Progress!

Not much progress, but some is better than none.  I finally drew something, after all this time.  Just one thing so far.  I'm working on it.  I find I have trouble deciding on what to draw.  I need to be less picky, and just do it instead of obsessing about it.  The whole point of that goal is just to draw.  No masterpieces expected.

Now that I'm back from vacation, it is time to get going on the healthy eating.  So far I've made all my meals from a healthy eating cookbook.  I think I'm off to a good start.  I've planned my meal for tomorrow already too, also from the same cookbook.  I like this cookbook because it gives instructions on how to prepare meals for 1 or 2 servings.  Much easier than trying to halve recipes that I find in other books or online.  My plan is to get to the point where I'm planning my meals for the week, and making sure my menu each day is balanced. This should also stop me from buying my lunch at work (saving money) and from mindless grocery shopping (saving time and money!)  It would be nice if I could work it so that I'm mainly only buying fresh items, and occasionally stocking up on staples.

I'm trying to be good about donating at Freerice.com.  There is 80K left to go on my goal.  Still quite a bit to do before the time limit.  But it feels like it's in the home stretch now, like it's attainable finally. Maybe because now it's measuring in the tens of thousands, instead of the hundred thousands! I considered adding another cell reminder to donate.  But then I decided that would be a bad idea - if I have too many cell reminders, I will probably start to ignore them and they will no longer be effective.  And then it's just fail all over again.

Score 1 for the cellphone

Cellphone reminders are going to run my life eventually. Seriously, sometimes I feel like the only way I get things done is if I set a reminder in my phone. I shouldn't be complaining too hard though - the end goal is to get things done, the means to the end doesn't matter so much.  If my head is too full of other things, I may as well use the technology that I have. 

Not a whole lot has happened since Sunday, but I'm trying to stick to following my 'blog when reminded' idea that I came up with.  When I arbitrarily chose Tuesday, I wasn't really considering the very small time lapse between posts.  Oops.  I suppose I could have skipped posting today, but I'm also going to be away next week without internet access (yay vacation!) and that seemed like a long time without posting. 

I was very proud of myself on Sunday for actually following my workout plan.  I am currently making up another workout plan for tomorrow morning.  I'm still feeling Sunday's workout a bit, but if I want to get in the habit of exercising regularly I just need to do it.  I'll get back in workout and recover faster eventually. I'm not saying 'back in shape' purposely - that will take longer.  Tomorrow morning will also be Day 3 of an attempt at a no-snooze week.  Day 1 and 2 went ok, but Day 3 will be an earlier start, so it's going to take a lot more willpower!

Blog fail. again.

Well, so much for being better at blogging!  Clearly this is not something I'm cut out for. Since I apparently suck at remembering to do it, I'm going to try something new.  I'm setting a reminder in  my phone.  It works for other things, maybe it will work for this. 

What have I done lately for goals?  Not a whole heck of a lot.  I've been doing free rice a little bit.  I hit 400K today, and I'm going to do some more before I go to bed.  I went through a patch where I was being good and doing it regularly, but that fell apart a bit lately.  We'll have to see how it goes. 

Today I made myself sit down and evaluate my weight.  I am currently the heaviest I have ever been.  I'm not much heavier than I was when I started, but I am still heavier.  I don't think I have enough time to get within the prescribed healthy range for my height by the time that the goals end.  Instead I'm going to try for being 7 pounds lighter by then.  That's approximately a pound a week, which is manageable and can be done in a healthy way. 

I've been trying to get motivated about doing the goals, but it's been so long since I set them.  They aren't all important to me anymore.  Or I've realized that the goal that I set was a bit ridiculous - either not meaningful, or not really achievable when considered with the other goals.  I also really underestimated the amount of time that I would have to put into the goals.  Although that may also be that since I've become disillusioned with them, I am no longer making time.  A bit of a catch-22. 

This did lead me to think of a different way to go about the goals, in general.  I was previously considering doing it again, and setting another 101 goals.  I even started a list.  But I think instead, I might break it down. Set mini goal lists instead of a mega list.  Every 100 days, set 10 goals that I want to accomplish.  Similar to a to-do list in a way, but it wouldn't have any normal, day-to-day things.  With a shorter list and a shorter time frame, I think I would feel more pressure to get them done right away, instead of putting them off because I have so much time left.  Each set of goals would also be a lot more relevant to my life at the time, and there would be less risk of circumstances changing while I was in the middle of a set.  Coming up with 10 goals is also a lot less daunting than 101!