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How's that New Year's resolution going for you? New Year's resolutions are fun until people regress back into their old ways unless the truly motivated push through. But this year, I didn't put much effort into starting them – until a couple of days ago.
Every year I have the same goals:
-Go to the gym
-Eat healthier
-Read more
-Get more hours of sleep
Even though these are great goals, I have a hard time with all of them, especially committing to the gym and reading more often. Until Marie Kondo's book "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing" helped me. Yes, I know I'm pretty late to the party, especially because I watched her Netflix show a year ago. But reading her book gives me a new perspective on my lifestyle beyond tidying up.
Early into the book, Kondo asks her clients and the reader what they want their ideal lifestyle to be like and how they can achieve it. The advice helps me narrow my resolutions to make more specific and reachable goals.
Now my goals are:
-Workout at least three or four times per week (start there and work my way up)
-Avoid fast food and meal prep every week
-Read a book at least 30 minutes per day (my overall goal on Goodreads' 2020 Reading Challenge is to read 10 books)
-Get at least seven hours of sleep per night
The journey is going to be tough to break some bad habits, but I'm looking forward to growing better for a new decade ahead.
Follow Samantha Incorvaia on Twitter at @_SamI520.
