We have to make a million choices each and every day, so it makes sense that to keep things simple, we always make the same ones. But the easy choices don't always mean the right choices.
Commit today to changing it up, to doing something different, and making the choice that improves your life for the better. Believe it or not, pretty soon that choice will be the easy one to make too.
"Gisteren wat oefeningen gedaan, was goed om te doen. Merkte dat wanneer ik aan werk dacht, ik zenuwachtig werd. Dus toen gaan mindgymmen. Werd wel minder, maar was alsnog aanwezig. Werd er bewuster van. In m'n hoofd ook bezig met wat ik graag wil doen qua werk/sport, dat bracht ook veel afleiding in m'n hoofd. Maar het geaccepteerd. Was lastig, maar dat mag er ook zijn."
"Purification Manifesto:
Dailies:
-Yoga for 15 min or more
-Pranayama for 5 min or more.
-Meditation for 10 min or more.
-Reflect for one word or more.
-Write 5 things you are grateful for.
-Chart daily planets.
-Look at North Star in the morning and at night.
-Go outside for 20 min or more.
Breaks:
-Include: reading w/ physical books, walking, listening to music, or spending time with loved ones.
The Noes:
-No video alone.
-No lying.
-No internet browsing: can research tech issue, Japanese study question, yoga question, work and writing questions. *If the country's situation gets bad enough to require personal protest (only in a coup-like situation), you can research news for 20 minutes per day.*
-No Procrastination:
*What is procrastination?
---Getting lost in self-talk or daydreams for more than 15 min. after committing to another task.
---Putting off tasks for more than 15 min.
---Doing one task when you've already committed to another.
Ex) Studying Japanese when should be writing.
Researching for article when should be working.
---Taking an hour break when you've already committed to 30 min one.
---Taking a day off w/o scheduling it the day before.
*What is not procrastination?
---Planning how to complete a task.
---Spending time with loved ones.
---Running a little behind because a task took longer than expected.
---Scheduling a break. "
"I slipped even further last night, luckily I'm on vacation, and could get my 7hrs by sleeping in. I don't understand why this is so difficult for me to get to sleep earlier. I'm going to set an alarm for 9pm tonight, and I will come back and write what my plan is to get to bed by midnight."
"(10:06-10:31am) 3 birds one stone. Bird 1- reading completed, bird 2- hourly steps, bird 3- stair climbing—-climbed 16 floors to penthouse, while listening to audio book and reading kindle app on iPad. One stone- one block of 25 minutes of time "
"MIT for today...if I was resting my head on my pillow...with one minute remaining in the day...I would have wanted to go outside...enjoy the outdoor..fresh air...look and savour some 🐿...maybe climb some stairs? Meditate with my mala?....I’m aware that it’s freezing rain right now...but let’s aspire to greatness...going outside to achieve 5 minutes outside minimum "
"Thank you Vijay. I’m only doing what seems to be a very natural response to the amazing work that you do on my message board here. So I thank you for your constant support. I’ll look up that website today and soak up some wonderful ideas."
"As I said earlier, I am going to work on and focus on bringing more gratitude into my life. I think it’ll be a best idea to actually have these gratitude sentences or phrases written here on stickK."
"Actual Sleep Hours: 6h, 51m. Sleep score:78
I nearly made it! Just 9 minutes shy of 7 hours of sleep and 2 points short of my target 80 sleep score. And I can feel the difference - I get up easily, I feel fresh and rested. So, now I am really confident that I have set the right commitment and am tracking the right measures for my sleep. That feels so reassuring."
"My schedule is starting to slip as is the case for non-work days, just not as much as it normally would. I will plan my evening better tonight to make sure to pull my bedtime back to something more reasonable like midnight. Last night there was some miscalculated laundry loads thats had to get done, even though I was dead tired around midnight."
"I did get up before 5AM, BUT I fell sleep at 6:30 or 7:00. I was really sleepy and tired. It's an oportunity to evaluate what happenned and take corrective actions."
"Specific and measurable MIT for Sunday, November 22nd...if I was going to bed right now to sleep...if today was ending in 1 minute...the one thing I would have wanted to have completed...maybe watch part of the last saumerai, movie with Tom cruise? There’s a moment in that movie...where tom cruise, he’s with the samurai general, and they are gazing a tree that only flowers once in a lifetime...and the samurai feels that is a life worth living, to have experienced the flowering of that tree. That’s it. Nothing else. Perhaps that’s today’s MIT and meditation? To contemplate the flowering of that tree?..........yes. Before I rest my bed for the final time...let me gaze on the flowering of that tree "
"Thank you for the encouragement, Vijay. I see a lot of barriers but I also see a lot of possibilities and promises. I’m going to continue working one step at a time. Consistency is the key. Thank you for your support."
"Yesterday in a way would have been our anniversary 👀 I made myself busy to not think about it so much... He didn't send me anything so it was easier, there wasn't temptation to do it myself. Just makes me think more and more about it how blindly in love with him I was and that now I am seeing truth and what was really happening. I still love him, but I am shifting to loving myself more! "
"But I actually felt really free and worked on some breathing techs I hadn’t worked on since college and felt like I was in control of them for the first time in quite a while"
