guilt free, should help me build the habit.
To that end, I’ve been planning how I’ll work in the exercise. We have a bowflex that I’m getting ready for use. We also have a netflix account, and there are some exercise videos available there to watch instantly. My husband and I are going to get our bicycles ready this weekend as well.
I think it’s important to plan to change a habit. The bigger the habit change, the more advanced planning is often necessary. I’m working on being ready to kick off my habit on May 1.
Will anyone join me? If not for the exercise daily habit, then maybe there’s another you want to work on?
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