How are you going with living your intentions so far this year?

As usual, I’ve been struggling a bit as I continue to adjust from being on holiday to living in a more structured, purposeful way.

This morning, I realised that the way forwards is easy. All I have to do is just keep doing.

I don’t have to hit milestones, meet deadlines or break records. I just have to keep repeating the right behaviours, day after day, that will move me towards my long term visions of better fitness, weight loss, less pain and a simpler life with less debt and more freedom.

Setbacks will come. Right now, I’ve had to adjust all my exercise routines to strictly low impact due to my seemingly never ending and frequently recurring back issues. Initially, this filled me with disappointment and disillusionment, not to mention a whole lot of mid life crisis, OMG I’m aging angst. Despite this, I won’t quit. I’m still forming the right habits, just at a lower intensity.

I’m now thinking of progress less as a series of targets to meet in a certain time frame and more as a jar I’m filling with progress.

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Donna Sherriff is a New Zealand based improvement and operations management specialist. Seeing a need for simple, no fuss, improvement advice she started The Lean Minimalist blog in 2017. Donna writes articles offering advice and tips for rapid and sustainable business improvement based on over 15 years in Senior Management roles. Passionate about sharing the lessons of over 20 years on the high performance track Donna offers coaching services to professionals. She also writes about her own personal improvement journey, minimalism, and her life long struggle against the tyranny of cookies and sugar which she overcame in 2020. These days, Donna is pursuing a journey to earn her black belt in Taekwondo after a long hiatus of 16 years away from training. On the side she is an amateur but passionate musician and poet. View all posts by the lean minimalist