March Review - Winning!

Planted: stevia, kale, rhubarb

Wrote:two weddings, book chapters

Discovered/ learnt/ wondered: learnt about Patupaiarehe and how to say things like ‘I’m not reading the newspaper’ in Te Reo; Kāore pānui ahau I te niupepa!

Read: ‘Te Ao Māori’ by Rāpata Wiri; ‘Seeker’ by Arwen Elys Dayton

Successes: I pretty much rocked at life this month.

Struggled with: Animals eating/digging/ playing in the garden. Bye-bye cauli, kale and carrots! And those poor tomatoes, doomed from the start.

Highlight: starting Te Ara Reo Māori 4, winning a fitbit and a stack of books and a raffle filled with goodies I’d never buy for myself, family reunion

I don’t know if you believe in good vibrations in the universe or positive energy or visualisation or karma or luck, but all the wins were mine this month. I was a walking success machine. Boom! Hahaha!

Probably the coolest thing to have happened is that I kicked ass on those Durie Hill steps. Well, in my mind I did, when comparing myself now to myself four weeks ago. Do NOT compare myself to those powerhouses that run up and down those steps over and over again! I can go up without stopping in under six minutes. AND! I can go down without stopping under seven! This is HUGE! It’s a small victory against the foe that is my lifelong fear of heights and falling.

I won a whole heap of cool stuff this month, too! A fitbit (which is awesome for your health), cereal (which is terrible for your health), ten wicked good new books, and the Easter raffle from my hair salon filled with goodies.
And then I won stuff that I actually had to work for; stepping challenges, Te Reo vocab tests, and a variety of other small but joyous moments that I worked hard for.

I don’t know about you, but I feel this month has shown me that success attracts success. I don’t know if it’s just that you’re open to opportunity or if you’re inclined to focus on ‘winning’ more because it’s at the forefront of your thinking. Maybe it truly is a cosmic, octrune-coloured force that magnetises good vibes and happy people to you, globbing the awesome together in beautiful, ever-growing puddles of positivity. Whatever it is, I’m digging it.

I mastered hoola-hooping. I walked longer, more complicated distances. I figured out that coffee was keeping me awake and have increased my average sleep per night from three to five hours. I briefly hit my goal weight before a magical, guilt-free Easter. All in all, it’s been a freakin’ sweet month.

Next month, I’m taking it fairly easy on myself, with committing to the bridge loop twice a week and doing a teaching portfolio update. The challenge will be finding the time and not letting the commitments overwhelm me. I pick up another day at work which will force me to practice time-management; something I’ve never been overly fantastic at. Regardless, I’m looking forward to what April brings me; there’s graduation, birthdays, less financial stress and the Manawatu gorge loop walk. And if this month’s successes are anything to go by, April is going to be a goodun!