Odacava

I am grateful for :

• Body flow at Goodlife fitness. It is a wonderful mixture of Pilates, yoga, and tai chi with a great soundtrack set to each movement and breath. It starts with a Tai Chi track, moves into Sun salutations, standing strength, balance, focus on hips, core, back strength, hamstring stretches, twists (helps immune system) and ends with meditation. I love it!!

• Learning about my baby. When I found out I was pregnant, my sister in law lent me the book, Pregnancy day by day. The information and illustrations satisfied my curiosity as to what was going on inside my body. It also motivated me to eat healthier than ever before and to exercise. Which made out for a very smooth pregnancy and birth. Now that my little munchkin is almost 9 months old, I’m learning about babies sleeping needs. The book I’ve been recommended is, Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. It is a little late to learn however, better late than never. Her sleep through the night is good. Now we are working on putting her to bed for naps during the day and letting her fall asleep on her own to learn self soothing. Today was day one. She fell asleep after crying for ~20 minutes. We did similar sleep training to get her sleeping through the night. It’s time to create good day time sleeping habits. It’s hard at first, but I know it will be better for all of us in the long run.

• Family walks in Fish Creek Park

Loving the view of the mountains, the bow river and downtown Calgary with a tea and my family.

I am grateful for:

• The Okotoks Toy Library – Today Taylor and I went to get a couple new toys for her to play with. We got a membership when she was very young. As she grows out of toys or stops playing with them I exchange them for different ones. It is a great way to save money and not end up with a basement full of plastic. So I believe it is also great for the environment. The membership has paid for itself about 10 times I’m thinking and Taylor would have never gotten the chance to play with such great toys if we hadn’t got this membership.
• Evenings my husband makes dinner. My husband really appreciates a meal that is all ready when he gets home from work. With me being on mat leave he’s been fortunate to have this quite often lately. However, I appreciate a break every once in a while. Today he called me and was craving pizza so he took charge of making dinner and made a gluten free pizza. I was impressed!!
• Breaking Bad TV series – We are addicted to this show right now. I appreciate the creative people that write and produce crazy stories.

Hello, my name is Krista and I’m a dopamine junky. I’m increasing my dopamine levels by setting some goals!! I just typed out all of the things I love and my goals. For example: snowboarding, health, log cabin, holiday, play in the sand, laugh, good times etc. put them in very large font, selected a different style of font for each, printed 2 copies, cut them out and taped them to the wall in my bathroom (so I can read everyday when I’m getting ready) and I will post the second copy cut outs on the wall in front of our treadmill (Our tv isn’t working so I need something to look at).

How do you remind yourself of your goals and what do you do to stay on track to achieving them?