Habits
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I’ve worked out less this year because I became preoccupied with one of my other major life goals, which also required a lot of physical and mental effort. So overall, I will consider that a win. Month Times exercised Jan 11 Feb 12 Mar 11 Apr 11 May 13 Jun 13 Jul 12 Aug 4
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This year has been great in terms of the number of times I was able to exercise. Month Times exercised Jan 11 Feb 12 Mar 8 Apr 7 May 14 Jun 12 Jul 13 Aug 14 Sep 12 Oct 14 Nov 7 Dec 13 Total 137
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I am already in the holiday mood but when I checked my workout log spreadsheet last week, I noticed I am three short of a round number. So this week I exercised as normal to end this year with 120 workouts. Otherwise I was planning to take a break! Some months this year I didn’t
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Almost three years ago, I moved to Todoist to manage my todos and projects. Today I am thrilled to receive the following email from Todoist. I only vaguely know about the Todoist Karma feature. I haven’t taken time to explore the Karma feature as it is related to stats and is tangential to how I
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My favorite habits author James Clear’s book Atomic Habits is releasing today. I benefited from his work over the last many years. The concept of Identity-Based Habits which I first learned from his blog has helped me in many ways especially with building and keeping my exercising habit. I like his style of writing and
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I started a tiny habit: flossing my teeth. I have been trying to start flossing for many months now. I brush my teeth every night but I know brushing twice a day is not enough to keep a really good dental hygiene. I knew I needed to start flossing at some point because it is good to
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I finally ran the first 5k of this season! I intend to run a 5k every weekend for rest of the spring and summer. I ran about twenty-five 5ks in 2015. But I did not run much in 2016. This year I try to do better again. My running goal is modest: I just try
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I learned a LOT about habits by reading James Clear’s blog. He has heaps of great posts on his site, but if I were to pick one, it is this: Identity-Based Habits: How to Actually Stick to Your Goals This Year. The gist is that: Building good habits and changing ourselves for better is all
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I should remember the following gems in the article I found in the following tweet. But if I could offer one piece of advice to incoming freshman, it would be to learn to take care of themselves—because they are about to be surrounded by people who often have the misconception that racking up achievements and
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Today is my 1000 th day playing Elevate. I broke the streak once in June 2016, not because I slacked but because I was stuck on the dated iPhone 4 running on dated iOS 7 on which the Elevate app was slow and crashed repeatedly. I was also traveling and didn’t have reliable internet.