It’s been a long time and some of my particular healthier habits have fallen a bit to the wayside with all that’s happened in the past year.
I moved to London for 6 months, got married, and now am expecting in June…all that within a year…
Given my previous and upcoming life changes I’ve decided that I will have to practice more balance. Balance of Work, Personal learning, Family, Health, and Mental health.
For each of these categories I want to have a goal and a measurable outcome.
- Work – Improve on my new role at work while being more flexible with my other items. So much of my identity is actually wrapped up with work, but parts of that do have to give with my life changes.
- Personal – Goal of learning something new. I have rediscovered Duolingo and loved my trips in Spain. So specifically going to aim to use it daily (ideally 2-3 “lesson sections”). I also want to keep this blog up and aim for weekly posts.
- Family – I have a wife and now a child on the way. Being prepared to give them what they need physically, emotionally, and financially are goals here. To be tangible I will ask my wife to grade me in each of those areas on a quarterly basis between 1-5. I’ve heard it works.
- Health – Getting back into a healthy eating and workout habit. I can’t spend the amount of time doing what I did before, but am hoping to push back into more Paleo and work out 3 times a week. Also sleep, which I am told I will truly miss once the little one arrives.
- Mental – Meditation/Mindfulness seems to be a big hipster/techie thing at the moment. Carin and I have been trying out headspace. My goal is to be able to do 10m a day…ideally in the morning.