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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/Foxfully on 2024-01-14 17:54:39+00:00.

Hello!

This has been week 2 of my 52 week-long attempt to document my progress, in order to be more conscientious with how I’m living my year.

This week has been a mixed bag, but still managing to lean in a positive direction.

The good:

As I mentioned in my previous post, regardless of the quantity of goals I have, my personal key to them all is curb the perfectionism that’s always plaguing my life. This week I’ve been very conscious to do just that. Practically, that looks like allowing myself to ease into the projects and habits I want to establish rather than pushing high standards.

Even being aware of this, I have exercised more this week than I’ve managed to do in months. As always when getting back into shape, it’s been draining me more than it’s given me, but that’s to be expected. I still enjoyed myself, walking or running every morning and even lifting some weights (even though I didn’t plan to this week).

Diet wise I’ve also been doing quite good. Only allowing myself to get groceries once a week really helps with keeping unhealthy stuff out of the house. My sleep is slowly getting there as well. These are the foundational building blocks on which the rest of my goals can be built. Because when you have time but no energy, the time is automatically wasted. This is my main problem—I never have enough energy to do everything I need/want to do.

The bad:

I only studied and worked on side projects minimally this week. Again, this could be seen as good progress because I didn’t overwhelm myself from the beginning. But I’ve definitely slacked off in this department.

At times I find myself just staring into the wall because I know what I should do, but I’m completely unmotivated to start. With big projects like writing and YouTube I guess that’s to be expected, but I need to deal with that overwhelming feeling somehow.

I’ve also been slacking off on meditating. Next week I will force myself to meditate a bit in the morning after going outside. I guess this can be called “habit bunching,” but really I’m just so tired after a run it feels easier to slip into a meditative state haha.

Conclusion:

There’s a lot more that I could write, but in an effort to keep this post short I will save it for next week.

Now that my basic habits like exercising, diet and sleep are falling into place, this coming week will be focused on getting my studying, side projects and general life discipline on track.

Again, achieving all those with a perfect score is not realistic. But studying an hour a day, and spending at least one hour a day on either writing or YouTube a day shouldn’t be impossible. Even though I wish I could pull of 16 hour productive days like it’s nothing, I need to start out by just getting the needle to move at all.

I wish you best of luck with your coming week. Until then!