Getting better one day at a time
It’s called Make Your Bed by Admiral William H. McRaven. It’s a little book of less than 144 pages that I bought sale on my kindle for just $2.99 and read in about an hour. In all honesty, it’s more of a small series of …
Pixels flicker across the screen and light rebounds off my face as I stare blankly at my laptop. The background music fades and my finger twitches almost reflexively, starting up another video. The light in my room, once warmed by streams of sunlight trickling through …
While rethinking why I stopped keeping up with my blog last year, I realized one bug reason was a lack of a plan. I had a few ideas for my first couple of projects, but after that I chose randomly, and I chose things that didn’t have a large impact on me. Like skateboarding or piano for example.
And while these projects were fun, when larger roadblocks were put in my way like finishing school assignments and making sure to put in hours for my part-time job, I had to put them off.
So now I’m pivoting my focus to long-term lifestyle habits, so I have a stronger motivation to continue when life gets busy. And I’ve planned out 12 habits that I think will carry me through a year of new goals.
Here’s the plan:
While I may shift the order or swap out a habit or two depending on how I’m feeling in the future at least now I have a roadmap for where I’m heading.
If you have any ideas on other foundational habits that would be beneficial I’d love to hear your thoughts. Just leave a comment below!
I have decided to resurrect Fully Balanced Fridays! I realized how helpful it was to occasionally track a day of eating and figure out what kinds of foods I needed to include to get all micro and macro nutrients. So here’s what I’ve been eating …
May 2020 Progress Goal This month, I decided to start simple. I will be focusing on building one of the most minimal and least time-consuming habits—making my bed each morning. I had been doing this quite consistently over the past year but after graduating school …
When I first had the idea to create this blog, it felt like it could be my salvation. The plan to focus on one habit or skill a month that I could improve at gave me a spark of hope that I hadn’t experienced in a long time when imagining the future.
After almost six months now of not posting consistently or not posting anything at all, it feels daunting. I’ve made many posts saying I would stick to a regular schedule, begin again. But I haven’t. So, in some sense the blog now feels like a catalogue of my past errors, inconsistencies and lies. It’s all my mistakes compiled in one place for anyone to revisit at any time.
I’m also afraid of this being another post that I won’t follow up on, another broken promise to myself.
I want to remind myself that this project was never about anyone else’s approval or views, it was an experiment and contract with myself. I wanted to see if by truly focusing on one simple goal a month I could get better and pull myself out of a pit of darkness that I was in.
It was also meant to be a declaration that progress is not always linear. Sometimes I fail, I give up, pity myself and am unwilling to move forward for long periods of time. But I hope that by coming to terms with my own capacity for self-destructive behavior I can overcome it and turn this blog into something that I can be proud of again.
Because I need a concrete goal that I can aim at and aspire to each week and month and year. I’ll be posting more about the specifics on Monday.