Author: groseg

What can journaling do for you? Can you improve your mood? There are many ways to journaling, and all you have to do is start writing or find ways to write. There are many ideas to make it fun and helpful.

For many years I loved to write, and it wasn’t until my junior year in high school did I fall in love with journaling, instead of writing school papers. I enjoy writing out the happenings of my life, whether that be bad or good. It even helps improve my emotions when they become overwhelming, and I need to cast them on to paper. Over the years, I bought many journals for several types of ways which I found fun and helpful. Here are my all time favorite journal ideas:
My Journals

1. A fancy journal that I write updates of my life.
2. An expense journal to manage my money monthly.
3. A brain dump journal for when I have so much on my mind which helps improve my mood immensely.
4. An anything and all journal to write out my thoughts and ideas.
5. Prompt Journals on different topics I buy from Barnes and Noble.

We are learning every day through the daily adventures we go through. Though ever thought when something goes wrong that it teaches us not to do it again. Then if it right we happen to have learned something new, but it’s up to you of the wrong and rights of anything. We all have the power to apply it to our life as a lesson to not or do it again, depending on how it makes you feel. We are still little kids back in school learning new concepts and having a million questions to everything. We’re just adults in bigger classrooms.

Those classrooms are locations you visit every day — your workplace where you learn to communicate and work as a team. Then at home, you find ways to make it a happy place for your family or self. By now we’re paying our bills, how to save, what to buy or not, and many more life skills.

Through all these places we experience events we based them on our feelings to the situation, whether it’s happy, sad, scary. We learn what we like and dislike or love and hate about those experiences in life. Also of the questions, we get answers.

All of our lives are made up of lessons that come into our paths is for us to learn. We though sometimes don’t see them as life lessons to be discovered. They are just everyday life. To write it out: Experiences (events & location) + learning (how you felt through those events)= Lesson we learn of life.

When is a decent hour to go to bed for a night owl? Does your mind never stop and not seem to register it’s time to rest? Having tried many times to read, watch TV, or counting sheep, but doesn’t seem to work.

As a night owl, my mind tends to be more active, and my thoughts don’t seem to be quiet when I lay down in bed. It has been a long time since I found these tricks that aid to fall asleep. I combined two of my favorite things I like to do. One, which might be strange is writing stories: two, music on a timer. I can focus on both or one than letting those unwanted thoughts to filter through.

I loved to create stories all the time, and since my creative night owl tendencies come out, I figured it might help to make them up in my head. Then upon those stories, sometimes when I’ve had a particularly bad day, I would play sounds of the rain on Pandora. The station I listen to is “Rain Sounds Radio.” They both together calm my restlessness.

I’m not telling you that these may not work for you, but as a bookworm and music fan do these work. I hope if you do try one or both that it helps for you. Let me know if it does. Remember you don’t have to stop your night owl creative brain from taking a little rest. Maybe you can find another outlet idea to get to sleep.

Are eight hours too much to time for sleeping? Do you have trouble with the amount of sleep you get? Do you feel well rest with eight or fewer hours in the night? Maybe you need more. I’ve heard from people or read in articles about how getting the standard amount of sleep is eight, but ever feel more tired sleeping that long and not as productive throughout the day?

I made a little trail on myself to find if the eight hours was enough or too much for a weekend. Friday night, I set my alarm for eight hours from the time I estimated when I fall asleep. After that night, I found myself seemly to have gotten too much sleep and more tired than when I went to bed. Then the next night, I set my alarm for seven hours and woke the following day surprisingly fully rested. I wasn’t tired like I overslept and was more ready for a productive day. Since I’ve been waking up within seven hours, I find myself getting up earlier than before and having more time to relax or get more done before work.

How I set my alarm each night: Before it was frustrating to set the right time, I wanted to wake up because I tended to open my eyes way before the sound went off. Resulting in either go back to sleep or getting up both making me feel not rested. I couldn’t find a way until I tried setting the time fifteen to twenty minutes past when I wanted to get up, and boy did it surprise me. I started feeling refresh, fully rested of excellent night sleep, which in turn made me want to get out of bed complete my daily routine and other goals I set for myself like a boss for the day.

So is eights too much for you to be able to function the next day? It’s easy to tell based on your energy level to accomplish your to-do list. We all have a to-do list or a routine to get done for the day, but how much of it ever get done? These tips of only sleeping seven hours a night and setting my alarm fifteen-twenty minutes past my desired wake up time have helped me be the BOSS of my day. That leads to a feeling of accomplished every day, even on my days when I seem not willing to do anything.

Here is a breakdown list to figure out your hours to full night sleep:

1. Try tracking your hours of sleep and journal or note how you feel the next morning.
2. If you tend to wake before your alarm and once you find the right amount of hours set your alarm 15 or 20 minutes past the time, you wish to wake up.
3. Guess how long it takes you to fall asleep. If having trouble sleeping, try finding ways to help you fall asleep faster to get the full rested sleep.

*Watch out on Wednesday for my tips for falling asleep.

The body is made up of a high percentage of water, and we continuously need it to stay hydrated. The big question, who like water? Do you only drink it when needed, or to keep the risk of illness and function throughout the day? Also, what does your body feel like after drink the eight glass amount for the day?

For me, I was never big on drinking water throughout the years and didn’t seem to notice what the big deal with it. I would only drink a glass or two a day, and that was when my body seems to crave it. I preferred coffee or juice in the morning and soda or sugary drinks with my other meals. Recently did I find that water has great benefits for the body and not just keeping you from getting dehydrated. If you all day continuously take in water for a week, you will notice the effects in your body.

It is daunting to drink eight cups of water when you’re so busy throughout the day, how can you find the time? Since the beginning of 2019, I had set a goal for every month to drink a full eight cups to lose weight, say what? Yes, I looked up if you drink half your body weight of water, that is how many ounces. It will help to lose weight because your body is getting rid of all the harmful toxins.

This water challenge has been a goal of mine for a long time, and it was a struggle, to begin with just doing four or five cups. By the middle of April did I finally achieve it with not giving up, even if I skip one or two days before. I didn’t get mad at myself to miss my target. I keep saying it’s a new day to begin again or something along, those words.

The struggles I faced seems little but had become the most helpful tips. First, I was not physically tracking my water intake by writing it down. I would lose track of what count I was on. Second, for some reason I’d say I don’t like using see-through glassware, it’s weird, I know. I kept trying to drink it, but would only do about one or two cups then I’d give up. So instead, I tried using my favorite plastic traveling cup that is twenty ounces, and as you guessed did it seem to work easier at filling up again and again.

The benefits of drinking eight glasses daily for my body was that being I lost seven pounds within the first two weeks, and as I drink, a high amount of water helps to rid my body of harmful toxins. Which affect how I feel throughout the day with more energy, and my body feels lighter in some way. The outcome of reaching this goal I set for myself, I now have the confidence and basic knowledge of what water can do for me. So because of this target, I want to incorporate and make a new goal by experimenting with infusing my water with teas and fruits. Check back for an update to see my favorite infused water recipes next month.

Here is a list of my tips for getting your water intake:

1. Set your goal of how many cups you wish to drink in a day.
2. Make a checkmark list on your phone for tracking every time you have a cup. I like to use an app called Note.
3. On that list put at the end of each the location of where you drank.
4. Keep at it never give up!

How do you begin turning a yearly goal into a habit? I’ve known for years that it is overwhelming to tackle a big goal. Even with how many times I’ve tried and could never reach them. I would do great at the beginning, then only do it here and there, but would quit altogether. During my time with being a Beauty Consultant for Mary Kay, I found the skills to become more successful in reaching those goals, and it is merely breaking it down into smaller tasks meaning habits. Those habits must align with your goals. As an example, If you want to do a circuit in the gym of all the equipment start with one thing at a time for a week or however long, then add the next machine and next.

I understand you would want to jump right in and want the results, but it takes time to develop the habit we want to create for our goals. I apply this to many goals I put in my life, but before doing Mary Kay, I had lacked the motivation. It wasn’t until recently did this come forth, and now I’m working like a boss to accomplished my habits that in the end are the goals for the year. Check out my health and fitness habit updates for each month that I apply to my goal of making healthy choices.

Simple Tips:

Find your ultimate year goals

Break them into small task/ habits for each month

Never give up and keep trying every beautiful day.

Healthy plus fitness is how you define what that looks like, not others. If you feel like you should change your bad habits to lose weight, bulk up, or maintain it’s on your terms and how you want to take action. You have to be willing to make it a lifestyle change, or you’ll struggle for longer.

Since I was young, I’ve always struggled with how my body was getting bigger each passing year. At the end of last year, I became the biggest I’ve ever grown. In the past, when I did decide to slim down, I’d change my eating habits and exercise more. For the first few weeks maybe more would I do great, but then I would quit from any excuse. Now to the present moment, thing changed some health concerns I fear if I continue down this unhealthy path may come forth. So this year I decided to change my lifestyle to become healthier.

In the last few years did I realize why I wasn’t reaching my goal before, which means that it is a lifestyle change. You can’t just do it for a little while and expect the results to stay. It’s a skill and will power you have to develop through this change for life, not just for a few months of dieting and exercising.

I found that you can achieve a goal, but it’s easier to create small task goals that line up with the big one. When January of this year started, I buckled down and written out my break down plan each month that will help me lose the extra weight. I want to change my lifestyle in a much gentle way for a better future. I know there will be times where I want to quit, and that is just a reminder to look upon my progress and monthly goals again.

My first goals from January did I not reach until the month of April. Where I finally locked down my goal of drinking eight cups of water a day. For tips to how I reached that many cups keep an eye out for water does the body good. Also doing simple morning stretches. Then for the month of May, I upped it to nine and added easy yoga poses to the end of stretching. As of now, I can drink up to eight glasses on weekdays, sometimes nine and the stretches help wonders. I’m more upbeat and not getting so down on myself if a don’t stick to them some days I don’t reach my daily goals.

The only question I’ll ask is, are you ready to take that chance now? Here is how first, sit down with the big goal to have the body you want. Second, break that goal into small ones to make it easier. Third, set a time limit of a month or however long to reach that task. Expect set back, struggling times, but that is part of the journey. Every day all you have to do is start over as many times as you want. Remember you’re doing this for a lifestyle change, because once you get to that curvy or muscular body you want, you can’t go back to the way you were eating and little to no exercising.

P.S. Keep a look out for a monthly update of my mini goals.

Ever feel like your cruising through life by just going through the day to day motions. Struggling with day to day life and you want more out of this life, but don’t know how. Life is like trying out for a sport in school, and you may or may not make it one year. Then after not getting selected, we are either the type of person who goes back to practicing to be better the next year, or we just quit. What type of person are you the one who keeps trying or the one that doesn’t?

Upon looking at how life has been for the past eleven years, I’d have to say most of the time, I quit. I either lose interest or get lazy and not do it. It is a bad habit that I have created from a long time ago. I have always wanted my life to be a great one and that I want to live to the full compacity of life experiences. Having a family, traveling, living in a house I bought, and many other things.

Through my twenties, I realized that staying comfortable and going through the motions of working at my part-time job since I was eighteen and live with my parents for too long. I have watched many people leave to do better things and for me, I couldn’t because I loved my job, but also I didn’t think I could be good at anything else.

Now at my age, it’s time to become a big girl and make an effort every day to create the life I’ve always wanted. Can’t sit and wait for opportunities to come, and we all should never settle or forget about our dreams. So if you find yourself struggling or stuck in life and want more, remember you can change at any time, day or night. Begin and never stop going for what it is you want most in this life.