Resolutions are interesting things. They're traditionally a goal wherein the person declaring said resolution wants to better themselves. "I resolve to exercise more." "I'm gonna take more vacations." "I'm going to lose 50 pounds." The problem with these stated goals is that they are typically spur of the moment declarations with no plan. Now I won't deny that resolutions made in such a manner can succeed, but most fail because there's no plan on how to achieve said goal and most people lose the drive to continue to that goal when they have to put too much thought into it.
I'm not here to say I've failed. My goal is still to improve my health and wellness through exercise and replacing obsessive gaming habits. However, I did fall victim to the age-old failing to plan is planning to fail. And the past several weeks I've merely replaced obsessive gaming with copious YouTube watching. It's made me antsy during the week and then when the weekend arrives, all I want to do is play video games. So I've actually made it worse by saying no weekday gaming. I've managed to maintain my resolve thus far but eventually, it's going to be more problematic than a help. It also doesn't help that I was really sick for 4 days and have been recovering for the following week or two.
Which leads me to an actual plan. I decided my initial plan is to break up the evenings into 1-hour blocks for various activities. The first hour will be my productivity hour, like updating my blog every Monday, organizing my room Tuesday evenings, etc. Then I have a 1-hour block set aside for a walk. I won't necessarily walk that whole hour, but it will be allocated nevertheless. Then I've left a 1-hour free time block, which will likely be filled with gaming many evenings. But it's restricted to that hour. My last hour of the evening will be for winding down and getting to bed. I might include some amount of reading in the wind-down period provided it doesn't rouse my energy levels again. Weekends will likely remain fairly flexible with a tentative plan made each week for the coming weekend. This weekend I plan on spending Saturday morning at Disneyland wandering and enjoying various attractions. Because Disneyland is part of my exercise plan. :D
It's not a fail-proof plan, but it's at least 10% of a plan. And speaking of planning, that's part of my schedule now too. Each Sunday I have a review and planning session scheduled to make sure I stay on track. I figured it would be good to take an assessment of what works and what doesn't to make adjustments as needed.
Until next time:
Work smart. Play hard. Sleep well.
I'm not here to say I've failed. My goal is still to improve my health and wellness through exercise and replacing obsessive gaming habits. However, I did fall victim to the age-old failing to plan is planning to fail. And the past several weeks I've merely replaced obsessive gaming with copious YouTube watching. It's made me antsy during the week and then when the weekend arrives, all I want to do is play video games. So I've actually made it worse by saying no weekday gaming. I've managed to maintain my resolve thus far but eventually, it's going to be more problematic than a help. It also doesn't help that I was really sick for 4 days and have been recovering for the following week or two.
Which leads me to an actual plan. I decided my initial plan is to break up the evenings into 1-hour blocks for various activities. The first hour will be my productivity hour, like updating my blog every Monday, organizing my room Tuesday evenings, etc. Then I have a 1-hour block set aside for a walk. I won't necessarily walk that whole hour, but it will be allocated nevertheless. Then I've left a 1-hour free time block, which will likely be filled with gaming many evenings. But it's restricted to that hour. My last hour of the evening will be for winding down and getting to bed. I might include some amount of reading in the wind-down period provided it doesn't rouse my energy levels again. Weekends will likely remain fairly flexible with a tentative plan made each week for the coming weekend. This weekend I plan on spending Saturday morning at Disneyland wandering and enjoying various attractions. Because Disneyland is part of my exercise plan. :D
It's not a fail-proof plan, but it's at least 10% of a plan. And speaking of planning, that's part of my schedule now too. Each Sunday I have a review and planning session scheduled to make sure I stay on track. I figured it would be good to take an assessment of what works and what doesn't to make adjustments as needed.
Until next time:
Work smart. Play hard. Sleep well.
you can do it Pete!
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