Wednesday, March, 7th, 2012
Central Park East - 6"45am

Good morning!  I have a new set of goals for the rest of the month.  I'm usually extremely ritualized in my daily activities and this is good for my psyche.  I do the same thing every morning - get up early (~6-6:30am), walk Sofie on the same Park route, make coffee & eat breakfast, blog :), check my email, go to work, check my email, other blogs, and Facebook all day long, and then go home, walk Sofie, work out (5-6 days per week), and eat dinner.  I think my daily life is pretty healthy and I try to get all my grocery shopping done on Sundays so that I can have good food to eat during the week.  Either Brian or I makes the bed every morning, because it's nicer to climb into a made bed than a messy one.  I also try and do the dishes every night so that they aren't there to bog me down the next day (I hate this task more than any other task - if only I could train Sofie to do the dishes).  One of the things that I need to work on, however, is my "plugged-in-ness." 

I'll be honest here.  I check my email accounts probably around 10-12 times per day.  I check Facebook equally often.  I also read other blogs in the evening and mornings.  I think all of this causes me to lose focus more easily because I pay mild attention to multiple things at once, rather than putting all my energy into one thing at a time.  It also obviously makes me less productive.  My new goal is to check my email 3 times daily MAX (once in the morning, once at lunch, and once in the evening).  I won't check Facebook more than once daily (the morning).  I'll allow myself to read blogs before 9am and only when I don't have as many exams coming up as I do now.  There you have it!  Now is time for me to work on it :)

Have a great day!