{"id":18559,"date":"2021-01-04T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T16:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/?p=18559"},"modified":"2021-01-04T11:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T16:13:43","slug":"new-years-resolutions-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/new-years-resolutions-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Resolutions 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Happy New Year, my friends! I hope you’re healthy, safe, and that 2021 brings you all that you hope it will. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Play more music <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We have a radio\/cd player in our dining room, second-handed from my parents, who weren\u2019t using it any longer. When we got it this past summer, I played Graceland like it was just released, and for all of December I had the radio tuned to Magic 106.7, where it\u2019s all Christmas music all the time. Whenever something\u2019s playing, it feels like whatever I\u2019m doing has an added layer of richness and meaning. It\u2019s like our house is sunnier and more alive. I want more of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t catastrophize so much <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m really great at catastrophizing. For anyone who\u2019s healthy and well-adjusted and doesn\u2019t know catastrophizing\u2014it\u2019s the ability to take one feeling or situation and blow it up into a catastrophe. Maybe you wake up feeling a little anxious one morning and rather than just accepting that, hey, I feel off today, you analyze the feeling to death. You ask yourself, but what does it MEAN that I\u2019m anxious??<\/em> You think of all the things that make you anxious and the more you search, the more you find. By the end of the day, you\u2019ve convinced yourself that you aren\u2019t just having an anxious day, you ARE<\/em> an anxious person who will probably always feel this way. And that\u2019s a feature of catastrophizing\u2014lots of \u201calways\u201d (I\u2019ll always feel this way) or \u201cnever\u201d (I\u2019ll never be able to) thinking. For me, I can have an inkling of a feeling\u2014like a wave of exhaustion will hit\u2014and I\u2019ll begin to spiral, wondering how I\u2019ll ever accomplish anything ever again considering I\u2019ll always be this tired. It\u2019s not at all helpful or useful. Nothing lasts forever\u2014not the bad or the good\u2014and I need to remember that. If I\u2019m tired today maybe I\u2019ll get good rest tonight and tomorrow will feel easier than today did. If I\u2019m unmotivated and procrastinating today, who knows how I\u2019ll feel tomorrow? Maybe tomorrow I\u2019ll be able to focus and commit to action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create a cleaning schedule <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Maybe this is just what it is to be a mom of little kids or an adult with a desire to live in a clean home, but I feel like I\u2019m always cleaning. Every time I clean the mirror in the bathroom I say to myself, didn\u2019t I just<\/em> do this?! Or I\u2019ll find a pile of god-knows-what kind of crumbs on the floor and I\u2019ll ask, didn\u2019t I just vacuum this morning?! (I did) So maybe a flexible cleaning schedule would help. Some kind of calendar system to mark what I\u2019ll clean and when. There are daily things, like wiping down the kitchen counters and vacuuming, weekly things like cleaning the bathrooms and washing the floors, and monthly things like scrubbing our glass shower doors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember the connection between how I eat and how I feel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It was a younger version of me that only connected how I ate and how I looked. As I\u2019ve gotten older, I\u2019ve found that it\u2019s gotten easier and easier to navigate eating by staying conscious of how I feel.<\/em> I\u2019ve collected enough data to know that sweets leave me tired and wanting, that burritos right before bed cause me night sweats, and that going for that third (or fourth) slice will have me waking in the night with heartburn. Tuning in to how I feel when I eat this way<\/em> or that way<\/em> makes me more aware of how I want to feel<\/strong><\/em> (which is clear-minded, able to focus, and energetic). Here’s hoping for more of that in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are just some simple ideas that I think will help make day-to-day life a little brighter and easier. What are you planning on focusing on in 2021?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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