January 2 2011, And yesterday was a cool date to blog 1-1-11 and I missed it. But today it my son Ryan's wedding anniversary so that makes it cool anyway.

I'm not going to try to be profound this time. I'm just going to try to write something every day until March 7th. I've joined a private blog that's all about being a little better. Journal writing is one of the things and I'm going to try to do it every day.

So today is Sunday, I've finished preparing the Class 9 lesson on Scriptures and the New Testament. That was stressful because I've just done it for 2 weeks. The 1st week I sucked big time and the second, Layne gave me a blessing and one of the fathers came in. Needless to say, the lesson went over wonderfully and the children had a good experience. So one week great. This week is actually a new class of kids, as it's the new year. The girls are in my Activity Days so I know them a little bit. I've done all the preparing I can and I've just got to trust again, focus on the kids, remember I'm teaching children not a lesson, and pray pray pray.

The other thing on my mind today is the good day I had yesterday. I think Layne and I both got all of our goals accomplished (except for journal-writing, and I didn't practice the guitar). but we got up at a good time, studied scripture, exercised, put away the Christmas decorations, ate right, (No bad stuff, per se, no sugar, no soda, although pizza is not really a "health food". Still, it was a healthy kind, I think.), had my fruits and veggies, drank enough water, got some sunshine, played with my grandsons, didn't eat after 8:pm, and went to bed by 10:30pm. And that's the earliest I can make it to bed. I'm gonna have to call anything before 11:pm my "early to bed time. Getting up early, even when going to bed early is going to take a little work. I'm used to waking between 7-7:30am so I have to retrain. It's still dark before that so it's going to be hard.

Do I have to decide what my ultimate goals are with this, or is just having daily accomplishments enough? I'm reticent to put things out there like "lose 50 lbs", because I get frustrated and quit when it takes so long. I think I just want to do this a day at a time and make some new habits. I've already got a lot of these things down. I'm adding journal-writing, daily PERSONAL scripture study, no eating after 8:pm, 45 minutes of exercise 6 times per week, guitar and piano at least 15 minutes per day. Let's see if I can do that. Let's see what I can turn into by doing that much.

I hope to waist less time every day. Look at people when they're talking to me. Listen better.
That's the list. We'll see.