Living life in the present is a really important goal for me as well. I would like to attempt numbers 1 and 3. Numbers 2 and 4 would be too much for me. :)
Daily mindfulness, journaling and meditation for stress
This goal is associated with the accountability topic: "Stress Management"
Active, ongoing
Every 7 days
4 active
No meetings
Goal for 2025: reduce stress by living life more present, less distracted.
My goal boils down to doing at least one of the following, every day:
- Mindfulness: After finishing
an action
, take a two-minute pause to close your eyes, do conscious deep breathing, process what you just did and think what you are about to do next. Simple, but better than nothing. - Journal: throughout the day or once at the end of the day, write down a summary of what happened (factually), but also a description of how you are feeling and what is currently stressing you out.
- Meditation: once a day, use any of the available (guided) meditation techniques to get at least 5 minutes of meditation/structured down time.
- Wind down before bed: the only thing allowed in a 45-minute window before sleeping is reading a book.
I might increase my goal threshold to 2 of the techniques per day with time.
Please join in with your own techniques and let's check in weekly!
Goal Activity
Remembering to be mindful every day is the tricky bit. Might start resorting to reminders on my watch or similar things. But for now, I consider the healthy mix of mindfulness and journaling last week to be satisfactory. Anyone else?
Checking back in to claim my 25 coins and to mention that journaling ~twice a day even just factually enumerating stuff helps a lot with keeping a clean and calm mind throughout the day!
Lucian
marked progress on Daily mindfulness, journaling and meditation for stress
Goal Conversation
Here goes my first failure of the year: I was totally disrupted by a virus and have been living life anything but mindfully. Next week will be better.
Feeling crummy physically definitely makes mindfulness hard. Hope you are feeling better.
I have been doing pretty well with this goal actually. It's making it easier to put aside getting things done to engage with my kids.
Hectic week with no reminders in place = failed goal. Will have to seriously think about a system for remembering to slow down.