Throughout this week, I used my Google Calendar, Wunderlist for my to-do lists, family activities plan, as well as my cooking schedule. Around the beginning of the week, I was very overwhelmed by the amount of things that I had in my Google Calendar. I had set amount of time for every activity that I had planned on doing for each day. However, this didn’t go very well. In the begging of the week, I had convinced myself that I could do it. But by Wednesday, it felt like I hadn’t even taken 10 minutes for myself to breathe and just relax. In addition, I realized that I hadn’t put my workout schedule in the calendar, so I found myself waking up earlier than usual to do the workouts, which was fine, but I’ll remember to put that in next time. Some things I need to improve upon:
- I need to give myself flexibility. Some days, I’m going to feel a lot better than other days. In times like those, I want to be able to move things around.
- I need to give myself a little more time for breaks and some time to spend outside, whether it’s running, walking or just to get fresh air.
These are just few things I want to change in the future, but I definitely think that there will be more changes. As for the family activities, they’re going pretty well. We’ve been spending a lot more quality time together doing something rather than just talking about what we did today and the current situation. It helped us laugh a lot more, regardless of what’s happening. Our family could never really work together because of the opposing personalities within us. However, on Monday, when we were making dinner together, we worked together so well and the dinner was delicious too! Lastly, my cooking schedule has been very much a success. I have been very motivated to cook or bake everyday. I’ve learned to make so many different things. Sometimes even my brother comes to “help” but takes all the food with him after. I think one main thing that has motivated me a lot is my brother taking pictures and posting them on instagram. It’s very refreshing to see something I baked/cooked as I’m going through instagram that night. Maybe one thing I could add to my cooking schedule is to create a social media dedicated to it. This way, I don’t have to rely my motivation on whether my brother posts. I can post it myself and see a compilation of my creations.
I haven’t filled my checklist for the week, but looking at it now, it seems as though I can check off 9 out of the 12 things on there, which I would consider a big success, considering it has only been a week. Overall, I’ve been so much more productive than I was. I’m also much more motivated and excited to go through my day. To move my idea up higher in the Design Hierarchy of Needs, I want to create a physical calendar in my room that I can fill every week. I want to hang this calendar right by my bed. This way, I can have a more concrete thing to look at every morning. I also want to make this with colorful and cheerful colors to ensure that I will start every morning with an exciting attitude. Also, I think remaking the design every couple of weeks might be a good idea. Since I’m going to be looking at it every morning, it might be annoying looking at the same design and same colors every day.
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