After several weeks off, I am back to work tomorrow morning (or this morning depending on when I post this and when you read it). The commute will be quite easy– from the kitchen to the office should only take ten seconds or so. Nonetheless, I would be lying if I said I didn’t want another week of vacation.
Though I should pick one Perfect Moment for the day, I want to shine a light on a few of them. Just so you know, some of them deal with support and its role in our lives. There might be a lesson here somewhere…..but don’t worry, there won’t be a test.
Eating
My girlfriend was kind enough to prepare a delicious, healthy, and not highly caloric meal for me. I can’t erase all of my bad eating habits in one fell swoop, but with a little encouragement I can make some positive eating changes.
Accountability
When I wrote my list of resolutions, I stressed that accountability was an important part of these things, and I stick by it. The whole reason to list them here was to encourage myself to have some accountability. I even set myself a timetable to measure my accountability. However, it never hurts to have some help.
In that vein, A Dude Abikes reached out to me to propose supporting each other in the accountability phase of our goals/resolutions. I thought that was fantastic. Support is key to achieving a goal, and having support that lets you know when you are slacking is also important.
Starting in on my goals
Sometimes, my goals are thwarted by my own stubbornness. You see, I have a couple of books I am somewhere in the middle of from 2020. I don’t know why I didn’t follow through with the books, but neither is a challenging read, and neither is dull. If I only had one book on the go, I would probably not worry about starting another one, but with two (actually 3 if I include Lawrence Block’s stamp book) there seems to some internal resistance. However, yesterday, I finished one of them (Lee Child’s Past Tense–it is a Jack Reacher novel and I think Tom Cruise has ruined them for me). I had about a hundred pages to go and was able to blast through them pretty quickly.
This should free me up to start reading books that I will count towards my goals for this year. Since I started this at the airport in Colombia a few days before Covid turned my world upside down, I can’t count it in this year’s books.
I also managed to Zwift today. I put in a good effort and I even had a few minutes to tweak my avatar. I still am pretty low on the learning curve, but I will continue for a while before making any drastic changes. I still need to explore the training sections and do some of the sprint tests.
I am terrible for trying to get through entire books Anthony. Some people devour books up like 2 a week, I am lucky if I read 2 a year.
Hope you have a great year and are able to attain your goals! 😀🙏
Usually I read a book a week, but the pandemic has killed my reading habits. I also spend more time looking at a screen than I would like….
Thanks for your positive encouragement.
Happy New Year to you too.
You are very welcome, Anthony. The pandemic has affected people in so many ways, Hoping your reading habits will return! 🙂
The screen is so much easier to ingest than the written page. I do enjoy reading the subtitles though does that count? LOL!
Kind of Carl I have a gold to read more this year and hopefully you can too if you want. I think the trick is to start with easier and entertaining stuff like Lee Child or in my case Stephen King. And then mix in other stuff that’s nonfiction or self-help or whatever it is you’re interested in
Now that you’ve put me in a blog I guess we have to do it! Hahaha. Public shaming is a very good way to provide accountability. Fat Cyclist used to that do that by putting his weight in his blogs. And then he proceeded to become a very good bicyclist and lost a lot of weight. Which didn’t happen for me.
So one goal is to spend less time on the bike and more time doing other things for health, etc.
Once I can figure out where to look up your email I’ll send you one. Or mine’s gmail.