Right Now

 #1 - Listening to the board meeting on Zoom of the association where I live, sometimes I use this as a time to do cleaning around my place.  Tonight I used it as a motivation to work a little longer today with the meeting as a background. Every time I listen to the meeting, I am grateful there are residents who volunteer their time in this way.  I have no interest!

#2 -  I do not like treadmills - in a pinch while traveling or something - fine.  However otherwise - No! Boring! At the same time I don't jog outside in the winter and I still need some cardio.  Then I found the "Sprint 8" workout. I can get myself to do it is because it is short.  It is 20 minutes and of that I only jog/run 7 minutes.  But it is still a good work out because you sprint 30 seconds and then walk a minute and a half (8 times), plus a warm up and cool down.This winter I've been doing this on Wednesdays. Today I really didn't want to go.  So I decided to work a bit more instead. Then I realized I have a bye for soccer on Sunday. So great, I'll wait until Sunday and do the Sprint 8 work out on Sunday. That was a relief, I returned to working. Then a little while later I was changing clothes to go exercise. Why?  

Habit.

#3 - In the middle of changing clothes I reminded myself, "Hey I decided I don't have to go." But I was already in motion.  

I went.

#4 - I've been listening to Ramit Sethi.  (He's a personal finance guy.)  I like some of the terms he uses such as "conscious spending plan" and "What is your definition of a rich life?"

I love that second question.  "What is your definition of a rich life?"

Some of mine - remembering to say, "Hello" or "Thank you" when I unlock the door to where I live.

Reminding myself, "This is wealth," when I open the refrigerator or walk out of the grocery store.

Today, while on the treadmill, doing this work-out that I almost hate, I had to come up with a distraction to get thru it.  I started, when the 30 second sprints began, mentally going thru my body and thanking it. "Thank you feet that have always carried me where I need to go. Thank you all 10 toes and all 10 toenails.  Thank you bones and cartilage and muscles and skin.  Thank you ankles that have been sprained a couple times, but that have healed enough to let me jog right now..."

#5 - Another habit I've done the last couple years is to make time on the solstices and equinoxes to watch the sunrise and sunset.  I would love to do this more thruout the year. It was easier when I lived somewhere that had windows facing East or West. 

Now my windows only face south, but I have made this habit to at least for 4 days pay attention. Tomorrow is that day and I almost missed it but I looked at my calendar tonight and saw, "Spring Begins." 

And then I looked up the sunrise and sunset times, concerned I was going to be doing a make up home visit during the sunset time, but I should be home just in time to walk to my observation spot.