Recap

Last week was my first full week at home in 2010. I filled the week with many of the habits I've been working on and I had a blissfully happy week. Here is a recap of my current habit list:

1.) Flossing - I still do not floss every day, but I really don't care! My guilt over not flossing is gone. I find myself flossing a few times a week, which is significantly better than my previous habit of flossing every 6 months!

2.) Make my bed - The task takes under 60 seconds, and yet brings me a ridiculous amount of happiness. I have had little difficulty creating this habit, especially if I do it immediately upon waking.

3.) Skin routine - While I never miss my morning skin routine, I struggle with my night skin routine, especially on the weekends.  I've found that if I do my night skin routine as soon as I get home - instead of waiting for bed time - it is more likely to get done.  I would still like this to become a nightly habit.

4.) No dishes in the sink - This new habit brought me an incredible amount of happiness last week.  It was amazing to come home to a clean kitchen every night (and a made bed) and just this small change made me feel so productive.  It is also a lot easier to keep a kitchen clean than to clean a kitchen.  This habit definitely slipped over the weekend (in that my husband cleaned the kitchen) and thus I have 15 minutes of dishes that have been waiting for me for the past 24 hours.  I've decided to not be too rigid about this habit.  I found myself being equally happy with 3 dishes in the sink of an otherwise spotless kitchen - I aimed for good, instead of perfect, and it worked.  I'm going to strive to keep this habit.

5.) Bed @ 10pm - This was the first week I tried this habit.  As a result, I went to bed between 10-11pm every night.  This is huge improvement as I used to procrastinate going to bed by staying on my laptop 'till well after midnight.  Like the previous habit, I've reminded myself to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.  Whereas I'd feel guilty for crawling in bed at 1am, I did not feel any guilt this week when I missed my goal by 20 minutes and went to bed at 10:20. 

6.) Exercise and Food Journal - These were not chosen as JOW (Just One Week) habits - but they both began last week.  I've enjoyed working out and 6:30am hasn't been as painful since I've been in bed by 10pm.  I am 3 for 3 in attending workouts.  I am failing at writing down what I eat.  I was great for the first 3 days, and I haven't written in the journal since (which earned me 50 extra push-ups at the bootcamp).  I am going to need to stop dreading the food journal.  Your comments on that post really helped me to see the potential good in the habit.

7.) Blogging - As you may have noticed, I did not blog on Saturday or Sunday.  My husband (who lives in a different state Monday through Friday) was home and we had a beautiful weekend.  And our internet was down.  I easily could have still posted (it's not that hard to borrow our neighbor's WiFi) but I simply chose not to.  I was incredibly surprised to find that I felt no guilt!  I'm going to go back and post them as I was prepared with a Saturday Review and a Sunday Saying - but I'm not stressed about it.

Despite how amazing last week was, truly free of guilt, I've started February in the opposite direction.  Yesterday I did not accomplish a single thing on my to-do list and did not complete any of my habits.  I slept with my make-up on, went to bed at 11pm, left a lot of dishes in the sink, did not write in my food journal...  Sometimes when I have a bad Monday, I wallow in it and it leads to a very unproductive Tuesday.  I'm hoping that I can turn today around and report tomorrow that today was a good day.  What do you do to turn an unproductive day around?