#52smallchanges on A Geek's Life

Rebooting... Small Change #4: Keep a food journal

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 23:49:29 +0000

It is very nearly a month since I gave the #52SmallChanges project any kind of intentionality. I could blame a mini season of depression occasioned by my fixation on S, or the fact that I have upcoming exams I am freaking out about, or work - which I have had loads of.

Bottom line is I haven’t been on the money with regards to the small changes I was meant to be progressing through till the next birthday. The barely there silver lining though is besides the ‘get more sleep’ change, I’ve pretty much kept up with the new habits I have picked up in the first three weeks.

Small Change #3 - Get off your couch

Sun, 08 Sep 2013 20:28:38 +0000

From the 52 Small Changes book:

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body

- General George S. Patton

Last week’s change didn’t exactly go down very well - my fitbit sleep data suggests I didn’t do as well as I thought I would (averaged 6 hours 7 minutes of sleep as against 5 hours 52 minutes the week before); still shy of the 7 hour target. On a slightly more positive note, my water drinking challenge continues apace, thanks to my 600ml mug perched right next to my bed it seems.

Small Change #2 - Get Your ZZZs

Sun, 01 Sep 2013 20:49:46 +0000

From the 52 Small Changes book:

Sleep is the best meditation

- Dalai Lama

Last week’s small change went fairly well - bar the odd day on which one coffee just didn’t sort me out. By the end of the week, I was reaching instinctively for my 600ml bottle of water to kick start my day, before anything else. The slightly harder challenge was staying off the cokes, which I did for the most part except for two days - along with a green leaf salad for Wednesday for lunch and on Friday afternoon during my monthly catch up with O. at Nandos. All told there has been noticeable improvement in the quantity of water (and green tea) I drink, which can’t be such a bad thing.

Small Change #1 - Drink Up

Sun, 25 Aug 2013 17:14:05 +0000

From the 52 Small Changes Book:

Water is the driving force of nature

- Leonardo Da Vinci

Or as Fela once famously sang, water no get enemy.

Up until a month ago, Cokes were my default drink, in all its forms - diet, regular, zero and a few non conventional forms too [mixed with all sorts of other liquids], which is why this first small chnage will need some serious getting used to.

Waking Up

Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:00:49 +0000

To the Year of Living Intentionally, or dangerously…

Between standing on the cusp of the 34th birthday, and getting a diagnosis of borderline LVH, I have come very close to freaking out more than a few times over the last few weeks. More so perhaps because in stumbling on an early copy of the 5 year plan - written back in the day when I was an excitable 26 year old with the dream job and the dream girl, and all the important people in my life the small matter of a six hour road trip away - just how far off target in quite a few categories I still am was made very clear.