May 31 2008
June To-Do’s
I’ve been working diligently on my 101 things list, but it’s been kind of haphazard thus far. I wanted to set out a plan for the items I want to focus on in June:
- #13 Research & write a nonfiction piece (I’d like to start working on this in June, but it may take me longer to finish it.)
- #34 Wake up at 5:00 am every day for 21 days & #35 Meditate every day for 21 days (I’d like to combine these into one challenge starting tomorrow.)Â
- #39 Go one week without complaining (Starts tomorrow)
- #41 Go one month without shopping (Starts tomorrow)
- #57 Memorize a poem that I love
- #81 Call one cousin per week for three months
- #82 Write a letter to my grandmother
Ground rules:Â
Getting enough sleep is critical to good health, so if I’m up past 11:00 pm, I won’t get up at 5:00 am. However, every time I don’t get up at 5:00, I’ll add an additional day on to the challenge.
I have to meditate for at least 10 minutes in order for it to count.
Every time I catch myself complaining, I have to follow the complaint with a solution to the problem or another positive statement.
For the shopping item, these will be my guidelines:
- I already have a number of eating-out engagements scheduled this month. This is just the way my life is–I can’t really avoid it. I have both brunch and early dinner tomorrow, dinner on 6/3, brunch on 6/8, and dinner on 6/19. I will consciously choose the least expensive items I can find, and I will not schedule any new social events that require me to eat out!!
- Purchasing groceries (food, toiletries, other essentials)Â doesn’t count as shopping.
- Purchasing lunch out at work does count as shopping. However, because I occasionally get pulled into last-minute work lunches, I will allow myself one lunch out per week, but I have to keep the cost under $10.
- All other gratuitous purchases (gum, candy, sodas, bottles of water, magazines, etc) are off-limits.
- No purchases of clothes, books, gadgets, makeup, or any other non-essential is allowed.
One of the things on my 101 Things list is to memorize something (didn’t specify a poem, song, etc., though). Do you know which one you’re going to do yet? Maybe I could copy you and do the same one (or it would motivate me to look at poems and pick one of my own)…
Oh man…that list would be impossible for me. In an ideal world I would spend less and workout at 6 am, but it’s just not going to happen. I wish you luck!! I can’t wait to hear how it goes!!
Sounds like a full - but gratifying - month ahead!
Let us know how the meditation goes. It’s something that I’ve wanted to try.
Wow, I would love to do the non shopping thing for a month - it just seems that every time I think about it and say “I’ll start this next month or in a week or so” I remember I have birthday gifts/holiday gifts/anniversary gifts to buy and never to do it. Good luck with the getting up at 5 am thing. My alarm goes off at 5 and some mornings I can do it … others, well not so much!
~K