Thursday, December 28, 2017

My Resolutions - 2018

BEADS OF JOY 12-28-17
“My Resolutions - 2018”
©2017 James Dacey, Jr. OFS

My Friends,

 

Let’s make this coming year the Best Year Ever:

New Year’s Resolutions - 2018

I would like to see this year ahead be an amazing year of some remarkable changes in my life. Some will be dramatic, some will be nostalgic, some will be wise; but all will be fun and hopefully beneficial to those around me. I would like health and spiritual well-being to be my central focuses as I move into 2018. Today I share my Health Resolutions.

Just please remember, these are my resolutions, no one will ask you or insist that you have them too. Throughout the year I have been thinking about many things, mostly creating a better balance in my life. What is the balance you ask? To balance healthier living with a solid active spiritual life. I love to snack when I do my research and my writings. A habit I must break.

Lots of my snacking results in bad choices that surround my financial abilities. A $2 bag of chips of some sort or cookies are easy to eat while typing; and you get a nice amount for the two bucks. $2 worth of most veges or fruit don’t add up too much, and they are much messier to eat when typing.

My new choices will result in creating and developing new and some old habits. Just prior to my strokes in 2015 I was in top physical shape, taking no medications at all. Obviously, the change that has happened isn’t something I had control of; but now I feel like I do. I’m not going on a diet or making any major, extreme, dramatic changes in my life; except that I will be 100% conscious of my choices now. Look at the list of my health resolutions for 2018. My spiritual resolutions are always shared in my writings, today I share these.

Health Resolutions

·        I will be wiser in quality and quantity of the foods I eat.
·        I will not snack at all while writing (typing); instead I will stay focused on my task and have a healthy snack when I am done.
·        I will stop eating snacks in bed, just before I go to sleep. A habit that in many ways, ruins a good night’s sleep. Instead, I will have a glass of water before I go to bed.
·        I will continue to exercise as best as I can (my left side is still numb from my strokes) at least 3-4 times a week.
·        I will also try to walk a minimum of 2 miles a day.

Activities Resolutions

·        Somehow, someway in 2018 I’d like to return to bicycling. I used to like traveling extremely long rides on my bicycle. I really miss that. I grew up on Staten Island, I have peddled from Staten Island to Piscataway, New Jersey, Manhattan, Brooklyn and even to Elizabeth, New Jersey. Yes, I know all those bridges don’t have a bicycle lane, but I did it anyway.
·        I’d like to consider and somehow begin kick-boxing. Not to fight, but as a workout with a bag. I want to be much more flexibility.
·        During this new year, I’d like to plan more mountain hikes and long walks. My longest daily walk, was around the Niagara Airport, when we lived near the airport. It was a 14-mile walk. I used to walk that at least once every month. I walked it in the rain, the sleet, even once in a blizzard. I really enjoyed that walk. Walking is my favorite activity.
·        The key to 2018 will be, for me to remain physically active.

Side notes to my health. For the past two months or so, my doctor took me off all my medication. I’m not 100% sure how wise that was. But he feels after blood work done after I was off my meds for over a month; they show a stability in my cholesterol (106 – with no meds) and all my other numbers in my blood work show I am getting healthier without meds. Also, my blood pressure is stable and steady. My doctor says, “I’d rather see you go the healthy route to get healthier.”

PS: I want to create a list of my own healthy recipes, aside from the Italian ones I already have. Yes, Chrissy use to do all the cooking and I had my few specialty meals I made. Now it's time for me to have my own list of healthy meals, side dishes, appetizers, snacks.

LOVE YOU GUYS !!!!

Your brother in Christ Jesus 
And His Most Blessed Mother,
Jim (The Rosary Man) Dacey Jr OFS