the_fantastic_ms_fox | 2014 Resolutions

This year, I will make my resolutions a lot more public, so it's easier to feel held to task.

1. Improve my sleeping habits.

A. I will make a weekly entry about sleep and post it on social media

B. Each month, I will select and use a different technique from the below list and use it 5 nights per week. I may implement two during the same month, or abandon one after two weeks to try another. Once I have tried all of them, I will review their utility and implement two. After one month of that, I will implement a third. A fourth may then follow

- Put a SAD light on a timer (January 5-31, or February)
- Reschedule the activities that keep me up late
- Dark hour. No blue light.
- Sleep journal
- Pre-bed shower or bath or other evening ritual
- Electronic device to track nocturnal movements
- Keep a firm wakeup time
- If I wake up after "first sleep" I will stay up for about 90 minutes

2. Relaxation
Once a day, five days out of the week, I will do one or more of the following for a total of 20 minutes
- Meditate
- Pray
- Go to the pool or sauna and float or sit
- Cuddle
- Something sexual
- Make non-professional art
- Do something gender-confirming
- Journal
- Daydream
- Play boardgames
- Watch a TV show
- Cook

Once every month, I will do something relaxing and new over the span of at least 12 hours. It could include one of the following
- Bake
- Cook something new
- Go on a pilgrimage
- Travel somewhere and sleep a lot

3. Adopt a skin regimen
- I will clean and moisturize 3x per week until Equinox
- From equinox until Solstice, I will also Tone or exfoliate
- From Solstice to Equinox, I will also tone *and* exfoliate
- After equinox, I will review and use that new practice

4. Write for one solid hour, 3x per week

5. Do voice practice for ten minutes, 3x per week

6. Get a permanent body modification
Equinox: investigate options and pick a top two
Solstice: investigate methods and providers and pick a top two
Equinox: arrange it
Solstice: make it happen

7. Clean my house for 10 minutes, 3x per week

8. Cultivate a human relationship, 3x per week
This could be writing a note of thanks, making a phone call, or having someone over for dinner.

I will revisit these resolutions at Equinox and solstice, pruning as needed.