New Challenge Tomorrow - Energy Balance I

Tomorrow is the start of my next challenge. 30 days of energy balance, likely phase I. Not sure about the name, but nothing is striking me other then 'balance' at the moment.

My general goals are as follows:

• Wake at 5 am 7 days a week
• Meditate daily (final goal of 20 mins day)
• Yoga daily (final goal of 45 mins day)

In general, I am trying to improve my mental flow and discipline, especially my physical energy on several levels. In another challenge or two, I will likely incorporate some food changes to add more to the balance side. For now though, I do not feel the pull in that direction, I have a pretty strict diet as it is, its not in dire need of a shake up yet.

Overall, this seemed actually a bit too small of a challenge to me. Total time spent a day was going to be just 65 minutes max, plus I am getting up a bit earlier, so I felt this was actually a bit 'light' as compared to the requirements of my last 30 day. I would rather push these challenges to the limit, I want to be ambitious and surprise myself.

I added a few misc items that I do now, but only sporadically. Items like taking my supplements consistently that help balance my digestive track, dry brush daily, and some general flow with my day at work. Going to toss in a few 'habits' for working on my blog and my other All are items that help my energy and flow, so very relevant to the theme. So another item to my general goals:

• Improve daily habits
  

When I combine the few extra items along with my three main goals, suddenly I have a complex balance to work out every day. I determined a few items that were keys to my success:

• Getting up consistently, VERY key
  
• Prep as much as possible the evening prior, I cannot afford to run late in the morning
  
• Leave work no later then 4 every day, preferably earlier (tied to above)
  
• Pre-plan food for week and freeze extra meals so that timing flows in evening with exercise and I have emergency meals available if timing gets crunched
  
• Continue some limitations of electronic time from last month , will allow for consistent completion of to do list

I have laid out a detailed time line for each weekday, and an adjusted version for the weekends. I have shifted items like grocery shopping to sunday mornings, as I usually stop on the way home from work, which I will not have time for. I created a detailed checklist for every day, as so many things hinge on another being completed, I need to keep track of them all.

I still need to work on a plan to mix up my yoga and meditation over the 30 days. The first few days I have a basic outline to get me going, so I have a bit of time to work through that. My focus the last couple of days has been gathering a few items for the challenge I needed (new alarm clock, prepping my meditation area, ect), along with making sure I have planned thoroughly for this. I have also been running through alarm 'practice sessions', as mentioned in this article.

My energy is high to start another challenge. I relaxed a bit over the last few days after completing my unplugged events on Feb 12th, so I feel fully ready to start now. My husband is also going to work on some new habits as well which will help me along.

Here I go again....