The Happiness Project Kick Off!!

FITNESS. 

That's the goal this month. And now for the objectives: 

1.  Spend at least 30 minutes outside, being active, daily. (Yes, that doesn't sound hard but a lot of time doing landscape projects or photography editing is spent inside, not soaking up the Vitamin D.)
2. Go on a bike ride for training at least once a week. (Cliff and I are doing a biking trip in September with his parents through Utah, which will be amazing.)
3. Eat Paleo, except special occasions. If you aren't familiar with a good way to clean up your diet, check out this website: Whole30 information. It's a challenge but I bet you will feel great. Even if you don't feel like making the effort to have a rigid meal plan, at least decreasing your sugar, dairy and starch consumption will do wonders for you. 
4. Sleep 8 hours each night. 

(I know all of you Landscape Architecture people miss making goals and objectives. It's ingrained into you now, embrace it!) 

Moving on, the goal is in area in my life that I felt I wasn't meeting my potential. The objectives are measurable, trackable ways to meet my goal. Napoleon Hill is credited with saying, "A goal is a dream with a deadline." 

The means of tracking progress will be a board per month with the goal and objectives on it. Come February, I will make a new board and add it next to January's. By the end of the year, I will have twelve little boards, all measuring different aspects to improve. I found awesome magnetic paint that I plan to put underneath my favorite, chalkboard paint. Once my first board is constructed I will post a picture. 

Let the happiness commence! :D