My Mission

In the movie Julie and Julia a woman decides to cook her way through Julia Child's cookbook and blog about it. So here I am to do much the same thing. We brainstormed in class about what we wanted to do- habits we wanted to start or habits we wanted to break that would improve our lives. I came up with two main things that I wanted to change and I decided that they could be combined into one mission.

My first problem is my failure to wake up on school days. I don't wake up to my alarm or when I do I have no motivation to get up. This causes me to be extremely rushed in the morning when I finally get out of bed and it just starts my entire day off on a bad foot. I don't have a chance to fully wake up before my first block and it's really just not good all together.

My other problem is that I'm taking private hitting lessons to improve my softball and I never seem to find time to practice outside of lessons like I'm supposed to. It would be much more beneficial to my improvement if I practiced on my own.

My plan is as follows: On school mornings I will wake up around 5:30am and actually get out of bed. I will go down to the garage and hit softballs off the tee and do my various drills for about 20 minutes or so. This means that I will be out of bed and done practicing softball around 6-6:15am which will give me plenty of time to get ready for school without felling rushed. I might even have time to make breakfast a routine which would be good for me. On weekends I won't worry about waking up early but I will make an attempt to practice softball on Saturdays and Sundays.

So, I guess we will start off this "social experiment" next week and see how it goes. I think it will improve my softball ability, my stress level, my education, and my health if I can pull this off. I'm excited to get started!