30 Day fitness challenge

I have started a series of life-enhancing actions in the form of the 30 day challenge.  In essence, I choose one or two activities or mental challenges that I have always wanted to do in my life.  I then do those things for 30 days. The idea being that 30 days isn't long enough to be intimidating, but it is long enough to form new habits.  I have completed one such challenge in which I wrote in another blog that I have everyday for 30 days.  It worked to the extent that I now think about writing at least a couple of times during the day.  Something will happen and I will think, "I should really put that in the blog today." But it didn't work in that I didn't set up a specific time during the day to do it, so I didn't really form a new habit.  Just a new something to think about.

So for my next 30 day challenge, I have decided to get a little more specific.  I will wake up every work-day morning at 0630 and do a Yoga dvd.  I have two.  One is half an hour and the other is an hour.  I figure that I can start with the half hour one, and as that becomes less challenging I will move on to the hour one. There is also a 20 minute ab only track on the hour long dvd, so I can most likely work that into the routine.  I mean, it is my challenge, I make up the rules right?

At any rate, I began this challenge this morning with some hesitance. But now that I have done the practice (workout in Yoga terms) I feel much better about it and I am excited to see it through.

Today being the 20th and January having 31 days, this challenge will be completed on the 18th of February.  Pretty exciting!