Rebuild Your Life Month
Now there’s a gripping headline for a task. Sure, you might think, I’ll wear a pink ribbon for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I’ll wear a red one on World AIDS Day… but rebuild my life? No thanks. Too much work. I will go back to my workaholic, eat-a-holic, sleepless, haphazard self, thanks.
The thing is, it’s always the right time to make a change. It doesn’t take much. Alter your routine just a tiny bit, and then keep adding a little, and a little more time, until boom—the quality or habit you always wanted is now yours. Below are just a few things you can do to conquer your own life and start filling it up with the things you want in it.
Health: If you want to stop eating junk at work, start small by packing a sweet plum or a controlled portion of pretzels instead of your usual candy bar or chips. Sweet or salty fix—you can have either with not as many calories. Gradually increase the habit until you’re doing it every day.
Have you been nixing your workouts? Set your watch timer for ten minutes and go outside for a quick walk. When it beeps, you’re done! Slowly increase this until walking is in your routine.
Work: If you’re a workaholic, start taking care of yourself through stress reduction. Book a monthly massage, and increase it to weekly if you need it. Put some affirmations or relaxing music on your iPod and listen to them on your way to work or during lunch. If you’re putting in more than ten hours every day of the week, you are truly overdoing it and probably need to scale back. Take a day off every week, and be sure to manage your time wisely.
Alternatively, if you put in eight hours a day but can’t seem to get anything done, be sure to manage your time as well. Start planning the next day ahead of time the night before, and be sure that any tasks you can delegate, you do.
Relationships: Instead of giving fake numbers to every slob who smells like hot wings or calling your sister and sobbing on your anniversary with your ex, focus on dating yourself. Time and time again I have heard how this works wonders—not to mention how it makes you love yourself and have a lot of fun flying solo.
Remember to start with something small: send yourself flowers. Get a pedicure. Gradually increase your love affair until you are booking romantic rendezvous with yourself, your vibrator, and some chick flicks at the Holiday Inn (get the Jacuzzi suite if you can!).
But beware: you will have so much fun taking yourself to all the things you want to do that you may not want a significant other to compromise with once that day comes flying at you.
