Next weeks tweak: GO TO BED!

“Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.”
-Red Skelton

Were you a kid like that? Are you still a kid like that? I'm afraid I am. I can think dozens of reasons why it would be easy to stay up late. You don't believe me? Here are half a dozen off the top of my head, written in sixty seconds or less.

1. This book is SOOOOO good.
2. I want to see how this movie ends.
   
3. Hubby (who works the night shift) is home tonight and I want to stay up and have fun with him.
   
4. I slept in this morning and I'm not tired now.
5. I had a really long nap this afternoon and I'm not tired now.
   
6. And the one that always gets me - The dishes aren't done.
   

Give me another minute and I could come up with many more!

There is ALWAYS a reason to stay up late, at least for me. But how much better is your entire day when you get a good nights sleep the night before? Doesn't it feel wonderful to wake up NATURALLY before your obnoxious alarm goes off?

I picked this as my first tweak because I thought it would be easy (it wasn't) and because I felt like it would be a great foundation for getting a lot of other things done. Hopefully some day it will come easier for me. In the meantime, I'm being gentle with myself and doing the best that I can. This week I'll share a few of suggestions for achieving this tweak and a few of the many reasons why it's so important.

For now,

PICK A BEDTIME THAT YOU CAN STICK TO EVERY DAY AND GO TO BED.

Begin at the beginning.

“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
- Mary Pickford

Ah the first day of the month. It's a fresh start! What better time to start our one hundred tweaks.

My favorite definition of tweak is usually the last one listed in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, lost behind the more aggressive or offensive definitions: "to make small adjustments"

Life can be rough. Exhausting. There is always something new and important that we should be doing. I want to be part of a kinder, gentler world, where positivity reigns.

Starting now, I'm going to make 100 little upgrades in my life that will increase my HAPPINESS, HEALTH, WISDOM AND WEALTH. About one a week. Tiny little tweaks that will make big differences. If you follow the 80/20 rule, think of it as things that require just 20% of the effort but provide 80% of the results. On that same note, forgive yourself if you're accomplishing your tweak only 80% of the time. If you're hanging in there five or six days a week, you're on a roll! Give yourself a hug for a job well done! If you fall short one day, give yourself a hug and know that tomorrow is a clean slate.

Let's get started!

Crossing the Line

This post is temporarily removed in order to keep it private. Isn't the suspense just killing you???

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24004.html