January 1st Welcome to 2020

Overview
A new year and a new blog.  Why am I calling this Accountability and Focus?

Accountability-personal accountability is where I am at in my life.  This isn't that I don't currently hold myself responsible when I mess up, I do.  This is that I have been slacking off and need to stop doing that and insert more things into my routine that are healthy.  My original thought was to add a total of seven new things, one each day.  So I would write a poem a week and post it on Mondays or work on a craft project and post that on Tuesdays-something like that.  I realized that I was setting myself up for failure that way.  Trying to make too many changes at once generally doesn't work.  Instead, I am going to focus in on things that I want to improve in my life, choose one, and work to make that a routine for a month.  Not that I won't do other things, but one will be the focus.  Once a week I will post about how I am doing with that focus. 

There will still be a happy/grateful thing that I am posting every day.  That has been the main focus since I started this blogging adventure and will continue to be a daily routine.  This year I hope to work in other healthy routines as well.  This blog is where I will be accounting for them. 

January-Healthy Choices

For the month of January I am going to focus on making healthy choices.  I love sugar and would eat it all the time if I could.  Sugar and carbs take up too much of my diet.  Tonight I skipped dessert.  There was a delicious looking lemon-cello cake at the restaurant we had dinner at and I said no.  My friend and I also got out for a walk today.  By the end of the month these healthier choices should be easier to make and more of a routine and I can then work on one of the other goals I have for myself. 

Today's Happy

There are a few things that come to my mind today that made me happy.

1. I got to spend the New Year with some of my favorite humans.
2. The 3.5 mile walk today and other things today has my step count at 11,636.  That is over my daily goal and seems a good way to start the new year.
3. Dinner and laughter with friends.
4. We had a plan to walk at 11 this morning.  When I woke up at 10:45 and looked at my phone I started to panic about being late.  Then I looked at my messages and found that one of the friends had to cancel.  Although I am sad that we couldn't all get together today to walk, I am more happy that I was able to sleep so late.  
5. The short name for my blog is 2020af.

Beautiful winter sky.

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