Accountability April

My friend Lisa and her blogging friend Karina have launched a concept called Accountability April. This sounds good to me, so I decided to join.

It sounds like Karina wondered just how many people make a New Year's resolution to do something great or change something great, but see it falter a few months (or weeks!) later. They now invite others who have a goal which can be accomplished -- or kick-started -- in a month to join them in April.

Learn more about it on either of their blogs.

I started a goal about a month ago, and did great for about 2 weeks, but have almost completely lost it recently. I realized just how much sugary soda* I drink each day, and I want to stop that. So, my goal is to choose ice water, unsweetened tea (yum!), coffee (lightly sweetened with splenda) or juice instead of sugary sodas of any variety.

I'm trying to get back into this now, though I did have a Mello Yello at Rudy's yesterday. I think this is a realistic life-change that I can make, which will be good for me.

I also want to get back into another goal I made a few months back - to sort the mail every day and not let it pile up. I did well on this for a while, but home-improvement and rocket-building projects got me out of the habit. I need to sort the mail into piles:

• Matt to look at
• Coupons/Ads/Magazines we might look at/use
• To shred

Everything else needs to go into the recycling bin right away. (And shredding could happen every day, or at least once a week.)

These aren't exactly revolutionary goals to save the world, but they are goals that will improve my life and our home environment. If you'd like to join us, post a comment on either Lisa or Karina's blog and, if you're on twitter, follow us there. My twitter feed is linked at the right.

*I drink mostly Mountain Dew these days. I've found the taste of Dr. Pepper revolting since I got my gallbladder out. I can't stand Coke or Pepsi. So, it's really only eliminating one sweet liquid - but it will be a challenge.

Oh, and I give myself permission to not start this until Saturday!!! Getting thru the next 2 days (my last days before sabbatical) will be tough enough as it is!