Habituary 2021: Do something every day of February

Challenges
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100% on my habits so far! Instead of playing flute 30 minutes every single day for a week, I ended up doing longer periods of time on fewer days. Dental appointments interfere with flute playing WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED.

I’m also gonna change my lunge numbers from 5 on each side to 2, because my knees doth protest too much. (In case you’re curious, my bingo goal is “do lunges every day.” I specifically omitted a particular number :wink: ).

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102

Check in this week is that I didn’t do anything. Work has been very bad, just keeping my head above water. Not getting enough movement or anything, just putting my head down and working.

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103

Has anyone else found that working on one habit provides motivation for another? I have done my bedtimes properly, but also have found greater drive to work out…which I will never turn down haha!

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104

I always count laundry days as workout days and my fitbit backs me up! I always get 10k steps on laundry days, and many of them with “weights”!

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105

Complete fail this week, will try again next week …

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106

It’s Sunday evening for me right now. Week 1 check in, I did most days but completely missed Tuesday because I felt crappy. Then on Thursday I did yoga but no writing. I just completed my 15-minute writing goal, now off to do yoga and check off another day.

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107

I failed out completely, no yoga, to much upsetness and anxiety with the gd house. (Ironic that yoga cpuld have helped.)

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108

Yes! I tend to fall off the wagon for several good habits at the same time when I’m overwhelmed, and if I get on track with one, the others come easier as well. Sometimes there is one habit that is “foundational” like sleep or exercise that tends to get your body and mind into a place that allows for the other habits to happen more easily - from my experience and reading Atomic Habits.

(Edited to fix typo)

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109

Check-in: I did PT half the days this week. 2 days I had semi legit excuses. One day I was just tired. I definitely see a difference when I do PT, though, so I really should try for more compliance…

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110

I did my things all the days, as long as applesauce on my pancakes yesterday counts as a fruit/veggie with my meal :thinking:

Duolingo is easier when I have an unlimited trial and I am not thwarted by messing things up. I may have to pay for it in the future.

Possibly my new skincare routing is giving me tiny pimples in weird spots? I’m not completely sure, but they’re in places like the bridge of my nose by my eye, or along my jawline, and they’re just teeny tiny ones. Significantly more than I used to have, too. Is that a thing?

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111

Week one complete, so how did I do?

  1. This has been going well. Monday’s I don’t have a class but I did walk downstairs, and I have averaged 1-3 classes per day. I have grumbled and didn’t want to do some, but forced myself off the couch and did them. I have been doing yoga, a strength class, and Zumba/ arriba. I really like the strength class, and need to start working harder in the dance ones.
  2. I practiced 4 days. I set the timer on my phone and put music on, because otherwise silence makes the time drag. SO practiced with me yesterday and noticed some improvement (working on form to use shoulders not wrists).
  3. I think it decreased? Need to pay more attention to this.
  4. I did no book reading, as it was quite a busier work week. I have also been leaving my iPad downstairs to reduce screen time at night (hence why I have 70 threads to catch up on).

I’m pleased with my efforts and will try to focus more on them.

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112

Any chance this is from wearing masks? I feel like I am close to breaking out every time I wear a mask for more than a few hours, especially the disposable kind.

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113

I don’t think so. I wear a mask all day at work, but I’m only in the office for 1.5 days/week. And it just started in the last month or two, when I started using some new products (let’s be honest, ANY product besides daily lotion with SPF).

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114

End of week 1 and I managed 5/7 days exercise of some sort (goal was every day). But a new week starts tomorrow.

Stretch goal was to go outside. Three or four days? It’s been very February out there. This morning there were ice pellets all over everything, even.

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115

I am 100% so far on being in bed by 10!

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116

I have done a thing for my candidate work every day! Woo! And am getting close to finishing a book I’ve been reading for this for forever.

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117

I powered through my day 3 slump, but skipped Friday and Saturday, and am on track to skip today and maybe tomorrow because my arm hurts from the vaccine.

Doing these monthly challenges seems to jinx my motivation. I need to figure out why/how to stop it.

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118

Got 6/7 days of PT this week. Last night I had the time but not the willpower and decided to skip.

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119

Somehow I got 7/7 days of doing some kind of body movement. What. Does accountability help my brain or something.

Only 1/7 days of PT but some good walks. I’m counting it as a win.

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120

I did a bunch of squats and a plank (only managed 30 seconds because my wrists were killing me) while watching TV and I think that’s all I can manage today.

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