Health, Balance, Simplicity for 2019

When everybody’s thinking about New Year Resolutions, make a stride on the better path: Create good habits out of your New Year Resolutions. Have a happy, prosperous, and healthy 2019!

Aim for healthy habits

1. Get more sleep. Lack of sleep decreases your immune system. Aim for 8 hours of sleep in a dark and quiet room.

2. Eat healthy and well. Take in plenty of vegetables and fiber. Water, water.

3. Get moving. Exercise. Rock on! Do daily walks. Jog and run. Join zumba.

4. Discipline yourself. Limit TV, electronic gadgets, mobile phone and devices.

5. Prioritize to avoid stress. List down the things that you need to do immediately.

6. Identify areas of stress. Reduce, or even better, eliminate them.

7. Avoid being muddled up. Declutter! Clean your house, workstation, closet.

8. Time management. Avoid distractions. Maintain productivity by mastering time.

9. Keep your health in check. Take good care of yourself. Keep a healthy weight.

Aim for simplicity

1. Know thyself. What is simple to you may be complicated to others. Be yourself.

2. Take a personal retreat. A few hours by yourself with coffee works just as well.

3. Don’t overeat. Take simple meals. Healthy foods need not be expensive.

4. Learn to say “No.” Or the other version: “I’ll think about it.”

5. Establish a morning routine after your morning prayer – stretching. Exercise.

6. Start an evening routine. Nice warm bath. A bit of reading. Quiet talks. Wow!

7. Organize and simplify task. Get an organizer and jot down things to be done.

8. Minimize shopping. In other words, don’t overspend.

9. Pay your bills on time. Pay them as you receive them.

10. Save for the rainy days. Saving should be automatic. Any amount will do.

11. Break your phone and social media addiction. Hahaha! Self-explanatory!

12. Set boundaries with toxic people. Avoid people who are stressful in your life.

13. Learn new things, craft. Read. Attend seminars. Level up. Go back to school.

Maintain a balanced life

Your life has four legs: spirituality, health (mind and body), relationships (family, friendships), and career (work). Maintain the balance on all four of them.

Be honest with yourself. Make a commitment to yourself today to get real with yourself. If you’re honest with yourself, you will know right away when you’re off balance.

Always work to have a healthy, simple, and balance life this 2019. Maintain the good habits in the many, many years of your long, checkered, and colorful life.