5 Ways to Make the Most of the Last 60 Days

Fives ways to make the most of the last 60 days of the year. The practical, everyday decision you can make to change how you’ll enter the new decade. Find out what they are right here. 

The year 2020 is nearly here — a new decade filled with new opportunities and new possibilities.

While the new decade is still 60 days away, we wondered, what could be accomplished in this time to set yourself up for success in 2020 and beyond?

We know, the holidays are nearly here, the plans are getting set and the cozy fire is calling your name. It’s the season of balancing busyness with rest and still thinking about what lies ahead. While you may be thinking you’ll start in the new year, we wonder what could change in the new decade if you got a jump start today?

We have created five practical daily rhythms to keep yourself true to you, holding firm to your desires, all while still enjoying the season that is upon us. Because we believe you don’t have to wait to reach your goals because you want to enjoy life. We believe that your goals and enjoyment can go hand in hand.

Here are five ways to keep yourself in check while still enjoying what the last 60 Days have to offer. 

1. Weekly Meal Plan

It sounds cliche – because everyone talks about meal planning. But we’re not just talking about some big extravagant meal plan – but going back to the basics like this easy taco soup. Meal planning that is less about perfection and more about eliminating one more daily decision. Freeing up space in your mind to enjoy what life has right now.

Meal plan, every day for the last 60 days. You can plan an entire week in less than five minutes. Go back to what you know, what you love, and commit to sticking to it. Your budget and your waistline will thank you.

2. Five Daily To-Dos

Life isn’t made in the big, extra moments but the everyday. We know the mind trap that has you believing that if you’re not stressed, you must not be doing enough. That progress goes hand in hand with busyness. But the reality is that busyness is often unnecessary – instead, focus on just a few things every day that align with where you want to go.

In the last 60 days, focus on completing just five to-dos a day. Nothing more. Commit to those and watch as the procrastination and worry decrease and the productivity and happiness increase.

3. 20 Minutes of Movement

There is a lot of research surrounding productivity. Movement falling on nearly every single list to enhance it. While it seems like it takes up unnecessary time and the weather is certainly getting colder, there is something to be said about moving your body every day. Now, with that, we don’t want you to get stuck in the idea that it has to look a certain way. We’re not asking for hard cross-fit workouts {although you certainly can}.

Here’s your permission slip to move in whatever way you like – even if that is walking. The truth is, walking is still the best and most effective form of movement. Don’t discount what a daily morning walk can do. In the next 60-days, commit to 20-30 minutes of movement a day.

4. One Fun Activity

As Clark Griswald says, “It’s the hap-hap-happiest time of the year.” But fun and rest don’t just happen; it has to be lived. It’s a choice, and we want to encourage you to do something fun and restful every-single-day for the next 60 days. It’s easy to get caught up in the idea that fun can be had after the work is done, but we wonder, what changes if you work from a place of rest?

You make fun and rest the priority, and you work out of that? Isn’t this what life is supposed to be about? Living the moments not waiting to live them when the work is done? Choose fun every day.

5. 30-Minutes of Growth

The prevailing thought among all people is that we’ll arrive. That somehow we have to work to get to a place, but I think this leaves out the true beauty of life, and that is the process of growing. I’m starting to believe that the day we stop growing is the day we stop living. This leads me to question; maybe this is why so many of us don’t feel like we’re living?

Change happens in the growth and the commitment that life isn’t a destination but a journey. What changes if you never stop growing? Take it for a test run and use the last 60-days to improve. Whether you sign up for a class, like how to take pictures like a pro, you pick up a book you’d been dying to read, or you start to dig into your personality – put the time in your schedule to focus on growth.

Just 30 minutes in 60 days – think of how much you’ll learn?

Your 60-Day Plan

Five rhythms, 60-days, what does this look like for you?

• Daily Meal Plan
• 5 Daily To-Do’s
• 20-30 Minutes of Daily Exercise
• 1 Fun or Restful Activity a Day
• 30-Minutes of Learning + Growing

You can do it, and who knows how this will shape you as we move into a new decade. Make a plan, write it out in your Nourished Planner, and make the most of the last 60 Days of the Year. We think you’ll start 2020 – 60 days ahead! It’s time to get started!