That is a quote from Charles Noble, and how true it is! \u00a0I am realizing that my bad habit of being a workaholic is not getting better\u2026the fact that it’s almost 9pm and I am still at the office working would evidence this fact!\u00a0 Clearly balance is something I really need to work on in my life – so\u00a0putting in boundaries and having parameters on when I will work and when I will not is becoming a must do for me.\u00a0I have decided that I am going to force myself to set parameters\u00a0for my work life\u00a0that I will implement starting tomorrow (because I obviously blew it today).\u00a0\u00a0I am going to\u00a0set\u00a0work boundaries for myself that dictate the hours I will and will not work and then I am determined to break my horrible habit of being a workaholic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now, let\u2019s put my bad habit aside and talk about staring good habits in our lives.\u00a0 Plus, it has been said that the best way to eliminate a bad habit is to replace it with a good one, so we can kill two birds with one stone people!! (disclaimer: no actual birds will be killed with a stone in today`s blog) :)…….<\/p>\n
Studies show it takes 21 days to form a new habit. 21 days. You can do ANYTHING for 21 days if you simply set your resolve that you are going to do it! Don\u2019t give yourself an out. Take a calendar and highlight 21 days for your habit to form and mark each day off as you accomplish it. Another thing that can help is to write down a list of benefits you will get from the new habit you start. For example, if it\u2019s eating healthy you can write down things like: Looking better, fitting my cute skinny jeans again, having more energy, etc. Writing down the benefits will serve as good motivation for you to keep on track for the 21 day period. Set little rewards for yourself when you hit milestones within the 21 days, for example, at day 5 I get this prize and at day 10 I get this, all the way to day 21 when I get to buy a new wardrobe for myself :), etc. These are just little tricks to help you as you establish your new habits.<\/p>\n
If you are wondering what new habits you might want to form, I found a list of ideas for fabulous habits people might implement.<\/p>\n
EXCELLENT HABITS TO DEVELOP: (by D. Gibson)<\/span> 2. Habitually find the positive side of any equation.<\/p>\n 3. Habitually set up a time to read more, grow more, learn more — every day or several times a week.<\/p>\n 4. Habitually treat people better — make it a personal standard.<\/p>\n 5. Habitually look for the beauty in the world around you.<\/p>\n 6. Habitually clean up your language.<\/p>\n 7. Habitually do things to take care of your physical self (a challenge for most of us, if there ever was one).<\/p>\n 8. Habitually save money.<\/p>\n 9. Habitually start looking for new opportunities around you.<\/p>\n 10. Habitually make the most of every day.<\/p>\n 11. Habitually plan your day or your week, and follow the plan.<\/p>\n 12. Habitually take stock of your successes and your needs.<\/p>\n 13. Habitually love your family — and spend time with them.<\/p>\n Hopefully I can add new good habits at the same time I break my bad ones.\u00a0 Join me in my latest quest and share your comments on how it goes for you!\u00a0 And hold me to my promise to stop being a workaholic!\u00a0 I need the external support from my friends to make this one happen\u2026seriously!\u00a0 Have an AMAZING day today!<\/p>\n \u00a0~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That is a quote from Charles Noble, and how true it is! \u00a0I am realizing that my bad habit of being a workaholic is not getting better\u2026the fact that it’s almost 9pm and I am still at the office working would evidence this fact!\u00a0 Clearly balance is something I really need to work on in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[251,265,64,250],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-balance","tag-habits","tag-life","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. Habitually think the best of the people you care about.<\/p>\n