2018 GHDR Review 6

This is my Aug checkin for my 2018 GHDR as I am following Dave Seah’s masterful plan.

So far, August is off to a pretty good start, and I’m feeling good about the future. We have furniture! I’m settled and getting somewhat routinized in my days. It feels overall better than July in that way. Yet, we are only about a week into August.

I’m really hoping to get settled in soon into some kind of a routine.

Reminder of my 2018 Goals

My resolutions for the year broadly fall into categories: [H]Health, [F]Friends and family, [I]Intention, [M]Money, and [E]Engagement.

• I resolve to eat food that makes my body happy [H]
• TO BE DELETED BECAUSE OF LOCATION I resolve to regularly go to the gym with friends [H,F]
• I resolve to run or walk intentionally at least 4 times per week[H]
• I resolve to do one thing with friends or family every month [F]
• I resolve to conduct a weekly review session where I summarize what I’ve done and how I’ve felt about it and where it is taking me [I]
• I resolve to conduct a monthly review of my progress on these goals [I]
• I resolve to make some kind of income and track it each month [M]
• I resolve to stay engaged and contribute to the communities that I have found [E]

and in February, I added

• I resolve to do one thing with each member of my family individually every month [F]

What I did the last month

My tracking for July is crap. It continued the crap from June, unfortunately - I guess once you get out of the habit of tracking, it is really difficult to get back into it. So far, my August tracking is going well.

• [H]ealth: I’ve been doing great on food - I even started using a tracking application to check my nutrient and macro intake. I ran three times (including this morning) this week, and I’ve been consistently walking with Cupcake even with the limitations of our location.
• [F]riends and family: We have had a few game nights with friends and in our house. I know that I’ve played Catan two times in the past two weeks, and we watched a movie. We also played a few rounds of Duck, Duck Bruce…which just cracks me up. Things are going well.
• [I]Intention: Reflections were inconsistent in July but are going well so far in August. I’ve made room for them in my daily log pages. I have not been doing a weekly review, and I plan to start this up again on Sunday.
• [M]Money: Gifts Done is growing!
• [E]Engagement: I have been active in my communities, and this is getting to be easier for me to maintain as we have furniture and some semblance of normal live.

Insights

I need a solid plan to be functional. I tried to wing it for a few days, and I ended up just debugging other people’s code and reading a whole bunch but not “doing” things in the advancement of my own goals. It’s cool to not always be pushing forward, but I want to at least stay near the path. Disciplining myself to write consistently in my journal - on what I am planning to do, actually am doing, and reflecting has been a big help. I got a new journal starting July 30…well, really for August, but Aug 1 was a Wednesday.

I joined a running group and actually went to a group run and committed to some more - that was scary, but they were all nice and I survived.

Our cat of 13 years, Phoebe, went missing on Saturday night, and part of my mind is constantly thinking about her. I hope that she turns up. She has never been gone for so long.

Looking forward

I have big plans and I’m working on ways to solidify the path forward while continuing to work on the castles that I’m already building. Trying not to overextend.