Goals, resolutions, fitness

We're back in the game. Well, to be honest, we were going to be back last week on the second of January, but we procrastinated like our life depended on it. But, now we're here. And we want to wish you a Happy New Year – lots of health and happiness to you and your families!

Today let’s talk about resolutions, goals and other stuff.

We're not sure how you’ll benefit from our rambling in today’s post, it’s mostly us us us talk, but we do hope that it can in some way, help you too. We'll talk about fitness, blogging and a little bit about mental health, so we hope there’s something for everyone here.

Reflecting On Last Year

We think this is the first time in our life where we're actually reflecting on the year before and not just “Screw you, you’re over. What’s next?”

Well 2018 wasn’t a reliable year of our life. It was in fact a tough year for us in a way. And we would’ve had mostly negative thoughts about it, if we didn’t take 10 minutes to look back and realize that this was in fact a year where we've learned a lot. That sucks, right? When someone says something like that you know their year sucked. What did you do, you learned, big deal. But we realized that 2018 was also a year of firsts for us. For example this kitten.

For the first time in our life, we had an animal at home – this kitten. And we were freaking out that we will get some type of incurable worm in our system. We took this kitten from the street when it was about a month old wandering around, starving and looking like it wouldn’t make the night. Took it to the vet, kept it warm at home and fed it constantly. It grew and now it’s in our dad’s yard – happy, free and healthy.

And you know what? Thinking of this, as just one example – makes us smile. It makes us happy that we got to experience what it’s like to have a kitten at home. And it was all worth it.

So was it a good or bad year? Honestly, we're grateful for it and that’s all that matters.

2019: Be More Like An Otter

A little before Christmas, we went for a walk on the beach and we saw something we had only seen a few times in our life. Something that looked like a giant rat. We do believe it was an otter.

Now, the next part might be a little weird. We don’t see otters that often, so we decided to google the symbolism of this animal. The information we read described exactly what we needed in that moment.

The article said that otters appear in the life of someone when that person becomes too serious. And that’s exactly what we felt and thought the moment before we saw the otter.

Exactly, exactly what we were thinking. We were in a slump and been thinking how serious we've gotten over the last year and that we miss being us – the person who loves having fun, without worrying what anyone else thinks, someone who’s just free. Someone who goes with the flow, who knows how to let go when fights aren’t worth it and knows how to enjoy life when it happens.

Our goal this year: Be more like the otter and have more fun.

Mental Health

We zoomed out, looked at our life and understood we've become more serious and stressed, because we didn’t keep the promises to myself and was constantly blaming us for things that didn’t work. At least in most cases.

It was like we wasn’t looking at us, like us anymore, we were some stranger, some employee who didn’t do his job and therefore was criticized all the time.

So we figured, in order to be happy with myself and to completely be us again, we needed to keep our own promises to myself. To clear that overwhelm. So what we'll need to do is to get more disciplined and organized at work and life this year. There are two things we'll focus on in the first months:

1. We'll take time to look back and see all the good that’s happened, be grateful for what we have and what we've done.
2. We'll need to create systems and schedules that we can keep up with, so we can stay more organized at work, because we don’t want it to take over our life. You could say: work smarter, not harder.

Health And Fitness

There are a few things we want to do here. Our biggest “problems” in this area are definitely – overeating and sitting too much. So these are our plans here:

• no snacking
• practice intermittent fasting
• make at least one meal low-carb
• exercise 5 times a week for 30 minutes a day
• move every 45 minutes

Blogging

Our goal for this year is to reach five million people with this blog. During the last year we reached twice as many people than we did during the first three years of the blog. So for this year we're setting a new, exciting, big goal.

We want to follow a schedule and be consistent with the blog, and overall take it more seriously. We'll do what’s realistic for us – this means we'll be posting twice a week on Monday and Thursday, so if you’re wondering when the next post will be up – now you know.

And that is it. We'll be back on Thursday with a 30-Day workout plan which we're excited about!