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
3 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 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.