Day 2 : Warm-Ups and Yoga Breathing Exercises

Action Plan for the day:

• Yoga breathing exercises (I will be doing this daily)
• Warm up stretches

Warm up stretches :
Here is a video I like and will be doing today.

Yoga breathing exercises: These are the 3 exercises I will be doing every day
1. Kapalbhati Pranayama
2. Aulom Vilom Breathing
3. Ujjayi Pranayama
 

Day 2 : Sleep and Water

Sleep: I plan to get at least 7 hrs of sleep every night - which means I need to be in bed by 11 to be able to wake up at 6

Things to motivate me to wake up

• Listening to music
• Writing up the progress on this blog
• 15mins of yoga/breathing exercises

Water :  I usually manage to drink about 5 glasses of water without much effort. I plan to increase it to about 7 glasses approx. 1.5 liters. My plan goes like this

• Immediately after waking up - 1
• Around lunch - 1
• As soon as I get home from work - 1
• Around dinner  - 1

The rest 3 glasses I will fit in sometime during the day. I plan to keep a cup of water next to me during work an refill it once in the morning and once in the noon.

Today's update:                                           

Bed time yesterday - 12.10am  :  Wake up time - 7.30am  = Sleep time - 7hrs 20min

Water - 6 glasses

Goals for Oct'14

Tracking my goals after such a long time

Career Improvement/Study
Complete DMV learners test
Choose 1 - 2 courses from Coursera

Home
Weekly menu plan
Daily 15min clean up
Try 2 new recipes

Personal
Read 5 books
Drink 1l water daily
Exercise as per 31 day plan

Financial
Update Budget app
GC - 8000

Day 1 : 31 days of Healthier Habits to Fight PCOS

I've had many thoughts about linking up for the 31 day series as what I wanted to be doing was - developing healthier habits to fight PCOS - and just the effort of blogging for 31 days was causing me more of stress instead of just focusing on the main point...HEALTH!

So I'll just be writing out my plan for the day and checking it off as Yay or Nay..
The main areas I will be working on are fitness, meals, drinking water, sleep schedule & a little bit listening to some calming music or a fun activity for a holistic approach.

Here is an overview of how I am aiming to be healthy this month.

Day 1  - Right Over Here
Day 2 - Sleep & Water  and Warm-ups and Yoga Breathing Exercises
Day 3 - Yoga for Back and Neck Pain
Day 4 - Yoga poses for PCOS and Hair and Skin Care tips - I
Day 5 - Breakfast Ideas and Weekly Goals & Menu Plan
Day 6 - Warm-up + Cardio (elliptical & treadmill)
Day 7 - Warm-up, Yoga & Cardio
Day 8 - Warm Up + Cardio (elliptical + treadmill)
Day 9 - Breathing exercises + Cardio (running)
Day 10 - Warm Up + Cardio (elliptical + treadmill)




Stay tuned for my Goals of the month!

My Cleaning Plan...the trial run

There are so many cleaning plans out on the internet if you just do a search and I have been pinning quite a few onto my Pinterest board . However I was  still not able to make something my own.
Here's something I put up and I'm going to see how it works for me. I'm a huge follower of Crystal's blog MoneySavingMom and a part of it is inspired from her post Make the Most of Your Mornings

Daily 3 Must Do's:

1. Wash dishes
2. Laundry - folded & put away
3. 10 min pick up

Weekly tasks

• Sweep x 2
• Mop
• Bathrooms
• Dust
• Clean kitchen counters & stove

I will be following this plan from this week and will see how it goes...making changes along the way.

Monthly Goals for Feb'14

Here's how I did in my goals for Jan'14

Career Improvement

Complete 3 phases of Six Sigma

Complete 3 Duolingo levels

Home Making

Develop & implement a cleaning routine

Complete purging extra stuff @ home

Personal

Write in gratitude journal everyday

Do 500 Squats & 800 Crunches

Run 4 kms

Walk 30kms

Social

Catch up with friends - mail, chat

Financial

Track investments 

Fun

Read about Google Analytics

Review : Monthly Goals for Jan'14

Thinking back on how Jan flew by..it seems so quick that 1 month of 12 is already over. I did manage to achieve some of my goals..but lagged back in the fitness area. We were travelling till almost mid Jan, and with 2 bouts of the flu doing rounds..it was pretty tough.

Career Improvement

Complete 3 phases of Six Sigma

Complete 3 chapters from French course @ https://oli.cmu.edu/jcourse/webui/welcome.do  - Did 1 chapter

Complete 4 Duolingo levels

Home Making

Try 2 new recipes

Pack 5 lunches - Packed only 2 lunches..will be keeping this on hold till Feb

Declutter 30 items - I did make some progress..but didnt really count the items

Personal

Write in gratitude journal everyday

Do 500 Squats & 800 Crunches

Run 4 kms

Walk 30kms

Social

Connect with atleast 1 far away friend

Meet a friend over lunch or tea

Financial

Track investments  -  already done on the 1st

Fun

Read anything which interests me (SEO, Social Media Marketing, VA, Photography)