My very first giveaway!

I haven’t talked much about my resolutions or goals for 2013.  Yes, I set them. And yep, I’ve already broken them.  But, I worked on a fancy math formula all day and calculated that there are exactly 357 days left in the year for me to get it right.

In a nutshell, my resolutions/goals for 2013 are:

• Floss daily
• Take my vitamins daily
• Lose 30 pounds
• Run my 4th marathon
• Turn 40 and be in awesome shape (Which that relates to lose 30 pounds.)

In other exciting news, and by exciting I mean SUPER DUPER PEE YOUR PANTS NEWS!…I’m going to do a giveaway.  This is a big step for me.  It’s my first one!  I don’t know what the rules are, and haven’t researched them yet, BUT…I want to give you a book!

A dear friend of mine sent me a book, I bought one to replace it for her and she said no, it’s a gift.  Instead of forcing her to take it back, I decided I would give it away.  The new one…not the one that I loved on.

The Happiness Project is the book that I’m talking about.  I don’t write book reports and I’ve never joined a book club, nor have I ever properly reviewed a book before.  However, I dearly loved this book so much that I preordered Gretchen Rubin’s second book, “Happier at Home” to be delivered the day it came out.  It came, I read the first page and then life happened. 

But now, I am using both books in conjunction with my other resolutions/goals.  A double whammy effect I guess?  In the books, Gretchen talks about her project and the resolutions she made to help her achieve success in key areas of her life.  I’m following her examples pretty closely as I’m trying not to complicate it for myself too much. Both books are also divided out by each month, so every month, there are a few new key areas to focus on.  Again, I like this as it doesn’t overwhelm me to try and do something all at once.

For the month of January, a couple of my resolutions are:

• Sleep More
• Suffer for 15 minutes (meaning, set a timer for 15 minutes and work on a task that you have been dreading or stressed out about.)
• Act more energetic (This one is tough.  It means I have to pretend I am something I’m not.  Like this morning….horrible mood…and I pretended that I was excited about all the little things that were happening.  Funny thing is that my brain didn’t translate the sarcasm and I actually did start feeling better!)

I guarantee you that you will love “The Happiness Project” as much as I do, so you really must enter my very first and hopefully not my last, giveaway!  Yay! 

Giveaway rules

The giveaway ends January 13th at 9pm PST and is open to US and Canadian residents 18 years or older.

To enter, you simply need to comment on this blog post, and the winner is chosen randomly.  (Easy peasy, right?)

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