Peace of Mind Organizing

Prioritizing my health

29 November 2023

I’ve been doing yoga for almost five years now (since December 2018), practicing with Yoga with Adriene from the comfort of my home. I love her 30-day challenges and I managed a streak of over 400 days in a row of yoga, from April 1, 2020 to May 12, 2021.

This year I developed tennis elbow, which took months of physical therapy to get past. (Good times.) That made me nervous about yoga, but now I’m trying to get back into it because I know how beneficial it is to my entire body.

I also need to do physical therapy exercises at home and I’d like to do more cardio exercise. I’m 61 and in the past couple of years I’ve definitely become more stiff and creaky and I don’t go up and down the stairs quite as effortlessly as I used to.

So I’m striving to create a routine that prioritizes self care. I know I find it much easier to create daily routines than any other frequency. So I’m working on creating a daily routine that encompasses:

• yoga
• physical therapy exercises
• cardio and/or strength

Looking back at my blog, I’m taking inspiration from some of my past posts, including:

• Daily exercise for the win! in which I write about my older brother’s amazing exercise routine
• Developing a yoga practice, from February 2019, 60 days into my yoga journey
• Nine things I love about Yoga with Adriene, written in June 2020
• Using rewards as motivation, written this summer as I struggled to get back on track with exercise

I am fortunate to have control over my schedule for the most part. Last summer, I rode my stationary bike at the end of my work day. I like the idea of starting the day with yoga and PT and ending with cardio. I’m going to give myself credit for any effort in these categories, which I hope will get me going even if I don’t feel like exercising.

I’m also going to create a spread in my bullet journal to track my exercise so I get the satisfaction (and psychological boost) of creating a chain that I won’t want to break. (See my 2008 blog post, Don’t Break the Chain for more information on that.)

Keeping myself healthy is probably the most important thing I can do for myself, my family and my business. It’s high time I prioritized it!

Tagged with: exercise, habits, health, routines, yoga with adriene

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