Social Marketing and World Water Day
Living in Canada, it’s easy to take fresh water for granted. We have many beautiful, clean rivers. I complain that my tap water is cloudy, when I should be grateful to have fresh water running from...
View ArticleMy Thoughts on Adding Stuff to Water
To make my water taste better, every now and then I like to get a little crazy and add things to it. I know, totally crazy right? Some of these things include: tea bag frozen juice mixes iced tea...
View ArticleFour Months Into Cultivating New Habits
We’re nearing the end of April, so I thought I’d take a moment to check in with my habits and see how I’m doing. Habit #1: Do Yoga Every Day I started this habit in January with the goal to just do...
View ArticleFinding Time
Phew what a week! So glad it’s Friday! This past week my work co-hosted a national conference in which I was a volunteer and a presenter. Needless to say, it was a busy and stressful week. Event...
View ArticleWaking Up Early: Must say no to Snooze
When my alarm goes of in the morning, I find it so hard to get up right away! I hit the snooze button, not once but two or three times. I’ll lay there, lazy, sleepy and comfy. I sometimes try to talk...
View ArticleGetting my Habits Back on Track
I haven’t been doing so well on my habits since returning from Costa Rica. I don’t know why. Perhaps it was that I got out of a routine. Perhaps I was tired. Busy. Lazy. All yoga’d out. Who...
View ArticleChecking In
As promised, I’m checking in today with my habits. Today I got a 7.5/9 – better than yesterday. Besides, the night is still young. Wake up early – nailed it. Yoga – kind of (I get a .5 on this – I’m...
View ArticleLack of Sleep is Getting in the way of my Habits
I often have insomnia. It comes and goes and when it does come visit it generally stays for about two to four nights. The four nights are rare, but they are the worst. It’s not that I’m not tired....
View ArticleUp and At Them
This morning I was up at 7 am. On a Saturday. It’s a Christmas miracle! Getting up early is so wonderful. Going to bed early and sleeping well is also wonderful (which totally happened last night –...
View ArticleDrink More Water [Video]
I chose drink more water as habit #3 because I was thirsty! I chose it because I wanted squishy, hydrated organs. Hydrated skin. I wanted more energy and fewer headaches. In preparation to drink more...
View ArticleHabit #3 – Drink More Water
Every day I wake up thirsty. And not in a ‘thirsty to take on the world’ kind of way. Just thirsty. This is why I am making drink more water my next habit to cultivate. Preparing to Drink More Water...
View ArticleWhy is my tap water cloudy?
I poured myself a glass of water from the tap, as I do, and noticed something a bit off. What came out of my tap was not crystal clear and sparkling. It was cloudy and highly suspect. Last weekend our...
View ArticleExciting Update to the Drink More Water Plan
I’ve really be half-assing this whole drink more water habit. If you’ll remember, to avoid the quota trap, I decided against quantifying how much water I was going to drink. The plan was to just drink...
View ArticleThe Future of Cultivating Habits
The year is quickly coming to an end. This year the goal was to cultivate 12 new habits – piling habit upon habit. This year I’m going to do things a little differently. I have decided that for the...
View ArticleEat Healthier 3 Day Challenge: Your New Habit
We are at the end of our 3 Day Eat Healthier Challenge, inspired by Lisa, who chose her habit. This challenge was about building the foundation so that we can sustain the habit. Day 1: we began by...
View Article12 Habits 12 Months – 2013 in Review
2013- Thank you for the lessons. 2014- Welcome. I love you. - Angela Urquhart, Dramatically Zen I’m so pumped for 2014 and all of the new habits I’m going to try. My approach is going to be a little...
View ArticleHabit #3 – Drink More Water
Every day I wake up thirsty. And not in a ‘thirsty to take on the world’ kind of way. Just thirsty. This is why I am making drink more water my next habit to cultivate. Preparing to Drink More Water...
View ArticleMy Morning Routine
When I started cultivating the habit of waking up early I had some lofty ideas of how I would spend my morning. Yoga, exercise, meditate, read, write, show up to work on time… Waking up early is...
View ArticleMy Horrible Morning Commute and Change is on it’s Way
I have to change my morning routine. It really all started this week. You see, I work at a university and the new semester has begun. The students are pouring onto campus and my peaceful summer...
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