"If Procrastination is a religion, I would be god"
I heard this line long time back (don't even remember who said it), But it stays with me as its true in more than one ways in my case. So much so that, I intended to do the goals - review after first quarter of the year. And the way thing are going, it seems that it will be half yearly review by the time I'm able to finish this.
As I try to sum-up the progress for the first few months of this year. One major trend was lack of progress for last few month. The graph or progress was great for Jan and Feb and then hit a major road-block in march and April.
Part of this reason can be attributed to the usual pattern that any new year resolutions follow, As the initial euphoric state subsides and the reality hit home. The progress graph plateau. Which surely happened in my case too. But the bigger reason was our inhuman workload since March causing us to work ungodly hours. In fact; the stress / workload / frustration of this job is now beginning to enervate me. But more on this later (in perhaps another blog past).
But still its the first half of the year only. There is still chance of pulling in back on track. Hence a review of the goals set in beginning of new year might give me the necessary impetus plus some insight on where I'm going wrong.
So, here are the goals plus their status for 2017!
PHYSICAL HEALTH
1) Reducing weight - target 70 - 72 kg from 76.5 kg.
Right now I stands at 74.5. I think from now onward things will get really tough as the inital flab is easier to loose. My schedule plus travelling is making it even tougher. As for learnings, Now I'm concentrating more on physical workout than dieting as there is a limit to how much you can starve. I've started Yoga and plan to start running in morning too.
2) Participate in Delhi half marathon
This is one target where I really needs to buckle up, The half marathon will be in November. Not even six months remaining and I'm yet to start running. This particular goals has been on my to - do list for many year now and I don't want to miss out on this yet again.
Immediate plan - starting running from Monday which is tomorrow
3) Weight training -
I tried to do bit of weight-lifting but still in really initial stages. Needs to really work on my stamina. Hopefully the Yoga and running (still to start) might help.
4) Yoga / Pranayam -
By coincidence I started Yoga. But then you need luck on your side sometimes too :). I pushed my wife to start Yoga and I"m learning from her meanwhile. But not so regular unfortunately which I plan to change.
MENTAL HEALTH
1) Blog - On it , right now too :)
Jokes apart. I had great beginning of this year in terms of number of blog post. The momentum is still helping me even though last few months were really dry. Still on track for at-least one blog post per year. But needs to be wary to slipping behind. One good thing is that now I'm never short of writing topics as I write on my experiments or experiences with new things.
Had five blog post now in this year in five months now.
2) Books
I'm a self confessed bookworm. Reading keeps in on track and away from depression. I've intentionally set very modest target of only 12-15 books for this year (Which I have already revised to 20 books). I have read around 8 books so far; so already ahead of schedule. The thing that I wanted to do differently this year is read more meaningful non fiction books rather than simple thrillers because those I can finish in one night itself. As someone very aptly has said that books are windows to the world. I need to include more variety in my reading lists. I also plan to write some sort of summary / review / my take away / new words added in my vocabulary from these books.
3) Writing my own book -
Here comes the road block. I have experienced writers block even before writing a single chapter of my book. In spite of setting a target of writing an initial draft of my book. All that I have managed to achieve is to read a book on how to write a book and perhaps short listed some topics. At this pace, writing a book is really a distant dream only.
Perhaps I need to track the progress on monthly basis and select the topic and brief outline of the story at the earliest (which is the basic requirement of writing a book)
4) Recreation -
The target selected under this heading was learning to play the guitar. Unfortunately I don't even have a guitar yet. I have been thinking of buying a guitar but perhaps it will be too late by then.
I will try to buy a guitar within next two months only
As if the above targets were not enough, I have added another target based on the circumstances from last few months. Which is to change my job. Based on my last experience. This target itself is so big that it dwarf all other targets. And moreover it consumes lots of time and energy too.
I plan to change this job max by the end of this year.
In the nutshell. All that I need to do now is to exercise daily and try to write something (However inconsequential that may be ) daily so that I have enough writing practice. Hopefully then by next month I will enough writing practice to start draft of my first book. Side by side finding time for buying time to buy guitar and running each morning.
I'm sure its going to be as difficult if not more as it sound !
I heard this line long time back (don't even remember who said it), But it stays with me as its true in more than one ways in my case. So much so that, I intended to do the goals - review after first quarter of the year. And the way thing are going, it seems that it will be half yearly review by the time I'm able to finish this.
As I try to sum-up the progress for the first few months of this year. One major trend was lack of progress for last few month. The graph or progress was great for Jan and Feb and then hit a major road-block in march and April.
Part of this reason can be attributed to the usual pattern that any new year resolutions follow, As the initial euphoric state subsides and the reality hit home. The progress graph plateau. Which surely happened in my case too. But the bigger reason was our inhuman workload since March causing us to work ungodly hours. In fact; the stress / workload / frustration of this job is now beginning to enervate me. But more on this later (in perhaps another blog past).
But still its the first half of the year only. There is still chance of pulling in back on track. Hence a review of the goals set in beginning of new year might give me the necessary impetus plus some insight on where I'm going wrong.
So, here are the goals plus their status for 2017!
PHYSICAL HEALTH
1) Reducing weight - target 70 - 72 kg from 76.5 kg.
Right now I stands at 74.5. I think from now onward things will get really tough as the inital flab is easier to loose. My schedule plus travelling is making it even tougher. As for learnings, Now I'm concentrating more on physical workout than dieting as there is a limit to how much you can starve. I've started Yoga and plan to start running in morning too.
2) Participate in Delhi half marathon
This is one target where I really needs to buckle up, The half marathon will be in November. Not even six months remaining and I'm yet to start running. This particular goals has been on my to - do list for many year now and I don't want to miss out on this yet again.
Immediate plan - starting running from Monday which is tomorrow
3) Weight training -
I tried to do bit of weight-lifting but still in really initial stages. Needs to really work on my stamina. Hopefully the Yoga and running (still to start) might help.
4) Yoga / Pranayam -
By coincidence I started Yoga. But then you need luck on your side sometimes too :). I pushed my wife to start Yoga and I"m learning from her meanwhile. But not so regular unfortunately which I plan to change.
MENTAL HEALTH
1) Blog - On it , right now too :)
Jokes apart. I had great beginning of this year in terms of number of blog post. The momentum is still helping me even though last few months were really dry. Still on track for at-least one blog post per year. But needs to be wary to slipping behind. One good thing is that now I'm never short of writing topics as I write on my experiments or experiences with new things.
Had five blog post now in this year in five months now.
2) Books
I'm a self confessed bookworm. Reading keeps in on track and away from depression. I've intentionally set very modest target of only 12-15 books for this year (Which I have already revised to 20 books). I have read around 8 books so far; so already ahead of schedule. The thing that I wanted to do differently this year is read more meaningful non fiction books rather than simple thrillers because those I can finish in one night itself. As someone very aptly has said that books are windows to the world. I need to include more variety in my reading lists. I also plan to write some sort of summary / review / my take away / new words added in my vocabulary from these books.
3) Writing my own book -
Here comes the road block. I have experienced writers block even before writing a single chapter of my book. In spite of setting a target of writing an initial draft of my book. All that I have managed to achieve is to read a book on how to write a book and perhaps short listed some topics. At this pace, writing a book is really a distant dream only.
Perhaps I need to track the progress on monthly basis and select the topic and brief outline of the story at the earliest (which is the basic requirement of writing a book)
4) Recreation -
The target selected under this heading was learning to play the guitar. Unfortunately I don't even have a guitar yet. I have been thinking of buying a guitar but perhaps it will be too late by then.
I will try to buy a guitar within next two months only
As if the above targets were not enough, I have added another target based on the circumstances from last few months. Which is to change my job. Based on my last experience. This target itself is so big that it dwarf all other targets. And moreover it consumes lots of time and energy too.
I plan to change this job max by the end of this year.
In the nutshell. All that I need to do now is to exercise daily and try to write something (However inconsequential that may be ) daily so that I have enough writing practice. Hopefully then by next month I will enough writing practice to start draft of my first book. Side by side finding time for buying time to buy guitar and running each morning.
I'm sure its going to be as difficult if not more as it sound !
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