Hard to believe it’s week 6 of the One Small Change Challenge! For those of you who don’t know, Marcia over Marcia’s Healthy Slice put out the call to finish the year by building some good habits. The key is to make one small change a week – adding a new change every week.
So how’s it going so far?
Week 1 – Daily plank routine
Week 2 – Keep my often-cluttered coffee table clutter-free
Week 3 – Increase my daily water intake
Week 4 – since things didn’t go so well I repeated Wk 3
Week 5 – Daily rolling of my very tight quads and hamstrings
While I’m still not getting the rolling in on a daily basis, I’m doing it more frequently than I use to so I’ll take that; otherwise I’m feeling like the other changes are becoming much more routine.
Moving on to week 6, my goal is re-gain control of my day! I feel like I’ve been functioning in “reaction mode” lately, and then when I get to the end of my day I’m left wondering why I still have so much left on my to do list. So this week I’m returning to being a more faithful user of my planner. In the mornings, I get my mug of coffee and take a few minutes to my preview everyone’s schedules, identify the “must do’s” vs. “like to do’s” and set my plan/intentions for the day. I use to be pretty diligent about this in the past, and I’m hoping getting back to this routine will help settle things a bit – especially with all the added holiday madness that’s starting to creep in!
What small changes are you making?
That is a great change, especially at this crazy time of year! Thanks for linking up! I am doing 10 minute ‘decompression walks’ on non-running days. They are head clearing for sure but snowy an cold this week too!
I like the idea of the walks – cannot believe you already have snow!
One small change that I’ve made is I made myself a goal, which is run 100K from Nov 1 to Nov 30. By today I’ve run 56K 🙂
Great goal and it sounds like you are well on your way to reaching it!
I love it!! Is that a franklin planner? Lol
It is! Love my Franklin planner 😉
My small change is to cut back and rest more in Nov, then regroup for Dec. However…I am doing the Spartan Fenway on Sat and that truly is a BIG change! Also, glad you were able to recognize the reasons to hang up the shoes. I’m sure it was hard, and yet all the more reason to be ready for 2014.
You have been a racing machine 🙂 Cannot wait to hear how Spartan goes! Good luck!!