Tag: goals
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The other change I’m making
I don’t know what to write about today. I am trying to understand my skin, through the lens of my health. Last week I wrote about how I will finally start drinking the recommended servings of water. This week, I suppose it’s fitting to say that I will also start exercising consistently. The importance of…
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I’m finally going to change
You know what’s disgusting? I have made it part of my personality to be chronically dehydrated. I have treated it as if it’s just an ongoing joke and not a habit that is slowly destroying my body and my mind. And because I am externally motivated, I’m enlisting you. I am declaring that I will…
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Recognizing myself in her
I complained to a loved one about my job, my boss, and all the frustrations in between. She told me, “You sound like Andy in the Devil Wears Prada.” That is when I decided to rewatch the movie for what would be the first of many times. It had nothing to do with the fashion.…
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A question
She asked it in the middle of the podcast. The question stuck with me. “If someone were to look at how you live your life now, would they be able to tell that your goals are your goals?” It felt like an attack, an assault on the dissonance between by daily schedule and my dreams.…
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What it really takes
Things I’m pretty sure I need: One more video. One more plan. Just a little bit more research. More time, more money, more knowledge, more resources. That is definitely what I need. Incorrect. What I actually need: To just start. I just have to take in a deep inhale, exhale, and get moving. I have…
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My own race
The 15k never happened. After it was switched to a virtual option, I figured this was my chance to finally do the training. I counted back from the last date to submit my times and built out a training plan that I would definitely stick to because this time would be different. I would run…
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Like virtual dust
If it were possible for dust to collect on old emails, I would start sneezing any time I open my account. There is a message sitting in my drafts folder that I’ve been meaning to send but haven’t. Not without cause, of course. It is because I’m afraid of the possible rejection or unwanted outcomes…
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It shouldn’t be this hard
It shouldn’t be this hard. I bemoaned, yet again, the same woes. Because it took me longer to do the task, because I was distracted easily, because it was hard to get out of bed, because I can’t just wake up and go, powered and directed just by passion and goals. My struggle was a…
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Day one
My gym app records how many visits I’ve had per week. It is depressing. Let’s not review the data. Now on January 1, like so many other people, I’m eager to commit to going more regularly. I will be a part of the New Year, New Me crowd. Years ago, I used to go the…
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Training wheels
I thought it’d be temporary. I thought that the need to write everything down, keep a tight schedule, and organize everything was a phase, just a moment in my life to get me through school. I thought that as a serious adult working a real job that i was done with that. So I let…
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