2025-01-12
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It's been a decent week, and one that has had a couple of discoveries. The main discovery is that I have got to realise that some days will not have loads of progress for my goals. I have to take it slow, as well.
I've been busy at work, with performance reviews, and stuff for the project we are working on that is approaching a finish. This means that in the evenings I am not always having the time to do what I wanted. I've also occasionally just not really... wanted to.
I think I am learning firstly, that life gets in the way of my goals quite a bit, and secondly that I can't really change that. The objective that I have with all of my goals is to try to improve, and I'm aware it will take a long time. So what if it takes a little longer?
For me, I think that I dislike having a backlog a lot, or tasks outstanding to be done, and that stresses me out. So if work is the outstanding task, I'll have that be the task that I do. And if it takes two years to get to where I want to, then I'll have to be patient. The slower mode of living definitely helps me out, I feel, though.
Also, I should try set minimum monthly goals. For instance, a minimum of 100 sets per month in terms of weight training. This would then help me to know where I am at: am I doing enough gym?, am I practising guitar enough?, am I yadiyaing enough?. That kind of thing is what I want to solve. Know where I am at, and what I want to do more of.
Another thing that might be useful: setting just one priority each day.
I got up, worked, cooked dinner, and then saw a friend and played Minecraft Dungeons. I didn't do any guitar, or mando, or RHS study, and so felt pretty terrible about it.
I ended up writing to myself, in my Hobonichi entry for the day:
I went to work, studying on the train. When I got home, I did my skipping but ended up giving myself a headache after a few hours. I ended up forgetting the lunch I made and so just ate porridge for lunch, and breakfast as well.
I wasted an hour by doing nothing worthwhile, then didn't have the energy to play guitar, which I felt I had to. I wrote a bit of a hokey blog post instead.
Essentially, the entire day was work. Even in the evening, all I did was cook rice, and sort out my performance review in the evening. I think it won't go very well, if I'm honest - better than last year though, at least.
Again a day where I didn't do much apart from work. I received my RHS mock back, which sort of reassured me that I won't do too terribly in the actual exam. Still, I can't take that as meaning I don't need to study: I badly do.
I booked in some operas and ballets for later in the year, at the Royal Opera House. Carmen, Romeo & Juliet, and Turandot.
Essentially the same as Monday. I worked, and then saw my friend in the evening.
A decent day. I intended to buy guitar and mandolin strings, and did so for the mando strings - I walked to one music shop but they didn't sell strings, so I had to go Sunday. I saw on the website a violin for £75, and, after writing a wv to convince myself to buy it, bought it. In the morning, I went to the cafe as usual to study and read.
I don't think I accomplished all I wanted in the day, but still managed to walk to the shop to pick up the violin and guitar strings. I tuned the violin and had a bit of fun with it; I am no good on it, since I haven't played it in probably 12 years now. I'm going to still focus on guitar and mando, but the violin might be fun to do in spare time. It is so loud though! I didn't realise how much noise the instrument makes.