Here’s the thing this habitkit app is kind of addictive. I like clicking the daily button on all my “goals” I’ve become quite good at five of them. Almost every day since new years, I’ve stretched, read, drank soooo much water, flossed / clean my face, and not bought Amazon slop. Some less good goals, go to bed by midnight around 90% here and go to the gym, this is only 2x a week but ideally I’d be 3x min.
The goal I am absolutely terrible at though is Journaling. Like why is this hard? I have no idea. Maybe I build up thoughts all day but never feel like its worth writing down. Which is lets be honest so dumb. I have at this point decades of dumb thoughts all written down and I LOVE reading them, but you know what like two days ago I finally got to click the Journal button, and hell yeah it felt good. So here I am going for that endorphin high.
So this whole clicking goals thing is great, and it turns out I kind of love doing it. So what are other things I could do to enhance my life in my Child Free, Work Free, Partner free time. Well lets be honest goals I could do that cuts in to Child, Kate, Work time would be nice, though much less controllable. My free time goals I am crushing because I 100% own my time around them. I definitely can’t cheat and say reading books for Teddy / Ella bedtime count. Goals that involve resisting taking action are also good. “Not buying from Amazon” is so passive but I get the click and it really is a nice goal that is making me rethink things. The main thing about these goals is they can’t be tied to other people. Once that happens I’ll start acting artificial or not accomplishing them and getting resentful. So all goals must doable if I am alone all day or if I am working/kid time 90% of the day.
So here are some thoughts I have:
- Walk outside for at least 15 miinutes – Probably hard to hit goal since it would either involve the family or annoy Kate if I just left the house when the kids were crazy
- Listen to a new song. This would probably be doable its quick any easy to accomplish and I could do it during work hours.
- Don’t visit Meta websites. No insta, no facebook, no… ok that’s all I use, messenger?. I’d find this pretty hard cause I am still very addicted to these services.
- I used to have eat a weekly salad, eat vegetarian. These goals kind of sucked and I don’t think I found better by doing them. Perhaps count calories? That seems like a dark path.
- Say something kind to the family. Now a) I kind of thing I already do this, and b) forcing it may make it sound artificial. Maybe I need to do a gratitude note again. Like every morning write a daily affirmation. Very doable, quick and could even rush it without it really feeling rushed.
- Eat Morning Protein. I kind of like this one, I should do it. Kate wouldn’t begrudge me if I did do it. It would require some planning and probably be a medium difficulty. Since I’m pretty bad about organizing my life before 10am.
- Work on Videogame back log. So this is fun, but also could ruin something I find fun. Should gaming really become work? How over optimized can I be?
Well, that’s all I got, thanks for coming to my Ted talk about goals.