Alright, here we are: the very first of my monthly health goals. This month I decided to do 5 minutes of yoga or another form of stretching every day.
I had a fairly difficult time narrowing things down to one goal. As I mentioned a few days ago, I am stressed, I'm tired, my fat percentage has gone up, my muscle percentage has gone down, and my weight is the highest it has been since 2020. I also hurt my knee and wrist a few months ago, have that old back injury, have to watch my cholesterol, and have had some vertigo, which has all made me very hesitant to do much so I don't aggravate those injuries. So with all of that going on, it was a little difficult to decide on what to focus on. I have a bad habit of trying to do too much, which ends up making me feel overwhelmed.
So with all of that going on, I thought that yoga and stretching are going to be my best bet to start. Yoga will hopefully help me bring my stress level down, and the stretching will help me get back into being active without stressing the areas of my body that have been hurt.
I've also read some books on forming habits, which generally say that getting yourself to do something new is very difficult; in order to get yourself to start, you need to set the bar so incredibly low so it's hard to talk yourself out of it. I was originally thinking of setting the goal for 10 minutes of yoga, but decided to go even lower than that because everyone can find five minutes in their day for stretching, right? I can even do a minute here and there throughout the day so that they add up to 5 minutes if I need to.
As always, successfully completing this goal will mean that I achieve it 80% of the time. So in the month of May, I will need to do 5 minutes of yoga or stretching on 25 of the 31 days of the month.
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