The first day of the rest of my life

And so the project begins!  For the next six months and one week I will be working on changing my life, starting with achieving goal number one: find myself a job.  And not just any job, a job I actually enjoy, that lets me use my brain and my skills, and which ideally pays well.

I’ve just been going over my list of Things to Achieve and I’m finding it a little bit over-whelming how many things I need to start incorporating into my daily routine.  I need to learn to meditate, to quiet my mind, to think only good thoughts and to send those negative thoughts on their way.  I need to think good thoughts before I go to sleep, and re-play my day in my mind and re-create events to go the way I would have liked them to.

I’ve decided not to tackle all these tasks at once, out of fear that my mind may implode under the pressure.  Instead, I’m going to try and incorporate one new task into my routine each day.  I’ll mark these off my list as I go, with the date in which I achieved it.  If it’s an ongoing project - as most of them are - I’ll note the date I started.

Today I have a few things which I can mark off on my list.  The first being:  “Decide what you want to be, do, and have, think the thoughts of it, emit the frequency, and your vision will become your life.”  This is an ongoing task, and I believe I started it when I first decided my goals for this year.

The second task is “You must act, speak, and think, as though you are receiving it now.”  Because I am currently aiming for a new job, I’ve realised I’m going to have to start acting and thinking like I already have that job.  Sadly, I’ve realised that this means NO MORE SLEEP-INS. 

Since I left my job at the end of October I’ve been enjoying waking up between 9 and 9.30 most mornings.  This now has to stop.  It pains me just having to write it.  From now on I’ll be getting out of bed at 7.30, getting ready to go to ‘work’, and between the hours of 9 and 5, I’ll be doing work.

Unfortunately, this plan didn’t get off to the best start this morning.  I had every intention of getting up at 7.30AM when I set my alarm last night.  I remember my alarm going off, and I remember knowing that I had to get up, but somewhere along the line I fell back asleep.  I haven’t entirely broken my resolution though, excluding the time I took to have a shower and get dressed, I have been working since 9, and I will keep working through to 5.  Tomorrow morning I promise to get up at 7.30.

I thought, seeing as this is the first day of this project, today would be the ideal day to make my vision board.  This is my plan for this afternoon.  I’m actually quite excited about this idea; I’ll post photos of it tomorrow.