Suaimhneas: Living Goddess

Our intention creates our reality.

Wayne Dyer

To me, “Suaimhneas: Living Goddess” means peace, joy and beauty, internally and externally. My new blog title represents my intention for the next year as I conduct a personal experiment that I believe will change my life for the better.

If I can spend decades avoiding the activites that define who I am at my core and truly nourish my mind, body and spirit, could I not easily spend one year intentionally pursuing them? The years pass by so quickly. One year is so little time. Yet, if I could maintain some habits and routines for a whole year consistently through highs and lows, wouldn’t that be long enough to cement them into place in my life? And how might my life change through this practice?

I have developed a list called Best Life Practices. I believe if I perform these 15 actions daily for one year, my life will change immensely. However, I am committing to maintaining only one new habit, and that is to check-in daily on this blog and share the actions I took.

Sometimes this will mean just posting the list with simple check marks. Sometimes I imagine there will be thoughts about the actions or my day. Sometimes I might even feel inspired to write a stand-alone post reflecting on part of the journey or something that happened in my day. I’ve set it up so I can easily update the list anywhere from my phone or tablet. Other than lack of internet service or being rendered unconscious, I have no excuse to miss any day.

I am not creating routines to incorporate all the activities into my day. Indeed, I am not committing to performing all of the activities every single day. My only committment is to examine the list at the end of my day and acknowledge what actions happened. This is me keeping it simple. Yet, I think it will provide enough motivation to start doing all the things more consistently.

I don’t know whether any readers will follow this journey. I don’t know whether I even want anyone to follow this journey. My desire to document the challenge is partly to impose some kind of accountability for myself, and partly because I used to love to blog and I really want to get back to all the things that I used to love and somehow lost along the way.

So if you’re reading this, welcome, and thank you (I think). Without further ado, here is my list and daily plan for the next year.

Best Life Practices

1. Drink water, matcha, green and hibiscus teas
2. Eat more vegetables and fruits than anything else
3. Exercise
4. Go outside
5. Remember to stretch and squat
6. Read or listen to a book
7. Make your bed
8. Enjoy the little things
9. Be conscious and present
10. Live in a tidy place
11. Go outside
12. Try new things and give yourself permission to fail
13. Work with intention
14. Laugh loudly and often
15. Live with gratitude