A week and a half has passed since I started on an ambitious mission to make some changes in my life. Here’s how I’ve been doing…
Be optimistic: Over the last ten days, I’ve not been as consistent as I was over the first three. A lot of things are changing at home and I don’t always remember this pledge when I’m under pressure. On general day to day things, I’ve been much happier though.
Stop biting my nails: I have between 1 and 2mm nail growth on every finger and on both thumbs! I’ve been filing them down if they chip, and I’m continuing to coat them with fresh Diamond Strength nail hardener. With regular moisturising too, the dry skin around my cuticles is reducing, and over all my hands and nails are much improved!
Cut refined sugars from my diet: There have been three instances where I’ve deliberately consumed sweets/cakes in the last week. The first was a small slice of potato cake for my Mum’s birthday. I baked it, so that’s allowed. The second was an ice-cream on Saturday with Zachary; that’s allowed because he’s cute. The third, for which I have no excuse, was a single mint Tic Tac on Tuesday evening. The cravings are less than I was expecting, and I’ve not had any stabby-stabby-give-me-a-kitkat days since day two!
Read more about GTD: The audio book is on my iPhone, but I can’t get the damn iPhone working with headphones. Until I get that working, I can’t listen on the way to work. I am using OmniFocus to record my workload though, and help me focus on what needs to be done, so I consider that progress.
Resume regular training: Training is going well, I had two sessions last week and I’m on track to have three this. I bench pressed 55kg on Monday (12 reps) too; while it may not seem much, I was chuffed!
Stop externalising insecurities: I am becoming more aware of my insecurities clouding my thought processes, and when I’m seeing that happening, I’ve been discarding and conclusions I’ve come to during that time. This is a good base from which I can develop. This item can almost be paired with the being optimistic, but as it’s working towards a core belief change rather than an outlook change, I’ll keep them separate.
Conclusion: Excluding certain external events, I’m feeling happier, I’m delighted about my nails, my diet’s improving and I”m enjoying the time I spend at the gym. I think that’s an all-round win so far.
July 3rd, 2008 17:33
on my iPhone, I had to buy an adapter to get most any headphone to work as the connector is set extra deep. I think it cost me $10 or so at the Apple Store.
i’m impressed with the progress on the sugars front – I don’t think I’d do nearly as well.