I took these snapshots last month at the end of Q1 (yes, I am laughing at myself for saying that) but I wanted to keep it as a reflection of how I am doing.
I want to be proud of myself in terms of my discipline. While I don’t have to do some of these things EVERY single day, I do and I feel better for doing it. Others, I’m hitting a solid 3x a week and I’m proud that I’m remembering to keep it up.
I feel like my resolutions were fairly easy this year.
- Meditate 3x a week
- Continue language learning for 5m a day
- Writing 1,500 words a month in some form on a personal level
It feels unspoken that I want to continue my workouts and being the best healthy version of myself I can be…
But onto my check-in because it makes me happy!
French lessons
I am not only doing 5m a day, I am doing 15-20 minutes every day. And I feel like I am progressing SO fast through my French. Or at least, I started on future tense verbs and future is SO much easier than past?
Anyway… every week I’ve done 100-140 minutes of French and at some point in the next year or two I WILL hire a French tutor and go in person once a week. I WILL. I totally want to at least.
Meditation, I am still enjoying. It’s hard. But it’s a nice break and I’m sinking into it. Today (okay, I wrote this two weeks ago!) I actually fell asleep as I was laying down on my stomach and drifted off for 5m. Which was nice! But I’m happy to keep continuing 3x a week. I definitely can’t do every day!
It gives me peace knowing I’m taking 10 minutes to sit, clear my head, and cultivate inner calm.
I’m proud of myself for using my word of the year. Yes, I have to point that out!
Working out!
I always work out. I have to. It makes me sane. I feel stronger. But I am proud of these weight workouts. These are hard. These REALLY make me stronger, not just mentally. And I’ve managed to do it every week – even through a vacation to Scotland and England with the norovirus after!
While I’ve done meditation, language lessons, and work-outs for the last few years it does make me feel more in control and happier knowing I’m keeping track of it and deliberately doing it every day.
And, of course, the last one was about writing 1,500 words in some form for my blog or for myself.
I don’t know if I’m doing 1,500 words. I just measured this and it’s 500 🙂 But still, the act of sitting down for 30 minutes and writing does exercise my brain a bit and force me to put some thoughtful words to the mess that is my brain. It’s never quite accurate, not perfect, and definitely a mess but it’s thoughtful, peaceful, and makes me happy.
Someday I’ll write a book.
Someday.
