March Resolution

I've made a resolution.  Yes, I realize it is the middle of March, but I believe in resolutions at any time of year. You realize you want to do something better, and presto you can make a resolution.  Don't wait till January.  I also believe in tweaking your January resolution even at the end of January or February.  Shocking!  I know.  I'm that kind of girl.

But I digress.  I was feeling my life wasn't going the way I wanted it to, and with the help of a friend, voila a resolution in March.

I feel stuck so in order to get unstuck I am going to do several things.  I will share:

My friend Michelle Davidson Argyle said she watched a talk on Ted talk on Youtube by Shawn Anchor (to give credit where credit is due!).  Shawn said "the lens through which we view the world shapes our reality, and if we change our formula for happiness and success we can change our reality and therefore better control our work productivity."  It's such a great talk.  I recommend it.

He says this is a way to change the formula of 'if I work harder I will be more successful, then I'll be happier to if I'm happier, then I'll work harder and be more successful.

Here are the nuts and bolts:

You do these things for 21 days in a row and it retrains your brain to be happier.

• 3 Gratitudes - Identify gratitude for three new things.
• Journaling - write about one positive experience.
• Exercising - teach the brain that behavior matters.
• Meditation - learn to focus on a single task.  Reverse the ADD that our society creates by all the tasks!
• Conscious Acts of Kindness - Write one positive email of praise or thanks to someone in our social network.

So here's my twist to make it mine.  Yes, I believe in twisting things to make them more personal.

3 gratitudes is great.  I also want to write them down in my journal.

Journaling, now we get to what I want to do here--I will journal in my blog!  Hooray more Books.  Sparkley Baubles, beads, and glittery things.  Grandkids are ALWAYS positive experiences.  And Good Black Earth--I made my garden plot plans yesterday.  We were going to go out and enrich the soil today, but we found snow on all the beds when we got up.  I like snow.  And as long as it doesn't fall on new plants or flowering trees.  So today is good.  My son-in-law the farmer told me 'dirt' as I called it is 'soil'.  I learn so much from him.  Really!  I've never thought about what goes into to getting my food, and how many grueling man hours it takes .  So interesting.

Exercising - Yoga!  And long brisk walks. 

Meditation - YES!

Camilla Kimball, wife of Pres. Spencer W. Kimball of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, said-never let an opportunity for kindness pass you by.  I love that an have always made that my motto. So, conscious acts of kindness, yes.

I think I would spend 21 days on other kinds of goals, so why not one that will help turn my mind to happiness? March Resolution!  (Now you're going to watch and judge me if I don't write every day. I've set myself up for failure!  No, I'm not going to look at it that way. I'm going to rejoice in what I do do toward my goal.)