develop good habits

I’m doing better in some areas since I’ve started this and worse in others.

I’m more of a procrastinator than ever, and I’m still not a very hard worker.

But I’m more honest than I was, both with myself and with others. I’ve started doing other things than reading fanfiction. I regularly write in my LiveJournal. I also regularly cook some semi-complicated stuff. I brush my teeth more often.

So I still have a long way to go, but as of when I made this goal (some time before I posted it here), I’m doing better mostly, I feel.

Major failure so far. I’m not doing my readings. My room looked like a pigsty until I cleaned it yesterday. I was wearing dirty clothes until I did the wash today. And I’m not keeping in touch today.

Perhaps I ought to take this more slowly.

Okay, I was caught up in religion, so I’ll stay caught up in religion, and try to catch up in psychology. That’ll be my next thing, along with my notes for linguistics.

I feel like if I can get my school life back on track, I’ll be halfway there. Because I can hardly let my whole life go.

So far I’m doing great with the dishes, I try to keep them under control during the day, if I can’t I do all dishes before going to bed, no matter what. It’s much better to start the day with a clean kitchen.

Now I want to get into the habit of drinking more water (again). I’ll start with 4 glasses a day and add more later.

don’t know what went wrong with me, but I somehow I lost some good habits so I need to incorporate them again, I’m surrounded by chaos once more. Why sometimes is so difficult to keep to a good routine? Am I stupid or lazy… Anyway, here I go again!

Starting with something simple: for the next 30 days I’ll keep the dishes under control.

I got into the habit of writing a journal, I just write at least one thing that day that made me happy or was pleasant. I call it “My happiness book”. I’m using a ordinary week planner, nothing fancy about it. I started July last year and at first I was planning to do this for 6 months, but I really got into this and enjoy it A LOT, so I’ll keep doing for longer :)

Initially I had this idea of eating a fruit a day for 3 months, but after the first month I was so fed up I had to stop, before I got off fruit for life. So now I’m trying to eat a fruit at least once a week.

Totally gave up on waking up early. I was talking to my parents and they mentioned that now that they are older they usually wake up too early… whooops! I plan to live until I’m 120, most of my life I’ll be an old person, perhaps I should just enjoy my sleep while I still can. Don’t fight nature. Now I’m feeling very relaxed about this and I’m usually waking between 6-30 and 7 without the alarm clock, but sometimes I wake up around 8 and that’s great too.

As for complaining less…. still trying it :)

Of the things listed on my first entry, I’m still having trouble with laundry (!) and eating fruits, so I’m now challenging myself to eat a fruit a day for 3 months. The 24th was the first day, so I’ll report later.

I’d love to wake up at 5:45 without an alarm clock, at the moment I usually wake up on my own between 6 and 6:30, so I’m not too far from my goal.

As for complaining less, I’m trying again :)

Aiming for a complain-free week at first (that’s going to be hard!).

after 30 days, the results:
-my important project (P)W&S: I didn’t work on it 2h every week day, tsk tsk.
-stay away from 2 travel websites: done!
-wake up at 5:45 – I will keep on trying. Most days I wake up at 6, some days at 4:30 or 5… of course I could use an alarm clock but that would be no fun, I would like to wake up at 5:45 by myself without any alarm.

It was great to challenge myself, I’m doing this again.

I’m challenging myself to do the following for 30 days:
-work at my important project (P)W&S at least 2h every weekday
-stay away from 2 travel websites I visit too much
-wake up at 5:45 am everyday (should not be too difficult, I’m a morning person by nature)

I’m starting tomorrow and plan to report back in June.