Happy Sunday and two weeks down into the Project! This week has overall been very successful, with again, room for improvement for the first week of December and the last month of 2025.
First up, the morning routine! Utilizing the reward of coffee after my morning workout has been great, especially since this past week I have made sure to follow through with it even on my days off. At the beginning of the week, I stuck to the five minute workout, but by Thursday I was itching for a little bit longer and was naturally doing between ten and fifteen minutes. Last week I mentioned that it was hard for me not having a workout ready or should I say planned, so I was going to have YouTube videos already lined up. Well, I ended up not doing that and just went with what felt good for that morning. Whether it was a walk, a stretching/flexibility workout, or a strength training workout. Although, I added something different today and am tentatively going to incorporate it. Belly dancing. Originally, I talked about adding dancing but nothing was really speaking to me or getting me excited. Until, belly dancing popped in my head. I thoroughly enjoyed it and did almost twenty minutes without realizing it.
Next up, my hobbies for the week. It's almost like I had a switch up from last week, did great on working out every day but slacked on the hobbies, hahaha. I'll even out eventually, lol. Taking a look back on the week, it's clear I need to tighten up my evening routine. Unfortunately, I've been getting distracted by social media and phone games, but still managed a few things. That being said, I did not practice any chess this week, didn't do a typing lesson, nor did I make a new recipe this week. So clearly need to make some tweaks to that.
However, I did manage to work on learning a language, but did decide to switch it up. Learning French is still on my list of languages to learn, but replaced it with Spanish. Growing up in Texas, I did take Spanish class middle school and some of high school, but have not retained much. Given the current politic climate, I decided it is my duty to learn Spanish. I found SpanishwithTati.com and decided to utilize the list of most used 1000 words. I purchased a binder and already had loose leaf paper on hand, so I've been making notes and will be also making note cards to practice for this week.
In addition to the language replacement, I decided to add in learning how to Code. I've been a dog groomer for almost 20 years and have not learned any other life work skill. What better time than now? One perk of my social media doom scrolling is finding resources. Coddy.tech popped up in my feed and they offer free coding lessons. Unfortunately, it is much like Brilliant.org (where I take math lessons) where you accumulate "energy" in order to work through the lessons. So, it's roughly 2 lessons a day. You can pay for more, but that's one of the points of this project is finding FREE resources that I test out and can share in the future. What works/what doesn't work type of deal.
Moving onto what I've been reading this week... well, I really haven't been. Hence why also needing to work on my evening routine. At work, I usually listen to an audio book. But with the holiday this past week and a lot going on mentally, it was hard for me to concentrate on my book and ended up listening to music. This upcoming week though, I'm determined to get back on track with my reading/audio books.
Right now in my Libby carousel, I have:
- A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley (kindle)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (audio book, 31% the way through) (est. 16 hrs)
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama (audio book) (est. 29 hrs)
- Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939 by Volker Ulrich (audio book) (est. 35 hrs)
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking (audio book) (est. 6 hrs)
Clearly, most of my audio books are not short reads, so I especially need to get listening, also given the fact that two of them are due in 11 days.
Moving onto the goals for the upcoming week. With the positive momentum I'm having with working out and the current desire to work out a little bit longer each morning, I am going to add five more minutes to my morning workouts, with the goal of ten minutes per workout. Since adding five more minutes, I need to adjust my wake up and bedtime routines, changing my times. Starting tomorrow morning, my new wake up time will be 6:15am and starting tonight 10:15pm bedtime.
Before going to bed tonight, I am going to try and plan out a new evening routine, where I can put in my hobbies during the days that I work. They are very easy to incorporate on my days off, but my work days are where I am struggling. With that evening routine, is adding the time to read again. Reviewing the previous two weeks of this project, I think I will make a NO PHONE rule from 9:15pm. I'll start that tonight and report back next week how it went. But I have realized I get sucked into my phone before bed and then get drawn to either social media or a phone game and then before I know it, it's my bed time or even a bit past it.
That does it for this weeks update. Like I've mentioned, overall I feel this week was a success. Room for improvements this week include making actual time for my hobbies, no phone time, and reading time. Wish me luck! And let's all have a wonderful December!
Until next time!
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