As expected, today was less productive than yesterday thanks to holiday stuff and doing an unexpected amount of physical activity. And that’s okay! Tomorrow may be similar, sans the unexpected physical activity stuff probably.
I read Zvi’s COVID Update and oy vey. Thanks to Zvi for writing those updates, I’ve found them witty, insightful, helpful, and so on! This particular update earned those attributes too, but damn was the subject matter a bummer, if 2021 turns into another plague year that will suck...hopefully enough vaccines are distributed and that the vaccine for the current strain(s) of COVID has good efficacy with that new UK and South Africa COVID strain. Hopefully. That was really depressing news though, I had to modulate my emotions after reading that post because for a few minutes afterwards I was very bitter and short when interacting with family members. Thankfully, I noticed that and fixed that immediately upon noticing. Ah, how helpful practising noticing is!
I spent 2-3 hours today reading NeuroTribes, by Steve Silberman. Haven’t finished the book yet, but am finding it quite good, quite impactful, and something I’ll definitely want to reread so I can write a review of it. If anyone knows of a similar book for ADHD, I’d love to find out and read that book.
I originally planned to read for a bit outside and then workout, but was engrossed by NeuroTribes so one hour sitting outside reading it passed quickly. I was drawn back to reality by a phone call from a friend whom I talked with for a little over two and a half hours. While talking I mostly walked, but did take some time to do an upper body workout with weights and spent about 25 minutes doing HIIT with my jump rope. All in all, a fantastic amount of exercise compared to my baseline! I expect tomorrow I may only achieve my minimum of 30 minutes of outside physical activity, but I’m okay with that and am happy to continue getting that habit established. If I do more than 30 minutes, great, but it’s great if I consistently do 30 minutes every day too, after a month or so I’ll have established a nice exercise habit!
Today marks day 4 of daily shortform writing, tomorrow will mark day 5, and so on!
Recently, I read Alicorn’s post, Ureshiku Naritai. It seems that they (using they because I don’t know their preferred pronouns) were able to successfully increase their happiness set point by quite a bit through deliberate practice! This is exciting, I’ve added a thorough rereading of that post to my ToDo list and will take notes on what seemed like effective interventions / practices. Add in a bit of adjustment as needed to suit my personal idiosyncrasies, and I’ll be on my way to practising happines set point increasing things! Looking forward to figuring all that out. Depression is awful and must be vanquished.
Now to sleep I go, for tomorrow will be an enjoyable holiday filled with festivities, and I’m quite looking forward to it. And then I’ll surely nervously await results of a COVID test thereafter. Yare yare.
As expected, today was less productive than yesterday thanks to holiday stuff and doing an unexpected amount of physical activity. And that’s okay! Tomorrow may be similar, sans the unexpected physical activity stuff probably.
I read Zvi’s COVID Update and oy vey. Thanks to Zvi for writing those updates, I’ve found them witty, insightful, helpful, and so on! This particular update earned those attributes too, but damn was the subject matter a bummer, if 2021 turns into another plague year that will suck...hopefully enough vaccines are distributed and that the vaccine for the current strain(s) of COVID has good efficacy with that new UK and South Africa COVID strain. Hopefully. That was really depressing news though, I had to modulate my emotions after reading that post because for a few minutes afterwards I was very bitter and short when interacting with family members. Thankfully, I noticed that and fixed that immediately upon noticing. Ah, how helpful practising noticing is!
I spent 2-3 hours today reading NeuroTribes, by Steve Silberman. Haven’t finished the book yet, but am finding it quite good, quite impactful, and something I’ll definitely want to reread so I can write a review of it. If anyone knows of a similar book for ADHD, I’d love to find out and read that book.
I originally planned to read for a bit outside and then workout, but was engrossed by NeuroTribes so one hour sitting outside reading it passed quickly. I was drawn back to reality by a phone call from a friend whom I talked with for a little over two and a half hours. While talking I mostly walked, but did take some time to do an upper body workout with weights and spent about 25 minutes doing HIIT with my jump rope. All in all, a fantastic amount of exercise compared to my baseline! I expect tomorrow I may only achieve my minimum of 30 minutes of outside physical activity, but I’m okay with that and am happy to continue getting that habit established. If I do more than 30 minutes, great, but it’s great if I consistently do 30 minutes every day too, after a month or so I’ll have established a nice exercise habit!
Today marks day 4 of daily shortform writing, tomorrow will mark day 5, and so on!
Recently, I read Alicorn’s post, Ureshiku Naritai. It seems that they (using they because I don’t know their preferred pronouns) were able to successfully increase their happiness set point by quite a bit through deliberate practice! This is exciting, I’ve added a thorough rereading of that post to my ToDo list and will take notes on what seemed like effective interventions / practices. Add in a bit of adjustment as needed to suit my personal idiosyncrasies, and I’ll be on my way to practising happines set point increasing things! Looking forward to figuring all that out. Depression is awful and must be vanquished.
Now to sleep I go, for tomorrow will be an enjoyable holiday filled with festivities, and I’m quite looking forward to it. And then I’ll surely nervously await results of a COVID test thereafter. Yare yare.
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